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by tryitnow 11y ago
Apple is kind of like an investment bank, but he should have said "merchant bank," but the principle is the same. Apple loans its capital to other corporations to finance capital investments.
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I agree. And I think your point touches on one of the problems I have with EFF. I think they're too adverse to upsetting right leaning libertarians by sounding "radical." But the problem with that is you kind of have to sou
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There seems to be an inordinate amount of Jobs worship in the business press. I wonder what qualifies someone as a genius? A lot of the ideas Jobs is given credit for were swirling around the Silicon Valley/Homebrew Computing Club mil
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Ha. Good question, I didn't think anyone thought about profits any more. Seriously, I'm assuming the same ad driven model that has made Facebook profitable would work for a professional network to. I know I have personally clicke
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This comment pretty much nails it. I've definitely seen a pattern of highly compensated people getting sacked. If someone does play the aggressive pattern I'd highly recommend saving up a lot of cash so you can weather longer spe
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The problem is that LinkedIn got sucked into serving one very specific demographic: recruiters. It would be as if Facebook decided to focus obsessively on serving college students. It's a good initial strategy, but eventually you have
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The market will crash. For exactly the same reason that others have said it won't. Hedge funds are buying up real estate. And then they'll stop. Then who will buy? See how that works? Housing and rents in the Bay are unsustaina
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Why not? Because I'm not prepared to spend $1,200/year on something highly unlikely to work. It's the same reason I don't take Pascal's Wager. There may be a slightly possibility of a god who will punish me for not
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Really people? Remove the fact that she's pregnant from the picture, instead focus on the fact that she's unlikely to be highly involved in the company for approximately 6 to nine months regardless of the reason. Sometimes that h
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Then why call it Opposition Defiant Disorder? Why not call it Executive Planning Disorder or something else that refers to poor planning skills. I like your dad's definition better, but I fear that there are institutional and cultural
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It's colonialism because it's patronizing. You can have this much of the Internet, but no more. If that's your approach then you don't understand the main value proposition of the web. These programs are silly and inef
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Betterment and Wealthfront are just showing Vanguard and Schwab how to do business in the future. Their UI/UX is easily copied. The startups are betting on that the big guys will continue to be incompetent in UI/UX. Maybe that be
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Exciting stuff. I'm a financial analyst and I spend most of my time in Excel because I'm not about to send an R script to our executive team. Everybody understands spreadsheets. But spreadsheets are terrible at everything except
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Interesting. I'd love to see their financial data. The problem with private companies is that they can say pretty much whatever they want and there's no way to do a "smell test" by looking at audited GAAP numbers. It d
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Support needs to move out of the Bay Area. Honestly, there's just no way to live here on the salaries support professionals make. These are just the facts. If I had my way we'd have a lot more affordable housing and renter-frien
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How is that subjective? Not being a smartass here, I just see that there's a pretty clear distinction between "advice on pure legal matters" and advice on "how to discourage" union formation. It's like the dif
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Hmmm. I don't think you understand what an executive does. PowerPoint/Excel aren't useful as analytical tools. Their useful as communication tools. Think of this way. Executives are like engineers whose IDE is PowerPoint&
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Nope. Sorry, Evan Snow's recklessness in not getting his dog under control resulted in a innocent person getting shot, and cops whose careers are probably ruined. Snow deserves a big chunk of blame here. It's simple folks: if you
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Hmmm. Sorry, I don't think I agree with you. Sure, from a frequentist perspective this analysis is "unpublishable," but from a Bayesian perspective is yields some important insights. First of all, the main point of the stud
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Sorry, but Taleb just seems to have turned into a bitter old man. Yes, that's personal, but that's my point. A lot of his arguments really boil down to criticizing people's personal characteristics rather than challenging t
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What I like most about this article is that it's most definitely not a libertarian take on the issue. The author describes several benefits of a government involvement in legal drug commerce. A non-libertarian perspective on drug lega
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This is the problem with overfunded startups. You have engineering managers in charge who are too inexperienced to really have a good instinct for talent. So they just throw all of their investor's capital at a very narrow range of ca
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I was skeptical when I first saw this because there seem to be many other efforts to collect datasets. But most of those efforts are pretty poor because they're unnecessarily difficult to understand. I like how the data is clearly des
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Reminder: You can already deduct volunteer-related expenses from your federal taxes, so long as you volunteer for a qualified organization: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p526.pdf See Table 1 and Table 2 in the a
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So, if I'm an LP in a VC firm how do I get my money back? Clipping dividend coupons like a retiree? If I wanted to do that I'd invest in dividend paying public companies and bonds. I'm all ears, tell my why any sane LP would
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Capitalism. Sure, you can go it alone, but if you're making good profits in your niche you better expect a well-capitalized competitor to come sniffing around. And when they find out you're minting money they'll jump in and
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If a company is financially mature enough to pay dividends then it's mature enough to go public. And going public does enhance your value - ceteris paribus. When we talk about "liquidity" we're talking about the ability
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Hmmm, that doesn't sound like the problem with S Korea at all. The above commenter was making the point that too many South Korean projects are compromised by bribes and nepotism. The German/French collaboration just sounds like
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I sort of agree, but "free trade" and "anthropogenic climate change" are very different kinds of things. Climate change is not a policy whereas free trade is. A better analogy would be between "free trade" and
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I don't think a union is the way to go. More like a professional association like the American Bar Association, American Medical Association, AICPA, etc.

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