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by csharpminor 3y ago
Worn out shoes can cause pain after a few months. Any further diagnosis should probably be delivered by a PT.
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by csharpminor 3y ago
I mean the actual worst is having the 4th highest tax burden in the nation and having a dysfunctional EDD that can’t efficiently give unemployment to people who need it.
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by csharpminor 3y ago
Missing a timed transfer and having to wait 15 minutes is awful. Why did I miss my last timed transfer? Police activity on BART (again).
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by csharpminor 3y ago
A respectful culture is needed for public transit to properly function, and the Bay Area doesn’t have that. Some behaviors I’ve seen on public transit in the Bay Area: loud music, dumping beer and food on the floor, clipping toenails, smoki
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by csharpminor 3y ago
Because understanding CEO pay as a product of organization incentives shows just how futile shaming companies into lower CEO pay is. Just tax the CEOs more and let companies pay what they want.
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by csharpminor 3y ago
I have no illusions that they succeed, I can just tell you that they have a strong incentive to not price discriminate.
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by csharpminor 3y ago
I don’t agree on your first point. I do think power and talent is highly consolidated among a small number of executives. Especially when you look at (as most boards do) executives within a specific industry vertical. That’s not to say thos
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by csharpminor 3y ago
I didn’t say anything about performance. What I said is that it’s untenable for a board to penny-pinch a few million dollars for someone managing orders of magnitude more in resources. A board gains nothing from pointing to a 2005 Stanford
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by csharpminor 3y ago
I’m engaging in good faith, no need for ad-homonyms. No, I do not expect a CEO to make those decisions on their own. They also usually bring a team (or make choices about who to keep/remove). So even if they’re not deciding directly, t
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by csharpminor 3y ago
Curious to know, what threshold would not be fine and how did you get there? My point is that you’re implicitly using the same method most exec comp committees use to set CEO salaries.
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by csharpminor 3y ago
Because it’s useful to understand the incentives driving higher exec pay. My point is that shaming organizations into reducing CEO pay is unlikely to work given the incentives, so we should just focus on individual progressive taxation and
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by csharpminor 3y ago
Did you not see my point about taxation?
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by csharpminor 3y ago
I completely agree that it’s a crap-shoot, but again from the perspective of a board they’d rather cover their bases and over pay. Especially when this compensation is a fractional percent of the company’s revenue. The other factor is that
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by csharpminor 3y ago
I agree with you. I’m not sure what the enforcement mechanism would be though. Boards suing CEOs more frequently over negligence? CEOs buying a certain amount of equity in a company before they join? CEOs are highly leveraged. One wrong bet
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by csharpminor 3y ago
I’m not sure I understand you, I believe we’re making the same point? I mean that there’s a strong incentive to offer competitive pay (as in pay more e.g. to poach from a competing company).
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by csharpminor 3y ago
I like this as a more precise back-of-the napkin method than what I articulated. I’m not up-to-date with GM and Barra’s tenure. What I can say is that I’ve personally seen bad leadership teams cost employees much more than $180/year. A
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by csharpminor 3y ago
CEO salaries should be understood in relationship to the resources that they control. For example, this CEO chose to spend $85M on travel nurses to counter the union strike happening at a hospital in their network. Presumably the CEO thinks
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by csharpminor 3y ago
Obviously this sucks for those impacted, but it’s a relatively small cut (2% of employees). I wouldn’t necessarily read a major culture change at REI from this alone. It seems to be business-as-usual for a company operating at a modest loss
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by csharpminor 3y ago
The note to employees indicates the layoff is only about 2% of the company’s workforce so it would appear there’s a good deal of overlap.
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by csharpminor 3y ago
There are so many examples of this in the auto world, e.g. the Big Motor scandal in Japan where the corruption was at both the dealerships and a major insurer: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2023/09/08&
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by csharpminor 3y ago
You might also be interested in the Oklahoma Surgery Center’s model: https://surgerycenterok.com/surgery-prices/
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by csharpminor 3y ago
I knew someone at Department of Agriculture who tried to organize meatless Mondays for the employee cafeteria. Needless to say special interests had beef with that and shut them down.
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by csharpminor 3y ago
I completely agree. As an aside, for .gov domains, the DMARC offenders are primarily at the state, county, and local level. I would personally be in favor of extending CISA’s DMARC requirements to anyone with a .gov domain (and revoking dom
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by csharpminor 3y ago
Just so you know, this page became unresponsive in Chrome about 30 seconds after I opened it.
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by csharpminor 3y ago
To be honest I found this article to be a bit blog spammy. It’s for developers because they used a startup accelerator analogy? I didn’t see anything particularly differentiated from the equivalent SendGrid/Mailgun/etc blogs that
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by csharpminor 3y ago
I think about this every time I see a cookie banner. It’s a 1-2 second delay that plays out millions if not billions of times per day. How many lifetimes have been wasted since those were forced into existence by GDPR?
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by csharpminor 3y ago
I’d be curious to know how you arrived at this opinion, as it doesn’t match my experience as a competitive debater in college. Have you ever been on a debate team or is this from observing? I’m genuinely curious! To refute your points a bit
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by csharpminor 3y ago
When I was first out of college I stayed at Green Tortoise Hostel for a week on about $250. Definitely not glamorous - the rooms are pretty packed and stuffy. But it was a lot of fun hanging out with a bunch of poor young travelers from aro
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by csharpminor 3y ago
Exactly, and it impacts the denominator by a great margin. The value of the lottery ticket to me is a function of the cost, odds, timing and interest I have in the destination. If the odds of one trailhead are 1000x lower than another one t
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by csharpminor 3y ago
Sure, but they could display odds from past lotteries or provide current odds at time of purchase. You really have no clue what you're getting when you give them your $6-$15.

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