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Boeing to sell at least $10B in shares to plug cash drain

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32 points bookofjoe | 2 comments | 15 Oct 24 21:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.422s | source
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xracy ◴[15 Oct 24 21:54 UTC] No.41853512[source]▶
Gosh, would be real cool if they hadn't bought all those shares, and just had the cash on hand to help... I don't know... invest in engineering and making planes fly with doors on them.
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1. dang ◴[15 Oct 24 22:39 UTC] No.41853870[source]▶
"Don't be snarky."

"A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(p.s. not defending boeing - just hn thread quality)

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2. xracy ◴[16 Oct 24 19:14 UTC] No.41862718[source]▶
I think snarkiness is particularly bad in discussions with people. But my comment isn't directed at a person. It's an invitation for us as a society to think about the long term consequences of stock buybacks. Please see the follow on discussion's about this topic. I think this is better comment thread quality than we'd get out of a plane (:D) dry comment about the numbers (which I incidentally also have below).

Also, I believe this comment is critical of stock buybacks, but it is not explicit about that. I leave that as an exercise to the reader.

That said, I will consider in the future less snarkiness in my comments.