What was the after story, if you don't mind going further? This is super interesting, I'm curious what happened with you/the company afterwards or on a longer horizon
I suppose you could look at it that way, although this case it’s the market that made the decision (s&p 500) which then trickled down to the index. You could use an index like CRSP US Total Market which didn’t have this issue. The index reflects reality, not so much impacted it
For the record, I don’t want you to say anything, I’m just trying to understand where you’re coming from. No agenda with that particular choice, just the first scenario that came to mind of same crime, different sentence.
I don’t understand why you need particulars if fraud is fraud though. They both got difference sentences and did the same underlying crime. Why do we sentence people differently, or is the view that we shouldnt be doing that?
I’m talking number of cases (how many people relatively would commit the 2 categories of crimes), not necessarily the severity of the crime. But I am now kinda interested in flushing this out lol, Bernie Madoff and Martha Stewart both committed securities fraud, yet served different sentences, but was this ok in your world view?
There’s a big jump from committing fraud for your own benefit and committing fraud because it might mess your competitor up. I think you’d deal with a much smaller problem, and, presumably one that companies would be on the lookout for and aligned with Amazon on.
It’s also to support a single standard across all cable operators, which was a fantastic goal. Unfortunately yeah that DRM piece along with the CableLabs certification really strangled competition.
That said I’ve run cablecard devices for years, on windows pc and tivo to this day, it’s been perfectly stable and reliable (but my market also doesn’t do any of the drm crap, so maybe that’s where it all goes to hell)
“At Twitter, a fight erupted on an internal message board after a worker who didn’t have children at home accused another employee, who was taking a leave to care for a child, of not pulling his weight.”
Well that’s pretty beyond the pale. What’s going on with your coworkers is not your business (other than whatever personal/professional relationship you're maintaining). If 1 worker taking leave is putting undo strain on you, that’s a business problem. Go tell your manager that he needs headcount and then go do your job.
This is a root-level issue that cyclically results from & continues the uneven benefits. When workers spend time slap-fighting with each other, it makes it even easier for management to means-test benefits like this
I went deep down the Internet rabbithole on these HOCl cleaning solution machines (I still can’t figure out if it’s bs or not), but a big component was ph testing the solution you make. Now I kinda want to pick one of these up, some simple logic that measured ph and switched off power to the HOCl machine when it hit the right ph would probably sell extremely well
I’ve used pseudo-OKRs at the last few places, where there’s basically a bailout option where you just change the OKRs at the end of the year to match what happened (if you were doing well). Depends on what you mean by works/doesn’t work. In my experience performance management is mostly about recording business justification for continued employment, bonuses, advancement, or the negative versions of these. So by that metric these systems definitely work.
“The manager gave some weak excuses and practically begged me to take the job, even contacted my current manager at the time to pressure me.”
Whoa, to tell your current manager you were looking around? This is a good example of pushing on one part of bad culture and finding a bunch of others but wow, not cool.
Physical Education is very much a “get out of it what you put into it” sort of thing, really like any class. And there’s going to be regional/world differences. It’s also partially there for the student athletes, in order for there to be job infrastructure and education/training. Source: father was a physical educator for 40ish years and is a good man
The financial education and time management lines really resonated with me from the parent comment. The problem is that there is not anything resembling equal footing at home. Rich kids, realistically the top 5-10%, are going to get financial education at home and the others will have to learn in the school of hard knocks. I had to learn “tough” lessons about finance because the resources for what I needed to know didn’t exist at home. And I talk to people now who are older about how they prep their kids for the world, and it’s just a classic information imbalance. You could do a lot of good by leveling the playing field here.
On the former, that's absolutely a thing with all sorts of levels to it. Base level is that most companies run background checks including a credit pull. Next level is use of elite academic credentialing, i.e., "we only like to hire from ___".
On the latter, because lol that is not going to have the effect you're looking for.
I get the impression that Twitter has become a much smarter organization through really painful growing pains like this. I still wonder how I would play it if I became knowledgable. How long does this go on, do you just keep moving the person along on their career ladder? It seems like you'd need help from the FBI in how to maintain the charade if it were to go on for too long. But fascinating, I'm sure it comes up.
How many people are you registering a day normally? I’m wondering if you shut off signups for a while + handle the inevitable attack & they can’t get back in they might move on. How much money and time do you think they (or you) are willing to commit though, what a crappy tale :-(
I had a real psychological aversion when doing this with my wife’s new car, but at a certain point why would you not extend the loan at free money rates?
If a business couldn’t exist in a world full of smart people, that’s a pretty good clue that you should just go after it now. You’ll be waiting forever on the former.
Giant in the mid-Atlantic has had this sort of experience for well over a decade I want to say? You pick up a scanner and scan your shop card, then you scan & bag your items as you shop and self-checkout at the end. Between that and grocery delivery I feel like there’s a lesson about timing & product in here somewhere.
I always love to see the "fancy public-market securities" lingo upfront :-). I'm interested to see how this plays out, even though I'm not sure I agree, but this may be the last time to make the information density argument. This time should be a good test of that, and it's one of these things that I hope (not too hard) might just inform some policy and take a policy hostage off the table.
The reason is in the document, simply, because while the case is ongoing the judge wants to decrease, not increase, the difficulty in calculating damages.
Just to save a lot of time and cut through a lot of BS, apparently organizational rot. If you’re on iOS give Apollo a try (I’m sure there’s an equally good android app), it’s completely possible to build a fantastic Reddit app with the existing apis (most of the downsides come into play from user-hostile API administration). The team sizes and funding have to pale in comparison, and on occasion I wonder why this isn’t seen internally at Reddit as a mortal biz threat and dire signal to clean up the act. And then I remember — organizational rot.
For me JFrog is synonymous with Artifactory -- I think that was their earliest / bread & butter product? That may just be my interaction. It's an on-premise/cloud hybrid source artifact repository. The nice thing about it is that it is one product that can act as a maven/npm/pip/etc. repo. If you're in a polyglot org (big enterprise) and you have security needs/historical baggage to host on-premise (big enterprise) then you can do a lot worse picking a solution. Also has nice API & CLI components for integration, it is far from my least favorite of the enterprise-y sorts of things you can run into at a big company :)
This is demonstrably untrue (from Hey.com to Netflix/Amazon and in between there’s plenty of ways to not give up 30/15% of your revenue). But even if it were true, it’s the same world that didn’t largely have computers in people’s pockets 15 years ago, and that then involved cell phone network operators defining 100% of the installed content on those computers. So this is one of those things where you can be as irate or happy as you want to be.
Yeah exactly, Financial Independence/Retire Early (FIRE) bloggers/authors are another. Inevitably in any sort of thing you'll have people who are storytellers who parlay storytelling + the thing they're into (which sounds fun) so agreed on not critiquing. One might want to be aware of how much of that is going around though, at least in calibrating expectations to reality.
They’re also making a late push in a tight market without real differentiation (the exclusives like you said) so from a market standpoint it’s one of the last options. There’s legitimately no other reason to have that store installed other than having been forced to, so giving people a monetary break is kinda the least you could do.
I get it (and don’t know why i went down this road on a whim). My (original) point was that at something like 8% avg return you’re up 5900% over 60 years instead of being 10900% up.