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New comment by tryingagainbro in "Ask HN: How do I get $2.2M dollars?"

tryingagainbro — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 17:17:11 +0000

>>How do I get $2.2M dollars?

Get $3.5m and give away $1.3m. You'll have exactly what you asked for.

If you get atop job, salary plus options you could do it. Of course, unless you spend it.

New comment by tryingagainbro in "Andy Rubin Takes Leave of Absence Amid Report of ‘Inappropriate Relationship’"

tryingagainbro — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 16:30:42 +0000

>>after a woman complained to Human Resource

Did you miss this^^? She complained. Maybe she complained to get back at him but still, she complained.

Bill Gates also dated and married a subordinate. Poor woman, where was Gloria Allred to save her...

New comment by tryingagainbro in "Vanguard Founder Jack Bogle Says ‘Avoid Bitcoin Like the Plague’"

tryingagainbro — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 23:28:33 +0000

Investors like him and Buffet see gold as something just sitting there. if you buy a company, they will increase earnings, market share etc.

Gold just sits on a vault--which is a great thing for rich people to use a small % of their wealth for. Just in case. Gold has other uses and a 5000+ year history. Compare it to hundreds of coins out there

New comment by tryingagainbro in "Tencent’s Just Getting Started on Online Advertising"

tryingagainbro — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 21:18:55 +0000

Missed my point: First it is only fair. You cause problem for our Google and Facebook expect the same. That's fairness and economic patriotism. Not to mention that Google and Facebook "own" or can own US Congress and Senate. Hearings will start in days.

I believe that in authoritarian regimes you have ZERO choice or recourse. See Russia or Al-Waleed in Saudi Arabia. They will simply shut you down, break you in a gazillion pieces.

In USA you have courts at least. Have you noticed that Google is pushing encryption all over the web to make NSA's job harder or impossible? Let Alibaba or TenCent help thwarting FSB or China's security services

New comment by tryingagainbro in "Criminalizing Bitcoin Users? US Congress Holds Hearing to ‘Modernize’ AML Laws"

tryingagainbro — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 21:10:27 +0000

I think the headline is right. Any bitcoin owners best transfer to me whatever they have, just in case.

In all seriousness: The govt wants its taxes. We're talking HUNDREDS of billions now in coin value, not millions. Sure they are traceable, but at what cost? They can't pay $100K in fees to run blockchain audits to see if what you declared was correct or not...

USA has made virtually every bank in the world spend gazillions to report every account opened by a US person, Bitcoin is probably a walk in the park compared to that.

New comment by tryingagainbro in "U.S. judge says Uber withheld evidence, delays Waymo trial"

tryingagainbro — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 19:43:10 +0000

Well it worked for them, they're worth at least $50B (Softbank wants to buy shares at that price.)

They might have to pay a few billion in fines or damages but that's all. New CEO will apologize and we'll forget it. And that is because they got caught...

Not defending them, just saying in many cases these tactics work.

New comment by tryingagainbro in "Tencent’s Just Getting Started on Online Advertising"

tryingagainbro — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 17:58:26 +0000

Not gonna happen IMO. If they start to succeed, expect stories of how everything is being spied on by the Chinese govt. Which is a legitimate concern.

No Google or FB in China, no TenCent in USA either...

New comment by tryingagainbro in "Tencent’s Just Getting Started on Online Advertising"

tryingagainbro — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 17:40:50 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent $500+ BILLION market cap, and stakes in a lot of top companies. Imagine if they truly entered the US /EU market

New comment by tryingagainbro in "Would you send your kids to school on a self driving schoolbus?"

tryingagainbro — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 17:35:23 +0000

Yes...eventually. Not the first obviously. Accidents do happen but like airplane crashes the self-driving ones will hit the news, ignoring the xxxx driver car accidents that week /month...

New comment by tryingagainbro in "Brown University raising $120M to eliminate all student loans"

tryingagainbro — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 17:32:25 +0000

>>Profs are peaking at under $200k, the vast majority well under $100k. Contrast that with Comms directors making $250k.

Comms directors provide more immediate returns, namely fundraising and spinning. However, top professors can write their ticket just to say they're there and earn a fortune on the side.

New comment by tryingagainbro in "Video Startup Can’t Outspend YouTube, So It Created New Currency to Pay Creators"

tryingagainbro — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 08:12:21 +0000

Who knows, maybe they'll end up doing a different #3, put the cash in their pocket, while creators get paid with funny money. Lotsa scams as people try to catch the next bitcoin

New comment by tryingagainbro in "Brutal life working in Amazon warehouse"

tryingagainbro — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 18:30:41 +0000

Or, pay them $25 an hour and no one will complain.

New comment by tryingagainbro in "Brutal life working in Amazon warehouse"

tryingagainbro — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 18:28:22 +0000

>>I found staff asleep on their feet, exhausted from toiling for up to 55 hours a week.

What's brutal is their salary, £8.2 an hour, but 55 hours in the busiest season is called brutal? Please.

New comment by tryingagainbro in "Peter Thiel and the Stanford Review"

tryingagainbro — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 18:23:10 +0000

Gawker (apparently) said that Thiel was gay. That's not defamation, it's a fact, so you can't sue.

New comment by tryingagainbro in "Peter Thiel and the Stanford Review"

tryingagainbro — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 18:05:49 +0000

Well, he is smart, by whatever metric we judge people today. Two degrees from Stanford, job at top law firms and, at least lucky in several start ups.

The fact that he is rich means that people will listen to him more.

New comment by tryingagainbro in "Peter Thiel and the Stanford Review"

tryingagainbro — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 18:03:29 +0000

>>Gawker, which had covered his political activities negatively and outed him as gay in 2007

I know it's not good for free pres when a billionaire funds whatever lawsuit he can find against you, but outing someone, is really, really sleazy. So I guess they're even. Kinda.

New comment by tryingagainbro in "Time Inc. Sells Itself to Meredith Corp., Backed by Koch Brothers"

tryingagainbro — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 04:55:40 +0000

>>Regardless of what you think of the Koch brothers, this appears to be a mundane deal sensationalized by the specter of the Koch brothers.

Of course, until 5 years from now, they simply frown their faces about an article and editors get the message.

Maybe it is like you said, maybe it will end like this:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/dec/12/newscorporatio... "I picked up the phone and called Murdoch and said that I was speaking not as a shareholder, but as a viewer of Fox. I said that these are not Muslim riots, they are riots," Campaign Middle East magazine quoted the prince as saying.

"He investigated the matter and called Fox and within half an hour it was changed from 'Muslim riots' to 'civil riots'."

Money does strange things.

New comment by tryingagainbro in "Facebook Can’t Cope with the World It’s Created"

tryingagainbro — Sun, 26 Nov 2017 13:52:11 +0000

>>because Facebook decided to experiment and implement the Timeline feature

That's to increase ad revenue, make no mistake about it. Like Google's algorithm and display changes...buy ads to be on top of the page

New comment by tryingagainbro in "Facebook Can’t Cope with the World It’s Created"

tryingagainbro — Sun, 26 Nov 2017 13:49:52 +0000

That's what keeps Zuck awake, I'm sure (sarcasm.) Buy ads if you want to get your point across. The fact that "everyone" uses FB is a badge of honor, a goal everyone tries to reach.

New comment by tryingagainbro in "A good resource for financial advice to share with people in their twenties?"

tryingagainbro — Sun, 26 Nov 2017 13:38:51 +0000

"I'm retired" while you're blogging /making a lot of money by saying you're retired, is profitable but fishy. Like getting rich by writing a book about how you got rich.

Yeah, a Google /FB /x employee can sacrifice for 10 years and then retire, at least outside USA. Live like immigrants that send all their money back to their home country, do.