BigCatStuff

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by BigCatStuff 1y ago
I agree that the diagnosis and visual inspection is the most important skill in fixing random items. In the channels that I suggested, all of them go into the repair not knowing what the fault actually is. They take the viewer through the w
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by BigCatStuff 1y ago
I believe Youtube videos are a great resource for learning this! I picked up electronics and computer/gpu repair as a hobby over the pandemic lockdowns. A cheap multimeter and a cheap soldering iron/hot air station combo will get
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Oregon Just Struck a Blow to Parts Pairing and Won a Decade of Repair Support(ifixit.com)
17 points by BigCatStuff 3y ago|1 comments
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Adam Neumann defaults on San Jose office building loan(therealdeal.com)
4 points by BigCatStuff 3y ago|0 comments
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by BigCatStuff 4y ago
I understand that they needed to put the money to work somewhere, but they really chose a bad way to do it. Hence the 'poorly controlled risk' that I mentioned.
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by BigCatStuff 4y ago
Most other banks found ways to survive the environment in 2021. So clearly there are ways to do it without locking money up for 10 years in MBS.
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by BigCatStuff 4y ago
I feel like the 10 year MBS investment might actually have been a case of excess risk. In a world of zero interest rates (which I presume is when they invested in the MBS), 1.5%-2% yield makes SVB quite a bit of extra profit. Their investme
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by BigCatStuff 4y ago
Do you really think the owners and senior management of SVB ended up with nothing? What about the stock sales they made right before the FDIC took over, or the bonuses given out, or even their compensation during the years in which this hig
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by BigCatStuff 4y ago
I would love some kind of game where spoilers on the internet don't affect the feeling of discovery within the game. It seems too easy to just look up game secrets on the internet now, and it's almost necessary to do so in order t
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by BigCatStuff 6y ago
My 6 year old son played with SimplyPiano for several months this year, and I tried it out a bit as well. For me, SimplyPiano brings the excitement of being able to play popular music that you recognize and enjoy in a matter of weeks. The a
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by BigCatStuff 6y ago
This video is from July of 2020, and at this time I don't doubt that they have a semi-truck chassis with a fuel cell drivetrain in it. However, whether this truck performs even close to the specifications and capabilities of what Nikol
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by BigCatStuff 6y ago
I agree that it should be fraud, but I'm not sure how the SEC defines fraud. To me, the whole NKLA situation feels like a giant Kickstarter scam.
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by BigCatStuff 6y ago
I feel like Nikola is an example of why it might be bad for retail investors to have access to early stage companies (pre-IPO or not). A traditional venture capital investment has a better ability to do due diligence than the general public
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by BigCatStuff 6y ago
Statewide rent control in California wasn't enacted until January 1, 2020 (with a retroactive period of several months I believe). So, if you rented before Jan 1, and your rental unit was built after 1979, it wasn't covered by any
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by BigCatStuff 8y ago
I agree with all of your points. However, the 'company' having $8 million in the bank does not mean that the 'founder' has or will ever have $1 million. The expectation of funding is that it is spent growing the company
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by BigCatStuff 8y ago
I would disagree, and I believe that others would as well. A 'millionaire' in my mind is someone with liquid assets of at least one million dollars. The company isn't worth more than $1 million until someone else exchanges sh
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by BigCatStuff 8y ago
There are Lego 'blind bags' for mini figurines, which do not let you see the content of the bag before opening it. The bag contains one mini figure from a predefined set, and some characters in the set are more rare than others. A
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by BigCatStuff 10y ago
When auditioning, would the applicant know which pieces of music they will be required to perform beforehand? I am assuming that they do, which would make it very different from 'whiteboarding' from a software engineering intervie
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by BigCatStuff 10y ago
> but it is already a success. wake up. Your statement depends on what people define as 'success'. Is Uber a product people love? Yes. So, by a product measure it's a success. Is it currently or will it be in the future a
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by BigCatStuff 10y ago
I think the problem is that most of Reddit's current 'content' isn't monetizable to the degree that they need it to be. In its current form, Reddit is mostly an aggregator of other sites' content, which makes that c
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by BigCatStuff 11y ago
I get what you're saying; that the VC industry should "just do it" rather than make a splash by announcing a program. However, if someone is in one of these minority groups, and has tried to raise funding in a very white, mal
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Square is Raising $200M at a $6B Valuation(inc.com)
2 points by BigCatStuff 12y ago|0 comments