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by cascom 7y ago
Wonder if Diatomaceous earth still works https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomaceous_earth
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by cascom 7y ago
At the end of the day people need to reconcile the fact that there is a tension between financial privacy and transparency for the sake of fighting crime. Additionally, there is the fact that the implementation of policy is typically a mess
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by cascom 7y ago
Unfortunately expungement doesn’t really do much - most questions on employment forms or professional associations (state bar, FINRA, etc) ask about arrests not convictions. Secondly, despite being “expunged” the data still resides in numer
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by cascom 7y ago
Article references a goal of achieving a 100 mile range? How do they plan on doing that then?
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by cascom 7y ago
Not exactly what you are looking for - but a pretty good organization/advocacy group if you live abroad https://www.americansabroad.org/
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by cascom 7y ago
I’d be more interested in seeing this adjusted for school quality and class rank/gpa don’t think you can compare without that
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by cascom 7y ago
I’m a little skeptical of that number, while I don’t doubt the annual dues might have been $20k/year even clubs with mid six figure initiations are unlikely to have a $20k/year food and beverage minimum
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by cascom 7y ago
Frankly I’m skeptical - is the article talking about high end private clubs owned by their memberships, or the corporately owned “country clubs” or clubs associated with a real estate development or planned community? They are two totally d
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by cascom 7y ago
One easy fix would be to shift municipalities to an accounting system that actually reflected the true state of affairs. That way you could see the chronic underinvestment and ongoing cost of infrastructure.
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by cascom 7y ago
The huge difference here is leverage. The typical bank in the US is levered ~5-12x which means, many of these "shadow banks" are unlevered, this creates an entirely different dynamic
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Carrier Group in Recent UFO Encounters Had New Air Defense Tech(thedrive.com)
94 points by cascom 7y ago|99 comments
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by cascom 7y ago
1. Tax payers will pay more because the government will optimize for revenue when making decisions/interpretations on their behalf 2. Errors are likely to go unnoticed as people will be loathe to “check the governments work” Also not r
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by cascom 7y ago
agreed - if someone asked me to measure out 50 grams of sugar i have no idea how much that would be
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by cascom 7y ago
The money is only "hidden" in that people's bank accounts investments are not public record. Really this title should read "Guy estimates wealth of super rich based on their income tax return" but that is not as sex
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by cascom 7y ago
Where is my check?
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by cascom 7y ago
Then i don't think there is a problem with your logic - at the end of the day i think the question is: are you treating people fairly? and if you can honestly say that [gender] is not playing a role in compensation then you are fine.
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by cascom 7y ago
My question is the PORTION who are benefitting - is this 2 employees? 20? If it’s 20 this is a serious commitment, if it’s 2 it’s more of a PR stunt...
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by cascom 7y ago
Replace the “male” engineer with “female” and then ask the same question.
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by cascom 7y ago
I’d be curious to know what portion of their employee base is Benefitting from this “minimum wage” - a couple of admins? I’d imagine all of the front office jobs and most of the back office jobs at an SF software company would command wages
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by cascom 7y ago
I interview plenty of recent graduates, most of whom come off as "over-confident", to their credit, they most definitely have great pedigrees and compare well with their peers and will likely be great additions. However, they down
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by cascom 7y ago
Nowhere does the research imply incompetence - the word only shows up in the title and the last paragraph of the article... Overconfidence != Incompetence
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by cascom 7y ago
Let’s see really the story here is: asset class [X] declines in value due to [new market entrants] - those that purchased this asset on a levered basis were hurt the most
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by cascom 7y ago
The UI may be antiquated but it does what it needs to without any lock-in, and you have control of your data. Plus you can do you accrual based accounting which just makes so much more sense (I may pay my car insurance premium once a year,
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by cascom 7y ago
I’m sure Oregon’s public employees will be thrilled to here how companies like this are part of their pension’s investment portfolio
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How A Lone Norwegian Trader Shook the World’s Financial System(nytimes.com)
2 points by cascom 7y ago|0 comments
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by cascom 7y ago
what is the solution to deal with all of the inorganic/e-waste that are in most people's bodies these days (pacemakers, artificial hips, etc.)
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by cascom 7y ago
Not to mention as consumer products go they are incredibly long lived, I can’t think of many activities where someone might still use their grandfather’s [tennis racquet, golf clubs, etc], but you regularly see people still using 50-75 year
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by cascom 7y ago
well CalPERS net IRR investing in private equity is 10.7%... so yes Also to the two cerberus funds in which it has invested are have produced 14-17% IRRs https://www.calpers.ca.gov/page/investments/asset-classes&#x
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by cascom 7y ago
My reading (which is not helped by the fact that the reporter appears more or less financially illiterate from a corporate finance perspective) is that Cerberus essentially took $225m out of the company (saddled the company with expensive d
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by cascom 7y ago
Buy 20 companies, execute private equity playbook. a few are zeroes, most make 1-5x over 3-5 years...

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