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Re: LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value

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Post by edgyswingset »

ryanSrich wrote: post #332
cpprototypes wrote: post #327

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For the bay area, I think compensation drop will be far worse. The base salary of bay area companies has never been that impressive. Even the big tech companies like Google and Facebook, base salary is not much more than other regions. The impressive compensation numbers are always because of bonus+RSU. These will probably be massively reduced or even eliminated completely if the tech downturn gets bad enough.

Tech employees making $200k+ are the only ones who can afford a $4k per month apartment in SF. If salaries drop then rent drops. I don't see this being a bad thing.

> If salaries drop then rent drops. I don't see this being a bad thing.

Maybe I'm being irrational, but I suspect that the drops won't be proportional and the housing isse in SF will just get worse.

Re: LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value

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Post by dia80 »

pfarnsworth wrote: post #322
kuschku wrote: post #315

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s probably even a too optimistic forecast. The readjustment of the market to reality is going to be a big issue, especially when one looks at just how many companies are operating at huge losses. Most people already know that it can’t continue like this. The good thing is, real estate values will decrease like the pay, so people can rent at cheaper rates in the bay areas. The bad thing is, those who have bought a…

Except the last time the markets dropped, real estate prices went up. If there is a problem, the Fed will drop interest rates, maybe even go negative, and that will cause bond rates and conceivably mortgage rates to drop as well. The Fed wants inflation, and most importantly home price inflation. They will do whatever it takes to stop deflation, they've already said this. Bernanke said he would drop bags of money out…

That works until it doesn't, see Japan.

Re: LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value

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Post by [deleted] »

pfarnsworth wrote: post #322
kuschku wrote: post #315

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s probably even a too optimistic forecast. The readjustment of the market to reality is going to be a big issue, especially when one looks at just how many companies are operating at huge losses. Most people already know that it can’t continue like this. The good thing is, real estate values will decrease like the pay, so people can rent at cheaper rates in the bay areas. The bad thing is, those who have bought a…

Except the last time the markets dropped, real estate prices went up. If there is a problem, the Fed will drop interest rates, maybe even go negative, and that will cause bond rates and conceivably mortgage rates to drop as well. The Fed wants inflation, and most importantly home price inflation. They will do whatever it takes to stop deflation, they've already said this. Bernanke said he would drop bags of money out…

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Re: LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value

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Post by kedean »

seanwilson wrote: post #238
__jal wrote: post #146

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Anything from a Facebook domain hitting my mail server is bounces them back to Facebook's abuse and postmaster addresses. I know categorically that it is abuse, because I am the sole user of my mail server and do not now and have never had a Facebook account, and have repeatedly asked them in various ways to stop spamming me. Useless, of course. But just because they ignore internet norms of decent behavior doesn't m…

For what it's worth I have a Facebook account and have all the email notification settings off and can't remember seeing an email from Facebook in over a year.

Hell, I haven't received an email from Facebook since about 2009, I think?

Re: LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value

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Post by mortehu »

ngrilly wrote: post #263
giarc wrote: post #64

Tableau down 50%. HN Discussion here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11042482

LinkedIn, Tableau, Atlassian: is there something going on today?

It's earnings season.

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/earningsseason.asp

Re: LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value

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Post by __jal »

Karunamon wrote: post #298
__jal wrote: post #182

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I am making an actual abuse report.

You'd probably have more luck marking them as spam in your client. If you're using a webmail service of any note, you're helping to train the filters used by others, and as a bonus, your own profile means you're less likely to get them in the inbox in the future. Also, if you're in the USA, you should report those messages to the FTC. If you try to unsubscribe from an email list and your request is not honored, file…

You appear to have missed the part about this being my own mail server.

And I don't need any more luck; my initial problem is solved (I no longer see spam from Facebook, and I am taking steps to ensure they are aware of their problem, in case they weren't).

The problem was worth the time I spent on the config; it is manifestly a waste for me to involve the FTC, since I don't have to worry about Facebook's spam anymore and am willing to eat the tiny amount of bandwidth involved.

Re: LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value

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Post by jonknee »

pfarnsworth wrote: post #322
kuschku wrote: post #315

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s probably even a too optimistic forecast. The readjustment of the market to reality is going to be a big issue, especially when one looks at just how many companies are operating at huge losses. Most people already know that it can’t continue like this. The good thing is, real estate values will decrease like the pay, so people can rent at cheaper rates in the bay areas. The bad thing is, those who have bought a…

Except the last time the markets dropped, real estate prices went up. If there is a problem, the Fed will drop interest rates, maybe even go negative, and that will cause bond rates and conceivably mortgage rates to drop as well. The Fed wants inflation, and most importantly home price inflation. They will do whatever it takes to stop deflation, they've already said this. Bernanke said he would drop bags of money out…

> If there is a problem, the Fed will drop interest rates, maybe even go negative, and that will cause bond rates and conceivably mortgage rates to drop as well.

The Fed has very little room to drop interest rates and won't do so to prop up the NASDAQ while the economy continues to grow and add jobs.

Re: LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value

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Post by ngrilly »

rrdharan wrote: post #333
ngrilly wrote: post #262

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Except for the fact that people CANNOT see your resume if they are not paying users of LinkedIn and not connected to you or your contacts.

That's not true. There are settings in your profile that you can use to control exactly how much of your profile is visible to people not directly connected to you. e.g. My profile is entirely public (you still need to have a LinkedIn account in order to actually view it, but we don't need to have any degree of connectivity): https://www.linkedin.com/in/rameshdharan

Sorry, but I've not made this up:

"Full profiles for 3rd-degree connections are available only to premium account holders."

Here is a screenshot: http://booleanblackbelt.com/2012/09/full-profiles-of-3rd-deg...

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