Hacker News: tamade

New comment by tamade in "DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome"

tamade — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 23:55:34 +0000

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)

New comment by tamade in "Wonder is acquiring Grubhub"

tamade — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 23:53:18 +0000

"new kind of food hall" sounds much better than ghost kitchen

New comment by tamade in "New York City Council Votes to End Broker Fees Squeezing Renters"

tamade — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 23:51:53 +0000

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

New comment by tamade in "California bans legacy admissions at private universities"

tamade — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:53:59 +0000

better idea: let's ban nepobabies in california politics

New comment by tamade in "Say a Final Goodbye to Sprint – T-Mobile Is Reportedly Shutting It Down"

tamade — Tue, 30 May 2023 17:46:13 +0000

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?

New comment by tamade in "Waymo and Uber partner to bring autonomous driving technology to Uber"

tamade — Tue, 23 May 2023 20:40:20 +0000

Ironic given the legal saga between the two

New comment by tamade in "Japan's Old Art of Soba Noodle Delivery on Bicycles"

tamade — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 03:56:37 +0000

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.

New comment by tamade in "Overnight 'hotel train' could link San Francisco and Los Angeles"

tamade — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 02:37:46 +0000

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.

New comment by tamade in "DPReview.com to close"

tamade — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 23:59:21 +0000

Why not find a buyer? Plenty of traffic and monetization

New comment by tamade in "We're Drowning in Subscriptions"

tamade — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 23:50:25 +0000

Is there a card program for subscriptions? Similar to how Ramp or Brex manage SaaS payments but for personal use.

New comment by tamade in "UBS in talks to acquire Credit Suisse"

tamade — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 23:39:17 +0000

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

New comment by tamade in "Minimum Viable Finance: The Guide for Seed/Series A Startups"

tamade — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 23:15:54 +0000

Mercury Treasury takes a hefty cut (0.6%) of VUSXX yield. Any alternatives other than opening a Vanguard account?

New comment by tamade in "Stripe announces new round of funding and plan to provide employee liquidity"

tamade — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 21:59:34 +0000

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.

New comment by tamade in "Mercury Vault: money market fund and up to $3M in FDIC insurance"

tamade — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 04:09:38 +0000

> 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.