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thegreatpeter

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Building Draftbit (W18), a platform to help teams build mobile apps visually.

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thegreatpeter
·Hôm kia·discuss
is it easy or hard to start an insurance company? why isn't there more competition when it comes to insurance?
thegreatpeter
·3 ngày trước·discuss
Medicare, social security and the interest on the debt are the 3 top federal spending categories

Social welfare is the top local spending category in many local/state governments
thegreatpeter
·3 ngày trước·discuss
One person?
thegreatpeter
·17 ngày trước·discuss
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thegreatpeter
·tháng trước·discuss
It’s an index fund. It must follow the index. They’re forced to buy any company in the SP500.

They are buying it at IPO pricing
thegreatpeter
·2 tháng trước·discuss
yeah, by using codex
thegreatpeter
·2 tháng trước·discuss
Let’s redirect the problem: it’s not the car, it’s the flooding! We should address that first
thegreatpeter
·2 tháng trước·discuss
perhaps they tried that and the staff wasn't willing to be trained. have you ever worked at a company like that of that size?
thegreatpeter
·3 tháng trước·discuss
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thegreatpeter
·3 tháng trước·discuss
most of the japanese railway system is private. their 2 largest companies are some of the largest publicly traded companies in the world.
thegreatpeter
·3 tháng trước·discuss
what are the dodgy meds? it provides a discount at the pharmacy if you pay cash and skip insurance. are you from here?
thegreatpeter
·3 tháng trước·discuss
have you seen some of the websites they've developed? they're actually quite nice. maybe joe hasn't gotten to mobile yet

edit: oh wait, thats https://ndstudio.gov/
thegreatpeter
·4 tháng trước·discuss
You’re doing gods work sir, thank you!
thegreatpeter
·4 tháng trước·discuss
“I absolutely agree that consumers and wage earners should not be exploited by the use of their data,” he said. “But it’s still overly broad and it’s still overly vague in very important parts. And I believe it’s overly simplistic in its definition of wage setting.”
thegreatpeter
·4 tháng trước·discuss
Tesla’s manuals are all online and many of the parts sell for cost plus. You may be thinking of Ford and Toyota
thegreatpeter
·4 tháng trước·discuss
There’s controlling competition in your own country and dominating global markets. Nothing wrong with either. It’s not like it’s not happening anywhere else in the world.
thegreatpeter
·4 tháng trước·discuss
Definitely not bc these brands are being propped up by their government in order to flood world markets.

Everyone should be able to make a luxury 30k vehicle sustainably
thegreatpeter
·4 tháng trước·discuss
It should be monetized to support the long term commitment
thegreatpeter
·4 tháng trước·discuss
You also have the option of buying low and increasing your share of the market
thegreatpeter
·4 tháng trước·discuss
Retail investors do just fine fleecing themselves on their own

The term fleecing means „there’s nothing left here, jump ship”. Do you really believe they’re going public to cash out this early in the game?