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by prklmn 10y ago
They're totally set on the advertising business model. They started displaying ads on the front page of the paper in 2009. If they change anything, they will raise prices and display even more ads.
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by prklmn 10y ago
Outside of very high cost of living cities, probably yes
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by prklmn 10y ago
This story is a perfect example of why that statistic doesn't mean much. People buying Tessa's now are so giddy to purchase that almost nothing could dissuade them from sticking with Tesla. It's a small sample size of excited
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by prklmn 10y ago
The separate stores should compete, as they are doing now. If one becomes more appealing, users and developers can switch. I think of the logic behind your argument as saying that Walgreens should be forced to let CVS use a portion of its s
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by prklmn 10y ago
If you think of it in these terms, that's about two years worth of rent. But as a renter, you have no chance at benefitting from future appreciation. If you think the housing market is going to be in decline from your move in time, the
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by prklmn 10y ago
"But practically speaking, ownership has worked out better for most people over the long run." As I said before, as long as you don't buy high and sell low, your money has effectively been flushed down the drain in the form o
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by prklmn 10y ago
The interest is part of the investment. It gives you control of the property and ability to collect all appreciation. It takes a very minor increase in value to turn a profit if your time horizon is short term. A renter doesn't have an
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by prklmn 10y ago
At any point over those 5-10 you can turn around and sell the property and collect the full gain - it's entirely irrelevant to the mortgage payments being dedicated to interest. My $1 gets my name on the title, your 90¢ gets your name
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by prklmn 10y ago
So let's say you save 10¢ on every dollar by renting in your scenario. You'd have to have a hell of a return on that 10¢ you saved to beat the 90¢ you would have invested in the property but instead flushed down the drain in the f
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by prklmn 10y ago
This is very rarely true. The only case where I can think of where you may be right is when real estate is purchased at the top of the market and sold at the bottom. When you go to sell real estate, it doesn't matter how much equity yo
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by prklmn 10y ago
The status you speak of for physicians in general is derived from saving lives - generally thought to be pretty honorable. Also, doctors who work in more rural areas are trending towards making more than those in cities and already do make
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by prklmn 10y ago
Many people are afraid to ask for raises and default to looking for work elsewhere.
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by prklmn 10y ago
The technology is old and should be priced competitively by now. To just come up with random numbers for a price doesn't make much sense. With your sandwich example - Subway sells $4 sandwiches because they have to, and they make plent
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by prklmn 10y ago
iOS wifi assist feature at work here most likely...unless Verizon is making up usage, which wouldn't surprise me
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by prklmn 10y ago
This is called covering your ass just in case, not redacting.
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by prklmn 10y ago
You're exactly right. We need publicly available databases on what they charge for every procedure/test/product they perform/sell for every insurance plan and for paying out of pocket. We need competition.
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by prklmn 10y ago
Why is that relevant? Is he a whistleblower or not is the question. Whether he gets pardoned from a jail cell or Russia makes no difference. Avoiding a trial isn't the central issue.
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by prklmn 10y ago
People care about money. That's why raising the tax is the solution. These homes are investments. The homes are empty because the owners are living elsewhere, mostly China, and don't need the rental income. However, if you impose
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by prklmn 10y ago
"Urge."??? I think they can do better
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by prklmn 10y ago
"If" is the key word that you used. Nothing in the future is promised. See what long term holders of Valeant have to say..it goes both ways. The only thing that is certain is that the stock lost 12% of its value in a single day ov
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by prklmn 10y ago
Tesla was down 12% upon announcement of the deal. I guess if your crystal ball didn't tell you this value-destructive deal was coming, you got screwed.
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by prklmn 10y ago
Some people are indeed naive enough to be every word that comes out of his mouth. However, you are correct - this was a bailout that screws TSLA shareholders, plain and simple. SCTY was arguably heading towards bankruptcy. http:/&#x2F
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by prklmn 10y ago
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2330053&d...
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by prklmn 10y ago
This is true only to a certain extent. Mutual funds have been getting squeezed and the impact, though not immense, trickles down to millions of middle class investors.
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by prklmn 10y ago
This is peanuts compared what was going on in Florida several years ago http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-06-06/american-p... > Over 20M pills prescribed, wreaking havoc far beyond just Florida.
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by prklmn 10y ago
Exactly this^. Hell, Facebook is still reporting misleading non-GAAP earnings next to its GAAP earnings.
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by prklmn 10y ago
Many business owners prefer cash so they can avoid paying taxes and directly insert the cash into their pocket. Its nearly impossible to trace whereas there is a paper trail left when a credit card is charged.
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by prklmn 10y ago
This behavior is absolutely ethical. They have done some work, not all the work as you have implied. Part of the basis of paying employees with options is so that they stick around - early employees know this when excepting this form of pay
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by prklmn 10y ago
This is false. Tim just said on the call that users are upgrading to the 6s at a higher rate than they did for the 5s.
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by prklmn 11y ago
They're better capitalized than most banks and have nearly the entire infrastructure set up for end to end payments processing, I'm proposing acquiring Square to complete their processing arm. So why not be a bank AND a payments p

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