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by spoonjim 4y ago
Textbook except for the size of course. Very few LBOs are above $5 billion.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
There are multiple ways to value an asset other than its current price. One is cash flows: if you rented it, how much money would you get? Another is historical norms: if historically a city with N million jobs providing average income X ca
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by spoonjim 4y ago
LOL “Christian nation.” I don’t even think the Evangelicals actually believe this. It’s just a set of coded language they use to gain power, like people quoting their favorite movie.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Why does Google even fund this AI safety research internally? These conflicts are guaranteed to happen.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I have a friend who is not more than 5’4” and is incredibly popular with women. He works out a lot and has studied the art and science of getting women interested in having sex with him the way I studied electrical engineering.
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by spoonjim 5y ago
I’m sure Physical Review Letters is an even more connected graph.
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by spoonjim 5y ago
The White Anglosphere (UK, Ireland, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) has a somewhat shared cultural identity.
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by spoonjim 5y ago
Well writing novels is something that people who grow up in New York aspire to do more than people who grow up elsewhere, and those from elsewhere with those ambitions often move to places like New York.
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by spoonjim 5y ago
Kia is one of the fastest growing car brands, probably #2 after Tesla.
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by spoonjim 5y ago
The problem is that decentralized services only work when everyone is on decent behavior. When the degenerates onboard, you need the harsh hand of a centralized authority.
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by spoonjim 5y ago
It doesn’t claim to be a breakthrough - it’s just a set of assets where Google has set a minimum quality bar, you’d have to evaluate stuff on Sketchfab for quality if you wanted to use it.
642.
by spoonjim 5y ago
How much online apparel shopping do you do?
643.
by spoonjim 5y ago
Now imagine women without modern feminine hygiene products. It’s a very different story.
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by spoonjim 5y ago
I think you’re looking at it the wrong way. The job that the administrator is hired for is “make Black and White test scores identical.” With only the leverage of the school, and no broader socioeconomic levers, the only way to make this ha
645.
by spoonjim 5y ago
I'm not saying Twitter engineers aren't good, but you can replace them with anyone and the product will be equally good.
646.
by spoonjim 5y ago
Crazy to do this for your employer. They wouldn’t piss on you if you were on fire.
647.
by spoonjim 5y ago
It doesn’t matter how many quit. The asset of Twitter is its network and they won’t be taking it with them.
648.
by spoonjim 5y ago
If just the source code: print it out on acid-free paper and put it in a safe deposit box.
649.
by spoonjim 5y ago
Operationally, yes, branding and positioning, no.
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by spoonjim 5y ago
It is a very common way these days to deliver enough barebones functionality to get enough money to then hire a team to build the product. For example, you are selling a service that monitors for mentions of your social media account. You s
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by spoonjim 5y ago
If it can be tied to a death then the perpetrators should get life in prison with no chance of parole.
652.
by spoonjim 5y ago
There is no “solution.” This is a situation 400 years in the making.
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by spoonjim 5y ago
Because 0.1% of people feel like they are more comfortable adopting the social customs of the opposite sex, and... the culture wars.
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by spoonjim 5y ago
We've gotten to the point where we think that not one person should be even mildly bothered by what we say.
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by spoonjim 5y ago
There might be so many individual holders that buying up all the royalties would be infeasible and they are not even going to try. I can imagine with inheritances from 1881 the royalty stream might be owned by 100+ different entities by now
656.
by spoonjim 5y ago
He is both an unhinged lunatic and the best tech CEO of all time and it’s not even close.
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by spoonjim 5y ago
There is also an administrative cost to auditing and paying these royalties.
658.
by spoonjim 5y ago
He used effectively no cash but pledged his Boston parking lots as collateral for the debt. So if he had defaulted on the debt his lenders would have gained ownership of the Dodgers AND of the Boston parking lots.
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by spoonjim 5y ago
Right, but the method of averting the poison pill described above would likely violate securities laws around coordinated behavior between market participants.
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by spoonjim 5y ago
One advantage of Musk's positioning as a "nutcase" is that him selling Tesla stock to buy Twitter doesn't signal "I believe Twitter is a better investment than Tesla" as much as it signals "Musk is doing M

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