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by mrep 6y ago
Most first level managers at G/FB are L6 and thus clearing about 500k a year [0]. Lidl really pays that for first level managers? [0]: https://www.levels.fyi/company/Google/salaries/Software-Engi...
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by mrep 6y ago
Google pays better than amazon though and if you really want money, you go to facebook as they are known for top pay and promoting you really fast if you are willing to put in the hours. Granted, this is assuming you can get into each one a
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by mrep 6y ago
They announced their intention but I don't believe they have actually bought any yet [0, 1]. Also, their balance sheet shows they are buying predominately U.S. Treasury securities and Mortgage-backed securities [2]. [0]: https:/
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by mrep 6y ago
The first one was .4% the size of the cares act and it was for healthcare, not corporate giveaways: More than $3 billion for "research and development of vaccines, as well as therapeutics and diagnostics" $2.2 billion "in pub
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by mrep 6y ago
Have you read the CARES act? Pretty much all of the freely given out money goes out to citizens directly through checks/increased unemployment or indirectly by paying for payroll. The other handouts are for things like healthcare. T
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by mrep 6y ago
What? Most companies do return money to shareholders and for your 2 examples, Apple returned 81 billion dollars to shareholders last year [0] and Google started a 25 billion dollar buyback last year [1]. [0]: https://www.barrons
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by mrep 6y ago
Apple returned 81 billion dollars to shareholders last year: "During its latest fiscal year that ended in September, Apple bought back $67 billion in stock and paid out $14 billion in dividends" [0]. [0]: https://www.ba
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by mrep 6y ago
A company isn't guaranteed to make it out though and if they don't, your stock is now worth zero.
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by mrep 6y ago
Annualized S&P 500 Return with Dividends Reinvested from april 2008 to april 2020 are 8.285% [0] which is entirely in line with historical returns [1]. How is that an asset bubble? [0]: https://dqydj.com/sp-500-return-ca
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by mrep 6y ago
Epic systems (?) because levels.fyi says otherwise.
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by mrep 6y ago
Dropbox gives recruiters a diverse bonus equal to the difference between hiring an entry level IC1 and an IC6 (senior staff engineer) [0]. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22741024
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by mrep 6y ago
Or some groups villain. It's especially crazy considering the first article posted was the gizmodo one [0] which was "reproduced in full below, with some minor formatting modifications. Two charts and several hyperlinks are also
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by mrep 6y ago
Edit: reworded. Careful, some of my teammates and I are trying to do that and we have to get it cleared by management first as it changes what state taxes they will have to pay.
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by mrep 6y ago
> while ignoring asset price inflation in real estate and stock markets. Do you have any data to back this up? Some quick math shows annualized S&P 500 Return with dividends reinvested from april 2010 to april 2020 are 9.694% [0] w
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by mrep 6y ago
Yeah, I saw on reddit last month a possible insurance scam in which 3500 rental cars caught fire in an overflow parking lot in florida because they are all sitting around unused [0]. [0]: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04&#x2
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by mrep 6y ago
> Making you pay a portion of your income back to the college for the rest of your life (or maybe just 20 years) would make sense. The REPAYE Plan already allows you to pay 10 percent of your discretionary income for 20 years and then th
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by mrep 6y ago
Sure, but they have already delivered about 400 of them and have another 400 built and waiting to be delivered. At 100 million a piece, that's 40 billion they will probably have to refund in some fashion if they scrap the ones deliver
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by mrep 6y ago
Yahoo finance says their market cap is 4 billion [0] and yet they are getting a bailout worth 2.5 times their market cap. That's crazy. [0]: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/lha.de/
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by mrep 6y ago
Don't invest in them if you don't like it then. I for one see self driving tech as a trillion dollar market between trucking and commuters and I also think they they are uniquely positioned in capitalizing on that market first as
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Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2020 Results [pdf](abc.xyz)
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by mrep 6y ago
Agreed. I tried the HTC one and samsung galaxy S4 back in the day and came right back to an iphone as their custom software they put on it was horrible and made it way less fluid than iphones did. I tried a pixel 2 to see if google did it
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by mrep 6y ago
Except the page linked is the FEDs balance sheet of assets they bought with printed money which is predominately used to buy our government's debt so they are actually basically reducing our governments debt assuming they never sell it
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by mrep 7y ago
But they have been buying back their stock which is effectively paying out a dividend with automatic reinvestment.
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by mrep 7y ago
> This is the guy who refuses to pay his shareholders a dividend Amazons share price has grown 136,000% in the past 23 years or 36.8% per year. That is far above S&P 500 returns and the exact case for when you want a company reinves
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by mrep 7y ago
"The largest study so far to look at mortality among coronavirus patients on ventilators was done by the Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre in London. It found that among 98 ventilated patients in the U.K., just 33 wer
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by mrep 7y ago
> Guaranteed risk free If you invested 2 months ago, you are down 20%. It is definitely not risk free. > It's no coincidence that the stock market started to really pick up, and monopolies started to form at around the same time
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by mrep 7y ago
> The kind of inflation we have right now mostly affects the stock market Annualized S&P 500 Return with Dividends Reinvested from april 2010 to april 2020 are 9.694% [0] which is entirely in line with historical returns [1]. I woul
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by mrep 7y ago
Also, annualized S&P 500 Return with Dividends Reinvested from april 2010 to april 2020 are 9.694% [0] which is entirely in line with historical returns [1]. [0]: https://dqydj.com/sp-500-return-calculator/ [1]: h
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by mrep 7y ago
Same in the US. I had 3 flights scheduled for this week and they were offering me the shitty vouchers if i cancelled myself but lo and behold, a week before each one they informed me they were cancelled or rescheduled and I can get an actu
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by mrep 7y ago
I would wait. I had 3 flights for this week and 2 got cancelled and 1 got changed. I got refunds on all of them but I had to wait until about a week before the flight for them to tell me about the cancellations and the flight time chang

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