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by formercoder 7y ago
Ships also bend and flex. I wonder how these elevators will work out in the rolling ocean.
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by formercoder 7y ago
I wonder if there's a predatory pricing case there
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by formercoder 7y ago
So is it just a question of risk tolerance? Are the laws clear or are companies like GitHub in a grey area with out precedence?
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by formercoder 7y ago
It's on the income statement. So, generally, yes.
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by formercoder 7y ago
It's not just the question of capital gains. Dividends mandate a taxable event. Buybacks give you the option to continue holding and not pay taxes. That option has value.
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by formercoder 7y ago
Elasticity is directional. These wages can be elastic on the downside, and inelastic on the upside. Employers are happy to lower wages, but won't fold if they are forced to raise them.
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by formercoder 7y ago
I thought we measured inflation with something like the CPI-W, which tracks the prices of a basket of goods. Am I missing something?
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by formercoder 7y ago
For the record, I’m pro raising the minimum wage. I was just stating that it is absolutely true that _some_ jobs will go away. Therefore a WSJ article about a few jobs going away in a county where minimum wage was raised should not be news
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by formercoder 7y ago
Output prices rise, aka inflation happens, when input costs rise. Input costs can either rise due to market forces or regulation.
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by formercoder 7y ago
So input costs rise, some business cut services, some raise prices, causing inflation. Not sure what the news story is here. Anyone interested in the truth will tell you that raising the minimum wage will destroy at least some jobs.
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by formercoder 7y ago
And in reverse, all of those juicy options you pay your staff with should be income statement expenses, and then reversed as non cash on the cash flow statement.
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by formercoder 7y ago
OP is being reasonably compensated for something that is perfectly legal.
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by formercoder 7y ago
Based on anecdata I'd say that a bigger and bigger chunk of people do in fact sit at Chrome all day long: - At Google everyone had linux, and non-developers effectively only used web-apps. - My girlfriend is at a startup but has a simi
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by formercoder 7y ago
There is no bad debt, just bad prices. Of course there may be no demand at the correct price. We’ll see how we work did
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by formercoder 7y ago
They are really just trying to price the risk spread of taking on long term debt (their leases) and re-lending with short term leases at a higher interest rate. I would guess this is super high beta (overall market exposure). When the next
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by formercoder 7y ago
This comes up a lot with financial statements and government data as well. The government stuff is getting much better though.
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by formercoder 7y ago
Didn't know that - great point
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by formercoder 7y ago
They always just seem meaningless, for example: What is a Computer and Information Systems Manager? What jobs does that cover? Let's say maybe it's software engineers, why are we comparing doctors, who's comp is all salary, t
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by formercoder 7y ago
Why are all of these articles on comp so wrong?
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by formercoder 7y ago
Having switched to PC recently one of the few things I miss is the amazing magic mouse / mac drivers combo.
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by formercoder 7y ago
The only thing I really use LinkedIn for at this point is searching for 2nd degree connects / alumni at companies I'd like to work at, and looking up the professional backgrounds of people that I will be meeting with. However, bei
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by formercoder 7y ago
Sheets and Docs are the primary office apps used internally by thousands of Googlers. Seems unlikely that Google would kill them and give everyone Microsoft products.
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by formercoder 7y ago
Yes I’ve used cfpb hmda data and race is a column in reported lending.
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by formercoder 7y ago
This might be related but I think the bigger arb opportunity is looking outside of SF/NYC. There are some PE funds operating in the Midwest and doing great, but I think it’s still pretty difficult to find early/growth equity fundi
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by formercoder 7y ago
I could rephrase to “too much money and not enough risk adjusted places to put it.” Also I’m not particularly tapped in but in major cities in the US I believe seed is still reasonably easy to come by. Series A+ is getting tougher with rate
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by formercoder 7y ago
These days there is too much money and not enough places to put it. It’s difficult as an unconnected angel to find decent opportunities. If you met the threshold to invest as an LP in a fund that would keep you diversified and the GPs would
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by formercoder 7y ago
Really? I feel like I haven’t seen a projector with only VGA in years. Could be a biased sample though.
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by formercoder 7y ago
As do I. It’s crazy to me that we don’t have them.
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by formercoder 7y ago
In what way is the paradigm stuck in the 80s?
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by formercoder 7y ago
The magic of GAAP

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