Referring to "main quests" and "side quests" in a mass layoff notice is extremely cringeworthy
Readit NewsThat makes 0 sense without more context or information. Even if interest is a tax deductible expense, it doesn't make sense to spend a dollar to save 30 cents.
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
I know there are already lots of questions to this effect, but if anyone can point to a good blog post that outlines "Why massively profitable companies with huge amounts of cash sell lots of bonds", I'd love to see it!
I can understand when interest rates are low as part of a "might as well get more money when it's nearly free" mindset, but as that's no longer the case, I don't understand the rationale behind this.
interest tax shield it's beneficial for companies to raise debt and pay interest
Meta has ~$40B as Cash-on-Hand [1]. Why does it need to raise this money via bonds?
[1] https://companiesmarketcap.com/meta-platforms/cash-on-hand
look up the interest tax shield
brotoss commented on The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained snarfed.org/the-twitter-a... · Posted by u/edent
Revenue not the same thing as profit
Twitter has only made a profit in 2 out of the last 11 years
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=twitter+profits+per+yea...
Now do Amazon
brotoss commented on Amazon will require employees return to the office 3 days a week seattletimes.com/business... · Posted by u/twiddling
Now that we have some distance from the whole forced-at-home-during-pandemic episode, what are people's opinions on the topic?
I do feel seeing people face to face a couple of times per week does help teams function better. Random water-cooler conversation lead to meaningful ideas. Overhearing team members talking about some related problem gives you the chance to jump in. Also better for overall motivation from what I've experienced.
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
brotoss commented on We need a middle class for startups neilthanedar.com/we-need-... · Posted by u/thanedar
No we dont
Not everyone's mental health has benefitted. I have been depressed for the past 2 years and started cutting myself and doing other selfharm. The only face to face social interactions I have are with baristas now.
and your point? he literally said doesn't care if other people want to be on site.
brotoss commented on FSB arrests REvil ransomware gang members therecord.media/fsb-raids... · Posted by u/_____k
> The FSB, which serves as Russia’s internal intelligence agency, said it conducted its operation at the request of US authorities
This needs to be understood through the Ukraine/NATO crisis lens.
Carrot and stick.
Show that you can act both in a "good" or "bad" way.
Elaborate?
The other interesting thing about this is I had no recollection of organized crime or any of these names having grown up around the city and now living downtown. Is it my fault for not ever wanting to know about the history of the city I grew up in? Or has society changed what it considers interested to where people don't really care about recent local pasts?
These sort of stories are really the thing I hope gets emphasized in the future of local news. Longer stories about people, both from the past but also in the current. Automation with AI generated news can't help become a thing, and hopefully this means more emphasis is put on reporters doing fuller stories, news stories, not news facts.
This is a story not only about the crime scene in Milwaukee ~50 years ago, but also the story of how the author learned about it and how it affects her. In fact, it's less of a story about a crime, and more of a story about what someone had to do in this age to try to understand more about what happened before.