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by nocoiner 3y ago
I get the importance of hitting targets and all, but it seems like horseshit to me that the employee earns no commission between 0-20% of the target, and at 99% of target is at only 80% commission. Maybe someone with more of a sales mindset
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by nocoiner 3y ago
The costs of a reliable grid and sufficiently dispatchable electricity are gonna get paid one way or another if the grid customers expect that level of service. There are lots of ways those costs can be allocated - from user fees in deregul
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by nocoiner 3y ago
One thing that really struck me recently was an article about the commencement of a massive solar and transmission project in the American Southwest. Total cost for the panels and the transmission lines to deliver the power was something li
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I can imagine not being a Consumer Reports, uh, consumer (their user-friendliness wasn’t the best last time I had a subscription), but I can’t imagine not respecting their mission. As far I can tell, their methodology is generally sound and
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Wouldn’t Southwest have been as opposed 20 years ago to a 737 replacement that required a new type certificate as they were when Boeing was marketing the Max? As I understand it, their insistence that their pilots be able to fly a new model
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by nocoiner 3y ago
There was a big case a few years back where the directors of an ice cream company were found to be liable for not paying sufficiently close attention to food safety issues (Marchand v Barnhill). Since then, this type of claim - historically
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by nocoiner 3y ago
At what point do the board members start to become concerned with the prospect of Caremark personal liability?
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Is that a statutory restriction (or an NYSE/NASDAQ rule?), or just the practical impossibility of getting a charter amendment?
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by nocoiner 3y ago
My guess is mostly b, though some of a - see below. One thing that I didn’t really get into is that this isn’t really indicative of a shortage of third party investor capital and a necessity to raise third-party capital on punitive terms. T
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by nocoiner 3y ago
The article is describing debt incurred in connection with private equity investments at two separate and distinct levels of the overall private equity fund structure. I’m trying to keep this simple and straightforward, but assume some know
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by nocoiner 3y ago
If I’m reading that right, that seems to be referring to foreign-originated IP, that’s been contributed to a Delaware corp, but is now being repatriated elsewhere to avoid Section 174. I assume the reason the associated software development
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I’ve owned several EVs (though not at this particular moment) and generally think they’re terrific. But I agree with several other posters - the typical scenario where I’m renting a car is exactly the one where EVs’ current shortcomings are
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by nocoiner 3y ago
To further elaborate on this, it’s something like a few tenths of total GDP over that period. Now, depending on how you look at it, you can consider that either a huge number or eminently affordable - I think both are true - but I think it’
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I don’t have a citation for you at the moment, but I recall reading estimates of something like 4,500 F-35s anticipated to be produced over the program’s lifespan. I think I also recall that being something like a 50/50 split between t
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Pretty wild to look back on this two decades later and read all the replies dismissing this as union agitprop. I’m not sure I saw anything in the open letter that didn’t essentially come to pass or was in hindsight clearly hyperbolic. At le
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Yes, this is an excellent point. I guess I’m old enough where I primarily associate Gaddafi with “mercurial dictator” than the chaos after he was toppled. And 100% agree with your last paragraph. Cool visualizations on your site, by the way
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I agree. It’s ungainly for sure, but I wouldn’t call it ugly. Besides, if I were going to pick a British warplane originating from that era as the ugliest, I’d have to go with the Nimrod.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I think this was mostly just my personal slightly-paranoid aversion to political risk, but it always astounded me that someone was willing to use the Libyan TLD during the days of Gaddafi to build a link-shortening business.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Do you have transfer restrictions and/or a ROFR in your org docs?
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Command: Modern Operations is very good at this as well. A bit dry, and a little pricy, but lots and lots of depth.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Entirely place dependent, these days (30-50 years ago, crime was seriously pretty bad). I live in a huge American city, and I have virtually no fear of personal or property crime when I’m out at night. But in many cases, if I shifted my pat
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Ah, interesting. I think this might answer a question I posted elsewhere in the thread.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I’m having some trouble conceptualizing the notion where there’s a secondary market buyer of private company who’s obliged to transact at a given price, but might go higher. Is the idea that a secondary market buyer struck a deal with Carta
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by nocoiner 3y ago
The must frustrating experience I’ve had in the last six months was trying to get non-free wireless drivers to function in Debian. It wasn’t even a crazy chipset, it was just one of the non-exalted ones. Head meet desk, repeatedly.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
The wildest part of this article is the part about the successor scam, which was touted by masked, pseudonymous representatives - and people willingly gave them their money! Boggles the mind. There’s also an equally wild article linked in a
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I bought Red Hat at the same time, for around the same price, probably the same release, though I don’t recall which one it was specifically. I bought it because I wanted to start learning a Unix-like OS (OSS was not a driving principle for
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Please, leave my apes out of this.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Was the book’s title at all inspired by or an homage to the series 1 title sequence to “Look Around You”?
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by nocoiner 3y ago
As to step 2, agreed - obviously we’re currently living in a world where stuff that seemed well within government’s remit since the ‘30s or so is now randomly determined to be extra constitutional. Who knew! But yes, that needs to be part o
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I’m thoroughly confused by your first paragraph. It seems like it would be basically trivial to mandate acceptance of a digital ID system, at least within one of our 50 laboratories of democracy. Step 1: State adopts digital ID system and m

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