lesdeuxmagots

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by lesdeuxmagots 9mo ago
The point of the conference is not the official conference itself, but the meetings that happen around the conference. This is not true of all conferences, but for the JPMHC, and many other major conferences, that is the entire point. It&#x
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by lesdeuxmagots 10mo ago
Love the idea of the transparent shit umbrella. Some people advocate keeping the team inside and telling them it's raining. But how far does that go? Are you keeping them in an underground bunker? Or is it a room with a window? A skysc
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by lesdeuxmagots 1y ago
Did you somehow accidentally share a selfie?
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by lesdeuxmagots 2y ago
But if you visit NASA space center, and have the means, definitely do the VIP tours. The depth, the quality, the passion of the guides, are an order of magnitude better than the generic tours they offer. The regular ones are often lead by y
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by lesdeuxmagots 3y ago
It would seem that Sapporo did not do enough diligence when they bought Anchor. Anchor's facilities are far too small, their infrastructure and their team not setup to brew at that sort of scale. Stone is a much better fit for what the
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by lesdeuxmagots 3y ago
They started selling at scale 1 or 2 days after prohibition ended. This is logistically impossible if they were truly shut down during the entirety of prohibition.
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by lesdeuxmagots 4y ago
If you plan on being a Walmart lifer, sure. But what about your next job if that isn’t true? Better to be central to where the majority of companies and candidates are, where your ex-colleagues, parents of your children’s friends, and casua
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by lesdeuxmagots 4y ago
Of course MBBs and others have expertise. It's just that most of that expertise is not in the industry domain. They have expertise in crafting and creating compelling arguments, in selling ideas. They have expertise in maintaining an i
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by lesdeuxmagots 4y ago
I have aphantasia and 100% visualize on decent sized doses.
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by lesdeuxmagots 4y ago
For professional office workers, there are short term and long term benefits to all individuals (entry level, middle management, executives / younger, older) and to the company as a whole. There are also short term and long term detrim
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by lesdeuxmagots 4y ago
The train ride is less of an exploration, more a viewport into, a meditation on what is happening outside the window. I've done the road trip - a slow meandering journey spanning tens of thousands of miles across the United States and
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by lesdeuxmagots 5y ago
in such a niche market, you're better off creating competition among a few bidders, rather than putting off a significant % of the demand and relying on a person really liking the property to bid up the price. Put another way, 4 people
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by lesdeuxmagots 5y ago
So, to rephrase, watching the sports you’d like to legally is rather easy, the options being very obvious and straightforward. You just believe the costs, either in money or in privacy concerns, are not worth it. Which is reasonable. But to
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by lesdeuxmagots 5y ago
Yahoo still makes billions in revenue every year. And the vast majority is not from finance or sports. Baffling to some HN readers perhaps, but Yahoo is still one of the biggest online destinations. It has a DAU count an order of magnitude
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by lesdeuxmagots 6y ago
$200 won’t even cover the cost of the electrician’s labor. And beyond just the cost of materials and labor to actually do the thing, consider the cost of the consultation on what is actually possible for a given location, the time and cost
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by lesdeuxmagots 6y ago
Sales teams do EXACTLY that. Go into salesforce and you’ll see the estimates. Potential deal with client Foo will be for $X, to be signed on Y day, with Z% chance of closing. On an individual level, it may be more precise than it is accurat
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by lesdeuxmagots 6y ago
Yea, I do wonder if this will shut the door on any future high growth independent startups in the space to be created locally. DoorDash started their business doing exactly this in Palo Alto, and likely wouldn’t have been able to raise the
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by lesdeuxmagots 6y ago
In Ear Monitors
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by lesdeuxmagots 6y ago
Not quite. The relatively similar all cause does not imply that it would be the same people dying. There could instead people different people dying. For example, there are much less people dying by automobile accidents (a leading cause of
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by lesdeuxmagots 6y ago
An institution can both grow revenues and increase efficiency at the same time. The ideal solution to being more efficient is also usually not by cutting budgets. Fixing policy issues especially doesn’t come from changing budgets.
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by lesdeuxmagots 6y ago
Their mandate requires a stable financial system with solvent institutions and sufficient liquidity moving through the system. By definition, solvency and liquidity at the country level depend on major asset classes maintaining some amount
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by lesdeuxmagots 6y ago
A flat 10% cut rather than a dynamic COL adjustment? Some people could definitely make that work. A move to a no income tax state with low COL could come out very ahead. Of course, the career implications could be more negative than it’s wo
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by lesdeuxmagots 6y ago
IC -> manager -> director -> vp 4ish years to promote up, especially the first two level levels. Velocity isn't all that crazy.
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by lesdeuxmagots 6y ago
Well... The guy knows all about securitizing and trading energy. That said, do you really want to be buying assets from a guy who's claim to fame is how well he is able to hide the risk in esoteric or complex structured products?
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by lesdeuxmagots 6y ago
They're staying near the domain area, which seems an incredibly reasonable. Relatively accessible via multiple freeways from population centers and the airport, close to many other tech campuses. Larger tech campuses optimize for those
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by lesdeuxmagots 6y ago
One factor is that they're just following the trends of broader society - influencer mentality has impacted every consumer facing industry, and makes it easier for more people to be involved in building up and monetizing a public perso
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by lesdeuxmagots 6y ago
Jeff Skilling could probably give some real fantastic advice on business and finance, particularly structured products, operating, etc. That's not to say you'd want to FOLLOW the advice, but it would likely increase your knowledge
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by lesdeuxmagots 7y ago
Hm. Allocating credit for achievements is a tricky thing. Management is necessary to allocate resources (including labor) efficiently at scale, but it comes with overhead. As such, at smaller companies, startups, small businesses, the overh
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Layoffs hit Flexport, another SoftBank-backed startup worth $3.2B(techcrunch.com)
3 points by lesdeuxmagots 7y ago|1 comments
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Digital Freight Startup Next Trucking Lays Off 70(wsj.com)
2 points by lesdeuxmagots 7y ago|0 comments

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