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by seem_2211 7y ago
I'll happily take the opposite side of that bet.
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by seem_2211 7y ago
As someone in sales, I think I would be EXTREMELY supportive of all of my competition deciding to do the eco conscious thing, and declining to fly to clients. It'd be great. No chance that businesses will stop paying for people to trav
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by seem_2211 7y ago
I don't think this is poor journalism (I think The Information do a good job reporting industry specific information in a non click baity way). I see this as reporting on a player in an industry that a substantial number of their subsc
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by seem_2211 7y ago
A few thoughts spring to mind: It seems like the more money you have, the harder it is to deploy it efficiently. It would be interesting to know the influence of David Swensen (the CIO at Yale), who's put a large portion of their endow
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by seem_2211 7y ago
I haven't read the book but I struggle to take anyone behind LinkedIn particularly seriously... as someone who uses their recruiter product heavily, I'm not sure you could have designed a worse product from a functionality point o
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by seem_2211 7y ago
Or rent... (sadly)
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by seem_2211 7y ago
I don't agree. Even the most expensive newspaper (probably the FT) can be bought for $3.00 or so. That's hardly prohibitive. Until very recently, being illiterate was common, so it's not as if there was a paradise 150 years a
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by seem_2211 7y ago
Love to see software engineers who make $100k plus decide that other people should work for free.
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by seem_2211 7y ago
Advertising being bad as a YC take is the most hilariously out of touch thing possible. How many people commenting on this thread work at Google or Facebook, which are the biggest ad machines this planet has ever seen.
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by seem_2211 7y ago
Depends on who your target market is.
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by seem_2211 7y ago
The FT is exceptional in terms of its quality, especially when compared to CNN/ MSNBC/ Fox and even compared to a lot of the NYTs reporting which seems to be entirely focused on politics. If you aren't paying for information
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by seem_2211 7y ago
We all live in a respective bubble.
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by seem_2211 7y ago
Almost all of the value is the land. RE: Cost of living, I dunno, part of the reason the cost of living in SF / Manhattan is so high is that lots and lots of people make enough to be able to afford it.
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by seem_2211 7y ago
In SF that absolutely is a middle class house.
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by seem_2211 7y ago
I don't doubt any of these expenses, and this hardly seems like a lavish lifestyle... but at the same time, $38k in 401k contributions is hardly middle class. Especially when the median household income in the US is $59k per year. If
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by seem_2211 7y ago
I have taken over a small business (expect to do ~$1.2-1.5m revenue this yr). Getting any sort of credit as a backstop is really really hard. Especially when you need it. This doesn't seem too different in terms of biz model and fees t
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by seem_2211 7y ago
Well in fairness, Toyota tends to have a very good reputation, so this is hardly a scam.
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by seem_2211 7y ago
Yeah, both are shady AF.
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by seem_2211 7y ago
Price, value and practical utility are not really correlated. A Rolex and a Timex will both tell you the time. An iPhone and a $129 Android will do mostly similar things. A Toyota Camry and a Porsche will both get you to work. But practical
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by seem_2211 7y ago
You should take a closer look at Elon Musk (starting with some of the sketchy shenanigans at Solar City).
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by seem_2211 7y ago
Pretty unsurprising really - sure, hating on Musk is popular, but it's mostly a reaction to the fawning uncritical gaze most people give him, and the way he's portrayed as this genius who is amazing at executing. Elon Musk is grea
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by seem_2211 7y ago
I've met my last two girlfriends online. Both were ok, but ultimately didn't last (the relationships lasted 3 & 6 months respectively). And the dates that didn't turn into anything (of which I went on ~10 or so) were real
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by seem_2211 7y ago
I think this an example where a study is going to give you extremely lopsided results.
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by seem_2211 7y ago
A considerable amount has been written about the financialization of the American economy. Less understood is the financialization of America’s business talent. Klarman, his alma mater, and its peer institutions are all part of this story.
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by seem_2211 7y ago
It's worth pointing out that Auckland has recently added a regional fuel tax to pay for some of their roading infrastructure. I haven't lived in NZ for a few years now, but I grew up there. I wouldn't be surprised if your ana
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by seem_2211 7y ago
I think a similar sort of thing that comes into play for Investment Banking - when the skill of the endeavor means an upside for the firm of hundreds of millions, or billions of dollars, then shopping for a low price is the last thing that
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by seem_2211 7y ago
I live in a building that has a confusing relationship with it's name vs. the street its on. Uber (and Uber Eats) has never worked for me properly, and I always have to meet the courier at the door. Caviar always delivers directly to m
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by seem_2211 7y ago
Why add a ton of additional work and overhead to serve users that aren't likely to be customers? Makes no sense.
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by seem_2211 7y ago
I grew up in New Zealand, and now live in America. In New Zealand, people with high carbon lifestyles say "well regardless of what we do, nothing matters if Americans don't change" Now I live in America, where people with hig
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by seem_2211 7y ago
I've always found this line of reasoning funny - "if you don't drink a latte everyday you can save $1800 a year!" but I've always seen it as "for only $1800 a year you can have a latte a day!"

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