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by prklmn 8y ago
Suing every city trying to regulate your service that’s harming city residents is just lovely to you?
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by prklmn 8y ago
The govnement is the creditor, not the banks like they would be for a traditional loan.
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by prklmn 8y ago
To play devil’s advocate, maybe he desperately needed the money. It’s unlikely, but that’s probably what his lawyers will argue. If that was the case, a guy in his position you’d think would be smart enough to take out a loan with his stock
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by prklmn 8y ago
I wonder how viable a class action lawsuit by the content owners against him would be.
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by prklmn 8y ago
And new HQ buildings are the cathedrals of our time.
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by prklmn 8y ago
Everyone knows corruption is rampant. He’s just the first one to talk about it so much. Too bad he’s only worsened the problem.
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by prklmn 8y ago
>Except, now they are making not as much money as they hoped with even less users than they expected. How do you know they have fewer users? Not selling as many phones and earning less revenue than anticipated =/= fewer users. The b
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by prklmn 8y ago
Not to mention Warby Parker glasses are 2-14x more expensive than Zenni.
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by prklmn 8y ago
Have you ever thought about the situation as being analogous to a wholesale market like Costco? Consumers pay for a Costco membership card, similar to the iPhone as it grants access to the store, then sells products in the store at a marke
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by prklmn 8y ago
It’s only ok because they’ve written all the laws for themselves. Of course the common person would not deem this to be ok.
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by prklmn 8y ago
You might be well served by a local library.
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by prklmn 8y ago
How do you know conservation is unpopular?
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by prklmn 8y ago
That's the present. What about the future? The USD can't be the world's reserve currency forever. What happen's when demand for oil is 50% of what it is now? What happens if oil starts to be traded in terms of some other
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by prklmn 8y ago
Saw your comment before the edit. I think you’d have a difficult time convincing just about anyone that a publicly employed loan shark debt collector adds more value to society than a highly paid football coach.
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by prklmn 8y ago
I'd love to hear your rationale on that.
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by prklmn 8y ago
Apple really has google over a barrel here. You’d have to imagine that google wouldn’t even toy with the thought of not paying the ransom and testing how many people would switch their search engine from the default to google. Also, let’s s
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by prklmn 8y ago
A lot of times if you update iOS, the app does stop working.
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by prklmn 8y ago
Full article: https://outline.com/xN5HTG
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by prklmn 8y ago
Don't be fooled, the stock market has always been a legal gambling platform. Investing is a form of gambling with hopefully better odds.
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by prklmn 8y ago
What’s your definition of failing? https://finance.yahoo.com/chart/IBM#eyJpbnRlcnZhbCI6IndlZWsi...
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by prklmn 8y ago
“Too many jobs in China lost” - Xi’s waterboy and president of the USA
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by prklmn 8y ago
Means testing gets you nowhere because there are so few people who would qualify as too rich- it would be less than a drop in the bucket "saved." It would be purely symbolic, and it's another way for those in power to say tha
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by prklmn 8y ago
Lawyers aren't actually doing any of the tech/marketing work themselves, it's all farmed out.
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by prklmn 8y ago
In this environment he would have had a difficult time not attracting capital working on the next big category.
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by prklmn 8y ago
I think this company is very emblematic of the tech bubble. Someone with a name and not much more is able to raise a staggering $330m with nearly nothing to show for it down the line, and 95% of people paying attention could have predicted
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by prklmn 8y ago
This is a built in excuse for not being profitable for Wall Street analysts for future quarters.
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by prklmn 8y ago
The cost of the option you point to isn’t negligible. It’s trading at $69 as of today, meaning your break even point is $344, not $275.
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by prklmn 8y ago
California started getting gold rush migration far before the car industry started flourishing. Silicon Valley is now essentially the heart of the modern gold rush, but of course not everybody will be lured there.
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by prklmn 8y ago
Another part of the American mystique is that every politician is for sale via legal bribery where companies donate to their campaigns and get them to do mostly whatever the company wants, totally contrary to the interests of the public.
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by prklmn 8y ago
Just because something isn’t false doesn’t mean it’s not highly biased.

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