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by phphphphp 4y ago
I’d be absolutely shocked if more than 25% can be recovered. They spent multi-billions on venture investments that were not just high-risk due to their early stage nature but also inextricably linked to ftx by way of the cryptocurrency mark
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Setting aside the arguments to be made for/against the idea, and focusing on the implementation instead: most investments are handled through some sort of limited liability vehicle and so even if the “investor” was held responsible it
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by phphphphp 4y ago
A higher cost higher quality service can succeed, but that's not the Carvana business model. The Carvana "business model" was "sell as many cars as possible and work out the economics later" and it's now "
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Depending on exactly when you bought your car from Carvana, Carvana likely lost between $2,000 and $5,000 on your purchase. Carvana has never made money on selling cars. If you're willing to pay $5,000 more for a used car because you&#
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by phphphphp 4y ago
The good experience you had early on and the bad state of the company now are closely linked. The story is always the same with this type of company: take a mature industry that is profitable on a unit basis because it’s boring and unplea
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by phphphphp 4y ago
ironic that he's the one slinking back into his hole, I guess projection really is the fraudsters greatest weakness. What's most interesting to me is that after the conversation in this thread, I did some further research on Vinay
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Exactly, and no offence to Grant Wahl, but he's a nobody in the grand scheme of things. He might be a big journalist in the context of American soccer, but he's not a meaningful presence in the world of football -- a sport America
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Which email address should I reach you at? I will happily take you up on it. I'll redirect one of my donations to the charity of your choice :) So we're clear on the terms in public: 1. The land we are discussing is the piece of l
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by phphphphp 4y ago
That’s a great catch! That would also explain the “…part of a larger deal…”: the larger property (homegrange house: https://housingcare.org/housing-care/facility-info-18883-hom... ) was up for sale and is a care home o
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by phphphphp 4y ago
A complex transaction that took place through a single public listing at an auction house. That’s exactly how complex property deals happen. Unfortunately, you’ve said I would have to sign an NDA to get more info from the seller which would
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Nobody is going to buy it for >£1m because it's worthless. That's the point. Although at this point I am not sure what your story is, if I understand it correctly, you're saying West London Lets bought it for >£1m with
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Oh, so you acknowledge that the listed price of £130,000 is the value? Thank you, so by extension you acknowledge that £7,000 was the sale price of the piece of beach. I'd also suggest you re-read my comment: land has value when it has
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by phphphphp 4y ago
The reason you cannot "just" purchase "chunks" of the English coastline is because most of our coastline belongs to either local authorities or the crown estate. There is no sane business case for owning an acre of beach
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Either you're a fraud or a fool. The land registry does not list "transaction fees" and neither do auction houses. If the land was indeed purchased for a large amount of money, the buyer (who is now the seller) would need to
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by phphphphp 4y ago
this is an international website, there's lots of people on this website from all over the world... I am from the UK. I am writing this comment from the UK. I have extensive knowledge of land and property prices in the UK, but that&#x2
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by phphphphp 4y ago
The fact that you're so willing to lie so brazenly when you're dealing with an unproven and high-risk legal process is, well, I don't know, it undermines your trustworthiness somewhat -- and proves correct all the cynicism ab
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by phphphphp 4y ago
I guess you could try to massage the word “regulate” to make it untrue but given Twitter has literally been fined by the FTC multiple times and is subject to a consent decree which applies legal culpability to Twitter executives unless they
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by phphphphp 4y ago
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598843310042279936 Jack was, quite famously, half-assing his leadership of Twitter for years. There was no secret, it was constantly discussed here on HN: how Jack’s inability t
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by phphphphp 4y ago
That’s evidence that they applied their policies. There is no evidence that they applied these policies in order to favour Biden. I will happily accept evidence that they did it to favour Biden, if some is shown… but that has not happened y
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Maybe I’m not deep enough in the weeds on the laptop story to understand the bigger picture, but so far, all the emails have shown are that members of the US government (which regulates Twitter) have the ability to contact Twitter and Twitt
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by phphphphp 4y ago
There’s zero evidence of that, so far at least. The emails show nothing of the sort: they show a bunch of people ham-fistedly trying to enforce policies designed to protect the company. I look forward to seeing some evidence that people at
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by phphphphp 4y ago
I love drama and chaos as much as any nerd with too much time on their hands… but this story has not a single compelling nugget to it. Like, the tweets so far are so un-juicy that I would like to ensure this doesn’t ever go to the frontpage
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by phphphphp 4y ago
I’ll second the 1Password recommendations, it’s fantastic software that is becoming better and better. If you’re comfortable with cloud syncing, I can’t imagine a better option than 1Password. A top 1Password tip is that the business plans
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Yes, exactly, that’s my understanding from the blog post and changelog post. I think perhaps the waters have been muddied a little because of our expectations of API versioning + GitHub’s need to maintain backwards compatibility for existin
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by phphphphp 4y ago
The version is only optional in the request: when it isn’t provided in the request then the system will default to the version of the API that would have been given had this new system not been implemented, so there is no change in behaviou
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by phphphphp 4y ago
There's no such thing as "safe" or "unsafe" in an unregulated space (hence people saying "no") but if you're asking about relative safety then Coinbase is probably the safest of the centralised exch
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Rewrites rarely end well but that’s not a reason to never do a rewrite. The problem with rewrites is that they’re often a very expensive solution to the wrong problem. If your system is bad, it’s probably not the code at fault, it’s probabl
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Most of what you say is true but I disagree with your conclusion. Elon is being cruel, his behaviour is actively hostile and unacceptable towards any employees regardless of their value or how pampered they are. Elon cutting bloat and Elon
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by phphphphp 4y ago
If that’s true, why isn’t that the party line? Every tax-reductionist I’ve heard from talks to the moral crime of high taxation, and the necessity to cut reliance on the government. I have not heard (as a regular person outside of academic
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Perhaps naive but is it possible to create some sort of Mastodon proxy that exists independent of any specific instance? Rather than run your own instance or point to a shared instance, a proxy could be a fairly simple system that uses DNS

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