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Nothing particularly about Saudi money, its more about consequences of cheap money on Softbank and by extension Silicon Valley "high valuation - no profit" jig being up by the double threat of high interest rates and low/no g
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8y ago
That is my heuristic, is it sound? perhaps not. I have said "I will give weightage" not you should not take his prediction seriously. I am biased and flawed, and I agree with your assessment.
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8y ago
>> I believe that we will have a different President of the United States by the end of 2019. The catalyst for this change will be a devastating report issued by Robert Mueller that outlines a history of illegal activities by our Pres
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8y ago
As usual an unpopular yet sound argument from adventured. The real losers are people downvoting because of their shallow mental models. West Texas oil is making US more secure and access to cheap energy will not only make things better in T
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8y ago
Authoritarianism is a wolf deciding what is good for a group of lambs. As flawed as it is, give me democracy.
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8y ago
The profits are largely accumulated by an American company in the case of iPhone. To the larger point, a state corporation in China is not subject to same laws of finance as a publicly traded company in the west. That is the gap, China does
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8y ago
Why the fuck would an American have kinship with British east India company? If you want to wallow in white guilt, don’t drag us with you. The people dying of opioid crisis are of all ethnicities.
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8y ago
Rick Perry(longest serving Republican governor of Texas) was a Democrat and in charge of Al Gore Presidential campaign in Texas in 1988. In Texas there was a massive exodus from Democrats to Republicans in 80s and 90s. Attributing that to N
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8y ago
Irrespective whether it bankrupted the Moghuls and made the successor of the throne, epitome of rape, pillage and plunder.. those dues have been paid, and there is no un-turning. As repulsive the history behind the Taj and its consequences
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These accomplishments are easily possible by moving to uptown of top 10 cities. You don’t need 4 year college.
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10 years .. shorter supply chains is going to be trend in post-brettonwoods world. The free-traders and multilateral trade agreement people lost the fight both on left and right in USA. Prima facie evidence TPP.
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8y ago
Depends on what kind of work, if you are front-line developer the value of work is different from that of an executive. Executive game has more perception elements to it, in such the style is as much important as substance. Its has little o
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Size of the market, US and China have #1 and #2 economies. Start-ups in India seem to have similar problem as Europe, given multi-lingual nature of mass market.
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You need to expand from uni-variable logic to holistic human interaction to understand it.
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8y ago
Dallas is not a hellhole, yea may be a couple of months in Summer. I am confused about Dallas being a contender, but Texas Enterprise Fund usually makes a hard to refuse offer. Still, do not think Amazon is going to land here. Having said t
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8y ago
Its a bad app, in wrong hands, its a bullying tool. I do not want my boss to know my party registration and worst of all, them to prod me to vote.
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8y ago
Their "Our Trusted Partners" does not encourage me to believe they are non-partisan. YC stamp on this makes me a bit sad, but their actions have been swinging left for a while now. edit: (their partisan statement is upfront) Outvo
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8y ago
A private american company imposing its standards on "free speech" does not have same ring as Korean conglomerate imposing its standards on "free speech" in America. This may be or may not an angle of attack. I am specul
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8y ago
Isn't @Joyent part of Samsung ? https://www.joyent.com/blog/samsung-acquires-joyent This should be really interesting in days to come.
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8y ago
>>> A few self-serving white men (there are hardly any women or minorities in the blockchain universe) pretending to be messiahs for the world’s impoverished, marginalised and unbanked masses claim to have created billions of dolla
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8y ago
Any one talking Crypto and Anti-fragile in same sentence seems to have read the book, "The Bitcoin Standard". To be honest, it is one of the best books that makes case for Crypto specifically Bitcoin or its ilk from historic curre
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8y ago
If you have read down the twitter thread you would have perfectly found an article explaining the reasons.. http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/24204/setting-the-recor...
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8y ago
One of the under the radar movies I watched lately was Death of Stalin, and true beauty of this dark comedy was the simple fact that none of the actors tried to speak English in a Russian accent and on top of it, there is a mix of British a
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8y ago
It never occurred to me but I think as a non-resident of SFO I should have refrained from commenting on this issue. Consider my post as an observation of a curious mind.
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8y ago
From Wikipedia: In 2014, the City of San Francisco spent $167 million annually on housing homeless residents.[64] By 2016, total spending (including housing and treatment) was believed to be $241 million annually.[65] However, much of this
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MBS came to power as a prince during Obama administration. To his credit Obama was lukewarm to Saudis in his second term. There is an intersection of interests. The tight but informal alliance between KSA and Israel against Iran cannot be u
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I clearly remember NPR was talking about the subprime in Feb-Mar of 2007. That does not mean that NPR foresaw 2008 great recession. Most people saw a dip, but very very few people saw a Valley that it truly was.
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8y ago
This is submarine for the upcoming movie. Of course, you can still enjoy the article. Just so you know, you are being primed.
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This is 2015-2016 manual http://www.porscheownersmanuals.com/2015-cayenne-manual/12/2... 2017-2018 manual: http://www.porscheownersmanuals.com/2017-cayenne-manual/16/2... I do not think
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For a time I was tempted to buy Porsche Cayenne Diesel, but they have some weird restrictions on Bio-Diesel fuels. From : http://www.porscheownersmanuals.com/2014-cayenne/10/268-2228... Risk of engine damage and&#
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