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by noad 6y ago
So we are driving company decision making based on the needs of synthetic fake financial instruments? Is there any other way to run a company that is more stupid than striving to fulfill the needs of someone else's derivative product?
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by noad 6y ago
No, the VCs exit when their mountains of data say to exit. It has nothing to do with the business, just valuations. If you get in at or before Series A you are going to make money nearly every time. If you get in after that you are going to
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by noad 6y ago
You can actually read the article instead of just scratching your head, it goes through the numbers on how they are not being approved for assistance loans at nearly the same rates as white-owned small businesses.
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45% of Black and Latino small business owners anticipate closing within 6 months(politico.com)
21 points by noad 6y ago|13 comments
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by noad 6y ago
I am not sure if they are the "worst investors" or just "the ones left holding the bag at the end". Lots of super smart VC people in the valley just exited a little bit sooner. That's quite literally the only differ
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by noad 6y ago
That is not how gases work. Anyone who took high school chemistry can shred the absurd reasoning this quack is pushing. Also he's a retired "nutritional researcher" so uh...
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by noad 6y ago
The dawning realization that there are very little to no checks or balances on the executive branch has not led to calls for reform, it has not led to calls to ratchet back power in the executive branch at all. Just the opposite, it seems l
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by noad 6y ago
The writer Tom Warren makes the case that the Windows Store is so awful it is effectively abandonware now. I have been using Windows since 1993 and have still never used the Windows Store so I tend to agree with him.
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Microsoft’s new Windows Package Manager is already better than the Windows Store(theverge.com)
14 points by noad 6y ago|4 comments
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by noad 6y ago
No because the amount of money they spend on this is negligible compared to the shell game of pumping up equity valuations and getting out at the right time. It's like running a shell game on the street, you let the first person win $2
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by noad 6y ago
This is a good step in the right direction, but after we break up the tech monopolies we need a new law barring all 3rd party tracking, data brokering, and all individually tailored advertising. Even if all those steps were taken it might n
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by noad 6y ago
What a stupid headline. Just a blatant falsehood in the title of the article. Why are journalists (still) so bad at this?
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by noad 6y ago
Cutting rates doesn't have much of a stimulating effect on business spending like it used to. Large companies just funnel excess cash or issue debt for more stock buybacks + equity based compensation for the executives. The correlation
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by noad 6y ago
The complete failure to imagine an alternative to property/sales taxes and development fees during this crisis has been one of the most disappointing failures of politicians everywhere. We keep being told we need to suffer more and mor
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by noad 6y ago
This is so asburd it feels like a story in bad movie. We have pushed finance & capital so far into the realm of fiction that it doesn't really make sense anymore. Artificial growth for the sake of artificial growth, just so you can
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by noad 6y ago
I have worked for government contractors very similar to SpaceX in the past and watched friends get fired for far smaller transgressions at such companies. It's nice to be reminded every now and then that the rules don't apply to
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Emirates Airlines plans 30k layoffs(reuters.com)
2 points by noad 6y ago|0 comments
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by noad 6y ago
This is a great question, I also want a way to search the internet but exclude all major media domains as well as any company over a certain size. So I just want to search through old blogs, SO, non-corporate social media, weird forums, etc
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by noad 6y ago
Amazon and Facebook should be next. Break them all up with extreme prejudice and put strict new anti-trust laws around acquisitions in place for the future. We're going to do this and open technology back up to innovation and progress,
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by noad 6y ago
I think this would require a Democratic party that does something besides rule out possibilities.
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by noad 6y ago
Around here the frackers are starting to abandon wells and hollow out as much cash from the companies as possible before bankruptcy, and now those sites are active pollution and safety hazards that the taxpayer will be responsible for. I ho
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by noad 6y ago
Yeah, we let the web become Cable TV. It's dying the same slow death as Cable TV while executives scratch their heads about why the perpetual growth stopped. The advertising is so pervasive, so annoying, so invasive and so awful it jus
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by noad 6y ago
I stopped paying my mortgage 14 days ago for the first time in my life. I was lucky enough to get a deferral, and I now have the massive triple payment due date looming in August with no idea of how to pay it. Best job currently seems to be
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Factory furloughs across the U.S. are becoming permanent closings(wsj.com)
1 points by noad 6y ago|0 comments
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by noad 6y ago
It's starting to feel like we just built the Borg from Star Trek. Everything bigger, everything more centralized, everything more efficient and streamlined and outsource everything you're not good at. Economies of scale so massive
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by noad 6y ago
That is much, much worse. If it's a private company they can skirt FOIA and coverup abuse much more easily. The government is getting too good at this outsourcing of all risk and liability.
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by noad 6y ago
The only time I ever got an email from a real human at google was when I tried out google cloud for a weekend when it first came out. I had a detailed plan to benchmark different instance types and compare them to AWS for an upcoming projec
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Renewables surpass coal in U.S. power generation throughout April(ieefa.org)
1 points by noad 6y ago|0 comments
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by noad 6y ago
It's not journalism, it's the web. Every protocol and layer in the stack has been subverted to the will of advertisers and trackers. The whole platform is a total nightmare. The standards bodies were completely subverted by corpor
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by noad 6y ago
I used to get called a 10x developer, I was also called a rockstar and a ninja and a 100x dev and every other compliment that was hip. Then I hit 30. That type of talk stopped. Then I hit 40. Now I will not be considered for any entry level

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