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My understanding is that they are optimizing for revenue per visitor per month- they are not trying to make the most visually appealing product.

the researchers took steps to mitigate the potential effects of confounding variables. here is a link to the full study:

https://new.hindawi.com/journals/omcl/2019/1574021/

the researchers took steps to mitigate the potential effects of confounding variables:

https://new.hindawi.com/journals/omcl/2019/1574021/

With this mentality, we wouldn’t have had women in positions of power or even women voters. Same for people of color etc. I Personally _love_ that some companies, people and countries are bold enough to experiment with unorthodox approaches, because sometimes those ideas work and the rest of us benefit from the learnings.

I believe your post is an ad hominem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

the money-quote from this article as it pertains to this discussion is: "In 1984, less than half the people on The Forbes 400 were self-made; in 2018, 67% of the 400 created their own fortunes."

here is the full list of the forbes 400: https://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/

Please read this article about how wealth is not zero sum

http://www.paulgraham.com/gap.html

In 2018 67% of the Forbes 400 were self made

https://www.forbes.com/sites/luisakroll/2018/10/03/the-forbe...

advertise ≠ action. take a look at the general slope by party: https://www.axios.com/federal-budget-deficit-trump-obama-f11...

Sales and marketing are largely one-time expenses, but customers can have very high LTVs. So you can zoom into a particular quarter of a company's results and they can have huge losses. But, in the future they can dial down their sales and marketing expense, and be sitting on an extremely profitable business.

from the lawsuit:

"47. On July 3, 2019, [redacted] wired $466,373.67 to Toptal."

so, this whole lawsuit seems to be about: $163,476.79

FTA: “I was told the conversion [of Toptal into a corporation] would happen in a number of months,” said Aaron Diek, who is based in central Texas and says he worked for Toptal in 2014 and 2015, when Toptal said it was generating $80 million in revenue per year. “I asked on a number of occasions, and the answer [from Du Val] was always ‘it’s coming, it’s coming.’

Luring employees with promises of equity and then not delivering sounds like a bait and switch.

identical submission posted 19 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20160335

a little extra runway on solving the problem is sorely needed. i agree that we shouldn't get addicted to this short term solution, but if it buys us a few extra decades, that would be a huge accomplishment.

his net worth is calculated by taking his share of the FMV of the assets he owns. presumably, he could sell his share of the company to a buyer and he would then become liquid.

site seems down. google cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ckxU-A...

A library of game titles is much easier to monitor than an open video site.

capital gains taxes represent less than 10% of total revenue [0] raised by the IRS. sure the rates can be raised, but is that going to make a meaningful dent?

[0] https://pocketsense.com/percent-irs-revenue-comes-capital-ga...

the top 10% of taxpayers paid 70.87% of federal income taxes in 2014 [0].

and did you know that the bottom 50% paid 2.75%?

would dropping that 2.75% down to zero (which sounds fine to me) avert the breaking point?

[0] https://files.taxfoundation.org/20170201145744/FF540-1.png

fewer than 20% of the stocks in the S&P500 do not pay dividends:

https://www.dividend.com/investor-resources/sp-500-companies...

Yelp positions their product primarily as a consumer service; the fact that the other side of the marketplace (service providers) is dissatisfied may affect Yelp's business but not necessarily the product they provide to consumers.

> Money isn't speech.

there are several supreme court cases that have ruled differently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckley_v._Valeo

This video shows more of the DelFly Nimble's flight maneuvers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEhu-FePBC0

Pricing on robotic hands: http://www.androidworld.com/prod76.htm

Hindsight is 20/20

it looks like it is available now: https://www3.lenovo.com/us/en/tablets/virtual-reality-and-sm...

who is it that is "creating value" in this context? holders of cryptocurrencies? miners?

do you have any insight for how this is illegal considering that cryptocurrencies are currently unregulated.

I'm not disputing the findings, but take a look at the "conflict of interest" section of the link you provided.