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by prklmn 9y ago
To say they lost $14b is not even remotely true. Their stock dropped $14b in market cap. they are certainly making money on the game, not losing money.
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A major difference between between this tech boom and the dot com boom of the 90s is the general public had a real shot at investing in serious growth potential during the dot com boom. Now most of the growth is experienced under private ow
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> an affordable way to get more space for their family Did you see the asking prices before the content was taken down? I don't remember any of the houses being affordable in any regard > vortex of debt It takes a special person
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You're not missing anything except the the value of the hype that goes with the deal. The analysts, the fund managers making buy decisions and so on are all in the Whole Foods demographic, so they love the deal and feel the same way as
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Here's why the bubble is all too real. Let's compare Houzz to another company in the housing space with a $4 billion valuation that's not swept up in the tech bubble, US Gypsum. Last year USG, a company that has survived for
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The bubble is all too real
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Many people who end up taking opioids say the same thing you say, and swear them off. It's easy to say that you won't take them until you're in pain that makes you feel as if you're dying, then it's a different stor
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I'd have to think her husband, Alexis Ohanian, had something to do with this.
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This article gives some great insight. Basically lots of these companies are in debt up their eyeballs so they can afford to make moves like this to bring real cash in. As anyone could imagine, it's not all that rosy https:/&#x2F
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Apple?
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churn out as much crap as possible and see what sticks!
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-04/vancouver...
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Why is that? The risks of holding bitcoin would be avoided.
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Right. The company would take the place of paypal and users would be aware that their transactions are being executed via an instantaneous bitcoin purchase and sale.
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by prklmn 9y ago
Is there a bitcoin solution that looks like this without having either party directly deal with bitcoin?: currency in bank account of person 1 --> bitcoin --> currency in bank account of person 2 or credit card of person 1 --> bitc
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Model 3 deliveries rescheduled to sometime, eventually...
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That's lip service so the big players can have their regulatory burden reduced. High startup costs and anticompetitive practices are the most significant mechanisms preventing new market entrants.
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Not having adequate competition plays a major role in this. If the market was actually competitive, they would have to invest more to stay alive, regardless of the regulations. It's the lack of competition that's driving the indus
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Didi Near Deal to Raise at Least $5B in New Funding(bloomberg.com)
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I just graduated from a very large university and the number of professors assigning homework this way was alarming. With prerecorded video lectures, assigning homework like this, and using questions from test banks for tests, professors ar
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by prklmn 9y ago
You're off-base in almost every regard. >It's inarguable that consumers got lower prices, substantially lower prices. That's increased their standard of living. It's a multifaceted issue. Yes, Walmart sells cheap stuf
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For a somewhat apples to apples comparison, a 20 oz bottle of Coke (590 mL) cost me $1.69 in a city of 1 million people.
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The hotels would find more success in lobbying city governments to levy a tax on airbnb stays rather than trying to get the hotel stay taxes reduced.
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I agree with you, but they had the most informative article on this topic.
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> The money is currently just sitting in a "bank" somewhere, collecting extremely low interest rates. That's not true. It's not all cash and most likely is mostly not cash. They report it as being cash and cash equiva
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by prklmn 9y ago
Alibaba is going to step on their toes in a major way within the next few years after they start building out a more robust presence of their own in the US (that's purely conjecture and hope)
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by prklmn 10y ago
Does it matter? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_automobil... Take a look at the USA on this chart.
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by prklmn 10y ago
Them wanting people to believe that this will lower the cost of internet service is laughable. Have TV ads lowered the cost of cable? We need to think of the internet as a public utility. How absurd would it be if every time you used water
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by prklmn 10y ago
Simply put - people like living in houses and having a yard. Until this changes, much of the public will continue to drive.
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by prklmn 10y ago
it's not, but facebook wants it to be

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