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by swingbridge 11y ago
I don't get it. People would still need to board into this pod thing and then they'd have to move the pod onto the plane and check to make sure it's secure and such. That seems like it would take even longer. I suppose one co
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by swingbridge 11y ago
Honestly if she brought $10k to the table and you brought nothing then you can't expect much out of this. A company with no revenue has an entirely subjective valuation. A company with debt and no revenue is, in most cases, worthless.
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by swingbridge 11y ago
The targeted ad technology sucks. It basically just shows me ads for things that I've already purchased... for months afterwards. Also, I'm convinced most other ads just don't work. Once those finding this current circus real
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by swingbridge 11y ago
I don't have a problem with someone that hosts a few guests in their home 2-3 times a month and having them around the dinner table (what Airbnb advertises in PR that they do). I do have a problem with people running illegal hotels and
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by swingbridge 11y ago
Excellent point. Amazon makes huge margins on AWS (despite the prices seeming rather low to many people). That's a giant recurring war chest of cold hard cash that they can and do use to fuel their other businesses. If one is going to
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by swingbridge 11y ago
Oh man. You'd have to be seriously high on jet fumes to throw more money into the this sinkhole. I don't see this playing out well.
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by swingbridge 11y ago
More signs that tech startups are overvalued... needed to broaden the base of suckers to maintain the viability of some future IPOs.
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by swingbridge 11y ago
"Real" airplanes have the same issue. That's why all the charts and databases are updated frequently and pilots are responsible for ensuring the latest data is available and loaded into the onboard computers. On a typical sma
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by swingbridge 11y ago
A 20lbs object of metal packed with a highly energetic battery that turns into a powerful explosive when destructively smashed to bits. These things a far more dangerous than a typical bird or debris strike.
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by swingbridge 11y ago
Certification and also a lot more technology behind figuring out when the position data is inaccurate. Aviation GPS units will run forward looking simulations (for example when flying a GPS landing approach) and figure out that satellites a
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by swingbridge 11y ago
Interesting idea although there are a lot of technical issues that would make what you describe more challenging. A simpler approach is positive enforcement. Force manufacturers to hard code drones to not fly near airports or other restrict
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by swingbridge 11y ago
Good advice
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by swingbridge 11y ago
The stats don't quite work like that. As others have said the vast majority of fatal accidents are down to some form of either direct pilot error (eg putting the plane into a spin at low altitude) or very poor decision making (eg takin
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by swingbridge 11y ago
Well a lot of other people are saying "It's crazy that a company with that few people and that little profit can be worth that many billions." Hence Twitter's problem at the moment.
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by swingbridge 11y ago
Oh I agree, I didn't say I thought the company was going bust... just saying that this is likely the start of a lot more focus on the hard numbers of tech companies and less focus on hype-based valuation (although the later isn't
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by swingbridge 11y ago
A sad day for Twitter, but a dose of reality for a lot of the fluffiness in the market at the moment. Companies need to have real revenue and produce real profit and then need a valuation based on sane multiples. Twitter got behind that cur
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by swingbridge 11y ago
The point is that they now have no clear path to be a real business. The growth figures you point to are irrelevant when you read the articles about how they are actually doing sales. Anyone can buy stuff and sell it for less than they boug
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by swingbridge 11y ago
Why anyone would build a startup on the Microsoft stack is beyond me, but there's a lot about jet.com's strategy that I don't understand. For the time being I'll warm up some popcorn and watch in amusement as they blow t
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Jet.com changes business plan, drops membership fee(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
61 points by swingbridge 11y ago|63 comments
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by swingbridge 11y ago
Not really, a licensed private pilot can fly into class bravo airspace in something like a 172. Happens all the time and the NYC controllers are actually quite good with this. Flew with a pilot friend and ATC took him right over Manhattan a
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by swingbridge 11y ago
There's no defense for what they did. I mean it's so silly it's the sort of thing you expect to be part of the evil guy's plans to destroy the world in a Bond film... not something that a stupid corporation actually does
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by swingbridge 11y ago
Fine, take 20-30. Twitter is still light years off those numbers.
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by swingbridge 11y ago
Of course, but at some point the whole "future value" logic runs flat. The market is losing faith in TWTTR's ability to generate value.
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by swingbridge 11y ago
That's apparently jet.com's business model ;-)
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by swingbridge 11y ago
It's a token gesture at best. If he used all/most of the proceeds from his previous sales of the stock at its previous inflated prices and bought it all back at a this current low price then THAT would be a "show of support.&
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by swingbridge 11y ago
The business model sounds deeply flawed. The fact that they've been burning cash like crazy (like building a fancy HQ before even getting any revenue) isn't a great sign. I wish them luck but things are going to get real ugly real
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by swingbridge 11y ago
Had a beta access code and the site is a mess. They boast about having the lowest prices on the web but if you actually check their prices they don't. On many items they were quite a bit more expensive than other well known sites (but
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by swingbridge 11y ago
It's good to get people thinking about all the things included in the calculator. Most people are totally clueless when it comes to the real cost/value of owning. They only see what someone bought a property for and what it sold f
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by swingbridge 11y ago
Keep in mind that "stock" is likely in the form of options which, with the stock price below IPO, are likely worth nothing at this point.
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by swingbridge 11y ago
It's both what they just did and what they are trending towards in the future. twitter is currently valued at say $35 billion then long term to justify that valuation per what the stock market demands long term they need to consistentl

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