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Re: Yahoo sold to US telecoms giant Verizon

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Post by SeanDav »

speeder wrote: post #256
SeanDav wrote: post #240

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe he was being a being slightly tongue in cheek. In reply to your question though - never follow the money, follow the path where your interests lie and where your strengths lie. Biggest career mistake I ever made was to move from a job I really enjoyed to another because they offered to more than double my salary.

But you still get to eat right? I followed my interests, and now can't afford food, literally. I should have went for a job a hate but that paid well.

It is a guideline, and like every guideline, there are exceptions. If your interests and strengths are comic reading, you are not likely to get a job making money in that direction. However if you really enjoy teaching but think accountants would make more money - rather do teaching. You will earn less money, but you will be way happier and more fulfilled.

Re: Yahoo sold to US telecoms giant Verizon

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Post by pasbesoin »

Off-the-cuff sentiment:

Axis of... something.

As a Verizon (now, specifically Wireless) customer, I've watched things go from "worth the price" to "what am I paying for?".

And Yahoo. Once proud, pioneering Yahoo.

And the remains of AOL are in the mix, as well?

I mostly feel this is somehow primarily going to shovel more crap at me.

Re: Yahoo sold to US telecoms giant Verizon

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Post by epmatsw »

fleaflicker wrote: post #252
chollida1 wrote: post #226

Yahoo got all cash, which is nice as it gives them more flexibility, the last thing they'd want after the Alibaba spin off fiasco is to have to try and sell 4.83 Billion in Verizon stock. Bloomberg just put up a head line saying that Yahoo will return all the cash, minus Operating Costs to the share holders. If anyone has any guess as to how much "operating costs" will be, please email:) So I guess queue Alibaba and…

Why does everyone keep pointing out Mayer's compensation on this deal? Nobody said a word about the $200M that went Tim Armstrong's way in the Aol deal. [1] Can't help but think that if Yahoo had a male ceo nobody would be making these comments. [1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2015/05/12/tim-armst...

I think that's probably true, but I bet not directly. People know her name because she is a woman who is a CEO (which unfortunately is still noteworthy), and people note her compensation because they know her name. Who has even heard of Tim Armstrong?

Re: Yahoo sold to US telecoms giant Verizon

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Post by gregpilling »

existencebox wrote: post #239
moinnadeem wrote: post #233

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Soon-to-be a freshman in college. If you don't mind me asking, what career path do you wish you took?

Hahaha. I'm sorry if I was unclear, the statement was _slightly_ tongue in cheek. I'm not sure I could have made it in any field other than dev and I do mostly like that I chose it. Bio-engineering maybe? PERHAPS finance, but I don't play too well in that sandbox. The gist I was going for was more that even in a dev's greatest successes, they will likely never see most of the returns they generate for others without…

its a choice. Create your own startup, get lucky, sell your company for big money.

Easy.

Re: Yahoo sold to US telecoms giant Verizon

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Post by gerad »

existencebox wrote: post #229
chollida1 wrote: post #226

Yahoo got all cash, which is nice as it gives them more flexibility, the last thing they'd want after the Alibaba spin off fiasco is to have to try and sell 4.83 Billion in Verizon stock. Bloomberg just put up a head line saying that Yahoo will return all the cash, minus Operating Costs to the share holders. If anyone has any guess as to how much "operating costs" will be, please email:) So I guess queue Alibaba and…

There has been a lot of debate as to whether she succeeded or failed at her job, but at the end of the day all I can say: I really chose the wrong career path, as I can't imagine a scenario where a dev's comparative performance results in a 218m$ payout. (In more direct terms, I would gladly take the internet-hate-firehose in the face if it means making even single digit millions.) To make some more reasonable statem…

FWIW, Marissa was essentially a developer. She taught CS at Stanford and majored in Symbolic Systems, which is closely related.

Re: Yahoo sold to US telecoms giant Verizon

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Post by simulate »

Yahoo retains a market cap of $36 billion. The reason Verizon paid only $5 billion is that Yahoo Japan and Alibaba are not part of the deal.

> Yahoo owns about 35 percent of Yahoo Japan and 15 percent of Alibaba, two overseas companies that have long dwarfed Yahoo in size.

Re: Yahoo sold to US telecoms giant Verizon

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Post by notyourwork »

mysterydip wrote: post #161
phaedrix wrote: post #140

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Direct URL to opt-out: https://wbillpay.verizonwireless.com/vzw/secure/setPrivacy.a...

Ironically, it makes me log in with my "username or mobile number" even though they know exactly who I am from the unique ID I'm trying to opt out of having :)

Without logging in, someone could enumerate all of these IDs and opt out everyone. This at least protects some of their spying.

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Post by anexprogrammer »

dredmorbius wrote: post #224
RA_Fisher wrote: post #200

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Thank you for the thoughtful comment. I believe I read that John D. bought up smaller companies because he was obsessed with the extractive commodity boom-bust cycle. His intention was to raise prices. I'm really interested in this comment: "oil prices are set low by the market" Do you mean when externalities are included? Re: consortia, and cabals - restricting output and raising prices will bring new entrants into…

The market considers only extraction costs, not the natural capital's costs of replacement, ultimately measured in either time or energy, or a combined function of the two. It's as if you came into a windfall account, and could make withdrawals over time, but only counted cab fare to the bank as cost, not depletion of the principle amount. I'm researching on why that was the case, though a developing understanding of…

It's a tendency of capitalism to ignore externalities such as highlighted whenever possible. If we're to have a long term future we need the system to include such costs rather better.

> At the time, estimates of the age of the Earth itself ranged from a few tens of thousands of years to perhaps a few tens of millions. So one million years was a substantial fraction of all eternity.

James Hutton had been investigating the geology of Scotland and forming much of the basis for modern geologic timescales in the mid and late 18th C. By the mid 19th, most of the geological periods, we still use today, had been produced. Of course many geologists of the time had a tendency to believe in unlimited age!

Were it not for Lord Kelvin being so famously wrong we may have got decent estimates quicker. Even Kelvin was in the 30-400m years range.

http://www.es.ucsc.edu/~pkoch/EART_206/09-0108/Supplemental/... (pdf)

So they were mainly arguing about tens and hundreds of millions by mid 19th century I believe.

It took 50 more years until 1913 when Arthur Holmes took estimates from hundred millions to billions.

Re: Yahoo sold to US telecoms giant Verizon

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Post by ryanmarsh »

speeder wrote: post #256
SeanDav wrote: post #240

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe he was being a being slightly tongue in cheek. In reply to your question though - never follow the money, follow the path where your interests lie and where your strengths lie. Biggest career mistake I ever made was to move from a job I really enjoyed to another because they offered to more than double my salary.

But you still get to eat right? I followed my interests, and now can't afford food, literally. I should have went for a job a hate but that paid well.

This. I hate my job but tell me some other way I can make $300k (I'm basically doing management consulting). I'm 38 with 3 kids and my wife doesn't earn an income (she homeschools the kids). I suck it up so they're well provided for.
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