Okay sorry and I didn't realize you had that capability for moderation, pretty helpful that you can isolate child threads.
One thing I want to question is how to criticize and steer discussion away from certain directions on this site? HN is widely known for the pedantic and non sequitur directions that discussions go, as ridiculous opinions get elevated and non-comforming opinions get downvoted to oblivion but not based on correctness or relevance.
Thoughts? I often speak in hyperbole to highlight the absurdity of other people's opinions, but that doesn't seem compatible with the mod's ideals for this site
> Rule of thumb for non profitable tech companies.... If you are a company that isn't making a profit and you continually preach look at the users, look at the users. and then fail to even hit your target on that, you're going to get punished.....heavily.
Employees get granted shares at any price, with the number of shares adjusted for the current price. Shares acquired before IPO can be sold for cash in 6-9 months. Shares in ongoing RSU packages can get sold in similar intervals but the main waiting game is for them to vest at all. Look at the dilution quarterly in the 10Qs, and look at the Form 3 and Form 4.
Your rule of thumb is missing the point.
Non profitable tech companies simply have to dangle a metrics carrot in front of investors as long as possible so they can keep dumping shares on investors as long as possible.
This is what Twitter is doing, Zynga, King, Snapchat (and Facebook, Google, etc. these have stronger fundamentals though). It doesn't matter if the shares are $20 or $2, the employees get granted the same monetary value of shares in each RSU package and they sell them over time.
Think of it like Dollar Cost Averaging for Dollars.
The capital markets are heavily tilted in favor of the issuer, so you have to re-align the purpose of the metrics with that in mind. "Who is benefiting from this", the issuer.
Only the executives get an EVEN BETTER parachute, if the company actually meets key metrics, but thats the only economic alignment we have and it comes from the board.
Many other times, the company and employees borrow against their shares, and get margin called when the share price goes too low too fast. This circumstance is basically the only thing that has a material affect on these companies (aside from just running out of cash altogether)
many summary judgements on flaky arguments are made just because the defendant didn't respond. the judgements are collected from you bank in any jurisdiction that will reciprocate
The government's not getting involved, oh you mean the fact that a judge is going to be involved?
Civil courts exist to provide monetary damages if damages can be proved to exist. Yes, they can also compel arbitrary behavior as a part of governing body.
This is independent of any stance on Zillow and a state licensing regime. If the plaintiff can convince that the tool is making her lose money, the judge will award her money.
"but that means < cue completely uninformed legal analogy >" yes you can make a career out of litigation, many people have.
I didn't violate any comment guidelines, which one did I violate?
I think I added to the conversation and this is a also a reality I live in. Kickback and relax, emphasis on kickback, is way more effective in creating favorable political situations for me and everyone I know, than a popular vote. Some jurisdictions formalize it with synonyms, others don't. Do I have to write massive disclaimers and sources for accepted reality just to avoid being shadowbanned?
I don't think the US constitution would allow for that tax, written that way anyway.
To pass a court challenge, the laws as written and the discussions around them have to apply to everyone otherwise it would be too discriminatory (5th amendment equal liberty clause, & 14th amendment equal protection clause). Maybe you could write it as all homebuyers in that jurisdiction being subject to the tax, and then its tiered for certain variables.
They aimed to help poor and disenfranchised groups get into their specialized public schools, by forcing a meritocracy, as disproportionately wealthy and white families were accepted because admittance was previously too discretionary and lots of excuses were made about why (hm sounds familiar).
After the meritocracy was established it became disproportionately asian by a huuuuuge margin (stuyvesant high school being ~75% asian with the city having a ~10% asian population) while poor and disenfranchised groups are still poor and disenfranchised. Just even more apparently now.
This is no comment about meritocracies, it is about illuminating how far off base a governing body will be at promoting a particular outcome.
Just vocal ones. Not being on Facebook is met with bewilderment usually, so online its easier to find other people that are relatable by speaking up. Many people that are tied to Facebook share the same woes and may be looking for more inspiration about how to simply live without Facebook.
So there's simply value in saying that you aren't on it, when these kind of threads or sound boxes pop up.
One thing I want to question is how to criticize and steer discussion away from certain directions on this site? HN is widely known for the pedantic and non sequitur directions that discussions go, as ridiculous opinions get elevated and non-comforming opinions get downvoted to oblivion but not based on correctness or relevance.
Thoughts? I often speak in hyperbole to highlight the absurdity of other people's opinions, but that doesn't seem compatible with the mod's ideals for this site