What I've yet to understand is what unique or special skills these CEOs have that justify their compensation
For Yahoo, it was hoped that she would turn the company around. If she had done that, it would have been worth the money, but she didn't so it was a risk.
Consider a more narrow skill, though. Imagine she was really good at negotiating (maybe she is, I don't know). That could have gotten an extra billion dollars onto the sales price, or could be the difference between making and not making a deal at all. I think you'll agree that it's worth a few million $ to get a CEO who is better at negotiation (since the other side is thinking the same thing, it becomes a game of escalation).
I knew a CEO who was really good at sales, and really good at firing up the sales team to get out there and sell more stuff. She didn't get paid as much as Marissa, but she was measurably worth her high salary, based on revenue before and after hiring her.
If you want someone who has a proven record of making good strategic decisions, chances are they already have enough money to retire. In that case, you need to throw even more money at them to make it worth coming out of retirement.
There's a lot of interpretation of this one. Some people say that it means that Mosaic law is still in effect, others don't. Since Jesus and his disciples arguably ignored certain parts of Mosaic law, the latter interpretation is generally held to be more accurate,
I don't know of any Christian sect who interprets it to mean the Law of Moses is still in effect. If you know of one, please tell me.
In case there is any further confusion (and there was in the early days), Gentiles were not required to keep the Law of Moses. At the most strict, you could say the New Testament requires Jews to still keep the Law, but even that is a dubious conclusion given later writings of Paul.
You're using too much logic analyzing his words. It's BS, and he knows it's BS, and that is exactly why he said it. Like many salesmen, Trump is a bullshitter, and the bullshit is a distraction technique as much as anything. Don't be distracted by it.
Or actually, let me start with this: I think it's unfortunate that we have a two-party system. I think we should consider rethinking our elections in order to allow more parties to have more of a voice.
It won't matter. The government is going to be a reflection of the populace. As long as the populace is focused on stupidities instead of real issues, then no system of elections or campaign finance reform will fix that.
IF you want to improve government, focus on educating the populace. It's hard, but at least it will have an effect.
That's a good point. There's a way to keep hackers out of voting machines, and connecting them to the internet is a really, really dumb idea in the first place.
The vast majority of posts I've seen on this haven't been about securing voting machines, they've been about attacking ${POLITICIAN}. I'm out, back to blackboxvoting.org.
I want to point out that when Apple released the iPhone, they announced it at the last possible moment before releasing it. That was how Apple made a big splash.
Talking about it now, when he doesn't even have a device ready, seems like normal CEO talk, trying to pump up the stock price.
I read it. I wasn't trying to mislead anyone. The article is clear enough for anyone who cares.
The point I was trying to make is that if you don't want diacetyl in your e-juice, or other harmful substances, you should be selective about what juice you're buying. Be an informed consumer, not a guinea pig.
I mostly agree with your post, but it seems like you are falling for the fallacy that natural is better than artificial. It's not. Natural things kill just as much as artificial things. "Natural" and "artificial" are only vaguely correlated with "beneficial" and "hurtful" if at all, and are poor metrics for determining if something is good for you or not.
It's better to figure out how to get a natural high, and it's better to wake up in the morning with energy naturally instead of needing coffee, but if you're still smoking tobacco then stop today and switch to e-cigs. Your future self will thank you a million times.
Furthermore, it doesn't even need to be a superset. As long as you can make calls between functions written in each language, that's good enough. Separating your code into.c and.cc files isn't a problem.
Which makes Trump's claims all the more mystifying. Especially about his claims that maybe the U.S. could "get a better deal." The U.S. DETERMINED the "deal." It could change its own terms. About the only thing required by the deal that the U.S. would be legally obligated to in the future would be ongoing monitoring and reports on emissions, which (as I said) was basically already part of the original Senate-approved treaty in 1992.
My guess is he's trying to get the other countries to bend on other issues that he cares about, in exchange for him supporting this agreement.
the Russian sanctions which have been crippling to the Russian economy.
That's vastly overstating the case. At most the effect was a few percent of GDP, and even that much is unlikely. The important Russian industries were excluded.
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Good question. After an amount of research, it looks like they have a subtle interpretation, which in essence amounts to: keep the stuff we like, don't keep the stuff we don't like. Which is probably fairly common, I guess.
Self driving cars will have more economic impact than cell phones have.
How much do you want to bet the net economic impact of smart phones has been negative? People playing games and texting instead of working, etc....
What I've yet to understand is what unique or special skills these CEOs have that justify their compensation
For Yahoo, it was hoped that she would turn the company around. If she had done that, it would have been worth the money, but she didn't so it was a risk.
Consider a more narrow skill, though. Imagine she was really good at negotiating (maybe she is, I don't know). That could have gotten an extra billion dollars onto the sales price, or could be the difference between making and not making a deal at all. I think you'll agree that it's worth a few million $ to get a CEO who is better at negotiation (since the other side is thinking the same thing, it becomes a game of escalation).
I knew a CEO who was really good at sales, and really good at firing up the sales team to get out there and sell more stuff. She didn't get paid as much as Marissa, but she was measurably worth her high salary, based on revenue before and after hiring her.
If you want someone who has a proven record of making good strategic decisions, chances are they already have enough money to retire. In that case, you need to throw even more money at them to make it worth coming out of retirement.
Seriously though, do you think another CEO could have saved Yahoo?
It does now. Include <stdint.h> and you have it.
There's a lot of interpretation of this one. Some people say that it means that Mosaic law is still in effect, others don't. Since Jesus and his disciples arguably ignored certain parts of Mosaic law, the latter interpretation is generally held to be more accurate,
I don't know of any Christian sect who interprets it to mean the Law of Moses is still in effect. If you know of one, please tell me.
The Bible clarifies the issue on this point (which is surprisingly rare, actually). Peter later had a vision commanding him to eat unclean animals, which is against the law of Moses.
In case there is any further confusion (and there was in the early days), Gentiles were not required to keep the Law of Moses. At the most strict, you could say the New Testament requires Jews to still keep the Law, but even that is a dubious conclusion given later writings of Paul.
You're using too much logic analyzing his words. It's BS, and he knows it's BS, and that is exactly why he said it. Like many salesmen, Trump is a bullshitter, and the bullshit is a distraction technique as much as anything. Don't be distracted by it.
Or actually, let me start with this: I think it's unfortunate that we have a two-party system. I think we should consider rethinking our elections in order to allow more parties to have more of a voice.
It won't matter. The government is going to be a reflection of the populace. As long as the populace is focused on stupidities instead of real issues, then no system of elections or campaign finance reform will fix that.
IF you want to improve government, focus on educating the populace. It's hard, but at least it will have an effect.
That's a good point. There's a way to keep hackers out of voting machines, and connecting them to the internet is a really, really dumb idea in the first place.
The vast majority of posts I've seen on this haven't been about securing voting machines, they've been about attacking ${POLITICIAN}. I'm out, back to blackboxvoting.org.
I want to point out that when Apple released the iPhone, they announced it at the last possible moment before releasing it. That was how Apple made a big splash.
Talking about it now, when he doesn't even have a device ready, seems like normal CEO talk, trying to pump up the stock price.
setting things on fire
I was with you until there.
yet for thousands of years gold has proven itself to be valuable to people enough that it was used as money without any government decree
So were stones.
I don't think you even read the post you were responding to.
Do you really think that? Maybe I'm a bigot against dumb people who think that inside everyone is bigotry.
I like to write libraries in C, then use SWIG to make them available in basically every language. It's the most portable way to do things.
The poster should clearly be found and reprimanded!!
I read it. I wasn't trying to mislead anyone. The article is clear enough for anyone who cares.
The point I was trying to make is that if you don't want diacetyl in your e-juice, or other harmful substances, you should be selective about what juice you're buying. Be an informed consumer, not a guinea pig.
I mostly agree with your post, but it seems like you are falling for the fallacy that natural is better than artificial. It's not. Natural things kill just as much as artificial things. "Natural" and "artificial" are only vaguely correlated with "beneficial" and "hurtful" if at all, and are poor metrics for determining if something is good for you or not.
Nice clear post, well reasoned argument.
Remember back in the 80's when the FBI sold cocaine to black people in order to make Reagan look bad?
No, no, actually I don't remember that.
Some kind of bigotry exists in everyone. Everyone.
What does that even mean?
Yeah, a "chain-smoking" sort of addiction to anything is going to be bad for you, but with vapor you don't have all that tar in your lungs. Be careful of the ingredients in your e-juice so you don't get popcorn lung, and you're way better off compared to conventional cigarettes.
It's better to figure out how to get a natural high, and it's better to wake up in the morning with energy naturally instead of needing coffee, but if you're still smoking tobacco then stop today and switch to e-cigs. Your future self will thank you a million times.
Furthermore, it doesn't even need to be a superset. As long as you can make calls between functions written in each language, that's good enough. Separating your code into .c and .cc files isn't a problem.
Which makes Trump's claims all the more mystifying. Especially about his claims that maybe the U.S. could "get a better deal." The U.S. DETERMINED the "deal." It could change its own terms. About the only thing required by the deal that the U.S. would be legally obligated to in the future would be ongoing monitoring and reports on emissions, which (as I said) was basically already part of the original Senate-approved treaty in 1992.
My guess is he's trying to get the other countries to bend on other issues that he cares about, in exchange for him supporting this agreement.
the Russian sanctions which have been crippling to the Russian economy.
That's vastly overstating the case. At most the effect was a few percent of GDP, and even that much is unlikely. The important Russian industries were excluded.