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Caveat - its probably a bit spammy but the folks I learned this from have to my knowledge never been banned. Use at your own peril.
Wondering if you've corresponded with the founders about your experience? I've a car with FlightCar at the moment and I've found them to be really responsive. Just a thought.
I would say - if they supported longer lead times (so I could put in someone's info a week or a month in advance, and it would notify me, that would extend the value quite a bit). Otherwise, this app nails it.
In an environment where everyone is smart and driven (such as SV), being a good problem solver is just not enough. Being good at finding and articulating valuable problems is much harder, and I would bet that more startups/founders fail at this. Part of this is because, most people are never trained, and never think to ask what makes a valuable problem.
Would you be able to point to this? Would love the reference.
Agreed. That being said, putting all your liquid capital to work in one round is pretty imprudent, no?
> The second error is one of equity. There is an argument to be made over the principles of bailing in uninsured depositors. And there is a case for hitting everyone in Cypriot banks before any taxpayer in another country. But there is no moral imperative for whacking Cypriot widows and leaving senior bank bondholders untouched.
Typically, as you impose losses for burden sharing, you start with equity as the most highly risky capital, move to debt, and after that move to depositors. The reasoning is that this underlines basic choices about who is taking risk; equity investors have the most risk capital, bondholders are right behind them (based on the structure of the bond) and depositors are the lowest; philosophically this is because as an investor in equity/debt it's your job to evaluate the bank's chances of failure. As a depositor, you just want somewhere to park your savings.
Bad deal.
a. launch an email service that runs off the space in your dropbox, or b. automatically create dropbox folders shared between all recipients of an attachment and automatically set permissions.
That being said - yes we could be more efficient. I'm doubtful that $1TN in deficits annually are attributable to waste though - are we really overpaying for services to the tune of $1TN? Possible, but doubtful.
Inputs found outside the US sort of misses the point though - we dont live in a world that is getting less connected. Instability elsewhere will find it's way here in one form or another, hence the need for someone to underwrite security. For the moment (and for the last 90 years or so) that someone has been mostly the US. It wont always be - eventually it will be another country, or coalition, but someone will underwrite global security, or the globe will be far less secure than it is today, with the attendant costs.
The bases around the world were how the US bought global security, upon which our economic growth for several decades was premised. Without (what looks like) a sprawling military with bases everywhere, we would have less safe/reliable sea lanes, which means higher prices of inputs and lower value for exports, and we would also have much of the advanced world spending ever more of its money on defense goods (it's called a nuclear umbrella for a reason).
Social Security is one of the few things your massive federal taxes are going to give to you in this life THAT ARE OBVIOUS. The other stuff is just as important, though way less obvious.
The gap doesn't just "seem" high, it "is" high. The core reason this is a problem is that higher gaps in income in a society are correlated (not necessarily causal, but they frequently appear) with social instability.
As voters, we currently want more America than we've proven willing to pay for. This means one of 2 things must happen.
1. We pay more for the America we have
2. We get less America than we want
"less" in this case could mean really obvious things like less services or benefits of certain types. It could also mean less of intangibles/unquantifiables such as social stability, or opportunity etc, which are hard to value until they're not there (I've spent much of my life in seriously unstable places in the world, and I can attest that little else works when you dont have the basics). Most likely, we'll have to pay a little more, accept a little less, and as OP suggests, buy slightly different things with what we're paying. If we don't make those decisions, gravity will make them for us.