johnrgrace

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by johnrgrace 7y ago
As someone in a fortune 50 company working in a data internal startup this guide has been one of the first that really gets the unique aspects of data.
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by johnrgrace 7y ago
Read their industry trade publications and go to their trade shows, that is the fastest way to understand some of the problems and industry is facing. There will be other problems an industry is facing that don't surface in those area
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by johnrgrace 7y ago
At big companies if you have to go through IT, it isn't uncommon that you might not get the views for 2-3 years.
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by johnrgrace 7y ago
The tools to scale excel are essbase or hyperion where excel sheets can all points to a central database/cube of data that can be refreshed and updated centrally and then the sheets can do local analysis and processing; sometimes even
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by johnrgrace 7y ago
The one exception would be the Canadian Tire dollar, it existed for 40 years with only the backing of a major retailer. I've read a few academic economics papers on the Canadian Tire dollar because it's an exception.
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by johnrgrace 7y ago
My godfather was a 17 term congressman starting in the 70's, he always said for most issues there were lobbyists on both sides of the issue and if you voted how you wanted you'd get checks. When one side doesn't have money v
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by johnrgrace 8y ago
It's often one guy with a spreadsheet, and 1-2 people to review the spreadsheet and a few business people to validate assumptions. The modeling is easy, getting the assumptions right is hard. To
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by johnrgrace 8y ago
You don't really need to know they are contractors, they are looking for a jump in the number of people onsite because access is controlled. A major turnaround or outage will bring in hundreds of extra contractors for days at a time.
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by johnrgrace 8y ago
Ex amazonian here, all of the internal systems have well defined API interfaces. So long as you don't blow up the API's you can replace any legacy system you want because it doesn't have tendrils that reach into 50 other sys
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by johnrgrace 9y ago
Because it is cash settled, if multiple traders are using BTC to hedge their futures and all sell their BTC at futures expiration they'll move the price introducing risk into the transaction.
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by johnrgrace 10y ago
Take up a hobby that revolves around problem solving like lock picking.
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by johnrgrace 12y ago
LOAD "*",8,1 - burned into my memory by age five
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by johnrgrace 12y ago
Ex Amazonian who worked in their publishing space. Having not been to Campfire, but knowing the publishing space there won't be business deals done at the conference it just won't happen. The culture of publishing is one where pe
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by johnrgrace 13y ago
Gigawatts per gigawatt is a poor measure of energy efficiency because all forms of energy are not equal. Gasoline is a highly compact easily portable power source that also happens to fit into a lot of existing capital equipment, a gigawat
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by johnrgrace 14y ago
I'm reading this as a signal that there are too many aps
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by johnrgrace 14y ago
I believe, without hard date to support, that the more HR people a company has in general, the less likely they are to hire people with Asperger's. And if those same companies do hire an employee review process that becomes very political/
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by johnrgrace 14y ago
My publishing focused startup will be decloaking very soon, I've worked in the fiction side of publishing quite a bit. Non-fiction authors have it rough, they don't have the associations that educate writers about the business and contract
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by johnrgrace 14y ago
The bank is going to charge Tesla for a repurchase option, but if Elon makes it himself no charge to the company. If Elon really believes in his product then that option is one that will never get taken up, thus costing him nothing.
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by johnrgrace 14y ago
Look at how much money online retailers make, after their costs their profit margins are mostly single digit meaning they don't have a lot of room to cut costs. Also if retailers can wring profits out of you they will, online or offline.
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by johnrgrace 14y ago
Bankers for decades have put together private companies financials from loan applications and generated "standard" financial ratios which function as "fingerprints" for an industry. Part of getting a commercial loan is having your companie
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by johnrgrace 14y ago
Are you maybe being given the chance to get direct stock instead of options? Check on that. To be honest if these are options for a non public company than the complexities of it are going to be VERY high, if you can't understand them you
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by johnrgrace 14y ago
The strike price doesn't have to be "fair market value" by law, but if the price is under the price then it becomes current taxable income.
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by johnrgrace 14y ago
I expected that this was how the judge would rule.
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by johnrgrace 14y ago
It is small things that start to undue big companies be that mass merchant retailers or tech companies.
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by johnrgrace 14y ago
Charity can also be problematic if you're not in the mainstream. Salvation army shelters this decade have turned away gay couples and atheists from homeless shelters.
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by johnrgrace 14y ago
Ahh, but in my limited experence in visiting Australia your roads are in MUCH better shape. In some parts of America road maintaince is poor and the demand for an SUV is in part a desire for better driving experence.
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by johnrgrace 14y ago
Private railcars are luxury...
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by johnrgrace 14y ago
Contacts/access/name is about more than investors, in some industries that's what you need to reach customers or suppliers.
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by johnrgrace 14y ago
The "exception" is because Amazon has business operations in the state of California, they go to great lengths to keep the list of states the collect sales tax in limited.
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by johnrgrace 14y ago
In the late 90's I took an intro psyc course and the prof wrote his own online textbook, mass 300 student lecture and we all had to "subscribe" to his book for $40 each, he taught 3 sections a semester. He had $72k a year on sales, because

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