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by Traster 5y ago
I think almost the opposite is going on often. What's often happening is you have 1 manager building his fiefdom, and other managers trying to build theirs and there's only so much money to go around and only so many directions a
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by Traster 5y ago
> If the bet fails, you are left with a profitable stock, as it does have solid fundamentals Could you explain to me what these fundamentals are?
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by Traster 5y ago
Yeah, I remember when the company I worked for continually made forward looking projections that were ridiculous whilst in the process of negotiating a sale. Including the pressure not to report anything that would need to be raised as part
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by Traster 5y ago
It's more appropriate to think of this as a class of "the pool of people who might become CEO". It's CEO, CTO, CIO, board members who also have their compensation decided by similar mechanisms, retired CXOs. Let's t
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by Traster 5y ago
The simple answer is that people don't hire cheaper CEOs because the people who hire CEOs are the boards of companies and the boards of companies are mainly staffed by CEOs of other companies who unsurprisingly are incentivized to advo
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by Traster 5y ago
I kind of hate the way Apple phrases their business investments like they're performing some great charitable act. Also, I'll wait for an external audit of whether they're paying all the relevant local taxes before I would co
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by Traster 5y ago
Because they don’t need to.
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by Traster 6y ago
16% of candidates to Harvard were accepted in 1992, this year that has dropped to 4%. So even if there is a problem with the selection criteria it’s likely marginal compared to the real issue which is the refusal of the top schools to actua
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by Traster 6y ago
Do you really think that they colluded though? The exact same result can be expected if they simply independently reacted to market conditions. It’d be very hard to prove illegal coordination.
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by Traster 6y ago
Are we meant to take this seriously or we meant to treat this in the same way Tobacco companies told us that cigarettes were good for you? I mean, some of this is kind of stupid >Bitcoin miners are unique energy buyers in that they offer
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by Traster 6y ago
Think you're focused on the wrong issue there. The most likely reason your child is unlikely to get into a good university is because good universities have consistently chosen not to increase class sizes in line with the number of qua
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by Traster 6y ago
I'm not suggesting that we need to get those things to zero. I'm suggesting that's what PG is making the argument for. You can't have it both ways, you can't argue that the death penalty is a unique harm because of
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by Traster 6y ago
I want to preface what I'm about to say with: I'm against the death penalty. However, innocent people die every day, they're hit by cars, they're shot by police, they commit suicide. If your argument is that you want to
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by Traster 6y ago
This is a great statement, they confirm they're aware of the issue, they acknowledge the concerns and they set out their intention to gather the full facts whilst suspending the operation of the research in the meantime. They also ackn
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by Traster 6y ago
Here's a funny thing, in the UK the main tax associated with owning a house is council tax, you pay it to the local council for the services they provide (although we can have an argument about where the money actually goes since it&#x
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by Traster 6y ago
I don't think this article makes a logical argument at all. It says house ownership is bad because it gives people a vested interest in constraining the supply of housing. That's true but that's not a problem. If people didn&
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by Traster 6y ago
Alternatively it could be as simple as lots of people having a crap execution strategy. I’m sure there are thousands of people who just have orders in the book that got swept and others with simple python scripts that “buy the dip” with no
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by Traster 6y ago
This has always seemed like marking your own homework to be honest, not only is it pretty worthless but it makes me trust them less.
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by Traster 6y ago
> Tesla owners have that and better every day, and they use it every day, accruing billions of miles to train the algorithm. I’m not sure this is boost you really think. If I test you on your times tables every day that doesn’t teach you
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by Traster 6y ago
Between March of 2016 and April of 2017 the United States Supreme court had 8 Justices.
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by Traster 6y ago
I just cannot see how this is anything other than a naked attempt by Google to get itself broken up. There's literally no reason someone writing a web-browser should be building spyware for advertisers. It's like if Microsoft had
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by Traster 6y ago
Isn't this kind of circular logic? This is the Democratic response to the Republicans changing the size of the court in 2016.
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by Traster 6y ago
I moved over to duckduckgo too, but what I've found is that when I'm searching for some esoteric bug Google is way more likely to give me a decent result, to the point that I'll literally switch back to google for those typ
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by Traster 6y ago
This is an interesting move - because it seems exceedingly unlikely that they'll be able to extract the same margin out of automative customers that they get with data centre chips. Which means that management in Intel is starting to t
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by Traster 6y ago
I'm a brit :)
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by Traster 6y ago
They're not removing 99% of that stuff though, they're taking away only the most extreme bits, and maybe that'll get worse and worse over time, but frankly I think that the business model means he's screwed anyway. Signi
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by Traster 6y ago
I mean, there's not much to be said about this is there, this is absolutely standard Tesla behaviour. Oh we didn't realise installing rooves could be complicated, here's a 30% price rise after we've already signed the c
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by Traster 6y ago
Spotify bought Rogan because they want his average listener, it's cheaper for them to stream a podcast than to pay royalties on a song. They also don't want to have to answer questions about why a podcaster they (quasi) employ is
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by Traster 6y ago
It really is interesting to see the conversation here framed so narrowly within an understanding of China as some comical all powerful, omniscient entity coming to steal your children. Practically no consideration of the structural weaknes
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by Traster 6y ago
This is an idea that's been around forever and from a hardware perspective it's super easy. The problem is finding applications for this. You need to find something that is so difficult that it requires atleast dozens of instructi

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