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by scurvy 7y ago
These are all things that take more effort than just renting. Not everything in life is an economics decision.
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by scurvy 7y ago
I pay less than $3/ride, and I ride maybe 3-4 times a week, not everyday.
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by scurvy 7y ago
Uh yeah, thanks for pointing out what we were already trying to fix.
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by scurvy 7y ago
This has happened to me on a corporate level as well. We had many teams that opened their own AWS accounts with a shared credit card. They wouldn't tell us what accounts were using the card, even though we simply wanted to migrate thin
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by scurvy 7y ago
Counterpoint, I'd much rather rent than own. I don't have to worry about charging it, dragging it inside (and associated street scum), maintenance, battery lifetimes. To paraphrase Eazy-E, "throw it in the gutter and go buy a
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by scurvy 7y ago
It's like staring at the sun.
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by scurvy 7y ago
While yours is an economics textbook answer, any trader will tell you, "it doesn't matter until it matters."
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by scurvy 7y ago
"Working vacation." Do one or the other, please. Otherwise you're not doing either very well.
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by scurvy 7y ago
Self reply since I can't edit, but the FBI has recently contacted the article's author. First, FBI investigation for criminal activity. Then FTC case for ongoing consumer deception and fraud due by failing to police their platform
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by scurvy 7y ago
It's becoming very clear why the company has resisted going public for years. Increased scrutiny and visibility is going to show everyone exactly how shady their business is. You can almost guarantee a FTC investigation within a year o
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by scurvy 7y ago
Given the recent issues they've had with other portfolio companies, I wonder if the C suite moves were based on family ties that Softbank didn't like. Seems like a lot of upper management at Fair were related to each other.
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by scurvy 7y ago
Indeed. Detection for some conditions is very late,and once detected, not many treatment options exist. Pancreatic cancer took my father's life at 73. Not much warning and not influenced by how much or little he worked.
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by scurvy 7y ago
Not really. It was done at scale, too. Hotmail replaced all of the faulty CPUs live.
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by scurvy 7y ago
This is what I was getting at. When Sun had issues with CPUs, they sent you new CPU boards and you could hot swap them live without downtime
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by scurvy 7y ago
If that's the case, why do my VMs in public clouds constantly go down for hardware maintenance? We've definitely regressed despite the buzzwords and hype.
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by scurvy 7y ago
Hot swapping CPU and memory boards was pretty dope in 2000. Can't do that in equivalently priced hardware and servers as easily today.
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by scurvy 7y ago
Indeed! Just this morning, I saw a black Town car with the plate "REGENCY1" make an illegal left turn from Market to 9th in order to pick up some fatcat at NEMA. This was a professional driver who will still be allowed down Market
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by scurvy 7y ago
Then about 99% of the transactions on their platform are in violation of their own ToS. If someone pays for a joint meal, then you venmo your half, you're paying for a good or service. I'm guessing they have that in there to try a
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by scurvy 7y ago
Only when you take it out of their ecosystem. Otherwise you can send the balance to other Venmo users. There's also a debit card linked to the balance, like Square's Cash App and card. So you can spend the balance that way, too (a
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by scurvy 7y ago
OP asked about CPU bugs, not the cause (design or implementation). Either way, they're CPU bugs. For pentium FPU, but I was referring to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug
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by scurvy 7y ago
Just you? Intel FPU bugs from the 80's/90's. SPARC e-cache data parity errors (cost cutting) in the 90's/2000's. No thermal protections on AMD CPU's (Athlons?) in the 2000's to cut costs.
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by scurvy 7y ago
Housekeepers and babysitters like to be paid in cash. Sometimes it's more than we have on hand, so we write a check. I've pleaded with my housekeeper to accept CashApp or Venmo, but he refuses. He wants a check. He's, perhaps
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by scurvy 7y ago
> it’s a drag on the business. A drag on both profits and productivity < They have to hire accountants and lawyers, too. What a drag! Things would be better off with only engineers and designers! Oh that drasted HR to make sure we don
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by scurvy 7y ago
I work at a publicly traded company and deal with compliance and audit teams on a regular basis. It's not the end of the world. It's not overly costly. It's a good check and balance to ensure things are on the up and up. As c
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by scurvy 7y ago
Upon vesting, any employee can exercise one share and become a stockholder. It's a great way to see the books, too. But your tone in treating employees and shareholders was very antagonistic. The vibe in startups has always been "
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by scurvy 7y ago
Startups these days eschew profits for "reinvesting in the bueiness." Heck, many publicly traded companies do this, too. Also, let's be realistic in what you're asking for here.
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by scurvy 7y ago
Private equity and VC are generally interchangeable terms in that context. There's a difference between a VC that privately invites certain investors to invest, versus a publicly open mutual fund that anyone can buy into. And to compli
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by scurvy 7y ago
> You have to hire a bunch of auditors to make sure you follow all the SEC regulations Following the law is just so onerous and painful. Sunlight is a wonderful antiseptic.
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by scurvy 7y ago
Employees are shareholders, too.
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by scurvy 7y ago
Many companies have right of first refusal on any private share transfers. You need to offer the shares back to the company at whatever sales price you agreed to with a third party. Most times, the company can just sit on the offer and neve

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