barleyworth

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by barleyworth 2y ago
Right, but one wonders why the parent commenter is not gleefully commenting about "fake news" on all of these articles: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=google+buys This seems to be a notable story and doesn't need
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by barleyworth 2y ago
I doubt you'd call it "fake news" if a corporate acquisition was announced, just because the deal hadn't yet passed regulatory approval. But then again, you clearly seem to have a dog in this fight.
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by barleyworth 3y ago
Not everyone wants to go to a baseball game where 1% of the fans are constantly getting into screaming matches about the other team sucking. Similarly, I will politely nope out of an online community that won't stop clobbering me with
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by barleyworth 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29388310
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by barleyworth 9y ago
Fair point; I will try and avoid using "females" in the future. FWIW, the main reason I used this phrasing was that I had already used the word "guys", but wanted to steer clear of the analogous word "girls". U
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by barleyworth 9y ago
> There was literally nothing wrong with the email There were at least two things wrong with the email, from my perspective as a guy who's been around plenty of benign bro culture. 1. Explicitly mentioning "sex" as opposed
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by barleyworth 9y ago
The next sentence in the article does a better job at illustrating his point: "Conversely, the vast majority of startup option packages end up being worth little to nothing, but nearly none of the employees whose options end up being w
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by barleyworth 10y ago
Well, both Obama and Trump inherited a pretty broken TSA. That doesn't mean we shouldn't pay attention to whether the organization is improving or getting worse. Generally I doubt that a president deserves credit, positive or nega
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by barleyworth 10y ago
Yeah, that subreddit is terrifying. I'm more afraid of the people in there than any other terrorist group. E.g. another comment on the same thread says very matter-of-factly: "Let's just say by now you should have already bou
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by barleyworth 10y ago
Box has a negative P/E, so I'll assume you're talking about P/S here. You seem to be suggesting that companies within an industry should all have the same price-to-sales multiple. (Or at least they'd "better ha