jpao79

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by jpao79 8y ago
Not sure if when you say CEO, if you are talking about a CEO with his individual personal stock holdings or for the company itself. If its the former, it feels like Mark Cuban did something of the sort with his Yahoo stock with his own per
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by jpao79 8y ago
My thought is that if you like to see them inline/unified, then you could head directly to amazon-marketplace.com where they are all commingled like they currently are.
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by jpao79 8y ago
Amazon should (and still can while there's still time before some major negative social media event) split their website, reviews, search and fulfillment inventory to make it clear what you are getting/who you are buying from. ama
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by jpao79 8y ago
I think what's also interesting is that now that Microsoft is awake with Nadella at the helm and presenting a viable alternative, will Amazon's cloud business start losing marketshare. If I were say, Procter and Gamble/Clorox
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by jpao79 8y ago
Yes, in someways it feels like if Visa claimed that it handles 99.99% of all online retailing and showing revenue numbers based on the entire retail sales transaction and not just on the 1.5% processing fee. To a certain extent, Amazon&#x27
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by jpao79 8y ago
And on top of that, what happens when the bricks and mortar store goes out of business and you have nowhere to go when Amazon is not sending it to you and "need it urgently". Sometimes I shop at the local BestBuy to delay that ine
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by jpao79 8y ago
The environmentalist in me is thinking a single billionaire's carbon impact is probably lower than a 1,000 millionaire's carbon impact. A single billionaire (say Warren Buffet) has a consumption of probably $200,000 a year with t
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by jpao79 8y ago
Actually maybe a well insulated house could be considered a "thermal battery". If you look at the CAISO reports, a significant chunk of the duck curve is related to heating/cooling. If you had a super well insulated house,
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by jpao79 8y ago
More fair points. And, yes at the individual level, I agree, a higher wage, trickle up approach seems better/fairer than a trickle down approach. However, at the macro level, the environmentalist in me worries, at the extreme end if w
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by jpao79 8y ago
Fair point! I'm not an economist by training, just a hobby/armchair economist :). That said, this economist that some HN'er recommended seems to think earnings are strong and much of the buyback is funded by repatriated mone
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by jpao79 8y ago
I agree with the other commenters on this subthread that buybacks are most often times simply a more tax efficient way of handing back profits to shareholders. I think it's a good thing that companies share profit gains with shareho
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by jpao79 8y ago
Saw this the other day. Seems like it would make sense. https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/03/google-clouds-coo-departs-...
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by jpao79 8y ago
There is likely some truth to this as it encourages new housing stock to be built. I also suspect that it does lead to a more sustainable long term growth that's less likely to have major sell offs since owners will hold onto their pr
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by jpao79 8y ago
As a side note, I've often pondered what would have the outcome if Subway had 'leaned in' and actually promoted its "50% chicken-50% soy but tastes the same as 100% chicken" as an environmentally sustainable and hea
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by jpao79 8y ago
So some random thoughts on the case for this time its actually different are: 1.) The internet and computing has increased the flow of information. Investments in data mining and data science by the Fed lets it make better decisions and te
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by jpao79 8y ago
Yeah kind like a super duper high end vending machine at locations where there might be a person that normally is tasked with doing other stuff could do minimal burger robot maintenance (i.e. refill, clean at the end of the day, etc.). Lik
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by jpao79 8y ago
I think what's kind of interesting is if this actually makes it easier to start a restaurant. Assuming at some point, some food robot maker steps up and starts selling the robot itself to independent restauranteurs, instead of selling
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by jpao79 8y ago
Ah - maybe a better way to phrase it is, if Harvard is pitching itself as a place a person can learn to lead global teams, set optimal global government policy, guide diverse groups toward a common solution, then the student body should pro
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by jpao79 8y ago
There could be a case that it is not just for photographs but it is actually the marketing pitch for the value proposition of Harvard over, as the Tyler Cowen mentions, UC Irvine. If you are trying to train and prepare a student to lead glo
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by jpao79 8y ago
Adapted by CGP Grey for people who don't read: The Rules for Rulers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
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by jpao79 8y ago
For better or worse, I think a good analogy is making a movie in Hollywood versus anywhere else. Yes you could make your movie in New Hampshire, but it'd be that much more inertia to find a screenwriter, to cast the talent, find the c
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by jpao79 8y ago
I've always thought it would be cool to create a site which matched people living on a dime trying to do something interesting (art, tech, music, ...) with cities/suburbs (i.e. urban development organizations) looking to diversify
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by jpao79 8y ago
Agreed. Caching the video to a Netflix DVR would likely only be guaranteed to work with Netflix's own content. But isn't creating all its own content Netflix's plan?
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by jpao79 8y ago
Yes, it would be like a Netflix box (maybe branded under their Roku brand name) that's similar to Tivo. A Tivo Bolt Premier can be had for $299 with a 1TB drive. The key is signing a lower cost deal with Verizon/ATT LTE or Dish S
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by jpao79 8y ago
What would seem to make sense for Netflix would be use more HDD/SSD caching of videos, similar to how a DVR for Tivo works. There really isn't a huge reason to live stream Netflix movie/show content. It's not live vide
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by jpao79 8y ago
Actually after you reach a certain point with respect to financial independence (which I am sure Dean Kamen has done), it might be more rewarding to actually generate really amazing prototypes of what could be done and then let other people
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by jpao79 8y ago
Reminds me of this article: Google and Facebook contribute zero economic value. That's a big problem for trade. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2016/10/2...
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by jpao79 8y ago
I found this PBS Newshour report that was inspiring: Job training and community college put coal miners on a new path https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/job-training-community-col... The question is, is it to optim
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by jpao79 8y ago
Ok true. Just would add that high housing costs are actually the sum of asinine zoning laws + high labor costs and that high labor costs are due to high housing costs. :)
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by jpao79 8y ago
Actually its driven by the need for localized labor and unfortunately due to high housing costs, labor can't afford to live in downtown SF/LA and so a lot of time is wasted getting to the job site from the outer suburbs.

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