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by cascom 8y ago
The legal fees come from the definitive agreement not the term sheet.
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by cascom 8y ago
This is getting so tiresome - consumers need direct recourse against those institutions that are mishandling/losing their data Edit: if this were the case, the perception would change from viewing large troves of personal private data
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by cascom 8y ago
The problem is that pay day loans are typically pretty small <$500 and meant to be short duration 1-8 weeks, meaning that if it’s a $500 loan out for one month @15% that is $6.2 in interest, it is going to cost more than that to process
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by cascom 8y ago
look i'm not saying they are in a desirable position, or that they are not entitled to pay that they earned, what i am saying is that if you asked a private sector worker which would you rather: 1. work without pay, but knowing you wi
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by cascom 8y ago
this is my point - don't you think it a salient fact to inform the reader that these employees will in fact be paid for the work they perform....at some point
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by cascom 8y ago
While i don't envy their position - i think describing it as working without pay as a little disingenuous - while they have yet to be paid for the work they are performing, does anyone really believe that they are not going to be paid
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by cascom 8y ago
I'm pretty surprised by this - would have thought that a consulting firm or bank would have topped the list. Perhaps these are tickets that only get booked through corporate travel, rather than being booked by the employee and expensed
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by cascom 8y ago
Things for task oriented todo Airtable for things is like to do (trips/movies/restaurants etc) Note/text file for more existential goals
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by cascom 8y ago
I don't have the energy for a lengthy reply but, the short version is that for someone as economically knowledgeable as him to present his case in such a way is dishonest, when every one of his arguments/supporting-facts has numer
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by cascom 8y ago
His economic arguments are only good to the extent that you agree with the economic goals which any economic policy is trying to achieve. For example the Diamond Saez paper he references is optimizing for "Social Welfare" which is
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by cascom 8y ago
Paul Krugman is just so tiresome - he’s as partisan an ideologue as they come planting a patent falsehood every third sentence
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by cascom 8y ago
Out of the frying pan and into the fire...
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by cascom 8y ago
http://www.gnucash.org Is pretty solid
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by cascom 8y ago
newsflash: rich people have better access to _______, making them more likely to _________, what are the implications for people who can't afford _________ and what should the _______ industry do about it?
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by cascom 8y ago
Personally i think its the accessibility of year round outdoor activities (surfing, biking, etc)
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by cascom 8y ago
Cheating on your spouse is not ethical but it is legal, would you argue for it to become illegal? My point is that it is not a given that ethically dubious actions should be illegal. Furthermore, what is ethically wrong to some may not be s
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by cascom 8y ago
I would also add two things: 1. Debt needs to be taken in context with both income and wealth e.g. italy's $2.8T [1]in debt seems large as a ratio of GDP, but considering the country's NET wealth is $10.5T [2] meaning the country
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by cascom 8y ago
you're missing a couple of other factors, one is timing and being bale to move quickly, a perfect example is the warren buffet's investment in GS during the financial crisis [1]. GS didn't show that deal to the world - it wen
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by cascom 8y ago
What you are missing is that family offices usually farm out most of their vanilla public market securities portfolios to people like vanguard, but that 1/2 to 1/3 of the portfolio is private or alternative investments and that is
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by cascom 8y ago
My experience is that because we can’t trust people in government to act responsibly, we create these committees/reviews/approvals ensuring that government moves slowly and ineffectively
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by cascom 8y ago
LOL
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by cascom 8y ago
agree - but don't think they are going out that far on the curve, probably more like 6m treasuries (2.5%) + interchange fees as you mentioned...
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by cascom 8y ago
my experience with this is that its not whether they are able to - but the cost benefit of abandoning legacy service lines that are still hugely profitable but maybe not be growing (or actually shrinking)
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by cascom 8y ago
i suspect its a combination of (1) 6 month treasuries are yielding ~2.5% (2) they are getting revenue share from interchange fees on spending that they are passing on in the form of interest as opposed to some cash back/rewards program
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by cascom 8y ago
i think its because my cell phone bill used to be ~$120/month now its ~$80/month
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by cascom 8y ago
I’ve been planning on ditching gmail for a while, but I can’t find a domain name for my perineal email (either taken or don’t love) that I want to use for the next 10+ years!!!
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by cascom 8y ago
Most of the expense “fraud” I’ve seen has actually been implicitly or explicitly condoned by the firm - e.g corporate wants higher sales - sales team delivers, in the process taking clients to expensive dinners, strip clubs, skiing etc. (al
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by cascom 8y ago
100% - I can’t recall working anywhere where the expense policy was that well defined, usually it was “keep it reasonable” or “don’t raise eyebrows” (obviously not including fraud) Additionally, in corporate America there used to be somewha
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by cascom 8y ago
That’s fair - and again think it’s a laudable goal. It used to be that if you worked in the public sector you forwent a market rate salary in exchange for job security and a secure pension. Public sector employees are now making market wage
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by cascom 8y ago
That’s a nice sentiment - in that case we should all work in the public sector and and get those things...oh yeah....

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