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FSLY: Bad news, we took down the internet FSLY: Good news, we took down the internet

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100% true story: driving my 5th-grader to school this morning, and FSLY story is on the radio. I comment that I own FSLY stock and it's already way down, so this is bad news.

Kid says maybe it will go up because so many sites are using it. I double-down on it being a very public failure, so it will drop.

Looks like the kid wins that one, and maybe I should ask for his investment opinions more often.

Maybe everybody already knows about this newsletter, but if you've never seen it, the Money Stuff email from Matt Levine at Bloomberg dives deep into all kinds of market phenomena — from everyday things, to quirks like the now-famous $100 million deli in New Jersey.

It usually has a lot of interesting details, some of which I can actually understand.

https://www.bloomberg.com/newsletters/money-stuff/latest

Edit: removed quote to make it clear that I'm just talking about the newsletter, not the deli...

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This sounds like one of those Nigerian prince schemes.

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The catch, of course, is that the card has a stupid-high interest rate (~29%). They quickly make the money back on those who don't pay off the balance immediately. If you set auto-pay to pay the full balance, then the tax-amount discount is free money.

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No. The late 80’s and early 90’s saw national acts appear at varsity...

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Some local talent in the 80's:

U.S. Times
The Human Rayz
Lower Chakras - Tim Parrish from the Human Rayz
Dash Rip Rock - Bill Davis from the Human Rayz
The Dick Nixons - crazy school teacher/s from Donaldsonville, who had a short school bus painted black-n-white checkerboard as their tour bus - Mojo Nixon was a fan of theirs, I think they opened for him a few times
Blue Light Special
Tabby Thomas - who still played at the Blue's Box all the time
Chris Thomas (King) - Tabby's Son, who is featured on the Oh Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack)
Beausoleil - even back then they had been around forever
Picket Line Coyotes - from Shreveport

There were a lot of other bands, someone else can fill-in the blanks on those.

Tons of regional bands played at The Chimes (before those guys bought The Varsity):
Georgia Satellites - were ALWAYS sold-out at the Chimes, long before they had their hit
Drivin' n Cryin'
Alex Chilton
Eric Johnson
Tail Gators
True Believers
Brave Combo - a polka-rock band from Dallas always put on a good show
Evan Johns and the H-Bombs

Lots more, but my memory of that era is often fuzzy.

Anyway, it was a good time to live on Chimes Street.

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I finished around the world around 2000. damn I spent some money there

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I earned my Around the World shirt in about 1986 or 87. I still have it, and my name is somewhere on the first (or second) plaque.

I worked there at the time, and I think the rule was you could only count the beers you paid for when filling your card.

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I knew a guy that got a job offer in the fall of his senior year and didnt go back for the spring semester. They never checked.

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I hired a guy, and two days before his start date our HR office let me know they hadn't been able to confirm his degree. It took another couple of months to fill the position with someone who didn't lie on their application.

I work at a university where we have union and non-union staff. It creates a major divide and is a management nightmare. It's definitely tilted me toward the anti-union side of the ledger.

When my union staff member left, to get another union person to pick up a little slack (process expenses on about 10 transactions a month) took endless emails and several months of discussion, so we gave up on that and someone else volunteered to do it. All that for about one hour of work per month.

To top it off, the fringe costs to our employer are 30% on top of non-union salaries and 60% on top of union salaries.

Saturday we were buying some small trees at our local nursery and they mentioned a 10% discount for state horticulture society members. We joined online while shopping and immediately saved the membership fee. It will payoff when we buy another tree in the spring.

That's worth looking into, at least.

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Not a techie....should I do it?

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Word of warning: where I work, a few Macs were bricked by this upgrade a couple of weeks ago. I don't know any more than that, except that we haven't received an all clear yet.

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My sister and I inherited 1,000 shares each in ‘97. We were both in high school. Forgot all about it until a few years ago when our broker called after the split.

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Congrats on the $2.8 million each?

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Huh. I always thought they had GE engines.

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I think the purchasing airline can choose the engines, in some (many/most?) cases.

And this is just from a Quora page, but interesting:
"Market share of all three engine manufacturers, however, differs with each type of aircraft or its developed versions. For example, in A380 market Rolls Royce’s share is 40%, with Trent 900 engine. P&W and GE joint venture GP7000 engine has the remaining market. In B777 market GE holds about 65% share, with GE 90 engine, Rolls Royce 20% with Trent 800 engine and P&W 15% with PW4000 engine. In B787 market, Rolls Royce has 40% share, with Trent 1000 engine, GE has the remaining 60%, with GEnx series engines. P&W is out of competition."