Author Archives: Andrew

InsightCrime does excellent work: Cattle trafficking in Central America The Venezuelan cocaine revolution The invisible Colombian drug lord

There was plenty of snark when the Meta rebrand was announced and there has been even more since the Q4 earnings bloodbath. It will seem genius in five years. That it was announced following a (non) scandal makes it all the more impressive. The comparisons to Altria and Alphabet are way off Meta got the […]

Malta has the fastest growing population of any country?

Vladimir Putin on woke culture. Update 14/4/22: Lol probably deserved but also kind of ironic that a of a video of Putin criticising woke culture is blocked.

Costs roughly 10x cocaine per gram Less associated with Escobar etc? Status symbol, Veblen good? Reggaeton/trap influence? More in depth analysis by InsightCrime

I couldn’t have timed my $FB investment any better. Some thoughts: Haugen will likely get a better deal than Assange and Snowden Think of the children! 40% said they felt better using Instagram Opportunistic seems as good an adjective as brave The story is overblown but I will probably hold off on buying more stock […]

Not investment advice. Marketplace has many multiples the monthly active users of eBay Shops combined with Marketplace could squeeze out Amazon and Shopify Digital products are increasingly important and Oculus is awesome Probably trades at a discount due to recent bad press (old media jealous) P/E ratio lower than the rest of FAANG, Nike, Disney […]

Good guy, bad domain.

If you regularly call the same department at a company that uses an automated assistant menu (press 1 for sales, press 2 for tech support, etc), try this trick on Android and iPhone. Dial the number and then a comma for each extension e.g. +15707088788,4,2 takes you straight to the domain name tech support department […]

The VicRoads page on scooters and wheeled recreational devices states: If your motorised scooter: is powered by a petrol motor has an electric motor with a maximum power greater than 200 watts has a maximum speed greater than 10 km/h then it cannot be legally used on a road or any road related areas, including […]