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by appleiigs 4y ago
For revenues, Square is $7B vs Cash App is $10B. However, the gross profit is both Square and Cash App are $3B.
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by appleiigs 4y ago
If the accounting and regulations reflected what was actually happening (mark-to-market) instead of some accounting non-sense (book-value), then the performance of the bankers would be reported accordingly. The accountants don’t just review
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They're conflating 2 issues. The first issue is liquidity management. The second is accounting. If the accounting auditors are doing their job then the bank managers don't get to cook the books. The accounting rules are set by the
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by appleiigs 4y ago
Even in Canadian personal account you can wire as much as you want out - same day value to the destination. Only limitation is if you want it in cash because they'll have to get the paper bills delivered since the branch only holds so
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by appleiigs 4y ago
> We deployed over 1k RasPi's for a particular customer Is that the proper tool for the job?? I just read an article saying "Unpopular Opinion: Don't Use a Raspberry Pi for That" ( https://news.ycombinator.
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by appleiigs 4y ago
Are all 1000 all together or is it broken down by age/grade, then classroom and such? How about role of parenting?
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by appleiigs 4y ago
Your comment doesn’t make sense. What profit motive? It drove them to shutdown and people to use ad blockers. The feedback loop is positive: behave well -> profit. Your comment discusses the inverse: behave poorly -> go to jail.
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by appleiigs 4y ago
yeah, the first paragraph says, "will see their home screen get a substantial makeover that founder Daniel Ek says will see the platform "come alive" with different content - from videos to audiobooks." It's not jus
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by appleiigs 4y ago
"In my opinion, not to offend, acknowledging diveristy, a modern way he/she/they write typescript"
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by appleiigs 4y ago
Some need to walk before running. Walk the distance you want to run (e.g., 10K) and your body will tell you where your fitness level is at. I walked a month before running.
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by appleiigs 4y ago
It's an HR thing, so if not large enough to have HR bureaucracy probably not common.
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by appleiigs 4y ago
> no company is going to drag candidates through interviews for jobs that don’t exist This happens all the time . The team will have an internal candidate they want, but HR dept is worried about optics of fairness, so the team is force
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by appleiigs 4y ago
This article is like a meeting... too long, wordy, unfocused, unclear action items. Look at this paragraph, what the heck: "Recognize that it takes active resistance for interpretation spaces to thrive in tech orgs. There is such a str
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by appleiigs 4y ago
Probably not worth the multi-generational punishment.
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by appleiigs 4y ago
When we're talking about a bird flu, "resilient" can mean having better hygiene practices. A lot of hygiene practices include improved infrastructure, more materials (e.g., personal protective equipment (PPE) like plastic cov
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by appleiigs 4y ago
> I will never understand why Google has never come up with a viable marketing strategy for Android, to be fashionable in its own different way. It's leadership. Steve Jobs had a drive for design, easy to use. Elon Musk has a drive
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by appleiigs 4y ago
Gross profit doesn't include dev salaries, marketing or fixed costs such as offices. You're using the wrong metric.
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by appleiigs 4y ago
Do you remember Microsoft FrontPage or Dreamweaver? I was thinking about going into computer science around 1997-8. When I saw all these WYSIWYG website creators, I thought forget it, programming is a dead-end career.
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by appleiigs 4y ago
It's easy to change Mac to your preferences. I have Alfred.app for key mapping, custom search. HazeOver.app to dim background windows. Alt-tab.app for window switching (making it look like Windows 10). NightOwl.app to switch to dark
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by appleiigs 4y ago
Do you remember the glowing puck from 1996? For some viewers it was difficult to see where the puck was, so Fox made the puck look like a red comet on TV when someone took a shot.
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by appleiigs 4y ago
Lots of stories like this in finance. In Flash Boys book, it discuss finance firms laying 800 miles of fiber across mountains just for trading. Bloomberg terminal tracks oil tankers. Hedge funds using satellite photos to see how busy shoppi
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Rogers to invest $10B in AI, testing after outage(ctvnews.ca)
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by appleiigs 4y ago
Is it a familiarity thing? Did your families/parents like dark roast, ice in scotch and well done?
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by appleiigs 4y ago
The article says there is a difference.
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by appleiigs 4y ago
At work the telecom guy was proud of the telephone number he gave me ("very easy to remember!" he said). Well, it turns out it was one digit off of the local Alcoholics Anonymous help line. I had digit "1" and AA had &qu
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by appleiigs 4y ago
So you want to tax the lightest cars and give a pass to large trucks which have a poor 0-60 time? Just like the comment you are replying to, you're taxing the wrong metric. Need to be more direct in taxing the problem.
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by appleiigs 4y ago
It should just be part of the conversation... it's typically contrarian to what the conversation is discussing, or opposite of your stereotype. If they're discussing alternative music, I say "uh, i like Taylor Swift". I
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by appleiigs 4y ago
When meeting people for the first time, I will often say something quirky just as test. Their reaction is great info to have. There are so many different reactions that a rude response is a major red flag and I'm done or wary from then
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To add some personal context, I'm the same where as I get older the company needs to impress me with a good work environment. But not because my resume is better or that I'm financially better off. It's because I've lear
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by appleiigs 4y ago
Yes, they are sitting on too much cash. There was a WSJ article titled "CFOs Seek High Returns on Cash, but Banks May Be Slow to Raise Rates". The article says "That's due to the size of the cash piles sitting at banks

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