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GoodRx S-1(sec.gov)
143 points by xoxoy 6y ago|131 comments
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by xoxoy 6y ago
next time someone talks about the first mover advantage point to Zoom its quite funny if you think about it
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by xoxoy 6y ago
easy to assemble, easy to move, modular, sturdy but lightweight furniture is my dream product. hope someone invents something like that!
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Ask HN: Why is Tesla worth $420B?
13 points by xoxoy 6y ago|31 comments
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by xoxoy 6y ago
education is a highly inelastic good...couple that with essentially unlimited federally back loans and you get price increases year after year
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by xoxoy 6y ago
education is not a commodity in the same sense as corn and it’s much more of an inelastic good than corn the difference between 50k in tuition and expenses and 55k will not change demand a meaningful amount, and universities exploit the fac
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by xoxoy 6y ago
huh? there’s plenty of colleges to choose from and yet costs go up every year. to me it seems like a distortion caused by a Federal Gov that guarantees payment to universities in the form of federally backed student loans.
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by xoxoy 6y ago
And Tesla just surpassed Walmart in market cap even though their total quarterly deliveries have been relatively flat around 80-90k per quarter for almost 2 years.
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The illegal Airbnb nightclubs wreaking havoc on London(wired.co.uk)
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Tesla shares rally for no reason(techcrunch.com)
6 points by xoxoy 6y ago|2 comments
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by xoxoy 6y ago
Airbnb has been heavily regulated in SF for years (ironically), so there hasn’t been a lot of Airbnbs that were full units vs just a spare bedroom in someone’s actual residence.
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by xoxoy 6y ago
Amazon is hardly “cheap” even for things they sell directly these days. it’s either outrageously overpriced (most often in categories they don’t sell and is all third party sellers) or it’s in line with other retailers.
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by xoxoy 6y ago
right - the main critique is the fact that you even have to do the work to find the decent stuff. it’s ridiculous and not customer friendly at all.
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by xoxoy 6y ago
what’s a category of good that Amazon excels at where they are the dominant seller e.g. where the search term has not been gamed by a dozen marketplace sellers? even with Amazon as the direct seller I don’t find them to be cheaper than othe
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by xoxoy 6y ago
Shopping on Amazon has become unbearable for like 95% of categories these days. The experience is like rummaging through some shady tourist market with a dozen stall owners trying to scam you. The pricing is all whack with lots of counterfe
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Robinhood Has Mastered the Stock Market Game. Its Next Act Will Be Tougher(barrons.com)
5 points by xoxoy 6y ago|0 comments
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CDC: One quarter of young adults contemplated suicide during pandemic(politico.com)
9 points by xoxoy 6y ago|4 comments
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by xoxoy 6y ago
no but if i’m going to start a business the best way to make an impact is to create a business model that can sustainably provide a true living wage plus benefits for all employees. that would be my “social impact”.
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by xoxoy 6y ago
not sure what the brick and mortar equivalent is. what does that mean? retailers pay suppliers some wholesale cost for their goods. doesn’t seem like an analogous situation to a marketplace that takes a fixed cut of every sale.
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by xoxoy 6y ago
bad argument since Apple set the precedent and everyone else followed.
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by xoxoy 6y ago
30% is extremely high by any reasonable standard for any marketplace
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Facebook abandons broken drilling equipment under Oregon coast seafloor(oregonlive.com)
67 points by xoxoy 6y ago|18 comments
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by xoxoy 6y ago
if you look at iPhone sales over past 6-8 quarters or so growth is slow to non-existent. they are squeezing services revenue like this to continue growing their top line. personally i don’t see it as sustainable and surprised the stock keep
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by xoxoy 6y ago
Fortnite of course expected this: seems like they’ve prepared a short video mocking Apple’s old super bowl ad 1984 to premiere in an hour https://twitter.com/fortnitegame/status/1293984290326433792?...
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Apple removes Fortnite from App Store after Epic attempts to bypass fees(twitter.com)
595 points by xoxoy 6y ago|489 comments
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Wix Announces Pricing of Private Offering of $500M 0% Convertible Senior Notes(sec.gov)
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Palantir plans direct listing for September(bloomberg.com)
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Airbnb revenue tanked 67% in second quarter(bloomberg.com)
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by xoxoy 6y ago
the number of people who will hop from one airbnb to the next during some unknown WFH period is absurdly small
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Swarm of Salton Sea earthquakes sparks worry about the San Andreas fault(latimes.com)
2 points by xoxoy 6y ago|0 comments

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