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by pmiller2 6y ago
The most interesting data point here for me is that they went from nothing to IPO in about 7 years. That seems to be much shorter than the typical or median time to IPO of other startups these days. Am I correct on this? What does the di
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by pmiller2 6y ago
I love the concept, but I don't know if 5 years is even enough time for people to have gotten over current events. If you made it 20+ years, I suspect that would work better. In any case, good luck, and I hope I'm wrong. :-)
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Seriously. The UPS store I go to always has a line, usually extending out the door due to 6' distancing, and it probably would not literally hold 500 average-sized packages. I know it certainly would not hold 500 additional , averag
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by pmiller2 6y ago
I'm also not terribly convinced of this. Medallions are a one-time fixed cost. This should have little to nothing to do with long term prices, especially given that the prices of medallions have gone down significantly.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Mostly as a result of capitalism, yes.
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Yup, and capitalism isn't particularly ethical. It's amoral at best.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
I've been to both, and I can confirm this. I think the art museum is definitely leagues above what you'd expect, and the zoo was named Best Zoo in America in 2014 by USA Today, according to Wikipedia. IIRC, they were also the fi
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Just a little bit of MASH trivia for you, then: Tony Packo's is a real place. https://www.tonypacko.com/
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by pmiller2 6y ago
I'm not convinced. Do you have evidence that "more efficient use of time from app-based routing" actually results in drivers making more money?
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by pmiller2 6y ago
How do drivers make any money while keeping the overall price less than a taxi? Factor in fuel and maintenance, and drivers are already getting pretty screwed on these platforms.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
"Contact us" to me almost always means "you're going to have to talk to a salesperson who's trying to maximize their commission." That doesn't sound like someone who's "buying domains for fun&qu
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by pmiller2 6y ago
It could be worse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jupiter_Effect
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Yeah, my mom only has to walk past some poison ivy, within a couple of feet, and she will end up with a bit of a rash.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
In all seriousness, I think Saint Isidore, patron saint of the internet would be more appropriate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidore_of_Seville
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by pmiller2 6y ago
I don't understand how you would design an index to reduce manipulation by unregulated entities.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
It seems like waking up all the dormant virus at once could cause some serious problems, especially if ART isn't 100% effective. Is this an actual concern, does it not happen, or is it just not an issue in practice?
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by pmiller2 6y ago
I get where you're coming from, but isn't 2 years an awful long time for Google to have to use your data the way Google, and Google alone chooses, even if "delete" really means "delete"?
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Why? Why does having an index matter, if the SEC didn't even like single coin funds?
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by pmiller2 6y ago
How many corporate execs have actually gone to prison for wrongdoings done in the name of the corporation? There's Ken Lay from Enron, one completely random banker from the financial crisis of 2008, and not a whole lot of others I can
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Indeed, everything old is new again. You know the saying, right? History doesn't repeat, but it sure does rhyme. This is often attributed to Mark Twain, but there's no real evidence he actually said it.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
"Virus" is also a word that frequently gets pluralized incorrectly, if you're thinking of it as a Latin word used in an English context. The only plural form that makes sense in English is "viruses," mostly because
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by pmiller2 6y ago
I think I agree with that article. I'm used to seeing "indices" in a mathematical context, referring to an object that labels a particular subobject of another object. It seems a lot like the difference between "vertice
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by pmiller2 6y ago
That raises a good question: so, there are crypto indices now. How do you buy the index? In other words, who is going to securitize cryptocurrencies? Until there's a way for someone to login to a brokerage account and buy, say, tick
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Fair enough, but then you're just substituting gigantic batteries, such as the Tesla Megapack, for the vast transmission networks necessary to make oil, coal, and nuclear practical. These are also not trivial problems to solve for a p
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Most of that infrastructure is in the extraction and transport to the destination country. Once the oil is there, all you really need is a storage system, and a way for consumers to buy it. There's no need to pump it around, at all.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Bada bing, bada boom. I used to work with GIS data quite frequently, and I probably used this at least once a week at the time.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
You tell me why poor countries wouldn’t invest in solar, wind, hydro, or geothermal. (Hint: you have to build the infrastructure first, and not all of these are even practical everywhere.) Hydrogen isn’t all that practical as a fuel, and bi
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I hope so, but then I look around at all the less developed countries out there and all I see is a massive demand for oil. :/
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Plastic has its own issues, as does the production of plastic.
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Oil is not running out in Saudi Arabia anytime soon. They have reserves underneath their desert land equal to over 200 years' worth of current consumption. [0] What they need to do is stop pumping it, and soon, otherwise climate cha

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