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You bring up many good points, none of which I strongly disagree with. My only point was that it's not "easy and obvious" to "buy his debt and use it as leverage to extract politic…

The argument you’re now outlining is not a subset of the arguments you previously listed (and I was referencing). I agree buybacks create adverse incentives. As I’ve stated elsewhe…

> It doesn't work this way. Companies aren't valued based on how much cash they have on hand. Uh, yea they are. A company’s valuation is based on both the cash they have on hand AN…

> Many companies buy back shares when it doesn't really make sense Many companies also issue dividends when it doesn’t really make sense. The overall level of shareholder compensat…

All of these arguments apply to dividends as well as share buybacks. And, therefore, do not support a shift back to dividends. If you compare the dividend yield of the s&p500 from …

> There is no change in the value of the company. There are fewer shares outstanding though which means each existing share is worth more. The company's value decreases by the buyb…

> How Corporations Scam Their Shareholders and Screw over Workers I don't see how workers are getting screwed. The main charge in the article is that executives take advantage of p…

> The opportunity to buy that debt and call it as leverage to extract political gain is so easy and obvious If this happened, you don't think he'd be able to get another institutio…

Yes, but I don't see how that applies to the subject matter at hand. There is no law that says an employer has to provide extra financial support to parents in extenuating circumst…

Huh? You're not allowed to walk into someone's home and steal their stuff because we have something called a legal system that will punish you. There is nothing in our legal system…

We don't disagree on your point. I'm just pointing out that the degree of punishment enacted on the professor could be much less severe than most people are imagining.

I agree with you. My claim is that there's "less reason to be outraged at the Dean". If the professor was executed for this, for most people, there's reason to go to war. If the pr…

I think it's important to note that nowhere in the article (nor anywhere else I can find) does it state that the professor was "suspended". Rather, it only says that the professor …

Ah, I hadn't considered that the interviewer was testing the applicant's ability to lie. Interesting, if true.

Huh, I don't know if I know one person who would honestly answer that question with a yes.

> The Episerver acquisition is indeed a bad exit, and I think I will lose >$100k in stock I exercised Based on what information? So far, all that's been publicly confirmed is that …

> These incidents should be treated as severely as drink driving Why? Driving distracted with autopilot is at least an order of magnitude less dangerous than drunk driving.

> (In a May online survey drawing responses from 734 Uber and Lyft drivers nationwide, 71% said they wanted to be independent contractors) As others are mentioning, the survey was …

Ultimately, scheduling shifts is going to be both easier to manage and more cost efficient than what you're suggesting. Uber has a good idea of how many drivers they need at any gi…

Drivers will still take advantage of such a system. Whenever a market is over-supplied, drivers will sign in to collect their free "on-call duty" checks for doing nothing.

Without scheduled shifts, drivers will purposefully all sign up for the same shift to induce supply overflow. In this situation, drivers can game the flexibility of the system to c…