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by etjossem 9y ago
Absolutely. It's a low-risk move that reduces the number of shares rather than increasing earnings. But it follows (if the leadership of company you bought is rational) that they've decided there aren't enough organic investm
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by etjossem 9y ago
Buybacks make sense only if you have more cash than you know what to do with. What the previous poster is trying to get at is that a big-ticket buyback signals an inability to invest that sum in a way that will improve growth or profitabili
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by etjossem 9y ago
Okay - you're right. I'm surprised none of those show up in a title search. Reddit's search feature must be broken, because title queries are supposed to show even if the author is deleted. So it looks like someone did make s
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by etjossem 9y ago
Zing!
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by etjossem 9y ago
Nope. The fake entries added by the photoshopper don't even produce any associated posts in title search results [1]. If they were real posts from a deleted user, they'd still appear in title queries with [deleted] as their auth
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by etjossem 9y ago
I did some digging, and your evidence of "obvious pro-Hillary botting" (your [2] above) is an alt-right photoshop. They couldn't find any real evidence of this happening, so they fabricated their own. Here's how. The Wil
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by etjossem 9y ago
From your source: - The DNC was not paying Correct The Record. Like all super PACs, Correct The Record made independent expenditures on behalf of supportive donors around the country, and you can find their names here: https://
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by etjossem 9y ago
Instead of presenting unsubstantiated claims as fact, please cite your sources so we know where you're coming from.
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by etjossem 9y ago
That guideline is in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
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by etjossem 9y ago
You are right. Also, the wall of text can be a little annoying. So I recommend accessing this article via https://t.co/GVSZAdt6EV (the link from Ohanian's Twitter post), which doesn't paywall it. As a submitter do
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by etjossem 9y ago
OP here! If this doesn't work, try: https://t.co/GVSZAdt6EV This is the link from Ohanian's Twitter announcement of the news. Mods, feel free to change the submission URL to this - it goes to the same article but
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Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian Steps Aside, Focuses on Initialized Capital(blogs.wsj.com)
90 points by etjossem 9y ago|111 comments
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by etjossem 9y ago
There is a reason for this, and I think you answered it just now. Men don't need it - in technology and many other industry spaces, we are comfortable voicing our experiences because we know they'll be well-received and affirmed b
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by etjossem 9y ago
Revbird was right. Leap isn't about men trying to claw their way out of the stigma of their industry. It's about women having a place to share their experiences - because right now, it's really common for them not to feel wel
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by etjossem 9y ago
Thank you. It's really common for the arrival of a women-only (or trans-only, survivors-only etc.) space to be met with alarm from men. On the surface, that's not even a bad reflex to have - identify things that seem exclusive, an
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by etjossem 9y ago
Lawyers have about the same gender breakdown as computer systems analysts, so I don't think this is the case. CEOs are even more predominantly male, at a fairly shocking 73% by 2016 numbers (we'll have '17 soon). The problem
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by etjossem 9y ago
Equifax left a critical security vulnerability open for quite a while after it was announced, and confirmed that it was used in the breach. In a statement, Apache Struts wrote, "This vulnerability was patched on 7 March 2017, the same
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by etjossem 9y ago
"The term 'consumer report' means any written, oral, or other communication of any information by a consumer reporting agency bearing on a consumer’s credit worthiness, credit standing, credit capacity, character, general re
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by etjossem 9y ago
I am not a lawyer, this isn't legal advice backed by any level of expertise in the law. But if I had to write a complaint for small claims right now, here's what I'd bring up: -- FCRA § 604. states that "any consumer rep
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by etjossem 9y ago
> fairly hard to make the call No, it is trivially easy to make the call when someone threatens harm to another player in real life. You are right that nobody complains when pilots threaten each other in-character; everyone understands t
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by etjossem 9y ago
The retail example is an oversimplification. When the consumers of a company's product are also its primary source of revenue, nobody is under any illusions about who that company is responsible to. You are the person most impacted by
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by etjossem 9y ago
Networking makes us feel dirty — to the point that one study found that people rate soap and toothpaste 19 percent more positively after imagining themselves angling to make professional contacts at a cocktail party. Tip for writers: if y
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by etjossem 9y ago
Qualified doesn't mean clever, it just means "losing isn't a big deal." The only people to whom losing a 50-100k investment won't be life-changingly bad are either high net worth or high income. There is a lot of fr
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by etjossem 9y ago
Fortunately for women who just want to get their work done and go home, we do not live in the world of Mad Men anymore. Since then, we have realized how important it is to strive for work environments that are free from sexual pressure an
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by etjossem 9y ago
How about instead we just agree not to hit on each other within a power-imbalanced professional relationship? Seriously, I don't get how this is hard for folks. It's unbelievably simple. Be aware that you may have professional pow
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by etjossem 9y ago
Yep, we use burnable subdomains if you haven't whitelabeled.
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by etjossem 9y ago
You're spot on about Google; they've moved forward from this approach and lean more heavily on domain-based information now. But they're a rare exception, and they have very little to go on when the domain is just "sendg
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by etjossem 9y ago
SendGrid engineer here. We have a similar challenge in working with the fixed number of IPv4 addresses we're able to get our hands on. We offer our customers dedicated IP addresses for outbound email, but there are sometimes situations
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by etjossem 9y ago
It's not about software. It's not about Cider or Bootcamp or which OS you're using. The problem is bigger than that; it's about suitability of form factor. There's a key difference between gaming and other tasks - l
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by etjossem 9y ago
I've noticed it tends to hinge on whether you own a single-family home.

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