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You’re assuming, or insinuating, the PE firms don’t immediately start paying themselves outsized management fees, bonuses, and the like.

My issue with most PE deals is that the PE firm doesn’t have enough skin in the deal. Look at, say, the EA deal where almost all of the purchase price is coming from debt on EA. Th…

I remember the ‘90s fondly in this regard. 1000 pages issue of Computer Shopper, the early days of Wired, and so much variety of publications. But especially because after work I w…

I use it explicitly for Facebook

Unbelievable!

The Beach Boys, on a double bill with Chicago, Madison Square Garden Summer ‘75, were my first concert. No Brian, of course, but all the songs were his. So many amazing tunes! (Not…

100%!

We have one story https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43175023 about a startup promising to identify factory workers giving, by management definition, less than 100% and yet CEOs …

I, having decades of frontend development experience, asked this of my VP once. He said no designers would work for us if we did this.

If he adds AI, can he make it fly?

https://www.thebritishhistorypodcast.com/ The British History Podcast starts in deep pre-Roman times and, after ~460 episodes, is up to 1091.

I joined the purchasing department at Prentice-Hall in 1988 and saw How to Use and Understand dBase III+, which we'd just published, on my boss's secretary's desk my first day. She…

updateName is a call to the backend/server to update the database...

Hilarious! I mean horrible! No, hilarious.

I also wish I'd spent more time trying to get my parents to talk about the early parts of their lives. Only one grandmother lived until I was old enough to think of this, but I did…

As a childless American in his 60s on the edge of retirement, this article is eye opening. While it seems to me that Americans of the same age are not going through the same educat…

Lefsetz, Let the Clubs Close https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2024/11/04/let-the-clubs-close...

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I'd start with the Night's Dawn trilogy, I've read most PFH except for his last few and those are my ATFs.

IA: https://archive.org/details/NoMapsForTheseTerritories

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lol ESPN even admitted they did this intentionally, somebody in marketing surely must have lost their job.

Sorry this blog post says nothing beyond some nebulous worrying about potential future harm. Not worth duplicate posts to HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41851936

Those are two big ifs though.

https://archive.is/y5rMO