zonethundery

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by zonethundery 7y ago
It can't really work that way. There are diligence firms that provide quality of earnings analysis, compliance analysis, intellectual property audits, etc. But potential buyers always have questions that require input from staff. The
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by zonethundery 7y ago
refueling time is a huge impediment. Adding tens of gallons of capacity [in this context 'fuel cell' is 'extra gas tank'] prevents tens of minutes spent at 0mph.
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by zonethundery 7y ago
Complaints are a possible source, but they also may have identified single accounts with multiple drivers (by reviewing driver profile pic uploads) and then counted all the trips for each.
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by zonethundery 7y ago
Under classical antitrust, yes. FB doesn't fall under Warren's proposal for 'platform utilities'; pushing DOJ to unwind the Whatsapp and Instagram mergers would be the only way for her administration to accomplish the st
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by zonethundery 7y ago
This seems like a relatively standard MCA product, at better rates than typical MCA providers. Stripe's betting its underwriting is superior (very likely) and it has a lower cost of capital than competitors. Square Capital does the s
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by zonethundery 7y ago
In most states aren't loans for commercial purposes (or to certain kinds of entities [c-corps, llcs, partnerships] assumed to be commercial) are exempted from usury restrictions?
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by zonethundery 8y ago
Meals on flagship airlines in business/first can be very good. 'Fourth best' in my mind is better than domestic (US) coach (on the rare occasions it exists) and not quite as good as Emirates coach. Acela 1st meals fall in t
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by zonethundery 8y ago
The near-term catalyst is the pending settlement (or litigation) w/ FTC. Regulators are the intended audience.
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by zonethundery 8y ago
It wasn't expected to survive in its current form. Most payday lenders shifted to installment loans (and/or lines of credit) in anticipation of the rule becoming final. The lenders with an existential problem were in states that
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by zonethundery 8y ago
Would you mind naming some players in this space?
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by zonethundery 8y ago
I am not yet convinced that giving away your bank username and password to plaid/mint/other scrapers does not exempt the bank from the liability limits established in Reg E. The user effectively gives away control of their deposit
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by zonethundery 8y ago
TLDR: look for 'analyst' or 'analytics' jobs where the challenges are less mathematical and more organizational. Personal connections (even tenuous) make all the difference. One approach is to pick a vertical in which y
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by zonethundery 8y ago
I realized at some point that 'coding for answers' was more interesting to me than applications. That discovery spurred a shift into analytics in the financial sector, followed by a post-crisis stint in government service. In the
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by zonethundery 8y ago
From wikipedia[0]: A billion is a number with two distinct definitions: 1,000,000,000, i.e. one thousand million, or 109 (ten to the ninth power), as defined on the short scale. This is now the meaning in both British and American English.
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by zonethundery 9y ago
The feds already have a technology service provider supervision (i.e. 'audit') program through the FFIEC[0], which includes cybersecurity standards. The challenge for regulators is that companies not providing technology infrast
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by zonethundery 9y ago
Dear AG Schneiderman: Thanks for all the work you do on behalf of New Yorkers and consumers in other states. 1. Are there any federal statutes under which states could sue providers to effectively maintain net neutrality? (analogous to the
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by zonethundery 9y ago
> (its structure was declared unconstitutional by the D.C. court of appeals) ...which was promptly vacated by the full Circuit and is awaiting an en banc decision. Kavanaugh's opinion wasn't exactly a masterpiece of juris pru