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by nocoiner 4y ago
Thank you for the first comment I’ve come across that points to the specific problem. Yes, this seems quite bad. One could probably apportion some blame to the businesses who assumed a fix from Congress would be forthcoming, but on the whol
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by nocoiner 4y ago
I literally laughed aloud about 1992 being the year of Linux on the desktop.
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by nocoiner 4y ago
Very interesting and valid point. Thank you for the explanation.
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by nocoiner 4y ago
I only entered this comment section to watch the trash fire, and without making any observation on any other aspect of your comment (or any other for that matter) but - the Milk assassination was, what, almost 50 years ago? Surely that can’
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by nocoiner 4y ago
This actually doesn’t seem that silly to me. Isn’t this a bog standard Pigouvian tax? And I think it should be fairly uncontroversial that there are definite negative externalities to handles of liquor…
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by nocoiner 4y ago
A competent CFO probably would have helped.
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by nocoiner 4y ago
TARP did turn a profit, but there was no guarantee that the US treasury wasn’t going to take a loss on it. Now, if these companies are willing to sign over warrants for 79.99% of the equity (like the banks did)… well, maybe there’s somethin
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by nocoiner 4y ago
Look up CDARS. There are well known cash management strategies that solve for exactly this set of circumstances. I’m not really sure why taxpayers are supposed to backstop CFO competence? But to answer your question, yeah, I think the equit
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by nocoiner 4y ago
LOL, nope. Not interested in taking another spin on the “privatize gain, socialize loss” merry-go-round. The banks had to be saved in 2008 because they were, like, the financial system. I don’t see why private companies and funds that are m
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by nocoiner 4y ago
But he had exactly that option. He quite deliberately chose not to join the board when he learned about the obligations of corporate board members to shareholders as a whole. No doubt he would have been influential as a board member, but th
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by nocoiner 4y ago
Without commenting on the ramifications of Twitter’s decision here, except to say if I had been in their position, that’s not the business decision I would have made, I have a few observations on this. 1. These developers are for-profit ent
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by nocoiner 4y ago
What’s strange about that? The owners boost cash flow by jacking up parking rates, create a higher value for their asset, and take out a new loan against it. The original loan gets paid off and the owners get to take out the new equity base
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by nocoiner 4y ago
> “ID scanning will be a huge deterrent” Oh, this will be a huge deterrent, alright, just probably not in the way that you’re thinking.
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by nocoiner 4y ago
I’m just gonna point out that this is exactly why I have a reasonably large library of printed books in editions I’ve read.
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by nocoiner 4y ago
I want to say SGI did this 20-25 years ago?
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by nocoiner 4y ago
I thought there was subsequent reporting that Biden got a commitment from the chancellor (embarrassingly, I can’t remember if it was before or after Merkel left) that if Russia did invade, Germany would pull the plus on NS2. That could just
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by nocoiner 4y ago
And I’m pretty sure that it was meant to be a reference to the Wow! signal from the ‘70s. And I think at the end of the final book of the trilogy, a similar thing happens, except this time the virtual constructs of the characters get to go
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by nocoiner 4y ago
So many of my favorite references in this thread. I was delighted to find Neuromancer at the top of the comments, and this here.
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by nocoiner 4y ago
Ah, OK, fair enough. I wasn’t thinking about the relatively long list of countries that have English as an official language, though I suppose it’s quite likely the case that there are more English speakers in India than any country other t
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by nocoiner 4y ago
There was an instance maybe in the ‘90s where a few hunters found an abandoned Soviet radioisotope thermal generator in the woods and used it to keep warm overnight. I think one or two of them may have ultimately survived, but at least one
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by nocoiner 4y ago
Wait, I’m honestly having trouble figuring out what country you’re talking about. Is Ireland anti-NATO? Australia? I’m scratching my head trying to figure out who I’m missing. Or is it a NATO member that’s anti-NATO? But in that case I can’
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by nocoiner 4y ago
Sorry for the late reply (not sure if you’ll even see this) but thanks for the response. Oof, yeah, that’s a tough one. Definitely think calling that project a money loser is a fair characterization. Sorry to hear about it, the CRE guys I k
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by nocoiner 4y ago
It seems like a really weird PE acquisition to me. Did they have iron-clad, shockingly lucrative data distribution contracts? The site still has a donate button on it as of this moment, and somewhere says something along the lines of “in th
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by nocoiner 4y ago
There’s most definitely a coordination problem to be solve to recreate that network, and I don’t mean to understate the difficulty of that at all, but I’m wondering if a (reconstituted) network of a small-ish number of volunteers could scal
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by nocoiner 4y ago
For law firms, there is a barrier (in the United States, at least): law firms must be owned by lawyers. Other common law jurisdictions, such as Australia, have eliminated this requirement and have publicly traded law firms. I assume soon, y
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by nocoiner 4y ago
What’s the saying? The law, in its majestic equality, prohibits both the rich and the poor from sleeping on the streets? Something like that.
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by nocoiner 4y ago
I’d be interested in helping out. I have experience with corporate governance and setting up transfer-restricted entities, though unfortunately not so much experience with setting up non-profits (though I have served on non-profit boards).
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by nocoiner 4y ago
One would think there would be recent lessons to be learned on how to vaporize value in connection with an asset-light acquisition… Actually, the guy who sold probably did learn those lessons. Best of luck to the buyer, I suppose.
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by nocoiner 4y ago
That was an absolutely fascinating story, thank you for sharing. Very redolent of “there’s no such thing as society.” Although my politics aren’t theirs, I don’t hate the Reagan and Thatcher types. I don’t think they were bad people per se
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by nocoiner 4y ago
I’m still not sure how Amazon pulled off that same move with IMDb. I remember it WAY back when (I think it had several mirrors, one of which was hosted at a URL like msstate.edu/~imdb, which gives you an idea of how long ago that would

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