retailbuyout

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by retailbuyout 9y ago
Sure. But it’s useful today. Are they going to continue the unicorn startup charade and ruin the product in the progress, like facebook? Or snapchat? Or even twitter! We’d be distinctly better off as humans without any of them.
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by retailbuyout 9y ago
Nobody is preventing them from offering either ads OR a subscription service. Hey if they discover it too late, that’s on them! At their size, there are few changes that will help user growth without improving content.... goood luck with th
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by retailbuyout 9y ago
> Free energy would solve any water problems. Oh really now? I had no idea we could pull water out of our ass for any number of people at any time with free energy!
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by retailbuyout 9y ago
Well, if history does repeat itself, we’re due for company towns and only a decade out from rampant abuse.
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by retailbuyout 9y ago
Mostly it seems like a barren wasteland for socialization, and I don’t follow brands. Whats left are christmas party invitations, baby photos, and messenger. I find myself intensely disliking my neighbors if I’m on it enough. It feels dysto
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by retailbuyout 9y ago
> eventually to make the other group submit. Does this ever really happen without complete extermination? I suspect this route is an illusion.
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by retailbuyout 9y ago
Verbatim has worked for many years.
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by retailbuyout 9y ago
I mean, i’m fine with trying for wealth redistribution again. Sure it’ll probably fail, but the current economy is not what success looks like either. I’d rather have a worse performing economy with low income disparity than what we have, w
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by retailbuyout 9y ago
Well, you start by valuing the humans over the corporations. Weird, I know.
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by retailbuyout 9y ago
Right, but the feature only makes sense if the risk is low (quick hookups). There aren’t any meaningful signals; just photos.
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by retailbuyout 9y ago
This mostly makes sense but the ok cupid bleeding into tinder—the only part of okcupid worth reading was the fact that it was text centric rather than photo centric.
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by retailbuyout 9y ago
I din’t see tinder winning so much as creating a new (and very psychologically exploitable) app market. It was not inevitable; many still don’t use tinder style dating at all.
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by retailbuyout 9y ago
Right, i should note that not all the things i’ve seen are smart.... avoiding going into personal debt is fairly straigtforward. But, I frankly can’t imagine a restaurant business not taking on some debt in some seasons, at least at first.
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by retailbuyout 9y ago
This seems a little hyperbolic; this is business risk, not personal risk, and presumably the bank is (at all) discerning wrt the business plan. Do people start restaurants with their own money? That seems like a nightmare.
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by retailbuyout 9y ago
Yea, it doesn’t take long working a kitchen or bar to see how fast you can bleed money, employees, reputation—you really have to enjoy the work. You’re going to to into debt, you’re not going to get vacation, you’ll have constant employee t
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by retailbuyout 9y ago
I’m car illiterate. Why is the braking power proportional to the engine rather than mass or drag or something? Or did i misunderstand?
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by retailbuyout 9y ago
Twitter has many, many other issues, including an absolutely terrible interface for meaningful discussion. Good for swapping gifs; bad for talking about anything with complexity.
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by retailbuyout 9y ago
I’m not so sure—propaganda can be both ethical and useful. The question is, can groups be ethical at the scale of government? If it’s about spreading information about freedom of speech, evading censorship, etc, it’s hard to see how this co
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by retailbuyout 9y ago
I don’t think the total size of the pie matters so much as the proportion. Also, it’s relative positioning that determines happiness—i’d much rather live in a place where I can look my neighbor in the eye than one where I can leverage my pr
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by retailbuyout 9y ago
If you think these retailers aren’t “too big too fail” you’re underestimating the lobbying and propaganda power of the people holding the debt. Hell, this article could be an example. A little too tinfoil hat for me, though.