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by formercoder 7y ago
You’re already accepting a lower return by excluding these equities from your portfolio, just accept a slightly lower, lower one.
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It’s also quite possible to raise money on non-VC terms. Say 80% of profit until recoup + 10% CAGR hurdle then 5% of profit. Away obviously takes some capital to get going which a founder may not have but this structure doesn’t enslave you
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Indeed, publications can choose to survive on ads or subscriptions. The market will dictate who’s successful.
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Isn’t there a contradiction between the constant complaining about paywalls by the HN crowd and the same crowd’s dislike of ad driven platforms? Someone wrote this - don’t they need to get paid for it?
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Supply and demand. Good jobs get thousands of applicants, attractive people get swamped with messages. The more balanced the two sides, the better an online marketplace will be.
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At least one large tech company has a one medical office onsite in its big campuses, and gives employees a free membership. Didn’t think the $200/mo was worth it otherwise but it was great having the doctor there at work and other offi
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by formercoder 7y ago
Based on empirical evidence the government is terrible at doing pretty much anything. I don’t remember the last time I had a logical, efficient, pleasant, and cheap interaction with a US government agency. I happen to have those with privat
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Isn’t Germany already reliant on Russia for energy and this is simply about bypassing Ukraine transit in order to develop energy rationing leverage over the region? That has been my understanding thus far could be wrong.
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Suboptimal regulation is just that
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by formercoder 7y ago
Not always. Certain services, electricity for example, are “natural monopolies”. Once someone is in there, it makes no economic sense for others to compete, this is where government regulated monopolies are the optimal solution.
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I meant the impairment itself does not impact cash flow (setting aside taxes, can’t comment there). See Verizon Oath write down. Of course this can happen to already distressed firms who are experiencing cash flow issues. It’s just a way of
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This is a pretty standard new CEO move. Big impairment, net income goes way down, next few years look a lot better. Meanwhile cash flow doesn’t change.
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I have a chase sapphire reserve card and get an email for every transaction. Set the "alert for transactions over amount" to $0.01. I had grand plans of piping these emails into a google sheet to track and categorize expenses but
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by formercoder 7y ago
I’m quite disappointed by Yang’s false claims. I’ve come to accept him as the truth and logic driven candidate who thinks things through. He could have advocated his position without these statements. He should focus on Gen4.
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Complicated answer. Theoretically no, I was just mentioning highlights vs shadows on the face which are properties of reflectivity. The backdrop certainly matters from a camera exposure perspective in order to optimize for the skin properti
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Great point, I don’t know how much our brain uses, for example, depth information in facial recognition.
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Sure thing. I was just curious about the technical components of the challenge as I’ve faced similar circumstances before.
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Darker skin has less contrast between highlights and shadows so isn’t it a more difficult problem to identify them from a technical perspective?
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by formercoder 7y ago
Interestingly airlines are divided on hedging and not all participate in it https://www.eurofinance.com/news/airlines-divided-on-hedge-b...
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That’s what’s in the news. No one publishes stories about companies who are bought by sponsors, grown and supported, and exited. They are often private the whole time as well.
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So the quarterly goals of public companies are better? Many companies sell to sponsors in order to be able to make long term strategic decisions.
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I always assume that something free might go away or become unfree at any moment. Doesn’t seem too surprising to me.
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I always found Jetbrains + vim plugin to be unparalleled. A good friend swears by spacemacs but that’s a different ballgame.
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They do for commodities, which transportation in this case generally is.
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Ben Franklin said the best argument against democracy is five minutes with the average voter.
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Or they voted one way for a long time, and things got worse, so now they vote a different way.
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Economy of scale, fixed costs spread over more reporters, lower cost of capital. It’s cheaper to be big.
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by formercoder 7y ago
Why should we get all excited about giving the government more money to spend? They are terrible at spending it effectively.
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Though paying an engineer to learn a new skill is not going to be capex on a financial statement. If it was companies would be more willing to do it.
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Completely agreed, that liquidity spectrum still holds though. Closer to 100% of treasury trading than M&A can be automated, but tools can certainly increase the efficiency of the M&A process and reduce headcount if demand doesn’t g

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