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How cheap do you think room, board, and medical care should be? By the way, for comparison, Medicare spends $10k/year per beneficiary in Florida.

Ok, sure, you can add in roads and it will change the numbers in a small way that will be irrelevant to the thread. You can spend an infinite amount of time making rough estimates …

Florida's GDP is $748B. Suppose 1 in 300 people in the state are mentally ill enough at a given time to warrant living in a mental hospital. If that costs $1B, about half as much o…

Independence Day, a blue-blooded American Hollywood Film if there ever was one, is also all about unity.

Granted, I don't think many engineers are making out with seven figures here, but they should be making whatever their shares were supposed to be worth at the most recent valuation…

I feel you just haven't proved your claim given the numbers. Even if the last round's investors were guaranteed a 3x return, that only takes up $1B of this $3B.

Really, you are claiming that if a company raised $570M and sold for $3B, the common shareholders will get screwed? Do you have some information we don't? The publicly reported val…

I have a hard time calling the result of negotiations between the single cartel of teams and the single (probably less-skilled) cartel of players a market.

This explanation sounds believable, but I think it's important to mention the basic math of the salary cap: NFL salary cap is $155M across 53 players = $3M/player NBA salary cap is…

An Uber engineer at a conference said that none of the open-source NoSQL systems could handle their load, and they they had to heavily hack one of them (which I think was Cassandra…