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by jacobr1 5y ago
While they aren't _necessarily_ coupled, the bundling of an app-store and cloud services such as payments, notifications, and more, along with vetting (for security issues) does seem of value. One can certainly imagine third-party app
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There is not measurement of a "market drop," only a decrease in the equities in the account - this includes BOTH the sale and the market loss. Here is an example: Month 0 STOCKS: $100 CASH: $0 Month 1 STOCKS $10 CASH $65 The a
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National Flood Insurance Program and other subsidies. Private insurance rates should increase and drive out residents. Business losses should drive out both business and residents. Without subsidies, I suspect the market would increase the
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by jacobr1 5y ago
I read it differently: "a decline of 90% of ... equity assets ... of which 50% or more is due to trades." This means that 45%-90% of equity was sold off ... they identifying the large sell-offs moreso than just equity drops.
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> “Everyone involved promises not to identify anyone” - see response to first point. They legally promise via some form a non-disclosure agreement. A violation means they are liable in the case they are the source of a breach, which can
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by jacobr1 5y ago
They other factor is matching the pay bands to the market correctly. If the HR team outsources this to national averages rather than assessing peer companies, especially in software, the bands are going to be too low. Which means if want to
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Promotions within the same title ... aren't really promotions.
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Also folks making similar comments are missing that funding is about the future of the product/business, not just scaling growth (though you do see with later stage funding). Something like Postman is a bet on enterprise tooling for AP
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by jacobr1 5y ago
I suspect most people in the "Slack is a just a pretty IRC," are discounting the non-text-messaging features. Beyond both the items already mentioned and the ease of adoption, the major benefit to slack is the integration ecosyste
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by jacobr1 5y ago
Before the pandemic, zoom was a starting to gain market share over a bunch of the legacy conference software vendors, like cisco webex. They had their act together on the enterprise sales side and were getting traction via their freemium mo
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by jacobr1 5y ago
My understanding is that they are trying to use the Lightning Network. Though my brief googling of this only shows speculation that this is the case, rather than confirmation.
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by jacobr1 5y ago
The historical top rates were subject to a lot more deductions than we have today - effective tax rates were in the 40% range. Effective rates today are certainly lower, so your point stands, but the difference isn't as stark as just l
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by jacobr1 5y ago
> When you make a video and upload it to YouTube, that creation is entirely the result of your own hard work and ingenuity. YouTube doesn't need to exist for your video to exist. YT probably does need to exist for many creators to g
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by jacobr1 5y ago
Uber doesn't have the same network effect dynamics. I don't switch from FB to another social network unless a bunch of my friends do. As a consumer, it is very easy for me to install Lyft or Curb or $LocalTaxiApp and switch. There
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Curb usage is pretty big in a number of metros.
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I think Uber showed the demand curve is there, given both the lowered price and lowered transaction costs. It is certainly possible that when the dust settles there exists a larger taxi/hailing industry than before, operating more effi
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by jacobr1 5y ago
Uber doesn't have the same risk profile. When demand drops for wework, they are still on the hook for longer term leases. When demand drops for uber, drivers eat the loss of fewer transactions. As long as they can keep their overhead i
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by jacobr1 5y ago
There are plenty of national chains in various industries though, they just maintain ownership of multiple "hubs" and potentially get some economies of scale on national marketing. There is no reason "a national taxi service&
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by jacobr1 5y ago
To further your example, when the mentor gives the feedback that the programmer is _good_, they don't take it as evidence they are good, instead it is rationalized away. "The mentor only told me I was good because they didn't
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by jacobr1 5y ago
This is why most calculations of Net Worth ask you to exclude the primary residence.
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by jacobr1 5y ago
There are a ton of a companies that help you track cloud spend, while some of it is architectural, most is really about waste, old ec2 image backups, s3 with no lifecycle policies ... garbage
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by jacobr1 5y ago
I think the disconnect tends to be the assumption that "moralizing" is bad, thus if one is justified in their proposal, they aren't moralizing. That isn't the case. To be moralize, you just need to be making an argument
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by jacobr1 5y ago
The paternalistic argument is that the low-IQ voters will be misled, and vote _against_ their own interests. That they just will vote for whatever higher-IQ group can best market to them, and will get a basket of outcomes that is, at best,
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by jacobr1 5y ago
A noisy word might easily be guessed in context. But likewise a semantically ambiguous word might also be guessed due to other factors like the tone of the speaker, facial expressions or more. I suspect the parent's point is that the d
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by jacobr1 5y ago
No, the argument is that we should be actively supporting changes industrial regulation. That might mean writing wonky letters to congress or the editor, it might be protesting a factory, it might mean boycotting a company with certain prac
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Is there a meaningful difference? Isn't your definition of status-quo more or less the position taken by "centrists"?
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Walmart is starting to become more competitive again re #1
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Might it be better to present plausible alternatives, in a reasonable timeframe? Like, if we implement cap & trade amongst developed countries, with a tariff for those not participating (probably china) and with an annual cap reduction.
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It is a plausible that a larger, richer society can: * more rapidly improve its technology, both to reduce energy use and to reduce emissions * afford to pay for mitigations of the problems that do occur * can consider larger projects like
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One of the problems that the article started to articulate, but didn't fully cover is that even if everyone on the planet did similar things in the personal lives ... it is not enough. Energy use and emissions are all about industry. T

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