joshcain

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by joshcain 4y ago
During the 08 financial crisis, Mitsubishi wrote a $9 billion CHECK to close an investment in Morgan Stanley over a holiday weekend. The concern was that MS's stock would nosedive if the deal wasn't done before the market opened.
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by joshcain 6y ago
"I’m not surprised, but this makes me feel incredibly sad. I built my first PC using parts from there. I’m going to miss it." Yeah, same here. I'm not sure if the first PC I built was from Fry's parts but the second+ def
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by joshcain 6y ago
I would have paid a lot of money for that back in the pre-CSS days, assuming it worked well. Was it purely image-based or could it recognize when an area could be rendered without using an image (like a single color zone/etc.)?
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by joshcain 6y ago
Been reading Matt's work since the Dealbreaker days and agree 100%. It's rare to see someone pull off being genuinely funny when (knowledgeably!) writing about financial and legal mechanics. Matt once wrote about something I was w
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by joshcain 6y ago
100%. Coda was especially useful if you weren't running your server stack on your local dev machine. Hit "Publish" and all your changed files are pushed up automatically. So much better than hunting through an FTP client ever
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by joshcain 6y ago
I thought Toughbooks are made by Panasonic? Did they buy the brand from Toshiba at some point?
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by joshcain 6y ago
PSA being down is interesting. I might have thought there would be greater demand for storage units as people clear stuff out of their houses to make room for home offices/gyms/etc. That said, all the people who've lost jobs
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by joshcain 6y ago
Many airlines use both Airbus and Boeing within the same size class. American, United, and Delta all operate both 737s and A320-class planes.
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by joshcain 6y ago
They do not – their fiscal year ends 9/30.
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by joshcain 6y ago
Getting [initial][surname] is pretty impressive. My first ID was [initial][surname]7.
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by joshcain 6y ago
I used to have a terminal and still work with some of Bloomberg's data products. A big part of their value proposition isn't so much the functionality of the terminal (though it's really extensive, and they keep adding stuff
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by joshcain 6y ago
Parking is really expensive in a lot of cities. Easily $40/night+ if you're leaving a car at your hotel, plus you have to pay to park while sightseeing/etc.
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by joshcain 7y ago
In CA LLCs have to pay a minimum state tax of $800, plus some misc. other fees depending on location.
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by joshcain 7y ago
No, he’s right. The EV credit is not refundable* so your tax liability has to be at least $7500 to get the full benefit of it. * https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/tax-credits-deductions/dis...
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by joshcain 7y ago
Corporate governance was definitely a factor, but getting cut down from $47B to $10-15B is... a lot. Public market investors clearly have a much worse opinion of We's fundamentals than SoftBank did.
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by joshcain 7y ago
Same, I own a 2014 15" and have a 2018 15" from work. I haven't had any keys break on the 2018 (yet...) and actually prefer the key travel on it to the 2014. The smaller size is an improvement and the dongle situation isn&#x2
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by joshcain 7y ago
I mean, you would hope it's not possible for it to be that simple but... you could see it, couldn't you?
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by joshcain 7y ago
Odd, Kaiser in CA was willing to send a secure email (I assume that meant an email containing a web link) with my vaccination history when I started grad school at NYU in 2015. To your larger point of what a mess this is, though: NYU refuse
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by joshcain 7y ago
Right, and the best argument I've heard for letting T-Mobile and Sprint merge is that there's a real question of whether Sprint continues to exist absent a merger. Could be better to have 3 strong carriers competing than 2 strong
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by joshcain 8y ago
Laravel also as a lightweight version called Lumen for simpler APIs and things. It includes a lot of the features of core Laravel but has a more stripped-down application structure.
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by joshcain 8y ago
"Why pay you so much, I can just set up a website on Wix for $10." I mean, that's a valid point in the age of Wix and Squarespace. I'm certainly glad I'm no longer in the business of building brochureware sites for
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by joshcain 8y ago
It's also rumored that United lost a lot of entertainment business when they killed their LAX-JFK service and moved everything to Newark. AA still flies a 3-class plane on LAX/SFO-JFK with lie-flat seats in business and first.
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by joshcain 8y ago
I'd guess there's some kind of interest/penalty you have to pay along with the back premiums.
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by joshcain 8y ago
Theoretically, yeah, but like a lot of tech companies, index funds are a high-ish fixed cost and low marginal cost business. The staff/IT/compliance/etc. costs to run a fund don't scale linearly with invested assets so f
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by joshcain 8y ago
BLX Group | Senior Web Engineers | Los Angeles, CA (Downtown) | Full-time | ONSITE | http://blxgroup.com Who we are: BLX provides tax compliance, financial advisory, and investment advisory services to governmental and non-profi
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by joshcain 9y ago
BLX Group | Senior Web Engineers | Los Angeles, CA (Downtown) | Full-time | ONSITE | http://blxgroup.com Who we are: BLX provides tax compliance, financial advisory, and investment advisory services to governmental and non-profi