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It's gotta be a weird feeling when getting fired causes your company to gain 1.7B in value.
I'm sure he's getting a nice golden parachute in Twitter stock.
He does have a substantial equity position in Twitter.
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Which is wildly successful and doesn't cost us taxpayers a dime. If our "leaders" stopped actively sabotaging the USPS, it could be doing even better.
If it was wildly successful, how did we end up with tons of private competitors with a large market share (FedEx, UPS, DHL, OnTrac, etc). The U.S. Is one of the only countries where the state run postal service isn't sufficient. In Switzerland, for example, there is only the Swiss Post. Most countries, to my knowledge, operate with just one major postal network.
Because the US Postal Service is viewed as a utility, and required to service every address in the continental US (as well as most of its territories). Fedex, UPS, and other private carriers are under no such obligation, and so can extract profits from the most profitable routes or services, leaving USPS with more less profitable services to provide (first class, bulk mail).
If you don't think the USPS provides a phenomenal service for the price they charge, you're insane. I can send an ounce of paper across a continent for $0.50-$1.09.
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I'm not sure what you're implying? That he doesn't want to stick around? Jobs didn't take a salary after his return.
My hunch is that Jack won't/can't stick around for three reasons : a) He has another company to save which is in itself a full time job, given how hot the payments space is. b) If Twitter should ultimately (and rather ingloriously) be sold to say a Alibaba or Facebook or (longshots) Microsoft or Google, Jack wouldn't want to be the guy who 'trimmed the fat' and right-sized it for a sale. It wouldn't be good for his p…
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I'm sure he's getting a nice golden parachute in Twitter stock.
He's getting no compensation from leaving (a golden parachute). He does have a substantial equity position in Twitter.
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I'm surprised they haven't added something along the lines of docs.twitter.com that allowed Twitter to host/own long form copy but linking to it via short URLs just as they do with photos. Best of both worlds or too fragmented/confusing?
"they" did, it's called Medium (it was founded by @biz & @ev)
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What's insane about the requirements? They actually have to pay for what they promised?
They have to pre-pay 75 years worth, including future employees
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/unraveling-the-myth-that-t...
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How does it differ from uBlock (or, how is it better?)
It's maintained by the original author. The readme is a good place to start researching, but it's not that interesting a topic tbh. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/README.md
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The same ones private corporations are required to follow.
The US doesn't require private corporations to offer a pension at all. If they do voluntarily, it's almost always a 401k. The USPS' pension funding forced on it by a "starve the beast" Congress is much different.
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It was only wildly successful until our leaders "sabotaged" it by forcing it to obey standard actuarial practices. (Unlike the rest of the govt, the USPS is now required to fully fund it's pension plans.) See this comment for a more detailed explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6710602 Also, it's pretty hard not to be "wildly successful" when you get a legally enforced monopoly. Comcast is also "wildly s…
Yes and no. It's a monopoly that can't charge what it takes to stay afloat. Raising prices or changing delivery schedules requires an act of Congress! No member of Congress wants to have to answer for that, so the price of sending a letter hundreds - if not thousands - of miles, to be hand-delivered remains under one-half of one dollar $USD . THAT IS INSANE. It's been argued, deftly, that even with a decline in volum…