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Is This Outlandish Airline Fee a Game-Changer?

Charge us for how much air we breathe in flight.

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sliderw commented on an article. 12:33 AM

The Lesson of Netflix and Reed Hastings

A P/E of 70 is way too high in the abstract. But in the real world, earnings are volatile, and investor sentiment more so.

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Even Tesla Is Outselling the Chevy Volt

The Volt's problem is it's a mass-market-branded car selling at a premium price.

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sliderw commented on an article. 3:06 PM

Netflix's Need Is Apple's Opportunity

If Apple's funding Netflix originals will benefit iPad sales, it will benefit other tablet sales too, because Netflix runs on so many different tablets.

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sliderw commented on an article. 12:58 AM

Is Chipotle Really on Fire?

The restaurant business has no moat, except perhaps branding. One cannot patent a recipe.

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sliderw commented on an article. 12:51 AM

Why Netflix Shares Jumped

"If the company can grow the number of international subscribers at a pace of 5 million to 10 million a year or faster for the next few years" ... yeah, right.

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sliderw commented on an article. 12:14 AM

Patient Investors Will Always Win

Savers don't invest a lump sum at the beginning of your survey period. You need to take that into account.

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sliderw commented on an article. 12:33 AM

If I Won the Lottery

How this article deserves top billing on the home page is beyond me.

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sliderw commented on an article. 12:56 AM

BlackBerry Races Ahead and Then Stalls Out. Is BB10 a Hit or Not?

The mobile market, at least in the US, is dominated by two major platforms. Long term, it can support one or two major platforms, but not three. BlackBerry is fighting for -- not owning -- the third spot. Its future is worse than

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Straczynski and the Wachowskis Bringing "Sense8" Exclusively to Netflix

Maybe Bad Samaritans is "crap" produced by Fox? Maybe...

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sliderw commented on an article. 1:11 AM

Netflix: Next Stop $225?

Amazon Prime is reportedly very profitable, allowing Amazon to beef up Prime video.

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CEO Gaffe of the Week: Carnival

I don't need to see the CEO visit the lesser incidents for show. But the frequency of incidents indicates a poorly run company, which is the CEO's responsibility.

I think some wise investor said, when a CEO

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sliderw commented on an article. 1:15 AM

Your Biggest Tax Break in 2013

AMT is the Anti Middle-class Tax.

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sliderw commented on an article. 12:55 AM

Netflix Isn't as Dependent on Amazon as You Think

You've got it all wrong. Netflix's Cassandra clusters run on AWS!