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fellow econtalk/cumtown (well more red scare) listener here.. The latest feed refresh used to make me feel "Wow how will I have time to listen to all of these!" whereas now its "Go…

google sonostar, bargain a bit for a good price :)

Cool project :) I just got back from shenzhen where I purchased a handheld ultrasound probe with built-in screen about the size of a really chunky smartphone for $1800 with wifi & …

Off-topic - but currently in India and the uber experience is absolutely amazing. The handful of times we have used taxi drivers, none of them can find the place where we are stayi…

This is fantastic.

Have there been tangible environmental gains from all the money being invested?

Take land - demand for it changes over time, the exact same amount is in circulation as there was 200 years ago, the value goes up as population increases and it becomes more scarc…

> Nobody really knows how this ends, good or bad. Efficient market theory is based on the fact that when you leave people to their own devices, they tend to do a far better job and…

Unless the investments bomb and no value is created eg. the clean energy investments of the last 10 years

Wait - but quantitative easing usually involves buying back government bonds (in recent times it has also involved buying riskier instruments like collateralized debt obligations (…

Total vaporware.. consumers vastly overestimate the value of their own attention and assume it can fund expensive things like this. If it can be ad supported why do you need to pay…

Has anyone considered the grameen model of peer pressure lending in P2p marketplaces? You signup with your facebook account, it records all the details of your facebook friends, an…

So amazon's market cap of 144b is theoretical because they don't have profits? And bezos should be paid enough salary to survive but not so much that he is no longer "hungry"?

Because regardless of whether profit is there, they should be able to extract value if they want to.

Because the founders have created the business and have created several million dollars of value (based on the VC's own valuation). Why should they not be able to cash out for a li…

Congrats. You guys have a great product and deserve your success. Tomorrow Youtube or Twitch could expand their offerings to include your business model and you may find yourself i…

Just out of interest, is there a company which provides covert early exits for founders? For example I meet with a founder, they sign a contract saying secretly that they will give…

Not to be overly emotive, but honestly, fuck Sam Altman on this one. If a person founds or cofounds a company worth >5million, they should become a millionaire and have lifetime fi…

sounds like somebody's girlfriend got pulled by a hipster

Big record companies support spotify because they have been given billions worth of equity in it. Artists have been given no equity in spotify. They should pull their music and mov…

https://www.facebook.com/groups/354103174706185/ What would be the best way to integrate additional stuff into these facebook groups to replicate the features of Uber? eg. Driver f…

> Altruism essentially never saves any ships. That's just not > how the world operates. It's always about money. The only > alignment that will work is more money going towards > d…