tamade | 1 year ago | on: DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome
How likely will Trump DOJ drop this? Consumers have choice, albeit just a handful of credible options. Nobody is forced to use Chrome (unlike MSFT pushing IE back in the day)
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tamade | 1 year ago | on: Wonder is acquiring Grubhub
"new kind of food hall" sounds much better than ghost kitchen
tamade | 1 year ago | on: New York City Council Votes to End Broker Fees Squeezing Renters
Glad they are ending this notorious NYC grift. Renting in the city is a horrible experience in no small part due to this broker racket
tamade | 1 year ago | on: California bans legacy admissions at private universities
better idea: let's ban nepobabies in california politics
tamade | 2 years ago | on: Say a Final Goodbye to Sprint – T-Mobile Is Reportedly Shutting It Down
Always found T-Mobile to be an odd brand for the US market since Americans still refer to these devices as cell phones rather than mobiles like the rest of the world. Wonder if they considered keeping the Sprint brand instead?
tamade | 2 years ago | on: Waymo and Uber partner to bring autonomous driving technology to Uber
Ironic given the legal saga between the two
tamade | 2 years ago | on: Japan's Old Art of Soba Noodle Delivery on Bicycles
Had the most sublime soba ever at Juugo in Kyoto. Small shop right off the Philosopher's Path. Literally farm-to-table, every serving made to order by chef-owner Ishhibashi-san who harvests his own buckwheat on his farm. Amazing what magic he conjures with just buckwheat and water. Try his sobagaki as well.
tamade | 2 years ago | on: Overnight 'hotel train' could link San Francisco and Los Angeles
This is so sad. Tokyo-Osaka, a bit shorter than SF-LA, is a 2.5 hr train ride. Beijing-Shanghai, twice as far as SF-LA, is a mere 4 hour train ride.
tamade | 3 years ago | on: DPReview.com to close
Why not find a buyer? Plenty of traffic and monetization
tamade | 3 years ago | on: We're Drowning in Subscriptions
Is there a card program for subscriptions? Similar to how Ramp or Brex manage SaaS payments but for personal use.
tamade | 3 years ago | on: UBS in talks to acquire Credit Suisse
The two rival banks have a lot in common, essentially identical cultures and similar scandals (though arguably CS has been more poorly run in recent years). Current CEO at CS ran a big part of UBS before taking the top job
tamade | 3 years ago | on: Minimum Viable Finance: The Guide for Seed/Series A Startups
Mercury Treasury takes a hefty cut (0.6%) of VUSXX yield. Any alternatives other than opening a Vanguard account?
tamade | 3 years ago | on: Stripe announces new round of funding and plan to provide employee liquidity
That last sentence is corporate PR spin. They very much need this capital to run the business, ie, they didn't have enough money to pay taxes.
tamade | 3 years ago | on: Mercury Vault: money market fund and up to $3M in FDIC insurance
> We also have a product called Mercury Treasury. This allows you to invest in mutual funds, the safest of which is a Vanguard Treasury Money Market fund (VUSXX)
Mercury charges 60bps for their Treasury product. Why the hefty fee for buying MMFs? VUSXX expense ratio is 9bps for comparison.
tamade | 3 years ago | on: Dow said it was recycling our shoes. We found them at an Indonesian flea market
The journalists went out of their way to not call them AirTags
tamade | 3 years ago | on: Japan: the harbinger state
It's just a notional loss for tax purposes. Japan has generous depreciation loopholes, some of which was closed a few years ago.
tamade | 3 years ago | on: Japan: the harbinger state
Not really. Japan isn't unique in how property is valued. Real estate values in market-based economies are set by the market. Cap rates in Japan are comparable to the US and other major markets. Assigning value to land or improvements is just accounting. Buildings in Japan (and elsewhere) "lose value" over time due to depreciation, not because only land has value. There are huge tax advantages to owning real estate vs other asset classes. For example, Japanese real estate owners take advantage of accelerated depreciation for wooden structures as a tax shield.
tamade | 3 years ago | on: The Radical Design of PizzaExpress
PizzaExpress was ahead of its time with its design and fast casual positioning
tamade | 3 years ago | on: NYC Slice
Best slice is Noch's in harvard sq
tamade | 3 years ago | on: NYC Slice
Homeslice in Shanghai is fantastic
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