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When people bemoan how things were cheaper back in an earlier time, they are often forgetting to take into account: CPI Inflation (when adjusted for inflation, these 'cheap' things are often…

I'm sure fraud & waste exists in all mediums of advertising $7 billion over meany years, while it seems like a lot, is still just a small amount of the total advertising online market The fig…

I think another problem is that bear markets tend to be briefer and more erratic than bull markets, making your odds worse. The serial, consistent returns being long in bull market aren't as cons…

Hmm, but the Flynn effect is endogenous, meaning that while IQs may be higher, IQ scores don't rise throughout the persons's life to suggest exogenous factors, only over many generations of …

what happened to him? Did he continue to trade?

insurance, zoning

The joke is on anyone who invested in this company, thinking it would be even 1/100 a successful as Facebook. Remember bebo?

exactly..fundamentals will always trump liquidity

I don't mean to sound too dismissive, but this article is bunkum. SO I guess by the author's logic, Michael Bloomberg's net worth is zero because Bloomberg LP never went public? The pri…

that is the least of the article's problem. The whole premise is flawed.

Look at companies like Uber, Whats-app, Dropbox, Snapchat, Instagram...these aren't flashes in the pan, but are ecosystems harnessing hundreds of millions of people. These companies are creating …

It's more like 10 years if you include Facebook - that's an entire business cycle, or about the same duration as the 1990-2000 internet boom. But in siding with Andreessen and others, I thin…

Profitably has never been the most pressing concern for these growth companies. Amazon went 20 years before turning a consistent profit, so it's not like there is a well-defined upper-limit where…

It's license to print money..these card offers pay enormous commissions because they will make even more money from the applicants

People keep saying we're in a bubble and yet seven years later, since 2008, I can only think of three major VC implosions off the top of my head: fab.com, zynga, and groupon. Fab was a train-wrec…

Everyone says it's a bubble and yet seven years later, since 2008, I can only think of three major VC implosions off the top of my head: fab.com, zynga, and groupon. Fab was a train-wreck that an…

Trying disprove disparate impact can be time-consuming and expensive, especially with the litigation, and that's why only large companies and municipalities can use these tests. One problem acco…

One possible solution is cognitive screening - the use of tests such as the Wonderlic, SAT/ACT, or Wechsler to find prospective employees who can learn quickly and have good critical thinking sk…

I have never heard of getting drench by a folded umbrella..lol. A solution in need of a problem

Bring back the cubicles. Open offices are done not for collaboration and openness, but done to save money

Apple is the biggest indirect vector of malware..not apple itself but all these naive users. Think of all the tens of millions of people who downloaded malware infested iphone modifications..mindblowi…

Matt actually thinks that allowing the short selling of hot web 2.0/app companies could actually make prices go lower, but in actually it tends to be the opposite as short sellers have to scrambl…

The 250 inmates here are locked in their cells for 12 hours a day. But those cells are private rooms, with wood furniture, a shower, a fridge and a flat-screen TV. hmmm...Private rooms could be part…

the writing has to be somewhat vague in order to get people talking about it, and the author succeeded as evidenced by it being here .

It's vague to encourage discussion , contemplation

Subcultures are dead. I plan to write a full obituary soon. Subcultures were the main creative cultural force from roughly 1975 to 2000, when they stopped working. Why? Dead? I think not. What about…

wow considering how long this has gone on, there must have been a handful of people who made a lot of money doing this. A starbucks giftcard is almost like a currency . I wonder if walmart cards have …