BillSaysThis

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by BillSaysThis 11mo ago
You’re assuming, or insinuating, the PE firms don’t immediately start paying themselves outsized management fees, bonuses, and the like.
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by BillSaysThis 11mo ago
My issue with most PE deals is that the PE firm doesn’t have enough skin in the deal. Look at, say, the EA deal where almost all of the purchase price is coming from debt on EA. This to me is wrong because the new owners have almost no ince
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by BillSaysThis 1y ago
I remember the ‘90s fondly in this regard. 1000 pages issue of Computer Shopper, the early days of Wired, and so much variety of publications. But especially because after work I wrote dozens of articles for Software Development Magazine an
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by BillSaysThis 1y ago
I use it explicitly for Facebook
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by BillSaysThis 1y ago
Unbelievable!
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by BillSaysThis 1y ago
The Beach Boys, on a double bill with Chicago, Madison Square Garden Summer ‘75, were my first concert. No Brian, of course, but all the songs were his. So many amazing tunes! (Note: despite going with my dad, we got stoned out of our gourd
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by BillSaysThis 1y ago
100%!
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by BillSaysThis 2y ago
We have one story https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43175023 about a startup promising to identify factory workers giving, by management definition, less than 100% and yet CEOs can run multiple companies, take board seat
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by BillSaysThis 2y ago
I, having decades of frontend development experience, asked this of my VP once. He said no designers would work for us if we did this.
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by BillSaysThis 2y ago
If he adds AI, can he make it fly?
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by BillSaysThis 2y ago
https://www.thebritishhistorypodcast.com/ The British History Podcast starts in deep pre-Roman times and, after ~460 episodes, is up to 1091.
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by BillSaysThis 2y ago
I joined the purchasing department at Prentice-Hall in 1988 and saw How to Use and Understand dBase III+, which we'd just published, on my boss's secretary's desk my first day. She so regretted letting me take that because my
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by BillSaysThis 2y ago
updateName is a call to the backend/server to update the database...
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by BillSaysThis 2y ago
Hilarious! I mean horrible! No, hilarious.
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by BillSaysThis 2y ago
I also wish I'd spent more time trying to get my parents to talk about the early parts of their lives. Only one grandmother lived until I was old enough to think of this, but I didn't think to do it with her either :(
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by BillSaysThis 2y ago
As a childless American in his 60s on the edge of retirement, this article is eye opening. While it seems to me that Americans of the same age are not going through the same education, job, and marriage stresses, they are going through diff
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by BillSaysThis 2y ago
Lefsetz, Let the Clubs Close https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2024/11/04/let-the-clubs-close...
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by BillSaysThis 2y ago
I'd start with the Night's Dawn trilogy, I've read most PFH except for his last few and those are my ATFs.
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by BillSaysThis 2y ago
IA: https://archive.org/details/NoMapsForTheseTerritories
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by BillSaysThis 2y ago
:sad-face:
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by BillSaysThis 2y ago
lol ESPN even admitted they did this intentionally, somebody in marketing surely must have lost their job.
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by BillSaysThis 2y ago
Sorry this blog post says nothing beyond some nebulous worrying about potential future harm. Not worth duplicate posts to HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41851936
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by BillSaysThis 2y ago
Those are two big ifs though.
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by BillSaysThis 2y ago
https://archive.is/y5rMO
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by BillSaysThis 2y ago
Happened to me (anecdotal but...)
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by BillSaysThis 2y ago
Hezbollah has said some time ago they were switching to pagers because Israel can get inside their cell phones.
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by BillSaysThis 2y ago
Hush!
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by BillSaysThis 2y ago
For a company like OpenAI I do. Especially in regards to the greater scrutiny.
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by BillSaysThis 2y ago
This is an excellent question! I believe Biden has had time to change the USPS Board of Governors but somehow DeJoy is still in place.
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by BillSaysThis 2y ago
This is intentional on DeJoy's part and a big part of why he was appointed.

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