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by smachiz 6y ago
I'm not sure how that's your takeaway here. Hertz's troubles seem pretty unrelated to the experience as a consumer. While Turo is great for your weekend trip or whatever, it is not at all good for a business traveler.
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by smachiz 6y ago
This doesn't compare debt to similar companies. Avis has around $15B in debt. Agreed the management bonuses aren't that extravagant, but I'm not sure the debt is either.
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by smachiz 6y ago
Yeah... except this is more complex than Gartner's hype cycle captures. This isn't k8s or openstack. There are real technical challenges to making this work, not that it doesn't magically solve all things - it can't sol
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by smachiz 6y ago
3.2B was a pretty wild valuation though...
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by smachiz 6y ago
i mean "other customers" == 1099 contractor. The doordash guy is a shopper/customer also I'm sure. Doordash/uber/lyft/gig anything is just a random person with a smartphone and hopefully a background che
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by smachiz 6y ago
> not to mention the cost will probably be determined by a multitude of factors, yes of course, but i included the big ones. >You're not counting the RD cost that needs to be recouped. Majority will be sunk costs by the time any
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by smachiz 6y ago
But it isn't 10% - it's probably closer to 50%. The car is $30-50k with a lifetime of what, 10 years? The driver needs to earn $40k/yr. The vast majority of the cost is the driver - insurance and fuel are next, ultimately fol
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by smachiz 7y ago
Sorry - isn't 'creative' as a noun just replacing 'ad' in this example? It's a gussied up way of suggesting this is more highbrow than 'ad' which tends to have a pejorative connotation.
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by smachiz 7y ago
I think taking PR people's opinions with a grain of salt is par for the course. Re: the OP - this isn't just a throwaway account. It's a pretty obvious agenda beyond just sharing the facts.
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by smachiz 7y ago
Based on your username, have to laugh a bit when you tell us to take what the other guy says with a grain of salt.
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by smachiz 7y ago
I would bet a lot that the production lines weren't running 24x7 or anywhere near it for ventilators. They're probably batch builds. i.e. 1-4 weeks of production every X weeks. Scaling production != building new lines/facto
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by smachiz 7y ago
Except for all those bots counting as users for growth, and the fake engagement by bots counting as growth, and the fake news driving real clicks from real people counting as growth........
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by smachiz 7y ago
> Twitter is awesome because it doesn't operate under the growth for growths sake mentality plaguing many other companies. Is that really true though? They've been a huge beneficiary of fake news, astroturfing and bots. They&
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by smachiz 7y ago
Why trade stocks when you can trade OPTIONS?
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by smachiz 7y ago
That's not an arranged marriage, it's an arranged pool of potential dates. Same as how if you're on tinder, you're not going to magically swipe to a person not on Tinder. It just so happens there's someone saying &q
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by smachiz 7y ago
I'm sure IBM has a Quantum Watson for this.
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by smachiz 7y ago
Yeah, for sure. You still burned your whole day and nothing but pain to show for it. Still wish I got to fly it though!
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by smachiz 7y ago
I think you’re seeing corona virus at work. Those F tix are usually more from what I’ve seen.
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by smachiz 7y ago
Timezones. 6PM in NYC is midnight in Paris. Leave the office at 3PM and get to Paris at Midnight? Lost half a day leaving, still not getting into a hotel until 1AM best case. Leave NYC supersonic at 9PM, get to paris at 6AM, great, I migh
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by smachiz 7y ago
It sucks, but I've done it and do it. Unfortunately sometimes you just have to. But these are maybe around 10h max flights - given the range of ~4000-4500 miles. So you're still on a plane for ~5 hours. But you still have the sa
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by smachiz 7y ago
Feels like a losing battle against physics, combined with it only being really valuable in a single direction. Overnight flights from east coast to EU are late enough that they don't impact productive time, and largely get in early eno
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by smachiz 7y ago
The most common reason is that you used to have to surrender your passport to get a visa. Not too long ago (my first China trip), I had to leave my passport at the Chinese consulate in NYC for up to 30 days (where it went from there... who
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by smachiz 7y ago
It's the other way around. Israel stopped stamping a long time ago - but still might if you're a dick. But if you had an Israeli stamp in your passport - or left the slip of paper in, there's a whole host of other countries
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by smachiz 7y ago
All of that may be true - but seems crazy that your first choice for a letter of recommendation was someone who you had a vague inkling that they didn't like you. Shouldn't you start with someone who you know - or at least have th
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by smachiz 7y ago
I think they do it through their secret/top secret clearances. You just don't get them and aren't eligible to work on a project. And they don't tell you why, of course.
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by smachiz 7y ago
I'm not sure that's true. I'm pretty sure almost every state with beaches (inland or ocean) has laws that provide for public access to the beaches. How far reaching they are - and how they're enforced - would require m
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by smachiz 7y ago
I only needed a TI-83 in high school, but I think my college classed wanted me to buy a new TI-89. I still have my TI-89 in my office though I haven't used it ever... no idea where the TI-83 went.
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by smachiz 7y ago
Cool, wish they would do that in NYC also!
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by smachiz 7y ago
Yes, and almost certainly Norway is extracting it more environmentally responsibly than in other, less regulated countries.
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by smachiz 7y ago
>Millimeter wave isn't going to help suburban/rural areas. Already Band 41 (2500mhz) sprint LTE-TDD doesn't go through walls well, for home internet you're basically looking to have an external antenna. Correct - I di

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