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brotosson Shopify will be smaller by about 20% and Flexport will buy Shopify Logistics

Referring to "main quests" and "side quests" in a mass layoff notice is extremely cringeworthy

Taking on debt can lower your cost of capital. In a vacuum raising debt increases the value of a company too. Its just corporate finance theory

brotosson Meta plans $7B bond issue

interest tax shield it's beneficial for companies to raise debt and pay interest

brotosson Meta plans $7B bond issue

look up the interest tax shield

brotosson The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained

Now do Amazon

brotosson Amazon will require employees return to the office 3 days a week

I would love to see some empirical evidence surrounding these magically enlightening "water cooler" conversations that managers claim creates value out of thin air, because I am convinced it is just lip service from managers and capital holders to justify their existence

brotosson We need a middle class for startups

No we dont

brotosson Ready to Work at Lesser Salaries or Even Quit, Employees Want Only WFH: Survey

and your point? he literally said doesn't care if other people want to be on site.

brotosson FSB arrests REvil ransomware gang members

Elaborate?

brotosson 65k fake students applied for financial aid in wide community college scam

> I'm not aware of any financial aid package (outside of maybe some private loans?) that you can apply for with the intent of using that money for car repairs and have it not be fraud.

How do you think people pay rent, feed themselves, buy textbooks, etc, while in school? You just aren’t aware how financial aid works

brotosson Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else

Excel

brotosson Airlines eye crueler ways of making passengers miserable

Delta's NET income for 2018 was $3.95 billion dollars

brotosson U.S. Life Expectancy Falls Further

You're being pedantic for the sake of outrage.

brotosson Monthly Amazon Prime membership fees are about to increase

Is this satire?

You are complaining about free shipping speed to an island 2,400 miles off the coast of California

brotosson Mark Zuckerberg's Political Awakening

Nobody wants this

brotosson Facebook, You Needy Sonofabitch

You can still use Facebook Messenger with a deactivated Facebook account in case you didn't know

brotosson Two Executives to Leave Uber, Adding to Departures

Yea I was pretty much blown away by the difference between the Bloomberg feature in last week's Businessweek and the blog post that was submitted here earlier. Paints Levandowski in a MUCH better light with sources and high level interviews.

brotosson How a Water Bear Survives When It’s Dry

Trisolarans anyone?

brotosson Nintendo Switch review: pure potential

Nintendo Switch + Higher End PC will be the optimal gaming package

brotosson 72 Hours of Pwnage: A Paranoid N00b Goes to Def Con

Really boring article

brotosson Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur

No it started when 4chan allowed WebM

brotosson 78% of Reddit Threads with 1,000+ Comments Mention Nazis

I did Nazi see that coming!

brotosson Tay – Microsoft A.I. chatbot

No idea I'm not affiliated with either just saw it on GroupMe's support site