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by zd4akaq85a 10y ago
How cheap do you think room, board, and medical care should be? By the way, for comparison, Medicare spends $10k/year per beneficiary in Florida.
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by zd4akaq85a 10y ago
Ok, sure, you can add in roads and it will change the numbers in a small way that will be irrelevant to the thread. You can spend an infinite amount of time making rough estimates more accurate, if that's what you're into.
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by zd4akaq85a 10y ago
Florida's GDP is $748B. Suppose 1 in 300 people in the state are mentally ill enough at a given time to warrant living in a mental hospital. If that costs $1B, about half as much of the economy would be spent on them (per capita), com
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by zd4akaq85a 10y ago
Independence Day, a blue-blooded American Hollywood Film if there ever was one, is also all about unity.
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by zd4akaq85a 10y ago
Granted, I don't think many engineers are making out with seven figures here, but they should be making whatever their shares were supposed to be worth at the most recent valuation. That's if they joined after the last funding rou
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by zd4akaq85a 10y ago
I feel you just haven't proved your claim given the numbers. Even if the last round's investors were guaranteed a 3x return, that only takes up $1B of this $3B.
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by zd4akaq85a 10y ago
Really, you are claiming that if a company raised $570M and sold for $3B, the common shareholders will get screwed? Do you have some information we don't? The publicly reported valuation at the last funding round was $1.4B. Those would
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by zd4akaq85a 10y ago
I have a hard time calling the result of negotiations between the single cartel of teams and the single (probably less-skilled) cartel of players a market.
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by zd4akaq85a 10y ago
This explanation sounds believable, but I think it's important to mention the basic math of the salary cap: NFL salary cap is $155M across 53 players = $3M/player NBA salary cap is $95M across 14 players = $6.7M/player. But a
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by zd4akaq85a 10y ago
An Uber engineer at a conference said that none of the open-source NoSQL systems could handle their load, and they they had to heavily hack one of them (which I think was Cassandra but the memory is vague) to get the last bit of performance