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by vm 9y ago
What?? Amazon Prime is a killer value! Netflix is $11/month and Spotify is $10/month. Sure, those services are definitely better than Prime Video and Music, but I still use Amazon's offerings a similar amount so the $13/
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by vm 9y ago
This reminds me of the awful investment banker / hedge fund emails that came out after the financial crisis. Feels like tech is replacing Wall Street, a in bad way.
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by vm 9y ago
Every country has corruption, both illegal and legal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatocracy
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by vm 9y ago
Check out Bill Miller's investor letter where he discusses the "certainty" of storied investors that Bitcoin will fail. Miller is the most successful mutual fund manager in history. https://millervalue.com/cer
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by vm 9y ago
You're fed up after one year... Imagine what it's like for those of us who are judged in worse ways than being accused of having power. Literally hundreds of years of being called thieves, hoodlums, idiots and worse, being harasse
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by vm 9y ago
Agreed - this MS analysis is weak. More of a press piece without much critical thinking. See this link below for the best analysis I've read on Bitcoin, from a hedge fund that started buying it in 2015 and now has it as 50% of AUM. ht
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by vm 9y ago
Could you elaborate on which merchants use BCH? Would love to see any data you've come across or even anecdotes
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He could be massively shorting it and using negative press to panic retail investors into selling, driving down prices further (and increasing profits on his short). Not uncommon for public equity hedge funds. Makes sense that someone would
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by vm 9y ago
Ignoring the racism baked into that comment, smart people in China probably have more job opportunities than ever, with greater opportunity for wealth creation. China has one of the hottest tech industries in the world: Tencent and Alibaba
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by vm 9y ago
Rooting for you.
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by vm 9y ago
Voting multiple times doesn't happen, at least not easily. The U.S. voting system requires people to register ahead of time. They are assigned a specific voting location. When that person arrives s/he must verify their address&#x2
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by vm 9y ago
How often do you use Instagram, Snap, iMessage/SMS, WhatsApp, Messenger, or other social apps? Curious whether you get that "fix" elsewhere or if it yes/no for just FB. Thinking about it more, all media should be in the
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by vm 9y ago
Allegedly it tried to buy Casper for $1B but the company declined to sell and had Target invest instead https://www.recode.net/2017/5/19/15659562/target-casper-inve...
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Coinbase halts ether and litecoin trading as crypto market cap nears $500B(businessinsider.com)
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> As one becomes more dependant on it for communicating, they can do worse and worse things and it'll be harder and harder to say no. Yeah, that explains why younger generations care less about data privacy. Already the convenience
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by vm 9y ago
Damn. Sorry to hear. FB wasn't around when I was in grade school. I hope they make tools to clamp down on bullying. And that people act better, regardless.
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by vm 9y ago
You're implying that Facebook is addictive and, yeah, that seems to be the case. Good point.
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by vm 9y ago
All the more reason for ISP competition. The government will be slow to (or just won't) police this behavior so the ideal is to enable customers to quickly replace awful service providers with alternatives.
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by vm 9y ago
Part of me thinks the the anti-Facebook media sentiment is because Facebook replaced newspapers/magazines as the highly profitable media aggregator. Old media struggles for relevance and lashes out at Facebook, the new winner. Facebook
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by vm 9y ago
This article from First Round Capital outlines the modern tech company approach: http://firstround.com/review/why-you-need-two-chiefs-in-the-... Tl;dr - CoS stands in for the CEO in meetings, fills her in on what'
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by vm 9y ago
Bankruptcy can definitely be in the creditor's interest. It can take possession of the company's assets, and then sell them off to recover principal (in addition to many other outcomes - bankruptcy is complicated). Debt incentives
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by vm 9y ago
No no no. Debt is not universally better. Debt can wipe out companies. It requires payments that equity does not. Miss one payment and you're in default. It's extremely risky for companies that are young and volatile. Debt vs. equ
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by vm 9y ago
This is non-news. The sale was "part of a previously established trading plan" -- VCs set these up all the time to slowly sell off shares in a way that's not disruptive to companies. If you owned 10% of a company and sold all
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by vm 9y ago
Even larger fines seem to draw weak behavior change. The U.S. corporate structure is remarkable in that sense. It shields employees (especially executives who often don't carry out orders) from criminal and financial responsibility for
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by vm 9y ago
RT is Russia Today, which is funded by the Russian government. Sputnik, the other media outlet mentioned in the article, is similarly funded by the Russian government. Their Wikipedia pages imply that both are use for Russian government pro
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by vm 9y ago
Here's a video of the product if you're as curious as I was. Siri/Alexa for enterprise users -- https://iamplus.com/enterprise/ Seems like a smart market entry point. Enterprise employee virtual assistan
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by vm 9y ago
LinkedIn has been one of the most infuriating CAN-SPAM violators for years. So many startups do too. "Growth hacking" is probably a net negative to society based on all the spam it produces.
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by vm 9y ago
I was a Snap power user. Got spectacles very early. Hated the upload UX. Bluetooth issues galore. Completely stopped using them. As standalone sunglasses, they are inferior to a good $10 pair from amazon - heavier, worse lens quality, and l
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On the other hand, Amazon generates a lot of free cash flow. Roughly $10B worth last year or 7% of revenue (or an impressive 21% of gross profit). It earns this healthy margin because customers pay Amazon before Amazon pays suppliers. Norma
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Obviously they didn't invent financial analysis. They built a system that does this at scale: 1) collects and organizes the right data and spits out analysis -- this can be painful from the many times I've done it. Investment ba

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