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by formercoder 6y ago
What we really need is a graph over time of each metric by area. Wish this was easily available by API.
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by formercoder 6y ago
Exactly this is why I don’t understand the folks who think inflation is a purely monetary phenomenon. With demand shocks like this how can we not have deflation?
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by formercoder 6y ago
I would guess goog doesn’t suffer that much. They have beyondcorp, and all meetings often have folks video chatting in anyway. Granted even a small reduction for a giant workforce is a lot of $ in absolute sense.
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by formercoder 6y ago
It’s way, way more complicated than that. There are the LPs, who sometimes have clients / constituents, GPs, who can be complex entities or individuals or both, operating partners, banks, who obviously wouldn’t lend for LBOs if every o
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by formercoder 6y ago
The web of incentives behind LBOs is very complex. They happen because in reality a lot of the time many of the people involved make money. This is availability bias. You only hear about the explosions. You don't hear about the thousan
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by formercoder 6y ago
Thank you. Keybase had investors and I’m sure the premium Zoom offered was unbeatable. Zoom can effectively pay infinity with equity. Those investors knew that this was the best way they’d ever have to realize gains. That’s why they investe
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by formercoder 6y ago
No one is out there to help me (other than family). Everyone is trying to advance their own interests and wealth. Once I learned that this was true above all else, I started pushing my own life forward as opposed to waiting to be pushed.
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by formercoder 6y ago
Bankruptcy is simply a tool in the restructuring toolbox.
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by formercoder 6y ago
But not a security conscious user who knows once the USB cable is plugged in the device is compromised.
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by formercoder 6y ago
You need to think about the motivations behind all of the parties you’re interacting with. Why did those investors give you money? Because they, and possible their LPs (their bosses effectively) wanted to make more money with their money. T
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by formercoder 6y ago
If someone gets $100 of value per seat, and you charge $15, why is that great? Are you leaving money on the table or facing competition? And shouldn’t you react strategically to either situation?
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by formercoder 6y ago
No. The bank should maximize shareholder value and not do that, which is what is happening. But we should let anyone write a check and invest in a startup, or buy certain products considered unsavory by the masses.
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by formercoder 6y ago
Indeed. It’s like rubber gloves during this pandemic. People think once they’re on they’re protected - you only gain increased protection if you know what you’re doing.
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by formercoder 6y ago
Not to bring too much of a traditional business view to HN, but measuring margin is arguably more important than measuring revenue.
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by formercoder 6y ago
This has nothing to do with protecting customers. People should be allowed to do, almost, whatever dumb things they want with their money. This is about protecting the bank's balance sheet.
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by formercoder 6y ago
I’m not saying the internships need to be for free, but personally I think it’s reasonable to expect college students to have spent some time interning, paid, in the field they would like a full time job in during the summer
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by formercoder 6y ago
People need internship experience to get fulltime jobs. Cancelling internships is a terrible move for the future workforce.
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by formercoder 6y ago
Tons of people, the vast majority of entrepreneurs, make money without a single line of code ever being written at their business.
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by formercoder 6y ago
Doesn’t matter that much. Their income statement will screw around but cash flows will only go up. Complex accounting like that can just get in the way.
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by formercoder 6y ago
Some combination of momentum with the market or sector, pricing in future growth, an earnings call that does a good job explaining the bad quarter.
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by formercoder 6y ago
There really is a cost to paying people in stock. That's why SBC is on the income statement. Additionally, analysts will often not add SBC back to cash flows.
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by formercoder 6y ago
Reasons to never restore from backup. Keep your data in the cloud and reinstall OS’s from scratch.
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by formercoder 6y ago
It’s not the sole metric you’d need to regress against. Once those folks get off the plane they are in much closer contact with the rest of the population.
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by formercoder 6y ago
Any time I try and make counterpoints to lockdowns or even logical evaluations of them online the downvotes and hate start flowing. There is a huge bias among those in our circles towards locking down as long as possible, because all of us
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by formercoder 6y ago
It’s important to know how risky it is to get this thing. That way we can make informed decisions about opening up.
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by formercoder 6y ago
Good ideas, but without distribution of profits how are these companies going to be capitalized? Maybe government owns the equity?
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by formercoder 6y ago
Such a tough conversation. I want to think that these firms should do this research out of the goodness of their hearts, but i know that their employees want to go on vacation and send their kids to college. I believe in the invisible hand,
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by formercoder 6y ago
Firms should only embark on NPV positive projects. It’s possible that the efficient gains from the new python features outweigh the cost, but tough to prove.
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by formercoder 6y ago
Not sure if these are loans or grants or exactly how it works, but I could see prohibiting dividends for some period after the aid. Firms should not be making distributions when they are receiving aid. But prohibiting any firm that has paid
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by formercoder 6y ago
Wouldn’t that be working as intended? More revenue

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