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by dh2022 4y ago
"Any company can theoretically choose to not be profitable, by reinvesting all of its profits, and investors typically don’t care if their value is returned via growth or dividends. " - the Amazon model for its first 20 years :).
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by dh2022 4y ago
Canadian corporate taxes are quite a bit higher than in the US - 33% vs 21%. So not an easy decision...
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by dh2022 4y ago
Is a wonderful program teaching math. I cannot recommend it enough. I recommend it to all my friends. It starts from basics - in kindergarten they do problems like "there are 4 birds on a branch. 2 fly away. How many are left on the br
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by dh2022 4y ago
" Imagine a place where no one had to be scared of living on the street, could get decent food, has access to free education and health care. What a wonderful world. " This wonderful world already exists in the US. Poor people hav
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by dh2022 4y ago
If you do not have the energy to contribute to the conversation then do not contribute to the conversation.
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by dh2022 4y ago
You obviously did not live under communist propaganda. Communism was 100% about the equality of outcome - everyone was equal and was supposed to get his/her equal share. I lived 15 years in Romania under communism, 8 of these years und
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by dh2022 4y ago
iPhone was a status symbol in 2007-2008.
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by dh2022 4y ago
Actually I am wondering it the number of missing nukes is even higher...
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by dh2022 4y ago
The assets are impaired at today's interest rates. The yield curve is very inverted (is that gramatically correct??) this signals interest rates will be quite a lot lower in a few years. At that time the assets will not be impaired - t
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by dh2022 4y ago
Apparently these securities are long-ish dated bonds, currently under water because of interest rates going up. Only big institutions can afford to wait for interest rates to go down and price to go back up again (and judging by how inverte
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by dh2022 4y ago
But where will the money that pays un-insured deposits come from? SVB's assets are worth less than its liabilities at this point....
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by dh2022 4y ago
03/08/2023 was too late to do much. 03/08/2022 on the other hand....
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by dh2022 4y ago
Well, treasurers looking to park their cash and use US Gov debt guarantees usually buy shorter dated treasury bills - around 3-6 months. This matches their duration - chances are they will need the money quickly. In general treasurers match
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by dh2022 4y ago
The reason for discrepancy between productivity growth and wages stagnant is because the productivity initiatives were created by a few people that benefited handsomely, not by the masses employed in call centers / coffee shops /
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by dh2022 4y ago
Because while the math is simple, the politics are very complicated. Which fills these hours of passionate TV debates.
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by dh2022 4y ago
But the rules have to change because the demographics changed. The number of old people is increasing, the size of the workforce is not increasing.
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by dh2022 4y ago
The designer was called Blend - it was started by a dev that, among many other things :), created the designer for WinForms. And the hacks they had to make in WPF to support any VisualStudio designer (WPF had to detect if it was running in
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by dh2022 4y ago
What a blast from the past. I used to work on WinForms team at the time WPF appeared. We thought we would get fired or re-assigned to other teams. Tam members ended up re-assigned to other team (by then I already left MSFT). And I remember
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by dh2022 4y ago
Turkey made up its mind already: they will milk both sides as much as possible.
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by dh2022 4y ago
C-suite people from different companies end up working together on company boards later in their career. To fire with cause and no severance and no parachute some back-stabbing VPs would make it more difficult to work with said back-stabbin
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by dh2022 4y ago
I happen to own a couple rental properties. I can assure you that I avoided renters with low credit score and high rent / income ratio. Even if it took longer (months longer) to find a renter, is better to wait for someone solid than r
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by dh2022 4y ago
"10% might be a good place to start." Wow - the tax largesse is strong with this one... No way I will add at least 10% to all taxes I already pay...
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by dh2022 4y ago
I still remember the first time I heard about the iPhone. I was like "this is incredible". My friend in Romania asked me to buy him an iPhone - when I told him he would not be able to use it in Romania [1] he said it does not matt
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by dh2022 4y ago
They bought a whole bunch of these and other things... Too bad for the Taiwanese that all this kit is going now to Ukraine... Taiwanese weaponry backlog is growing month by month [1]. Another way China benefits from Ukraine-Russian war. ht
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by dh2022 4y ago
with rounded corners and all...
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by dh2022 4y ago
Re: "They will keep everything a secret[...]then come out of nowhere with a mind-blowing product" - that was true (in spades) during Steve Jobs era. What mind blowing product did Apple launch since Oct 2011? Under Tim Apple iterat
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by dh2022 4y ago
payout will be in April's paycheck. I was a little surprised about the difference on when the accrual stops (mid Jan) and when balance will be paid out - in April. Laying off people before April payout explains some of this difference
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by dh2022 4y ago
At $50 / hour that accountant should know better than stream Disney+ on company's laptop.
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by dh2022 4y ago
"Allow a wage-price spiral of about 6% a year, " - Fed cannot create this wage-spiral. Fed only controls interest rates. From 2009-2016 interest rates were below 0.2% - and wages did not move. Only employers can create this type o
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by dh2022 4y ago
A solution could be amending the constitution with ‘modern’ amendments. The founders knew times will surely change and made provisions about how to change the constitution.

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