swyman

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by swyman 11y ago
> You're not the owner of the company when you own 1-millionth or whatever of it. There is no single "owner" of a public company. Everyone who holds voting shares holds a share of ownership. Anyone is free to try to convin
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by swyman 11y ago
I might be a bit slow on this one, but I don't see the problem with even a strictly enforced requirement for ride acceptance given that the driver's app is "on". Uber's business is in efficiently matching available
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by swyman 11y ago
Sorry to just jump in here, but I'm not getting why not allowing subcontractors matters. Isn't that still under the "lead generators can pick the terms they offer" umbrella? Have a reasonably decent car, do the job yours
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by swyman 11y ago
They tend to include equity as well[1], which is probably the only way they can compete with Nike for signatures. [1] http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/13672569/stephen-curry-ext...
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by swyman 11y ago
> One has to trust those who are authorised to examine the legality of such programmes. Why? Their track record is pretty atrocious. > And of course, one must hold accountable those who abuse that trust. How? And how would one ever di
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by swyman 11y ago
Some people care about things other than what's immediately in front of their faces on a day-to-day basis
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by swyman 11y ago
How hard you see the owner working shouldn't be the primary motivation for you to work hard. There are other levers (dollar compensation, equity allocation, promotion opportunities) that should fill that role instead.
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by swyman 11y ago
Returns by the defense aren't a TD. They're limited to the same 2 points.
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by swyman 11y ago
> I also wonder what percentage of successful 2 point plays were fake kicks, where special teams defense was out there. Rather than actual defensive starters. I wager that if offenses have to face real defenses in this situation they wil
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by swyman 12y ago
Still, important to be occasionally reminded of your own assumptions and corner-cutting.
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by swyman 12y ago
I'm genuinely curious. Would you mind elaborating or pointing me to another resource that goes into detail on why this is the case?
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by swyman 12y ago
That's really, really lazy logic you're (not) trying to compute. If the send-your-enemies-glitter guy wasn't in it for the money, why'd he sell his site for money? Also Chicago sold the rights in a fire sale due to some
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by swyman 12y ago
> This would have the advantage of not having the whispering expert be visible. Why not just use a good old-fashioned earpiece?
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by swyman 12y ago
I think, more accurately (and also more impressively), it plays nothing but +EV hands, while also not folding any +EV hands. Avoiding false negatives against a GTO player sounds like the really hard part.
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by swyman 12y ago
One of the most famous games of all time in the poker world saw swings of $10M+ in each direction and was exclusively heads-up, limit HE: http://www.pokernews.com/news/2006/02/beal-corporation-finis...
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by swyman 12y ago
Maybe "there must be an everlasting, immutable record of everything anyone has ever written or shared on the Internet, regardless of when it was written, the state of mind of the author, or how that author's (or society's) vi