tmh79

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by tmh79 6y ago
>>> "But there is no place for it today, where better scholarship exists and the Internet provides ready access to a plethora of view points" Thats now how history works at all man. Pretty much all writing on history goes
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by tmh79 6y ago
Uber would set hours because they would only hire people to work at times when there is demand. You would not be able to "clock in" at will, because there might not be any rides for you to take, and thus no reason for you to get p
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Ask HN: Can I start a startup while on unemployment (US based)
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by tmh79 6y ago
I dunno man, im getting kind of jaded as I get older. "True moonshot" to me seems more like cheap clean water for everyone, or a real way to sequester carbon, not a way for rich folks to get to their country cottages faster.
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by tmh79 6y ago
I mean, this is specifically accurate but a useless metrics. Its literally bullets/kill. Modern urban warfare tactics include a whole lot of shooting where the intent is not to kill the enemy, but to make the enemy hide and reduce thei
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by tmh79 6y ago
Some 100+ comments on here and no mention of the horrible impact having more of these giant trucks around is going to have on the climate. This is technically interesting, but experience shows us that most of these trucks will be purchased
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by tmh79 6y ago
There are lots of self employed people that own nice trucks, but the primary sales target of the F150 is a wealthy office worker who lives in the suburbs. By far their biggest customer base is people who like the aesthetics of the truck but
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by tmh79 6y ago
demand has changed quite a bit, lots of people are leaving cities, and fewer people, especially new grads from undergrad and profession school like business/med, are moving in.
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by tmh79 6y ago
how is this contradictory? Firms that are monopolistic are less competitive, larger, and slower growing. Reducing monopolistic tendencies increases capital growth, competition, and reduces average firm size. This is well understood economic
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by tmh79 6y ago
Vast majority of these offices are small hubs in tier 3 cities occupied by regional tems, or tier 1 cities with multiple offices.
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by tmh79 6y ago
"Uber is absolutely not on the scale of those companies, and most of the time they should probably be using off-the-shelf solutions when they become available." I agree, but I'd also add that the state of the world in 2016 wh
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by tmh79 6y ago
IMO, there is a lot of hocus pocus going on in the "medical error is the 3rd leading cause of death" statistic, and the case they chose to highlight is extremely atypical. The vast majority of health care spending and the vast maj
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by tmh79 6y ago
earlier leak said 20% of employees across all departments
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by tmh79 6y ago
Solidarity must enter the equation because if you don't take care of those who are vulnerable, the economy will tank worse than it already has. People dying is expensive, and this many people dying is a lot more expensive than the cost
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by tmh79 6y ago
They weren't selling a fantasy, they were selling real tech. Their block has been "consumerizing" it. My understanding (from sources who have experienced the demo) is that their first demo was BONKERS. They projected light ri
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by tmh79 6y ago
Its in court, but softbank hasn't paid the corporate structures that controlled wework the money noted in their deal. Its pretty crazy that no one really talks about how weird the weWork corporate structure is: https://twitt
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by tmh79 6y ago
There are also lots of reports of confiscations of PPE: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/us/politics/coronavirus-f... https://www.firehouse.com/safety-health/ppe/news&#x2
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by tmh79 6y ago
in the current moment, the "confederacy of southern states" is the federal government. I do not expect to see them different from a federal response due to their loyalty to trump.
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by tmh79 6y ago
yea, its def a risk play. Lets say they can make it 12 months with cash on hand, what does the funding env look like in 12 months? There is def someone with a big spreadsheet who has modeled this out and decided this was the best path forwa
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by tmh79 6y ago
If the demand crash is transitive, then it would cost a lot to rebuild all of those things. They've definitely done the math. The reality is this is a very expensive crises for them.
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by tmh79 6y ago
I mean: apple is essentially a proxy with zero skin in the game. They don't manufacture the phones, screens, chips etc... airlines are proxies, most planes are leased not owned... Hotels are proxies, most hotel properties are franchise
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by tmh79 6y ago
They are expecting their revenue to basically go to near zero for the next year.
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by tmh79 6y ago
The issue at doordash is the following: (1) Drivers are paid in 2 factors, a tip provided by the user, and a per delivery fee provided by doordash thats variable, and generally in the industry is between 10 and 20% of the basket cost (2) do
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by tmh79 6y ago
hospitalization rates are being shared. IIRC, they are generally around 20% of confirmed cases, but the testing rate is low here so hard to know the true numbers
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by tmh79 7y ago
the issue isn't seafood (living or dead) its live mammals and birds. Tsujiki doesn't sell any mammals/birds and the vast majority of what is sold there is long dead, so its fine. The issue is when you have lots of bats/p
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by tmh79 7y ago
yes, I totally understand that. While they are separate countries, their economies and supply chains are extremely closely tied together and closing the border to US people would cause an extreme econ shock in both countries. Retaliation fr
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by tmh79 7y ago
I mean, they definitely could in a legal sense, but then the reaction from the US would likely be extreme and putative, it would likely cause a huge shock to the Canadian economy, and it would risk a sharp decline in the legitimacy of the c
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by tmh79 7y ago
Interesting question: Do you think the Canadian government has the power to deny entry of US citizens into Canada? I don't think they'd be able to do it. [edit] I think any Candian government who actually did it would see an econo
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by tmh79 7y ago
his contract to sell w uber had a significant earn out, the 680m was based on hitting different tech milestones. He hit none of them before he was fired.
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by tmh79 7y ago
Comments above are correct, I'd also add that NYC and SF are "inducing demand" not by building housing, but by building office space at a rate 8x-12x that they are building residential dwelling units. Over the past ~10 years,

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