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I think “quarterly profits” is a perfectly acceptable answer to the question “why now.”
Did they IPO when I wasn't looking? That is, what's different about this quarter versus last quarter? If the answer is "things are going worse this quarter than last quarter" then that's the nugget I was looking for/wondering about.
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It's apparently lower than "I made a raycaster in 256 bytes" and higher than "I got banned from Stack Exchange for not supporting Israel". I can't really tell where the bar is.
Did I miss something? The most recent post with the word "banned" in the title was apparently 5 days ago...
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Did I miss something? The most recent post with the word "banned" in the title was apparently 5 days ago...
It was this I believe -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40281699
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Did they IPO when I wasn't looking? That is, what's different about this quarter versus last quarter? If the answer is "things are going worse this quarter than last quarter" then that's the nugget I was looking for/wondering about.
Maybe they are going for that or acquisition. In which case juicing up the numbers will make things look better.
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I don't think the bar for appearing on the front page of HN is "important news" This is mildly interesting, and maybe important for a few people. That's enough.
It's apparently lower than "I made a raycaster in 256 bytes" and higher than "I got banned from Stack Exchange for not supporting Israel". I can't really tell where the bar is.
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The current title is fine. It’s a 50% increase (unambiguously), or a 0.5 percentage point increase (also unambiguously).
lets run away from math if it sounds bad!
A more honest title to me: Stripe increasing "instant payout" fees from 1% to 1.5% on US Current title: Stripe increasing "instant payout" fees by 50%
The current title is fine. It’s a 50% increase (unambiguously), or a 0.5 percentage point increase (also unambiguously).
"There has been a 1000% increase in traffic deaths this year, we must do something!"
Ah yes, we went from 1 death per year to 11 because there was a fatal bus accident, surely we need to do something.
The title feels a bit disengenious. Technically, yes, it was increased by 50% of what it was, but it is a shift from 1% to 1.5%, not up to 50% of each transaction.
Common example headline: "Inflation up by 100%" when it went from 1% to 2%. The headline implies goods & services are now 2x more expensive than before, which is not the case.