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The Strongest Predictor for Success

undefined1 — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 19:35:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfF2e0vyGM4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998215

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by undefined1 in "Stock Market Returns Are Anything but Average"

undefined1 — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 16:19:32 +0000

we have high inflation, CPI is just not a good measurement.

https://twitter.com/LynAldenContact/status/13875210431207587...

https://tradingeconomics.com/commodities

New comment by undefined1 in "Show your costs to boost sales"

undefined1 — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 21:53:03 +0000

great find. it might've been worth increasing the price though, to see if customers still bought them or not in practice. with a note on the table or menu explaining why the price increased.

New comment by undefined1 in "Amazon Q1 2021 Quarterly Results [pdf]"

undefined1 — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 21:46:52 +0000

Q1 revenue

2021: $108.5 billion

2020: $75.5 billion

2019: $59.7 billion

2018: $51.0 billion

2017: $35.7 billion

2016: $29.1 billion

2015: $22.7 billion

2014: $19.7 billion

2013: $16.1 billion

2012: $13.2 billion

2011: $9.9 billion

2010: $7.1 billion

2009: $4.9 billion

2008: $4.1 billion

2007: $3.0 billion

2006: $2.3 billion

2005: $1.9 billion

2004: $1.5 billion

2003: $1.1 billion

2002: $847 million

2001: $700 million

2000: $574 million

1999: $294 million

1998: $87 million

1997: $16 million

How I studied for 12 hours a day for over a year

undefined1 — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 03:11:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kICh_d6tHQk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26977003

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by undefined1 in "Americans overwhelmingly say marijuana should be legal"

undefined1 — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 01:26:07 +0000

majority support, and democrats have control of the three branches of government. what's the hold up in getting it legalized?

Americans overwhelmingly say marijuana should be legal

undefined1 — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 00:47:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/04/16/americans-overwhelmingly-say-marijuana-should-be-legal-for-recreational-or-medical-use/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26897307

Points: 86

# Comments: 127

0.1 ETH to $30M in 46 days

undefined1 — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 00:16:41 +0000

Article URL: https://bscscan.com/tx/0x835c4f75537591b6ea8306fbbe13ebb974eaf71811137ec1b3ac398401cba832

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26897078

Points: 22

# Comments: 12

New comment by undefined1 in "Trying to open an S.F. ice cream shop, was no match for city bureaucracy"

undefined1 — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 20:14:11 +0000

building in SF is all but illegal. related; "San Francisco Man Has Spent 4 Years and $1 Million Trying to Get Approval to Turn His Own Laundromat Into an Apartment Building"

https://reason.com/2018/02/21/san-francisco-man-has-spent-4-...

New comment by undefined1 in "Proposed bill to ban US government from buying location data [pdf]"

undefined1 — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 17:19:32 +0000

that's a huge problem and terribly short sighted. it assumes a continued hold on power.

New comment by undefined1 in "Making sense of what’s going on in the housing market"

undefined1 — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 17:06:15 +0000

up to you. you can look at the real world prices yourself, or ignore that in favor of the entity that has incentive to downplay inflation.

New comment by undefined1 in "Making sense of what’s going on in the housing market"

undefined1 — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 16:21:47 +0000

for those downvoting you:

Home Values +8%

Money Supply +24%

Stock Market +23%

Oil +80%

Corn +69%

Steel +145%

Wheat +25%

Coffee +34%

Cotton +35%

Copper +50%

Lumber +126%

Soybeans +71%

this is over the past year.

When did things go wrong in San Francisco?

undefined1 — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 18:16:02 +0000

Article URL: https://sbuss.substack.com/p/when-did-things-go-wrong-in-san-francisco

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26866176

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Why Is All Covid-19 News Bad News?

undefined1 — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 17:55:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nber.org/papers/w28110

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26854717

Points: 41

# Comments: 68

New comment by undefined1 in "Where’s the evidence that grit predicts success?"

undefined1 — Sat, 17 Apr 2021 16:24:14 +0000

> if your father doesn't have a precious gem mine in Africa

“This is a pretty awful lie,” Elon tweeted. “I left South Africa by myself when I was 17 with just a backpack & suitcase of books. Worked on my Mom’s cousin’s farm in Saskatchewan & a lumber mill in Vancouver. Went to Queens Univ with scholarship & debt, then same to UPenn/Wharton & Stanford.”

In a follow-up tweet, Elon said his father “didn’t own an emerald mine & I worked my way through college, ending up ~$100k in student debt.”

His mother Maye responded on Twitter in December 2019 in defense of Elon.

“To add to the truth, we went to Boston Chicken in Philadelphia for Thanksgiving because we couldn’t afford a turkey. And we spent three weeks making our rent-controlled apartment livable in Toronto,” Maye tweeted.

https://moguldom.com/278102/fact-check-did-elon-musk-inherit...