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Comment · 1 year ago
What printer do you use for that and are you happy about it?
Comment · 3 years ago
At first you just "pretend" to the taxman. You only start pretending publicly when all the people who could confound you are dead.
Comment · 3 years ago
That's wild. I wonder if it's good news for neobanks like Mercury and Brex who will see an influx of new customers, or on the contrary, startups will seek old, boring, safe banks instead of niche boutiques with lots of exposure to industry risk.
Comment · 4 years ago
Co-founder and CEO. Bullet 4 was actually CTO. Interesting divergence of opinion within the same (successful) company
Comment · 4 years ago
100%. European markets are known to pay out more dividends whereas the US market is known to prioritize stock price growth. Return-wise that makes no theoretical difference.
Comment · 4 years ago
It’s a 160% INCREASE, not a 60% one (you misread as +60%). But even +60% year over year would be no joke. Your comment assumes it’ll stay constant but if the trend holds the required investment in security could become sizable. Not that I even see the case for not prosecuting crime just because « UP has insurance » (you sure their insurer will be happy to pay for that crime and not raise premiums? Why should UP customers pay for security directly when the rest of the country gets it through actual police?)
Comment · 4 years ago
That’s an interesting point re/ yearly but on march 2020 yearly inflation dropped to 0% so I assume at the start of the pandemic many prices were down, not up
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
I hear your argument but would you apply the same to alcohol and cigarettes? Let parents make sure their kids get none of it until they’re of age? I think it cannot work that way and it’s OK for society as a whole to help with the parenting.
Comment · 6 years ago
It's at least directional. In the other direction, a household is typically more than one income, whereas $175k is a per employee figure.
Comment · 6 years ago
Wait, what activity / health tracking does the Fenix have over the AW? EKG is a big plus of the AW in that regard. Battery life isnt great, but do you exercise for more than 24h at a time? Genuinely asking, trying to decide for myself
Comment · 6 years ago
What I'm left wondering is: what is the payoff for these scams? These aren't easy to scale, as you need to be manually writing plausible looking, personalized emails, waiting for someone to take the bait, "nurture" them over days or weeks, etc. Also you need specific, valuable skills: between the social engineering, the actual engineering, the perfect grammar, the creativity, someone who can pull this off can definitely get a high-paying, honest job pretty much anywhere. Add to that the hassle of having to constantly change web hosts, stories, payment processors, etc. as you're constantly going to be chased by your previously scammed "customers", and the very real risk of prosecution. The payoff must be ENORMOUS for it to be worth all this trouble. What am I missing?
Comment · 6 years ago
Am I misunderstanding something? Once in recycle mode you're supposed to send them back so that Sonos can actually recycle (or even reuse, nothing stops them from refurbishing) the old device. Recycle mode seems to simply be a convenience so that people can get the 30% rebate immediately once they've shown they're serious about sending back the device. What sucks is that you have to trade up to recycle, if they offered some buy back program it'd be near perfect, right?

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