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by mediaman 5y ago
The report suggests Amazon is taking 34% of third-party sellers' revenue. This sounds like a lot, but "revenue" in this case is the retail sales price of the goods. Traditionally, in a wholesaler-retailer model, the retailer
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If you are doing it in a company office, using company property, during hours the company expects you to be working, do not expect to use "well, I'm salaried, so it doesn't matter" as a legal defense and win.
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The South China Sea issue does get a fair amount of attention. It is very unlikely that this is the cause of the Muirfield Seamount. They would have had to artificially create an underwater mountain taller than Mount Rainier to do so. The s
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A better strategy is to use the 30 year, and then invest the monthly difference in the market. Why pay down long-term funding of 3.25% cost of money and lose out from a long-term market return of 7%? You're right about the compound int
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True, with a 30 year it looks like you're paying a lot of interest, and in nominal terms (i.e., the total amount during the loan), you are. But consider a thought experiment where you could borrow $1m at a low rate of interest, suppose
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A note on the mortgage: I understand your aversion to debt, but choosing a shorter duration mortgage can increase the probability of default, even if it shortens the time to the point that you are debt free, because for any given amount of
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This sounds totally foreign to me. In the industrial world, American equipment is pretty good quality. Japanese also. And German, Italian, and French. Chinese is cheap but their machinery is generally not very good. They screw up all sorts
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There is something to this. FB has underperformed the S&P500 recently. Over the 1 year mark, the S&P is up 31%, vs less than 13% for FB. It has underperformed over 6 months as well: less than 7% for FB compared to 9% for the market.
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I think I agree with you, but my reading of Tolstoy was that his position was more absolutist: the Great Man didn't matter at all, and someone else would be in his place if he wasn't there and that person would make the same decis
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Sorry, brain fart on Tolstoy/Dostoevsky. Though yes War and Peace I really enjoyed as well. I don't fully agree with him on his absolute takedown of the 'great man theory' in W&P, but it's an incredible story.
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I enjoyed Crime and Punishment for similar reasons. Tolstoy was masterful at engaging the reader in the mind of an unsteady protagonist. I just finished reading Crossroads, a new novel by Franzen. There are some similarities you might like.
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Some industries that adopted virtual meetings long prior to Zoom becoming mandatory are very used to doing voice-only conference calls. And they work! Nobody in those orgs thinks they are the equivalent of "not showing up." How do
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I'm sorry, but linking this to genitalia doesn't make any sense. Society prohibits the exposure of genitalia for both men and women. Although it's certainly up for debate whether that's reasonable or not, the treatment i
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Trains do not deliver goods in days. Domestically, intermodal freight (primarily by train, bookended by local trucks) takes 1-2 weeks to deliver, usually closer to 2, and sometimes 3 if there is congestion. Before the major port congestion,
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by mediaman 5y ago
I agree, "cultural fit" often has biased results. But "cultural fit" is still necessary but must be defined carefully. If a company doesn't care about culture fit when hiring people, it will become a very bad place
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The author is primarily focused on the cost of hardware, while ignoring most of the challenges of software (folding clothes, the dishwasher, whatever) by saying software companies will figure it out with AI. A low speed, low accuracy robot
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The founders' response here regarding abuse seems to be heartfelt and genuine. However, this does make me think. There must be a lot of money in 'bossware.' More broadly, there's market opportunity to appeal to poor mana
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A lot of this "we don't care about criminals" attitude is cover for many Americans' feelings around race. Despite being only 12% of the American population, there are more black people in prison than whites (though this
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Part of the idea is that this is self-sorting. NIMBYs are likely not going to move a city built on the foundation of density and easy permitting. Just like people who hate hot climates don't move to Phoenix. Build certain zoning polici
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Agreed on land tax. High taxes on land helps eliminate empty parking lots and other unproductive uses, and so long as zoning cooperates, encourages density.
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24/7 would usually be four shifts. The most common schedule is for each shift to run 12 hours, working three days one week and four the next, for a total of 84 hours per two weeks. Three shifts works well for 24/5, each shift runn
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They don't normally think through the consequences of this type of policy. What happens when you're barred from selling it for more than you paid? The seller will have a price cap but will have hundreds of people who want to buy i
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The article is a summary of a new research paper that covers real estate prices over roughly twenty years up to the start of the pandemic. The argument is that booms and busts tend to be caused by a real change in fundamentals that people t
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In the US, you may not have freedom not to participate in a legal proceeding if discovery includes items on your personal device. Even if you quit.
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Seriously? You're using Donald Trump, who specialized in brand licensing and being a television character, as an equivalency to all the manufacturing engineers and supply chain specialists working to resolve the problems created by a g
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It's an interesting point. On the other hand, many of these state prosecutors are very afraid of losing: many of them have gone the "golden career route" of name-brand schools and law firms, and shy away from any possible fai
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It's amazing when cultures are so bad that people whose sole job is recruiting fail to follow the most basic federal regulations involved in their job (assuming your situation was in the US). If you're going to be awful, at least.
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I'm really surprised that Blizzard thinks a state suit against them for sexual discrimination, harassment, and a litany of odious behaviors by managers is best answered by calling them "unaccountable State bureaucrats," as th
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I'm not sure how you assess that he is conflating numbers to tell a narrative. Pueyo discusses fatality rates in the article, specifically that the vaccines appear to still be highly effective at preventing deaths (though much less so
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Canada has enormous hydroponic vegetable growing operations. They're quite impressive. I don't know really why they have built so much more than the US, but my theory is that there may be regulatory issues with importing fresh foo

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