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by _sword 3y ago
This is super helpful thank you!
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by _sword 3y ago
Happened in 2012 after a big thunderstorm and took most of the internet down
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by _sword 3y ago
I do this for a living and I don’t have a great answer. There’s a gut instinct involved. I try to understand how execs are compensated or otherwise incentivized, and then ask myself if there’s a reason they would screw over their stakeholde
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by _sword 3y ago
These two sentences inspired me to comment: “I actually saw it coming when Replit began receiving massive funding by major investors, who are likely pressuring the company to reduce costs and turn profits. Still, this left a sour taste as i
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by _sword 3y ago
I’d switch for a comparable product at a better price point. If there isn’t a comp (I’m not sure in this case), then I don’t get complaining about prices going up for a cloud service at a reasonable rate if you want that service to be aroun
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by _sword 3y ago
Completely agreed and that’s why I started my comment about open and competitive markets. Pricing under cost with VC cash subsidies to later raise prices after cornering a market is vicious and anticompetitive in my view. And it’s a market
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by _sword 3y ago
In an open market with alternatives I can’t really sympathize with points of view such as “I don’t like that pricing went up so my vendor can be profitable.” If you like a product and want it to be available long term, you would want it to
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by _sword 3y ago
In addition to the drama surrounding an unexpected firing decision made by a less-than-typical 501(c)3 board of directors, there is a large vacuum of information about what exactly happened. On one side, there are proponents of an argument
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by _sword 3y ago
You forgot to list the pig that was sacrificed to supply the first valve, the EMS teams, the ambulance manufacturers, the saline suppliers, the autoclaves, the blood donors, the vasopressors, the fungus that may have excreted antibiotics, a
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by _sword 3y ago
My father had an undiagnosed bicuspid aortic valve. He collapsed while swimming when he was in his early 60’s, thankfully in the shallow end of the pool. He was pulled out unresponsive by lifeguards, brought to a hospital, and thank God wok
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by _sword 3y ago
Yup Apollo shutting down broke my Reddit habit finally. I’m not downloading another client. My screen time is down 25% already and I’m doing things with that time that I’d meant to do for a while.
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by _sword 3y ago
I only browse Reddit on my phone, and I use Apollo, so when that’s gone I’m not sure I’d use Reddit anymore
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by _sword 3y ago
I’m running a global pilot to see how we can effectively use it for internal data at a multinational investment bank
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by _sword 4y ago
I have a similar feeling with undergraduate quantum mechanics. Developing first order solutions with perturbation theory felt like magic, yet somehow intuitive. That and spectral theory
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by _sword 4y ago
So I thought I'd add a follow up. The day after I posted that I had fewer colds, etc., I came down with the flu.
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by _sword 4y ago
All I’ll say is that he and the Pynchon family do actually exist. And he had a mixtape or two he put together that I think I still have a copy of on cd somewhere
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by _sword 4y ago
I was friends with his son back in college. Interesting times
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by _sword 4y ago
Less often for me and I’ve stopped wearing masks and I have returned to normal life.
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by _sword 4y ago
Funny no one on HN talks about Unqork
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by _sword 4y ago
Fair criticisms on response times but regarding Vegas, it was their annual user conference last week in Vegas.
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by _sword 5y ago
All of the QC companies have “gone public” via SPAC mergers. Less oversight, more hockey stick revenue projections.
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by _sword 5y ago
They could see the names and contacts of employees at Okta’s customers and reset their credentials at a bare minimum per the leaked screenshot. That doesn’t seem that minimal?
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by _sword 5y ago
Is GCP having an outage for both Spotify and Discord to be down?
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by _sword 5y ago
I'm interested. I lead software equity research at a global investment bank. Research work spans company-specific research, thematic research, and work related to IPO's and other advisory projects where appropriate from a regulato
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by _sword 5y ago
Ultimately Wall Street gets paid more for SPACs than IPOs. Both sponsors and their advisors get more fees and upside. There’s a reason so many SPAC’s happened during 2020 and 2021 and it wasn’t because companies thought SPAC’s were superior
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by _sword 5y ago
Bank as much as possible, leave finance, start my own business doing <something>
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by _sword 5y ago
That’s a fair point. Banker’s monitored trades and accounts are on record internally and usually tracked by their firm’s surveillance software. Not public though thankfully.
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by _sword 5y ago
All of the large investment banks do at this point as far as I am aware. The core point I aim to make, however, is that it’s hilariously unfair that a 22 year old PowerPoint monkey with relatively little knowledge and almost no market influ
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by _sword 5y ago
On the sell side, you and your spouse are heavily regulated so that neither can hold individual stocks, can’t touch anything where you may possibly have material non public info, have mandatory holding periods, and any mutual funds or ETFs
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by _sword 5y ago
This is accurate. They have lead left for their syndicate selected if they’re going the traditional underwriter route. They’ll pick all the banks for their syndicate with help from their advisors, and then teach sell side research about the

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