Diego Segura
@diegosegura
designer, writer, founder. currently obsessed with monetary theory, high finance, corporate law, regretting dropping out of high school, and sudoku. author of a 2018 book, “the dropout manifesto.”
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Instead of pursuing bold acquisitions, he is now locked in pedestrian squabbles with cable operators and union leaders who refuse to be swayed, let alone charmed.
Dylan Byers • The Iger Bunker
Climate change is costing us dearly, and it’s only getting worse. I feel so intensely frustrated, largely because the preventative actions we could have taken were not mysterious to us: invest in renewables, transition from greenhouse gas-emitting energy generation, and put a price on carbon. We’re finally making some progress on green energy,... See more
America’s Carbon Bill Is Coming Due
that last part is a *key* argument — and it places the climate discussion back in economic terms and not in left-wing alarmist terms, which is how we can get everyone on board for Massive solutions
While the average for an Affirm loan is 18%, approximately 43% of loans are issued at 0% APR.
Nikita Sheth • How Affirm Makes Money: Their Business Model & How it Works
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partandwhole.comThe authors of The Federalist intended to influence the voters to ratify the Constitution. In Federalist No. 1, they explicitly set that debate in broad political terms:
It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies... See more
The Federalist Papers
a portion of that monthly payment you’re making is actually embedded interest because the investors bought it at a discount. So there’s an effective interest component up to this. Pipe actually has thought of this and they have a really nice little report inside their marketplace that shows you the discount or component of interest. And your... See more
Scott Orn • Accounting for startup financing from Pipe
At YC we use the term "Collison installation" for the technique they invented. More diffident founders ask "Will you try our beta?" and if the answer is yes, they say "Great, we'll send you a link." But the Collison brothers weren't going to wait. When anyone agreed to try Stripe they'd say "Right then, give me your laptop" and set them up on the... See more
Paul Graham • Do things that don't scale : YC Startup Library | Y Combinator
Bloomberg reported last year that one of these vessels, the 115m long Amur 2501 had taken on grain at Sevastopol in early July before heading to the Kerch Strait where it conducted what is known as a ship to ship transfer, effectively offloading the grain it was carrying on to another vessel while at sea. This other vessel then went on to deliver... See more
Bellingcat Investigation Team • Russia’s Ghost Ships and the Evolution of a Grain Smuggling Operation - bellingcat
Farley conceded that there are “a lot of underwater bonds in the banking system and that can pose financial stability risks because banks are leveraged institutions. If it’s levered 10 to 1 and you have a 10 percent loss, all the equity is gone.” Which, of course, is exactly what happened to Bear Stearns, which at times was levered 50 to 1, meaning... See more