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by s17n 7y ago
To reply to my own question: I suppose it's also possible that the process of each investor choosing a property they want to live in for the fund to buy, and then occupying the house that they also have some equity stake in, will resul
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by s17n 7y ago
How is this better than just renting and also putting some money into a reit each month? Edit: I suppose one reason would be if you want to rent, but you like a house that's not on the rental market. Any others?
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by s17n 7y ago
The way that law enforcement frames the issue: "Encryption makes it harder to prevent crime by denying us access to data" The correct framing: "Encryption maintains the status quo by denying law enforcement access to data tha
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by s17n 7y ago
I believe the point that OP is making is that the encrypted data on our phones is data historically would never have been available to law enforcement, as it simply wouldn't have existed. Then as now law enforcement can investigate bu
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by s17n 7y ago
Yelp should obviously have just been upfront that they were going to be taking commissions, the fact that they weren't strikes me as symptomatic of a dysfunctional org (that failed to actually align on this decision but pushed it out a
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by s17n 7y ago
Tinder was bought by match (which in turn is owned by iac) years ago, their behavior has nothing to do with "vc".
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by s17n 7y ago
They got rid of magsafe because it's a lot less useful in a world of 8+ hour battery life. I generally don't plug in my laptop except for at my desk and/or at night.
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by s17n 7y ago
Capping rents isn't like capping bread prices or whatever - the money is just going to the land owners, there's no elasticity of supply and no marginal cost. Capping rents just means that instead of allocating the scarce housing
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by s17n 7y ago
The article is about Levittown PA
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by s17n 7y ago
From my personal experience I think the metrics produced the correct outcome here. I'm not going to click one of those things unless it gets the tone right. So, if you present one 'yes', one 'no', and one 'ma
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by s17n 7y ago
"Sun to rise, set"
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by s17n 7y ago
Yeah glancing at the data it looked like taxes weren't a big factor - wealthy people are far more concerned with social and political stability and overall functioning societies.
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by s17n 7y ago
The dream of cheap streaming television will always stupid. Given that there's zero marginal cost to distributing content, "unbundling" doesn't ultimately reduce providers' costs at all (of course it's not qui
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by s17n 8y ago
That makes no sense, equivalent workers should get paid equivalent wages regardless of their firms’ productivities. Apple doesn’t pay more for aluminum than a soda can maker.
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by s17n 8y ago
Product decisions like this one are the whole reason why people base their purchase decisions on the Apple brand.
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by s17n 8y ago
Yes, this is why we need to support email. You can list its advantages all day long but if people don't check their email (or don't even have an email account), then it will be useless and that's the direction we're hea
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by s17n 8y ago
>If you want an exchange channel that's optimized for exchanging long messages, with no expectation of immediacy in response, with ridiculously accessible archival tools (ever heard of email clients?) there isn't anything that
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by s17n 8y ago
Email is actively dying and being replaced by closed alternatives (Messenger, Slack, etc) and any effort by any company to keep it alive should be applauded, including this one. That being said I can't imagine a scenario where AMP in e
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by s17n 8y ago
Yes, I agree with your argument here. But comparing Bird to mom and pop bike rentals is wrong for the same reason that comparing Uber to traditional taxi companies (or comparing Cragslist to traditional classifieds, etc) is wrong.
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by s17n 8y ago
That's in New York. In most areas, cabs were relatively marginal, little used services. Uber didn't take their market, it created a whole new market.
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by s17n 8y ago
I agree that the economics of scooter sharing are probably fucked but your last argument is like saying "look at cab companies, they're small mom and pop shops, this Uber thing will never take off"
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by s17n 8y ago
The US has an independent judiciary, and regulatory agencies which are fairly insulated from political pressure. I'm not saying that China is evil, I'm just saying that there is a reason why the international community doesn'
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by s17n 8y ago
China is a one party state which explicitly doesn't permit any organization, much less a government agency, to operate without political interference.
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by s17n 8y ago
It's weird to use + for a non-commutative operation, right?
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by s17n 8y ago
The point of unions is to get workers a better deal through collective bargaining. In a company that's growing rapidly, it doesn't make sense for either the employees or the owners / management to worry too much about how th
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by s17n 8y ago
The problem with this type of business is that the business is typically in a position where the loss of one or two key people will basically kill it. What if you get board and decide to move on with your life? The bottom line is that a ni
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by s17n 8y ago
It's not masquerading as a strategy, it is a strategy. There's no "bias" - the fact that the same strategy was employed by a lot of companies that didn't survive doesn't make it a bad strategy, since the who
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by s17n 8y ago
It’s because the PM role is largely bullshit.
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by s17n 8y ago
Lidar will get cheap before this happens, at which point it won't be question of whether it is "necessary" but whether it is useful.
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by s17n 8y ago
Focusing on the 5% chance of massive success is the opposite of short term thinking.

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