AIM will shut down after 20 years

Post by nradov » Sat, Oct 07, 2017, 4:15 AM UTC

SapphireSun wrote: post #236

manigandham wrote: post #187

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It doesn’t require that all. If anything, we are now seeing the opposite where top companies with considerable resources are remaining agile and innovative, effectively out-competing many new startups.

You're right... for now. We're seeing incredible concentration of wealth. Eventually they will become lazy and overly bureaucratic. Google, Apple, and Facebook in particular made their mark by dismissing customer service and by not addressing customer complaints, creating a culture of the "one true way". That culture + monopoly status will create (and is creating) a toxic miasma.

Post by JauntTrooper » Sat, Oct 07, 2017, 4:47 AM UTC

wallace_f wrote: post #290

sgift wrote: post #94

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> It is hard to move the ball forward when you reorg every year and have minor layoffs almost every year to keep OIBDA moving in the right direction so the execs get larger bonuses. Is there a an established term for this already? If not I'd like to call it stock market disease due to the usual reason for it.

Executive compensation often comes in the form of equity, but are there cases where execs are obligated to hold the equity over a long time horizon? Say 10-20 years? That seems it would align incentives better for everyone, no?

Post by dancodes » Sat, Oct 07, 2017, 5:00 AM UTC

Zarel wrote: post #256

th1nkdifferent wrote: post #244

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You should try plotting ease of recall vs the size of password. You will quickly realize there is a long tail beyond 16 characters.

"correct horse battery staple" doesn't fit in 16 characters, and has has much better recall than basically all similarly-secure passwords that do. Longer passwords let you optimize passwords for ease of recall and security, rather than fitting in arbitrary requirements.

Post by kylestlb » Sat, Oct 07, 2017, 6:20 AM UTC

k__ wrote: post #80

End of an era. Back in the days there was AIM, ICQ, MSN, YIM and IRC and everyone had their own preferences. I started with ICQ, because it was the thing gamers used and the shorter your UIN, the cooler you were! Later I had to install MSN and AIM, because all the girls were using them. Then there were the occasional YIM contact, hehe. Most of the day I was in IRC, but this was a whole different beast. 2005 or so I f…

Post by wallace_f » Sat, Oct 07, 2017, 6:31 AM UTC

JauntTrooper wrote: post #293

wallace_f wrote: post #290

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Executive compensation often comes in the form of equity, but are there cases where execs are obligated to hold the equity over a long time horizon? Say 10-20 years? That seems it would align incentives better for everyone, no?

There are some. Exxon's performance shares vest 50% over 5 years and 50% in retirement, with a 10 year minimum. One of the problems with this approach is in order to get executives to forgo their compensation for that many years you often have to pay them more, which gets into pay magnitude concerns. Norway's sovereign wealth fund Norges is starting to encourage companies to adopt very long term time horizons for equ…