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Comment · 2 months ago
Munger talked on this.

“Disliking distortion. Bias from that. The reciprocal of liking distortion and the tendency not to learn appropriately from someone disliked.”

Comment · 3 months ago
It’s not just the cash flow, it’s the margins.

Redbulls gross margins are probably 90%. It’s basically just water, sugar, and caffeine sold for $3.

You can do a lot of great promotions if the cost of your product is a rounding error.

Comment · 4 months ago
Markets are obviously, rationally, not happy about the overspending.

But what gives me pause is that a some of the mag 7 (think Meta) could change their mind on AI build-out tomorrow, and 1-year from now have the same amazing free cash flow they always did.

Comment · 4 months ago
Markets generally love buybacks.

The market is both happy that Apple didn’t spend all its cash on AI build-out, but also at the same time angry that Apple is “missing AI”.

Not to mention the grumblings that Apple has peaked.

Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
Are you trading collectibles? I’m just genuinely curious what someone would buy with 2-3 transactions a month.
Comment · 10 years ago
In Hong Kong Braintree made it so incredibly difficult to get an account started that we ended up abandoning it. When Stripe finally opened up their HK beta I tried again and the process to get approved took all of 3 minutes.
Comment · 11 years ago
"WITH its estimated one million security cameras, London is pioneering a new area of detection". - Insane, and scary.

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