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by formercoder 6y ago
Yeah. Before recently switching to windows I’d been on Mac for 10+ years. The latter ~5 of which I’d basically forgotten the dock existed and just used Alfred / command space to type an applications name and launch it. Now on Windows I
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by formercoder 6y ago
My statement holds. The average death rate among confirmed cases may be 10%, but no well stratified group actually conforms to that rate.
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by formercoder 6y ago
It’s a skewed distribution based on age. No age group has a death rate of 10%
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by formercoder 6y ago
Exactly. These looks are made all the timer because lenders make money on them. LBOs happen all the time because most parties make money.
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by formercoder 6y ago
Doesn’t have anything to do with “having to sell out.” Often management gets rollover equity and participates in the upside of the deal.
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by formercoder 6y ago
How can you argue that this strategy is a “good guideline” of what they are planning to do with this asset when it’s only been the result of 15% of previous assets?
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by formercoder 6y ago
Any firm will attempt to achieve as close to a monopoly as regulators allow, as that’s how you maximize margins and thus value to shareholders.
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by formercoder 6y ago
The only thing guaranteed about VC backed companies is that their investors are looking for outsized returns.
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by formercoder 6y ago
RH doesn’t let you short naked calls, you have to hold shares as collateral, I’m not sure what happened.
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by formercoder 6y ago
Lab grown diamonds. Moissanite and CZ don’t look the same. Lab grown diamonds are chemically identical.
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by formercoder 6y ago
Logointern.com works pretty well too
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by formercoder 6y ago
That depends on if you are a platform or a publisher.
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by formercoder 6y ago
Depends on the company and your priorities. Do you want to maximize income? Then make sure you work somewhere where ICs have a lot of advancement potential built into the org. Also don’t think that this track avoids politics, you still need
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by formercoder 6y ago
But how elastic is that demand? Would they have the same amount if the price was higher?
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by formercoder 6y ago
They are often named in lawsuits. The cushy $100k/yr can easily be eaten up by legal fees.
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by formercoder 6y ago
There are real technical challenges here. Lighter skin has more contrast between light and dark.
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by formercoder 6y ago
Correct, they package them up in CDOs and sell them off.
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by formercoder 6y ago
Banks shouldn’t have a ton of this stuff on their balance sheets because of post ‘08 changes. The more likely parties to be damaged are asset managers.
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by formercoder 6y ago
I think Lenovo has the best chassis build quality but still doesn’t quite compare to Apple
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by formercoder 6y ago
This just provides a cost advantage though right? I mean that’s great, love me some margin, but it’s not really a new frontier. Unless I’m wrong?
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by formercoder 6y ago
FPGAs have been around for quite awhile. Is something changing?
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by formercoder 6y ago
Interesting it’s possible that we have different priorities, but I’m not bothered by UI inconsistencies. I use chrome, office, adobe suite, a trading application, games, VSCode, they all have different interfaces that I know how to navigate
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by formercoder 6y ago
PC + WSL + somewhat illicit OS X VM has been a dream for me as a former Mac user.
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by formercoder 6y ago
Some fold, some raise wages, some invest in automation. Inflation is possible, but not guaranteed.
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by formercoder 6y ago
Ironically, acquiring generally lowers the acquirer’s stock price in the short term.
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by formercoder 6y ago
Has anyone ever interacted with a chat bot to which they did not just type “agent” until they got a human?
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by formercoder 6y ago
Agreed. There is a ton of “things will never be the same” sentiment. That just cannot be true.
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by formercoder 6y ago
The market can stay irrational longer than you can hold OTM Uber puts.
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by formercoder 6y ago
Markets are so wonked that both companies would shoot up on this. No way this creates that much value.
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by formercoder 6y ago
I’m in nyc and I’m ready to do that. I will do my part to protect the community by wearing a mask etc, but less than 500 people age 25-34 have died of this in the US. It approaches crossing the street risk.

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