thedaveoflife

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by thedaveoflife 4y ago
I like the taste of IPAs but can't stand the hangovers if i have more than one
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by thedaveoflife 4y ago
It turned out to be an insanely high compensation package because of the volatility of crypto
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by thedaveoflife 7y ago
Of course the are not "taking" it either... they are issuing credit, allowing ease of purchase and providing fraud protection
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by thedaveoflife 7y ago
and of course they never propose any "perfect" solution that they'd actually support.
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by thedaveoflife 7y ago
Your thesis is supported by their financial statements. Their costs are indicative of a company focused on growth. As revenues continue to grow the can scale back marketing and administrative costs as a percentage of revenue to make profits
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by thedaveoflife 8y ago
Trying overly hard to make something seem more objective is in a sense an obfuscation of what you really think. Sometimes you need to cut the BS and tell people what's actually on your mind. In my experience there are two types of cowo
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by thedaveoflife 8y ago
Inflation is MV = PQ... you are commenting only on the M which is money supply. You have to factor in the other variables, notably V or the rate of spending. If V remains low, then M can increase without significant inflation.
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by thedaveoflife 8y ago
>It's a complex interaction of millions of individual decisions and interrelated changes over a period of decades in a way that's not reproducible. Somewhat incidentally this is the major theme of Tolstoy's masterpiece Wa
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by thedaveoflife 8y ago
canned fruit can have a lot of added sugar though
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by thedaveoflife 8y ago
I've eaten the same meal for lunch almost everyday for the last two months: https://www.reddit.com/r/GifRecipes/comments/8trml3/one_pan_... I did it for health and weight loss reasons but it's
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by thedaveoflife 8y ago
Seemingly relevant, this recent meme being shared in China: https://twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/998932355527139328
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by thedaveoflife 10y ago
Depends how you define "sales staff". They need to sell their product in order to make money and they certainly have employees who provide a conduit for customers to buy JIRA. Their sales costs are low, but maybe not having more s
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by thedaveoflife 11y ago
I remember my first time using Alaskan's self check-in kiosks... it was a revelation
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by thedaveoflife 11y ago
Occam's Razor: 1. Revenue Problem or 2. Neo-Luddite Problem?
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by thedaveoflife 11y ago
So his advice is to build a great product?
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by thedaveoflife 11y ago
Your theory directly contradicts the Efficient Market Hypothesis. If "dumb money" is flowing in to large cap funds, institutional investors should be able to take advantage.
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by thedaveoflife 11y ago
>Personally, I think it makes the most sense to sell outright a few of the most valuable properties and use the money to make the necessary capital repairs on the rest of the system. If enough of those empty apartments can be fixed up, i
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by thedaveoflife 11y ago
Beats had $1.5 Billion in annual revenue in 2013. Beats + Apple Watch were < $1b revenue in Q3 alone.
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by thedaveoflife 11y ago
The reason it is kept secret is presumably because the general public has difficulty seeing the ancillary benefits (reduction of trade barriers) and pays close attention to the obvious drawbacks (IP rights for "evil" corporations)
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by thedaveoflife 11y ago
Maybe the best way to ensure access to medicine is by providing economic opportunities to the worlds most impoverished citizens. In other words, if the trade off is say a 10% increase in per capita GDP in exchange for less access to generic
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by thedaveoflife 11y ago
Poking around on here reminded me that nickb used to be everywhere and then disappeared. It also reminded me that almost everyday we see well thought out predictions on here that are almost all going to be wrong.
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by thedaveoflife 11y ago
Point 1 reminds me of Steve Jobs' famous line" "Real Artists ship".
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by thedaveoflife 11y ago
I haven't actually entered a bank in years thanks in large part to software development. I think it's kind of 'fun' to take picture of a check and deposit it.
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by thedaveoflife 12y ago
Yes because as we all know email is exclusively the domain of the young, idle Bourgeoisie
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by thedaveoflife 12y ago
I would think for graphic design work the extra resolution would be well worth the extra price.
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by thedaveoflife 12y ago
The Studenten-BahnCard saves you a ton of money on train travel too
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by thedaveoflife 12y ago
One "problem" we have occasionally in Berlin: People enrolling as students without actually attending classes to get all the added benefits of being a student in Germany. Almost everything over here carries a student discount.
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by thedaveoflife 12y ago
you have your wish: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2hwr02/i_am_sam_altman...
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by thedaveoflife 12y ago
I wonder if the bad things you mention are a large part of what makes the site popular...
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by thedaveoflife 12y ago
Some would argue all the things he mentioned are growth activities. Employees are a vital resource... taking care of them can be valuable and can attract new talent as well

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