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by jshaqaw 7y ago
PG&E has declared bankruptcy.
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This is not a defense of the low capital gains tax rate but comprehensively it needs to be included that for a C corp each dollar of income is already taxed at the corp level before being distributed as capital gains or dividends. On a per
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Humans may not migrate to other planets but our nonbiological descendents might.
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As real not snarky rhetorical questions - how does an aging populace get around a city without cabs? When I injured my leg last year I found just how unviable it was to commute by crowded subway during rush hours on crutches. It gave me sy
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by jshaqaw 7y ago
Am easy start here in NYC - demand that serial driving offenders lose their licenses and face serious penalties if they violate than ban. If you systematically run red lights in this city you should face consequences. Until that happens a s
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by jshaqaw 7y ago
I used to follow the primary public company in this space - MFIN - fairly closely. This article seems off base and to disclose I have zero investments in the area. The issue here is that when taxi fleets were a regulatory rationed monopoly
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The intentions behind the rules are noble but any organization I have been a part of which runs on them ends up being some group who have mastered the rules using them to torture some other subset who are there just trying to get something
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OK fair point. I’ll elaborate. I think that a DCF model of anything as speculative with such a wide range of outcomes as this company is an exercise in futility. Yes you can build such a model but it is so dependent on your assumptions that
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The article spends surprisingly little time valuing the retirement pension and benefits packages that teachers in a place like NY State receive. That would make this analysis more relevant.
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Agreed. As I age I am saddened by the growing realization that the educational institutions which I love and am proud of are key engines of perpetuating a class system.
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To be fair, I think much of the urgency around getting an Ivy League education has more to do with parental status insecurities than actual life outcomes. I have three Ivy League degrees. Have they greased a few wheels in life? Yeah sure
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I wasn’t being literal friend
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“Based on discounted cash flow analysis”... bwhahahaha
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My kids are 8 and 9. I’ve sheltered them from the world until now on the basis you suggest but reality is breaking through. I can’t get away with lying to them anymore about the planet. So no an activist at 8 is not disturbing it’s kind of
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It’s a little sad to look back at the early days of Mondo and Wired when the internet was still a wild, weird, individually empowering space instead of a corporate sponsored surveillance dystopia
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I think it was actually the former I was asking about but again I recognize I am outside my zone of competence in this area.
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I ask you because I definitely do not have an M. Sc. In quantum mechanics - at the lowest level of any system isn’t it inevitable that there is no deeper understanding. At a certain point you have hit the base level and things just “are.”
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Management incentives will always have agent-principal issues. These things can’t be set by autopilot. That’s why corporate governance and a fiduciary voice for shareholders is so important. Of course the same CEOs who want annual reporti
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That’s an interesting concept long term. Some investors are (perfectly legally to be clear) mining big data sources to try and replicate real time monitoring of many companies. Maybe to level the playing field companies will have to provid
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I accept that but ANY measured goals will be games as a fairly universal principle of human organization. If you shift accountability to annual the incentives to game increase because you have a whole year before you need to fess up.
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Whenever a CEO complains about quarterly accountability I ask them “would you like your direct reports to check in with you once a year?” It is ironic as management move towards real-time 24/7 dashboards to track key metrics, every 3
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Phrases like left wing and right wing seem so culturally and historically dependent as to lose all meaning when used universally.
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Reasonable point. Being ignorant of the details I gave Netflix the most generous benefit of doubt. The vast majority of people aren’t monsters and I doubt they would have done this intentionally.
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I disagree. Calling to organizations like Netflix to be aware of an issue and act responsibly is very different than calling for a ban on free speech. They made an artistic and ratings decision without being aware of the ramifications. Futu
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I thought based on tv and movies that it was to spark a zombie apocalypse
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There is clearly more at stake here than you acknowledge. The creep job one stalkers who made the lives of these women hell beyond personal embarrassment. And these were cases of non consensual sex cited in the article. For gods sake man gr
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Check out https://xkcd.com/224/ . Many of us Lispers go through this phase where the universe appears to crystallize around Lisp concepts. Like Forth or APL and other languages built around a unifying theory there is
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All of these cyberpunk futures people have in the comments about writing code via their brain interface is fun speculation. I know a young boy who is almost totally paralyzed head to foot. If in 5years this gives him significantly greater m
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Switching to Windows is easier and less awful than it used to be. The short term pain of switching is still high enough when I have lots of work I need to get done and kids to raise etc... that it has to be hugely compelling vs. sucking it
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I am the co-founder of an annual weekend even infinitesimally smaller than the NY Maker Faire. It takes our staff a huge amount of work just to pull it off every year. You can’t wing an event - all the parts need to come together like clock

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