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by unreal37 7y ago
Softbank should have known. They had billions of dollars invested. They don't get to act surprised that Neumann was borrowing money from banks and then having the company cover those loans.
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by unreal37 7y ago
People see it as a "schadenfreude" story. How the hottest of the hot unicorn startups got it's due. A great story to repeat over and over and over.
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by unreal37 7y ago
Isn't Ford 100 years old? Not long enough? The Ford family has 40% voting power and 2% share ownership.
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by unreal37 7y ago
Isn't Walmart controlled by the children of Sam Walton? [1] "Sam Walton's heirs own over 50 percent of Walmart through their holding company Walton Enterprises and through their individual holdings. " Where does this wri
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by unreal37 7y ago
>> my company would have used an airBNB style conference room scheduling solution half a dozen times last year. These exist. They exist all over the world. Regus being one.
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by unreal37 7y ago
WeWork had apps to optimize the space in their office layout for maximum efficiency. They had one of the lowest sqft per paying member in the business. They also were into custom spaces. They needed software to design the office floor plans
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by unreal37 7y ago
Adobe isn't punishing them. This is a US Government order.
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by unreal37 7y ago
I think it's fair to say that people living in Venezuela have bigger problems than access to Adobe products. They live in an extremely socialist country with crippling economic worldwide sanctions, massive inflation (300,000% or someth
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by unreal37 7y ago
It applies to all of the United States. "Sec. 3. The prohibitions in section 1 of this order include: (a) the making of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services by, to, or for the benefit of any person whose property
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by unreal37 7y ago
There are two sides to every story perhaps. Not saying people don't need to know "their rights" and not saying it's ok to take advantage of people. But I'm not talking about "unpaid overtime" or "work
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by unreal37 7y ago
Edited to say... I think we (as humans on this planet) need to be respectful of each other. Not go out of our way to hurt each other. But "being respectful" needs to have a standard, society-wide definition. We cannot allow indivi
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by unreal37 7y ago
The Stack Exchange rule forbids calling them "they" and requires calling them the pronoun they wish to be called. The original post is saying "I refer to people as they" and SE is saying that's a violation of the co
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by unreal37 7y ago
He simply said "perhaps consumption is a better way to tax people than income." Which is quite the opposite of what you think he said.
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by unreal37 7y ago
I am not going to downvote you, but that's just not always correct. Plenty of people have come from nothing to become billionaires. (Oprah!) But plenty of people are trapped in a situation and can't just remove themselves from tho
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by unreal37 7y ago
Reminds me of the fees airlines charge. So you think you're paying $400 for that flight? It's $512. Because there are things like "fuel surcharges". The cost of fuel should be built into the price. It's core to what
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by unreal37 7y ago
He or she didn't mention asking for reviews, encouraging reviews, rewarding reviews, and doing anything at all to inform players about how reviews help the game. Like, you have a garden where you don't plant any flowers but are pi
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by unreal37 7y ago
Doesn't seem that you have the facts, but you're convinced that one side is right.
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by unreal37 7y ago
I hadn't thought of it until I read your comment, but when I worked for the government, the people who were MOST familiar with the contract, the rules, the exact things that I could ask them to do and the things they were allowed to re
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by unreal37 7y ago
Unions have their own goals that are more than just "the interests of Kickstarter employees". So in fact, there will be times when issues are important to Kickstarter employees but are not important to their union. Or important to
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by unreal37 7y ago
The model of driving every profitable company out of business by undercutting on price to a massive per unit loss, funded by venture capital, in an attempt to corner the market and have a pseudo-monopoly is bad for "the public" in
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by unreal37 7y ago
They sure do. The M1 money supply has gone from 1.5 trillion in 2009 to 3.8 trillion today. That's 2.5X more money in circulation in 10 years. A graph of that is a hockey stick - basically a 45 degree angle. The dollar remains strong.
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by unreal37 7y ago
OK, well then go open book store. Online or brick and mortar. There's no money in it, because Amazon has such as HUGE advantage in mindshare, pricing and delivery that you can't compete. Does a book store have a network effect? No
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by unreal37 7y ago
But today, AWS is hugely profitable and hides the money losing parts of the business.
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by unreal37 7y ago
I think there are several hundred thousand man made objects in orbit around the Earth... If you ever want to get depressed about how humans have ruined the space around our planet... http://stuffin.space/
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by unreal37 7y ago
I don't know that I agree that capital is "under appreciated". Capital is infinite. The US just prints an unlimited supply of dollars, and that has no effect on the value of the dollar. Governments around the world are now of
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by unreal37 7y ago
Why are you using 10X revenue multiple on a real estate company? Other RE companies are valued at 4X.[1] So $10B seems to be the value based on those numbers and their industry. However, they're losing tons of money. So that has to put
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by unreal37 7y ago
We is losing 50 cents for every $1 they earn. And that scales as they gain more customers. Hard to figure how they are going to cut expenses 30% or double the cost of renting from them...
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by unreal37 7y ago
It's still a massive conflict of interest. The company lent him the money to buy those properties. Let's say in 2021, when WeWork is running out of money and needs to renegotiate its leases with landlords, is Adam going to lose mo
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by unreal37 7y ago
Sorry, but this seems to be a naive view. China is known to arrest people and/or grant extreme sentences in retaliation for things going on in world politics. Recently China has been executing Canadians in retaliation for an arrest of
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by unreal37 7y ago
There is some significant disagreement that Google is in fact doing anything here. There's somebody who wants them to do something, but Google themselves seem to say subdomain leasing is OK. [1] [1] https://medium.com/@

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