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by gbronner 6y ago
NYC is 4-7$ usd
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by gbronner 6y ago
A competitive product is available in midtown ny for six dollars. Key differences are - pita vs sourdough - street meat vs name brand meat - lower quality vegetables -served in a foil sheet vs a take out bowl - lower overhead since it come
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by gbronner 6y ago
20%. The other 5% is from selling credits to other automakers.
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by gbronner 6y ago
Ark's 24k/share translates to 4.4 Trillion. Would be worth more than most of the currently most valuable companies on earth now combined.
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by gbronner 7y ago
Tap water varies by location, but also significantly by season. At least in the Northeast, the all the accumulated detritus (e.g. dog feces) from the winter gets flushed into the reservoirs in the spring, and the water districts tend to sp
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by gbronner 7y ago
I got the sense that the personal and network support given initially might have been worth 7% of the company (especially for founders who needed that kind of advising), but the partners' ability to add value has gone down recently, ma
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by gbronner 7y ago
Makes sense if they can't onboard the talent, and can't manage a 100% distributed workforce. Nevertheless, seems like a great time to acquire talent on the cheap, so long as you can effectively use it.
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by gbronner 7y ago
I bought a jfk sfo ticket last week. By Sunday, Delta had lopped off almost all of the transcontinental service, had eliminated red eyes, and replaced most planes with a220s, which are the smallest main line jet they use.
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by gbronner 7y ago
This is generally not true. Most loans were structured to have a down payment (meaning that you still had equity in the deal) and to amortize faster than the car depreciated, so you were never underwater. Only recently have we started finan
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by gbronner 7y ago
My recollection of conway is that he was quite good at backgammon -- good enough to make a bet to swap salaries with a lecturer over a public series of 30 (or more) games held in the common room. I believe that he won by one.
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by gbronner 7y ago
"Living" was a bit of a misnomer. The rumor was that he'd stopped opening his mail, and thus his wife got the house in the divorce by default. The second office had a fairly long couch that he slept on, but I'd imagine
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by gbronner 7y ago
Conway was a legend in the math department. Possibly because he actually lived there -- at one point he got kicked out of his house, and took the office opposite his as a bedroom. A few months later, an artist showed up to paint portraits
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by gbronner 7y ago
This will be an interesting natural economics experiment. An economist would say that it shouldn't matter- that as long as restaurants can adjust prices, and consumers are price sensitive, that the total delivery cost should stay abou
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by gbronner 7y ago
If you watch the actual show, he did, in fact, get a warranty on the first spin. Didn't affect him though, as he didn't lose any money to it.
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by gbronner 7y ago
At many Ivy league schools, prereqs serve mostly to tell the students what they should know before taking the class, not as deterrents to actually trying. Often the professors will waive the requirements after a brief interview. I've
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by gbronner 7y ago
The US has a very flexible labor market that allows for easy entry and exit, but can appear (and be) ruthless in its drive for efficiency. Europe is great for workers who get lucky enough to get a contract (French unemployment is often 2-3x
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by gbronner 7y ago
Very similar to a speech I heard by Dick Fuld
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NY Court of Appeals finds retroactive liability unconstitutional
1 points by gbronner 7y ago|1 comments
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by gbronner 7y ago
When was this published?
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by gbronner 7y ago
I think that the line about the artists granting a non exclusive license to the players was key. Otherwise no tattooed public figure could appear in movies, shows, newscasts, etc without getting a license from the tattoo artist
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by gbronner 7y ago
Preallocate all of the memory on the box, and control GC runs. There's an entire library of tricks for ensuring that GC pauses don't affect trading, but the biggest one is to use userspace allocated memory pools.
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by gbronner 7y ago
This one is sure to wind up in Matt Levine's column tomorrow. The current owners of a large chunk of WeWork stock are going to have to sue Softbank to force them to complete the deal. For all we know, Softbank is experiencing liquidity
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by gbronner 7y ago
Wonder what value he can attribute to it. Possible that the tax write off exceeds his cost
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by gbronner 7y ago
Guess we won't get any more fordite
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by gbronner 7y ago
It was like they were touching Jesus. I was uncomfortable, and so was he.
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by gbronner 7y ago
I attended a party at his house with a group of interns. He was worshipped, but in the wrong way -- a number of people wanted to touch his clothing or get his autograph, and they were employees . I don't think he was ever comfortable
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by gbronner 7y ago
They don't have to do that. Bigger companies do that to avoid lawsuits, and to ensure that they are fair, but small companies can and do take HR risks. It is perfectly legal to fire a pregnant employee for any reason except that she
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by gbronner 7y ago
All brokers are now required to record and transfer cost basis information for most assets. It happens pretty seamlessly. There are also tremendous advantages to having differently priced lots -- you can sell the expensive ones, and donate
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by gbronner 7y ago
I take issue with his characterization of wedding knives as bling. For many younger couples, they replace a collection of stamped knives and yard sale finds, so they are a qualitative upgrade. They often get used a lot, as families cook mo
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by gbronner 7y ago
When I was represented by a graduate student union, our department actually tried to raise wages. This was opposed by the union (solidarity!), and the result was that the department essentially invented fake courses to pad the hours of the

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