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by cheriot 4y ago
Google wants people to use Chrome so they're not disintermediated like on iOS. If something drives people away they won't do it. Disagree about Firefox. They'd do a good job.
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by cheriot 4y ago
Where are these ratings from? If Cobra Kai and The Witcher are exceptional I'm done with TV entirely. Netflix is slowly reinventing cable. Reality shows, cooking shows... all of these cheap production things has an audience. Who am I t
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by cheriot 4y ago
On the flip side, how much of the environment has been paved over for strip malls and their parking lots? A warehouse is much more dense and a delivery route potentially more efficient than everyone driving to the store and back. I've
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by cheriot 4y ago
The topic of the post was email. Even expanding to every other product, which ones are you forced to use? Just pick another one. Calling this feudalism is a bit much.
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by cheriot 4y ago
> a tyrant ruling over a techno-feudalistic society It's an email app. There are many other options.
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by cheriot 4y ago
This is wonderful to read. When I graduate high school in 2002 my parents saw the news talking about outsourcing and warned me against tech! Good thing I never listen :) Encourage her to find mentors that can provide that technical guidance
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by cheriot 4y ago
The engineers in less expensive locales are not used to the high pay. Even without remote, my team is pushed to hire in the offices outside the Bay Area because engineers demand less money and retention is higher.
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by cheriot 4y ago
If two apps can both identify a user then they will be able to combine that data. Apple took away the one identifier they controlled. What are they going to do next?
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by cheriot 4y ago
The founder was pushed out years ago so is that still relevant? High yield savings has always been about attracting customers. SoFi just got their banking charter so they want to build up deposits. The rest of the HYS crowd is around 0.5% a
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by cheriot 4y ago
yes, exactly, that's why I mention capital risk. Much less than stocks or corporate bonds, but more than an FDIC insured account.
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by cheriot 4y ago
SoFi is offering 1.25% but Vanguard's short term treasury fund (VGSH) is at 2.35% if you're ok with mild capital risk.
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by cheriot 4y ago
There's a lot of new competition in Disney+, Discovery+, Paramount+, and Peacock. Why now? > 71% of TV households nationwide have some form of pay-TV service. The percentage of TV households that have a live pay-TV service (via cab
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by cheriot 5y ago
Consider the tradeoff you're implicitly demanding. How many people should be unemployed so the gas price is a little lower? Is there evidence that demonizing O&G or canceling a single pipeline is making an impact on the price at th
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by cheriot 5y ago
> Just the way that they talk about this is so...vile. 8.5% inflation is a nightmare. You're in charge. Take ownership of that, and for the love of god stop trying to use the massacre of innocent people in Ukraine is a political too
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by cheriot 5y ago
A theory: When declarative IaaS gets to a certain point, we can distribute the cloud hosting version of a one-click install. Then use federated auth so people can choose any instance of the app to host their identity.
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by cheriot 5y ago
There's also money left in Cash App after someone pays you.
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by cheriot 5y ago
iirc they add insurance cost at check out, but I've mostly used GetAround lately.
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by cheriot 5y ago
It was priced at 30x sales! Now it's back to 10x sales... which is a slightly higher multiple than before the pandemic. For context, here's the p/s of the S&P 500 https://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-price-to-sa
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by cheriot 5y ago
+1 the way shareholders and managers have a shorter time horizon than their employees is a huge red flag
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by cheriot 5y ago
I agree for these two cases, but more generally the market has some inefficiencies when good companies self-immolate like this.
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by cheriot 5y ago
> The scary thing is that it's easy to see how something how like this could drive a market boom and bust cycle. iBuyers don't buy from each other or hold the house for long. As soon as they sell then everyone sees what a marke
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by cheriot 5y ago
If Intel's business requires a time horizon of decades and its owners time horizon is a couple years isn't that a problem? I'd propose some portion of a leader's comp should stay in company stock for 10 years even if the
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by cheriot 5y ago
Creative destruction is important, but some businesses are easier to replace than others. How do you create another Intel or Boeing? The start up costs are insane. Even beyond that, there's value in some institutions.
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by cheriot 5y ago
> Shareholders want the same thing Maybe that's the root of it and long-term capital gains should take longer than 1 year. The owners have a shorter horizon than employees!
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by cheriot 5y ago
Governments place a lot of rules on corporate governance already. Maybe a new one is called for. Maybe a social movement that pushes index funds to exercise the voting shares they hold. I'm open to ideas.
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by cheriot 5y ago
> But stock prices are ruled by long-term dynamics not short-term ones. You have more faith in public markets than I do.
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by cheriot 5y ago
There's reasons why that doesn't happen to this kind of company - short term-ism leads to great financial results in the short term so the stock price goes up making a buy out expensive. Anyone that can see the internal issues wil
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by cheriot 5y ago
This is why I think we need to figure out executive compensation. Boards just rubber stamp whatever the CEO wants. Tie their compensation to real goals and require them to hold for the next 10 years.
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by cheriot 5y ago
Higher interest payments just means the Gov borrows more. I don't think the Fed is concerned about the ability to issue new debt.
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by cheriot 5y ago
My experience writing Scala was that there's a modest list of ways people iterate over collections that covers 99.9% of cases. For this example, many languages have a Partition function. matches, mismatches := slices.Partition(

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