For me, I’ve got a million interests. I could change and learn this one thing, but that would take time away from learning about other, more personally interesting things.

I can think of several use-cases: subtitles for the hearing impaired, translation, AR overlays for technical work, etc. Not saying they’re a good value, but it seems weird to say there’s no use-case.

And I genuinely don’t understand the pervert angle. What do they do for perverts that can’t be done with much cheaper button/pen cameras, or even a phone in your breast pocket?

Like sure, there are problems with surveillance and ads and other nasty tech bro shit, that much is obvious. But I sincerely do not understand why they’re being called pervert glasses. Am I missing something?

NFTs would be the digital assets available for trade. In the test marketplace, it was mostly the standard “unique” pictures, but that was just for testing. The idea was to use NFTs as a proof-of-ownership of a digital asset. Instead of a picture of a monkey or something, they’d be like activation codes or in-game assets (skins, guns, etc) with the goal of creating a secondary market for digital assets. There was also the potential to use them for smart contracts, so that the original creator could get a percentage every time one of their assets was sold on the secondary market.

As for the Trump thumping, the only thing I saw was that tweet that said “TRUMP” a bunch, and considering the timing the consensus seemed to be that he was trying to exploit the algorithm. I haven’t seen him actively endorse Trump, though admittedly I haven’t been following very closely the last couple of years. It would be somewhat out of character for him though, he has been consistently vocal against Wall Street shenanigans, particularly predatory shorting and market manipulation.

Eh, the crypto move was pretty reasonable actually. It’s not like they were pumping meme coins, they were trying to build a marketplace to trade digital assets, which is probably the most legitimate application of blockchain. And in any case it seems like they’ve abandoned the idea for now.

Not sure how you can say he “shit the bed”, the company’s only gotten more profitable under his direction.

Maybe a tax rebate based on tread-wear of the damaged tire? If it still has 50% of the tread, you get a 50% rebate on your tire tax.

Consider yourself lucky.

I used them exactly one time. The driver brought the wrong food, the name and order weren’t even close.

Doordash refused to send a new driver, best they could offer was a credit for not even half the price. Even escalating customer service just got the credit converted to a refund, again for less than half of the charge. The rep could not explain to me what service I had received to justify keeping most of my money.

They are diluting the value of eBay’s shares.

Kinda, but not really. Each share becomes $56 and like 2 new shares. It’s more like a fat dividend than a dilution.

You should look into Cohen’s track record before assuming it’ll go nowhere.

But you won’t think an 11% swing is particularly notable.

The debt is only $20B, even then it still works out to about where it’s trading now, so still not really dilutive. And it’s still under 50% leverage, which is honestly pretty typical for a large company. Assuming Cohen actually has a plan to boost profits, that debt isn’t particularly concerning.

Give it another 84 years, you’ll learn.

Finhle is Einkorn, buy the dip.

It only touched $28 in AH Friday. On the 4th, the high-low spread was not even 10%.

They have like $9B cash, and a note from TD for another $20B, which covers the cash half.

The stock half wouldn’t even really be dilutive, since they would add the balance sheet of eBay to their own, and eBay stock would cease to exist. There are currently something like 450M shares; assuming 1B new shares at $25B to facilitate the purchase, that’s 1.45B shares of a company with a market cap of $11B + $48B = $59B., which is roughly $40/share.

Eh, a big part of GameStop’s recent strategy has been getting into collectibles trading. eBay is one of, if not the, biggest market for collectibles, and they own TCGPlayer. That said, counterfeits and other fraud is a problem on eBay. One of the proposals is to use GameStop stores as authentication hubs, so listings can be verified.

Additionally, eBay spends a lot, arguably way too much, on marketing, not to mention bloated upper level compensation packages. Then there’s the friction of the service itself, like seller caps (ostensibly to combat fraud, but a bit overzealous).

I think there’s far too much potential for improvement to call the claim “delusional”.

A Marxist

At least they’re pivoting instead of just doing both.

Garage?

I remember most of the R Daneel books, but I admit I haven’t read all the various robot short stories.

The laws were baked into the hardware of their positronic brains. They were so fundamentally interwoven with the structure that you couldn’t build a positronic brain without them.

You can’t expect just whatever random AI to spontaneously decide to follow them.

They rest in the boxes they came in.