tomkarlo

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by tomkarlo 14y ago
It's hard to make any kind of statement about the value of a stock without making an implied statement about future performance, given that most of the value is based on expected future outcomes. Generally, the employee handbook of any publ
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
I've seen the number, it converts far, far better than average ads. On the order of 10X, for the campaigns I've seen. That's partially because clickthrough rates overall keep dropping, but still, they're really effective. Yes, it's annoying
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
As an employee, it's not the federal government you'd worry about. It's your own company's lawyers, etc. You're much more likely to get in trouble internally for violating the company's policies about making statements related to the stock
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
The problem with being earlier in the purchasing decision process is that generally, it's harder to get credit for generating the final purchase. Generally it's the last ad for a product that the user sees before making the purchase that
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
It seems to me like even if it was an ad, your mom's usage connected intent with desired result better than yours. Obviously confusion isn't great, but what she said she wanted to do was "watch the Good Wife", not "watch the Good Wife on CB
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
I don't disagree that folks would pay more for a better experience, but I think they'd pay a few bucks - maybe up to double. Not 10X. Paying $200 for shipping would be like paying $10,000 for a PC to play BF3. Most people who can spend mone
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
Here in the US, UPS, in fact, will do this for you. ( http://www.theupsstore.com/products-services/packaging-shipp... ) They won't go to your location, but I think that's more because there isn't sufficient demand for that service (at a pro
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
I actually only was referring to the lack of infrastructure, not the poverty (although the two generally go hand in hand, because per-capita GDP is driven by the level of infrastructure investment.) As for balance sheets, that's why you don
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
At this point, you're not looking for a carrier. You're looking for a moving company, someone who comes to your house, wraps up the object, transports it to the desired location and unwraps it. There are definitely companies in that busines
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
"huge demand for reasonably-priced, "home"-user oriented shipping" It doesn't matter how large the demand is if you can't do it profitably. And at the prices necessary to make money focusing on home shippers, you probably wouldn't have mu
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At least here in the US, such services exist - there are high-touch courier services that deliver same-day with very high service levels. They're also very expensive and used by almost nobody other than bankers, lawyer and advertising firms
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Well, you can also do it in one layer: http://google.com/flights There is a lot of "slack" in how travel is priced due to all kinds of agreements about what rates you're allowed to show. That's partly why package deals can be so good. The
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
>> #2 would necessitate an incredible amount of arbitrage (i.e., increase prices even further) because it would severely impact their ability to maximize parcels shipped. > I'm fine with that. Like I said elsewhere, this is cost
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
Airlines and hotels often have agreements with the aggregators that they will not offer fares lower than what they are making available through the GDS aggregators. This is why hotel sites will offer discounted prices based either on prepay
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
If you really believe that was a better time to live in, there's some third-world countries that still operate that way. But it's pretty rough going when you have 1. no credit and 2. no distance communication, just to name two basic issues
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
50 or 100 years ago, there was real risk inherent in being an equity underwriter. IPO underwriters purchase the equity from the issuer and resell it to the market, and in theory that creates material risk that they might not be able to rese
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
When you change channels, you're no longer consuming the content on that channel. It's closer to using a TiVo to skip the ads in a programming. I do it myself, but it's pretty obvious to me that if everyone did it, it wouldn't scale and the
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
If you're going to consume the editorial content of the site? The ethical and legal (if not practical) answer is yes. It's your obligation to understand and accept the terms of a service (not just a web site) before using it. Is that imprac
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
Advertisers either pay for impressions (CPM) or clicks (CPC) or directly for conversions. They don't pay for conversion rates - if rates are too low, they might not buy CPC or CPM campaigns any more, but you can't generally get a refund for
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
"There is a third alternative: free product, adblock, no ads." By that logic, it's also possible to avoid high grocery bills by sticking some things in your pocket and not paying for them. Just because you can do something doesn't mean it's
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
I don't disagree that as a consumer you should have the right to choose what gets sent to you - but generally, if you're using a site, you're also consenting to its terms of service (which generally include accepting its ads.) As such, the
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
I agree with you that the MPAA claim is silly. But in this case, you're actually consuming the product - using their bandwidth, their servers, etc, all of which costs money - and denying them the revenue they use to support that service. Th
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
Net worth is one way, but not the only way, to evaluate the quality of a "businessperson" any more than "patents" are the only way to assess technical contributors. (And I note that the concept of a "business person" is about as generalized
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
IPOs don't have to be automated to end what is essentially price collusion by the investment banks on financing fees. It doesn't take that much more "work" by a bank to do an IPO for Facebook as it would for a company 1/50th the size. (I've
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
Cabs already stream ads once the meter starts in many cities, so that's not new, nor is fare sharing - New York has had it for decades. I'm sure any driverless cab would have the ability to ask to get out, but technically one might argue y
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
"If you get in a cab and say "take me to $x" it is the cab driver's responsibility to take the best route. " Obviously this can vary by municipality, but in most cities drivers are required to take the "most direct" route, rather than the
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
There's a crucial difference between what you're proposing and what the parent suggests - user choice. At least as I read the parent, he's not saying you're given a choice of what route, etc. That seems like a crucial distinction to leave o
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
This is a pretty paranoid and far-fetched scenario. Generally, I'd expect that an automated taxi would operate under rules similar to current taxis - the obligation would be to take the customer to the destination via the most direct route
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Granted, but given that most of them haven't even been able to get their in-dash software systems right (look at Ford's debacle), how likely are they to be able to make dependable self-driving cars?
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
More likely downvoted for making an unsubstantiated generalization - Google is a huge company with hundreds of products and projects, while many of them may connect to advertising / data mining, there are lots that don't.

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