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by whatok 11y ago
Zero profit theory is based on having heavy competition which utilities do not have. 2.7% is absolutely razor-thin for something that is so capex heavy and with a heavy pension burden.
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by whatok 11y ago
If you combine wireline and wireless you would get the same skewed statistic as combining Apple Store and corporate employees.
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by whatok 11y ago
> Technology workers tend to value interesting problems more than money. Source?
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by whatok 11y ago
The article says that 99% of the people striking are wireline employees; not wireless. They're more than likely making well over minimum wage.
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by whatok 11y ago
Profited makes it sound like their bonuses were $4bn. It's a borderline useless number when framed vs a group. Regardless of what the article says, there is no way those two made that much solely on their own.
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by whatok 11y ago
For everyone asking why or cynically pointing out that no one went to jail over this, you need to have people agree on what caused all of this before any of that happens.
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by whatok 11y ago
You could very well be a shareholder of a bankrupt company if execs start going to jail.
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by whatok 11y ago
Ah, that leads to another one of my rules: if someone is paid commission based on me buying something, I try to scrutinize it just a tiny bit; especially if I have a fiduciary duty to do so.
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by whatok 11y ago
I avoid buying things that I do not understand and I also avoid buying things that seem too good to be true. If both of those traits happen to reside in the same item, I avoid it even more.
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by whatok 11y ago
* was forced to receive
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by whatok 11y ago
Possibly violating non-disparagement clause in contract and getting sued into oblivion > Hacker News karma
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by whatok 11y ago
Baked into the price long ago because the fine announced months ago: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-14/goldman-sa...
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by whatok 11y ago
Source please.
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by whatok 11y ago
I also had a background check asking for ten years of history. Many of the companies were either out of business or outsourced HR which created issues. I also ran into an issue with job titles not matching exactly or external job title (w
765.
by whatok 11y ago
Wow, this is incredible. How has it changed since 2015?
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by whatok 11y ago
Believe it all comes down to insurance and having someone else to blame. Think about why most jobs use urine instead of hair for drug testing. Hell of a lot cheaper, don't care about accuracy, and just want to be able to say that the
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by whatok 11y ago
That and once the tentacles are very cheaply put in on a tiny local race, then a city council seat, then state legislature, then.... Smaller sums of money go a long way in smaller races but you can spread your bets widely enough and buy qui
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by whatok 11y ago
Really disappointed with the recent flood of clickbait Guardian articles submitted.
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by whatok 11y ago
I think another side effect of this is increasing the long bias markets already have. I could definitely see being short the market becoming a very dangerous proposition. Price discovery is a lot more difficult when it becomes costly to s
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by whatok 11y ago
Apple or any other company is going to sit on that much cash if they don't have anything productive to do with it. I don't know how you would come up with a non-arbitrary threshold for taxing "war chests" and punishing
771.
by whatok 11y ago
Feedback loop normally called overdrive. Broke my Voyager improperly using the headphone output for that, haha. I've only ever heard of the MS20 being the source for the lead in the track though. Random Youtube demos seem to get it
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by whatok 11y ago
I was able to print to PDF in Chrome and combined the PDFs in Acrobat.
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by whatok 11y ago
Or, just maybe, you could eliminate or lessen whatever regulation exists that enables that lack of competition.
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by whatok 11y ago
> The traditional moral reason for taxing profit is that it's excess money for which the company couldn't find a use; they've already paid the staff, invested in R&D and maintained the corporate jet fleet and they stil
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by whatok 11y ago
> About a month after people started doing it, the league stepped in to say that live streams constituted "broadcast without consent" and most people stopped doing it. Think this is a very overlooked part of the deal. I'd
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by whatok 11y ago
https://www.rt.com/usa/337782-erdogan-security-protest-washi... Screaming “Terrorist Erdogan” and displaying homemade signs, a group of protesters are approached by members of the Turkish president’s security detail, w
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by whatok 11y ago
> And then re-inserted again when the author and his/her intent is identified... People are extremely quick to judge and I am more than certain that if revealed, a white male would be doxxed to infinity and would not be taken at fac
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by whatok 11y ago
I did not claim anything about hate crimes. Only that a black female will get treated much differently than a white male in a situation like this given the art defense. Art should be consumed independently of its creator imo.
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by whatok 11y ago
Context is removed when something like that is placed in a public area. I have no doubt in my mind the art defense would not pass if the person was a white male.
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by whatok 11y ago
bloomberg terminal, here, and quartz early email

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