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721.
by SR2Z 2y ago
Different stock classes SHOULD be illegal. I have yet to hear a single good argument for it that isn't obviously self-serving. And ownership stake in the company should be a simple thing to understand, not some byzantine mess designed
722.
by SR2Z 2y ago
Seriously - the whole point of giving your early employees equity is so that you can attract talent without blowing your budget. It seems like most founders love pretending that there are armies of top-tier engineers rushing to work at thei
723.
by SR2Z 2y ago
Because it is unfair. It just tends to benefit people employed today
724.
by SR2Z 2y ago
Windows works pretty well, regardless of how angry it makes OSS folks. Ditto for Office or really most products from MS...
725.
by SR2Z 2y ago
Yes. My point is that the monetary policy that so far has worked out pretty well is gonna get thrown out the window when JPow leaves/is fired.
726.
by SR2Z 2y ago
No, this is the following set of steps: 1. Person A interviews at company B 2. Company B says "we'd like to hire you at $X/year" 3. Person A says "that sounds good, I'll start in a month." Company B stops
727.
by SR2Z 2y ago
You are making the same mistake that basically everyone makes when talking about this. When "it comes back," does it mean "manufacturing jobs" or "manufacturing value created?" Because manufacturing jobs are n
728.
by SR2Z 2y ago
2.5% inflation over 30 years gets you that number. Whether or not that's a good rule of thumb depends on how much you believe in putting economists and "neoliberals" in charge :)
729.
by SR2Z 2y ago
I think this is more analogous to "know and understand that your car is powered by an engine and also vaguely get how it works." To be entirely fair, we have this exact same problem with cars. The sheer number of people who do no
730.
by SR2Z 2y ago
Even reneging on an offer in the US gets you blacklisted for like 5 years max. It's not personal, it's just business.
731.
by SR2Z 2y ago
The state always could go after your family, but it seems like some are much better at not doing that than others. The state is a coercive institution, but seeing how Australia is a liberal democracy with a constitution I would want to see
732.
by SR2Z 2y ago
This is true, but a software company that does not provide good software well eventually do worse than one that does. There is no substitute for actually providing value at the end of the day.
733.
by SR2Z 2y ago
Voting for a tiger who proposes eating you because he's bad at eating people is... an interesting electoral strategy. I could use stronger words, but I think you see my point.
734.
by SR2Z 2y ago
The econ is clear on this: subsidies are taken by whichever side (of supply and demand) is more elastic, and taxes are paid by whichever side is less elastic. For things like housing or fuel there are obvious answers for who's who. For
735.
by SR2Z 2y ago
At the risk of sounding smug, obviously. Whether or not something is fair use has never been related to how it was obtained, only how it's used. Fair use is an affirmative, after-the-fact defense.
736.
by SR2Z 2y ago
> They have an incentive to exaggerate and bend the truth. Thankfully regular academics have no such incentives :) I agree with you in general, but the truth is that both public and private funding for research advance science.
737.
by SR2Z 2y ago
I mean, sure, but I and probably 99% of other folks have a credit card set up to autorenew. This is a security problem, but not a very serious one.
738.
by SR2Z 2y ago
This specific thing, I don't know one way or the other. But the old SAT was basically an IQ test that happened to be out of 1600.
739.
by SR2Z 2y ago
I doubt it for a few reasons: - The SAT has been bastardized as a test and no longer effectively measures this stuff - College admissions have deemphasized the SAT and other standardized tests of reading comprehension - Elite college admiss
740.
by SR2Z 2y ago
The "small screen" the article is talking about that was still functional is likely a backup PFD, or at the VERY LEAST an attitude indicator. Validating that an attitude indicator is working is not particularly hard, especially i
741.
by SR2Z 2y ago
> You accidentally have made my point for me again. Why should this at all be the case? What natural economic factors lead to this outcome? Economies of scale. That's it. The overhead per employee is much, much smaller in a big co
742.
by SR2Z 2y ago
> I just can't work out the economic logic of that. Startups are often unprofitable despite having a good product. Large companies have an easy time of making good products profitable, but a difficult time in developing good produc
743.
by SR2Z 2y ago
I cannot tell if you're joking or not, but a rocket crashing into water vs on land is easily the difference between "no big deal" and "property damage + loss of life."
744.
by SR2Z 2y ago
The other question is if Webpass was a viable business before Google acquired it. It's common for startups to be acquired when they lack a clear path to profitability - a large company has the resources and clout to turn a borderline
745.
by SR2Z 2y ago
> It wasn't that the 737 MAX isn't (or can't be) a safe aircraft, but that Boeing prioritized making it fly like its predecessor over all else - including safety. It's misleading to say they prioritized making it fly
746.
by SR2Z 2y ago
My 2c is that most normal people are incapable of capturing this kind of value simply because they aren't educated enough on how to use a computer to do these things. ChatGPT is the first time in a while that a new technology is easy e
747.
by SR2Z 2y ago
This is an excellent example. The 737 used to crash a LOT MORE than it does now, and even the version with MCAS is a safer airplane than your average 1990s jetliner (which was also probably a 737, which is kind of my point)[1]. So it'
748.
by SR2Z 2y ago
Fair enough! However, he has been on the "acquire Greenland" train since his first term, and has excused other land grabs like Crimea. If anyone was surprised that the man wants to grab land in his 2nd term, they are stupid or wi
749.
by SR2Z 2y ago
Plagarism is kind of the default nowadays in college though (I did not plagarize, but was a TA who caught a lot of it)
750.
by SR2Z 2y ago
If they thought that annexing Canada was stupid and still voted for Trump, they obviously didn't think it was THAT stupid. Let's stop coddling Trump supporters. They're adults, they knew who they voted for, and don't ge

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