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by nugget 11y ago
I think he means that the acceptable ads program is just extortion with a shiny fake narrative on top. Which seems pretty obvious to me.
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Great team, great product. Highly recommended.
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by nugget 11y ago
Yahoo today is a private equity fund first and an operating business second. By that I mean, the vast majority of Yahoo's value derives from investments like Alibaba and Yahoo Japan. The core business is relatively small. You might
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by nugget 11y ago
How long were you married for and what was the final nail in the coffin? It seems like there's never been a better time to be single, especially if you're living in one of the major cities. I have a lot of friends who say the sam
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by nugget 11y ago
Bernie Sanders, a proud socialist and outspoken advocate of wealth redistribution, just pulled even with Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination for President. In the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries, voters under the age of 30 broke
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by nugget 11y ago
Eru beat me to the answer. Since the 1970s we witnessed a bunch of major trends: interest rates (lending costs) drop near 0, household incomes increase significantly due to women entering the workforce, continued urbanization, and rapid po
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by nugget 11y ago
One of the paragraphs that stood out to me the most: I asked Bing Thom about the changes. The property boom has, of course, been good for the architectural profession, but Thom, who is now in his early seventies, is troubled by what is happ
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by nugget 11y ago
Spot on . . . to borrow from Thoreau, ''the mass of men lead [sex] lives of quiet desperation''. (As a man, I'm more familiar with the male perspective.) I think even a crude early version of a sex robot that male
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by nugget 11y ago
I understand where you're coming from but it's a little like saying that North Korea enjoys a low crime rate. Do we want one company to have that much control? How do you think personal computing would have evolved if Microsoft h
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by nugget 11y ago
Hate to say it but I'd rather focus on user education than concentrate more centralized compliance control with Microsoft. I am old enough to remember how Microsoft wielded that type of control in the past. Malwarebytes alone could&#
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by nugget 11y ago
Bogleheads.org is a great personal finance forum dedicated to low cost index fund investing. Great discussions just like here.
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by nugget 11y ago
It seems that when you put money into the hands of the public broadly, they consume goods and services. When you put money into the hands of the top few %, they have much less need for additional goods and services, so instead they invest
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by nugget 11y ago
Let's say I buy into the theory that QE indeed caused significant inflation, but in equity assets and specifically housing, rather than in consumer goods and services where people were watching for it. Now rates are near zero, equitie
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by nugget 11y ago
Keep in mind that the major drag on profitability for many of these companies is labor/compensation costs and specifically the war for talent that Facebook started in 2011-ish. The 22 year old making $150k all in and their 27 year old
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by nugget 11y ago
Someone will acquire them. The brand and employees are worth a billion dollars, in my opinion. Local is a very difficult market to crack.
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by nugget 11y ago
Just a heads up that this may not be the case for everyone. I have an ACA plan and while the PCP visit was free, the blood test he ordered was not. There's still some confusion about exactly what's covered and what's not, a
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by nugget 11y ago
I don't see how this is much different from key generation software running on a phone or any other device. Useful as a 2nd factor for authentication and a little less friction (more convenient, less secure). I've yet to see any
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by nugget 11y ago
As an investor I am familiar with often-cited data that shows how small and mid cap stocks have traditionally outperformed large cap stocks over time. I wonder if this cherry picking of returns whereby the fastest growing small companies l
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by nugget 11y ago
Assuming it's consumer credit (and not student loans) then she's a prime candidate for bankruptcy which would wipe out all her loans. She burns her credit score but it's an easy (probably necessary) trade-off to make. She j
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by nugget 11y ago
You have a gap of .1 tn (a hundred billion dollars) of spend over revenue, implying an annual deficit of that amount. From what I read the Federal deficit was >$400 billion in 2015 and the majority of states and municipalities seem to ru
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by nugget 11y ago
The woman in the article receives $1390/month in COLA'd fixed income and free ''major medical'' health care. I can tell you from personal experience: this is ''enough to actually live on''.
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by nugget 11y ago
Mental health - specifically in a future where we may be increasingly more connected virtually but increasingly less connected physically. In one or two decades when the average urbanite is serviced by on-demand autonomous vehicles and dro
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by nugget 11y ago
You under-appreciate how much control a united, semi-competent C-suite can have over a business where shares are largely held by passive institutional investors. As long as the executives don't run it into the ground they can do prett
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by nugget 11y ago
The fall of DFS (if it occurs) will have serious ripple effects. I know DraftKings alone was spending at least $3 million/day (maybe more) on advertising at their peak last summer, which would make them one of the largest digital adve
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by nugget 11y ago
It's a gold rush. Nothing new. Fun to watch once you have the context to understand what is happening.
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I've known deca-millionaire trust fund kids who ended up broke (or dead). I've known immigrants who started with nothing and ended up fantastically independently wealthy. And the vast, vast majority of people who settle somewhere
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by nugget 11y ago
I'm not getting calls directly but I am getting calls from second market brokers pitching companies that never used to be available (or sold instantly) like Pinterest and Uber. There is a large lot of Uber shares that one firm in part
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by nugget 11y ago
In the absence of ads-that-are-obviously-ads don't you think that clever marketers would just migrate to native ads disguised as content? There's something to be said for a clear line of separation between ads and content. It se
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by nugget 11y ago
I tend to agree with you but I also think that the IAB is recognizing the unique threat that ABP specifically (as opposed to adblocking generally) poses to the industry. I'll explain what I mean. ABP has a mafia-style business model b
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by nugget 11y ago
They whitelist Taboola, Outbrain, and other native ad networks. I think the strict standards horse has left the barn.

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