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by 001sky 12y ago
20 page slideshow with forced ads! Nice.
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"The rating, four levels below investment grade, is unsolicited because Palo Alto, Calif.-based Tesla doesn't have a rating agreement with the S&P to rate its debt, but S&P said there was sufficient investor interest to go
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S&P Rates Tesla Debt as 'Junk' – Update(online.wsj.com)
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Amazon Vs. Book Publishers, By The Numbers(forbes.com)
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With a business-guy-hat on, selling "lead-gen services" and keeping the leads locked-yp and propreitary ...is a great business model. So this is a no-brainer from the supply side. The question for the "buyers" of this ki
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Retailer's like wal-mart commonly extract rents for product placement. Comcast thinks this is a great business model. Paying such rents to comcast for "product placement" in the last mile? Not so clear cut for Amazon.
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This trivializes everything interesting about this case. Because this argument was previously had with Microsoft & Netscape. And Comcast and Netflix. And Amazon has a huge stake in two major policy issues upon which this touches: (1) Mo
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Think of this as a bike-commute substitute with a roof.
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Yeah, they immediately start parsing and backpedaling the headline: "the Canadian government is paying almost 80% of his <developers>' salaries.". Still disapointing they don't delve into the actual program structu
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This is about proportionality. Finite window trading strategies need to take into account the link between implementation overhead (time) and overall profitability (linked to time). Just the same way they need to link pricing and profits (l
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by 001sky 12y ago
Confirms what has otherwise been in the press for 2 weeks. However, it's helpful to hear it from Amazon directly. Sidesteps the need to "shoot the messenger"--An unfortunate direction of earlier discussions on HN.
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For reference to the underlying securities (which people seem to have either questions/mis-conceptions on): Tesla Announces $1.6 Billion Convertible Notes Offering Wednesday, February 26, 2014 http://www.teslamotors.com&#x
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It was more amusing that Tesla's PR implied you cannot understand their "value" using only public information. "The rating was “developed independently by their analysts without any feedback from Tesla on our growth pla
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S&P bothered to rate the stock offering You missed something in the writeup>"Tesla,... raised about $2.3 billion in March selling convertible debt"
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the parent seems to be referring to survivorship bias.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misogyny_in_hip_hop_culture Topic has its own wikipedia entry...with 71 footnotes. Edit: Sample Misogyny is prevalent in hip hop culture.[38] Overt misogyny in rap music emerged in the la
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A challenge for GE is that it doesn’t yet have access to most of the data its machines produce. Courtney says about five terabytes of data a day comes into GE. Facebook collects 100 times as much. According to Richard Soley, head of the In
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Tempting Europe With Ugly Fruit(nytimes.com)
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Social Psychological and Personality Science May 8, 2014 Worth Keeping but Not Exceeding: Asymmetric Consequences of Breaking Versus Exceeding Promises Ayelet Gneezy1⇑ Nicholas Epley2 http://spp.sagepub.com/co
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No Extra Credit for Delivering on Promises(psychologicalscience.org)
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"You Can Get Student Loans Forgiven in Bankruptcy, but It’s Far From Easy" Link title...
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by 001sky 12y ago
Great point. Glaciers on land are diffrent. There are also some ancient/long-lived ice formations in the south pole (also land/locked). I believe these are more like frozen freshwater lakes than glaciers (mobile, compacted snow et
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by 001sky 12y ago
Picketty has going for him he is looking in the right places. He's "barking up the right tree". Small data errors are like correcting a dog for poor syntax. The question for the dog is: are you barking up the right tree or th
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even if it is "threshold" its simply a binary relation and not an explanatory variable at the margin. so, yes...you might be able to weed out some data...but of what is left its unliklely to differeniate, except by proxy (as allud
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by 001sky 12y ago
This is an excellent comment. Last in the comment sub-thread here on HN. WTF.
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Part of my problem with comments is that they are rarely thoughtful or in depth, even at a site like this. They are what I'm writing now: a short snippet that's more like a back and forth conversation than a thoughtful analysis.
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Last year, for example, Popular Science, a 141-year-old American magazine, took the radical decision to banish comments from its website. Its editors argued that internet comments at the bottom of an article, particularly anonymous ones, w
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Still massively overconfident and un-prepared. Its easy to have "experience" but be lacking in the correct type of experience. Simple examples here: treefall. His previous experience was in the alpine, so maybe he wasn't exp
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Linkbait headline. 0.00394 inches = 1 trillion per cubic meter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbeads#Controversy It is still a huge environmental problem But then we continue: "Rayon was the most common synthe
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The reader needs to be careful--"wishes" are at once irrelevant "unkowable"-- as such they don't make anything "illegal". The language greenwald uses is intentionally mis-leading and manipulative, in this

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