001sky

111 ms·

961.
by 001sky 12y ago
"Existing carrier licenses to preinstall..." This is a interesting point, but such contracts don't always freely transfer to an acquirer in an M&A situation. Depends on how they are written ("change of control"
962.
by 001sky 12y ago
"Article's behind a paywall, so I can't read it." Hence the other submissions.... There are about 10x on the new page right now. FT's the originating source, tho. (the one you linked to)
963.
Apple close to buying headphone maker Beats Electronics – FT(uk.reuters.com)
1 points by 001sky 12y ago|0 comments
964.
by 001sky 12y ago
"Keeping off-the-record or confidential information (whether about YC itself or a YC company) private and secret." VCs are very famous (as a class of investors) for not signing NDAs with anyone except under exigent conditons. Con
965.
by 001sky 12y ago
What to make of Chipotle? They basically took the SF burrito joint from a boutique/local food dive to a viable biz franchise. Hugely successful at scale...
966.
by 001sky 12y ago
CPA is ~meaningless when the 'acquisition' is mandated by law. It's not like there is any competitive "choice" here. this is simply y taxes spent divided by x people impacted by the law (who have complied). This is
967.
by 001sky 12y ago
The complaint also said Snapchat transmitted users’ location information and collected sensitive data like address book contacts, despite its saying that it did not collect such information. The commission said the policies allowed securit
968.
by 001sky 12y ago
Keeping speed avail allows one to sanity check other variables. So if you are coming in hot, speed tells you. It also helps you guage feel--like tires or traction variances over the track--by eliminating another degree of freedom.
969.
by 001sky 12y ago
Given that any realistic DCF model of Tesla needs to be probabilistic to some degree (measure different scenarios against each other) and that a company's true market value is still the unknown present-value adjusted sum of all its fu
970.
by 001sky 12y ago
^^^agree with this
971.
Fly over the Hollywood fault zone(graphics.latimes.com)
1 points by 001sky 12y ago|0 comments
972.
by 001sky 12y ago
High-fidelity socializing Advertsising works on TV because the latter is a passive medium. It's the story-teller and you are the listener. VR is more like gaming-- there is product placement-- but the decisionmaker is using the SW to
973.
President Obama to speak Friday at Mountain View Walmart(mercurynews.com)
3 points by 001sky 12y ago|0 comments
974.
by 001sky 12y ago
Toxic customers are a fault of a business model--not the customers. eg. some biz models are not robust enough to be "indifferent" to the customer--they have exteranalities that are not compensated for--customer support, say. Commo
975.
Radio Killed the Political Star(nytimes.com)
1 points by 001sky 12y ago|0 comments
976.
by 001sky 12y ago
Netscape invented the underlying code in the late 90’s, and then took away all documentation and support in 2001 after AOL bought them out. So, what happened ?
977.
by 001sky 12y ago
The data for deaths by US state is non-uniform: State Traffic Deaths (Per 100,000 Population) ________________ Wyoming 27.48 Mississippi 21.58 Arkansas 19.27 Montana 19.07 Alabama 18.01 Oklahoma 17.76 Kentucky 17.49 South Carolina 17.47 W
978.
by 001sky 13y ago
Deaths per road mile would be a more interesting statistic.
979.
by 001sky 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem
980.
GCHQ Used Fake LinkedIn Pages to Target Engineers(spiegel.de)
2 points by 001sky 13y ago|0 comments
981.
by 001sky 13y ago
Direct buying and selling requires ::effort::, thinking, spending on expertise, and salespeople. Dumping ads into a network that quotes absurd numbers and promises everything requires pressing a button and going to get coffee. This. Onlin
982.
TV execs want Netflix to be more like Hulu and Amazon(gigaom.com)
2 points by 001sky 13y ago|0 comments
983.
by 001sky 13y ago
Debt for equity swaps are only of use up to a point. The issue is the ration of one to the other. Which will be proportionate to cash flow and not to paid-in capital (or a multiple therof).
984.
by 001sky 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutralization_%28chemistry%29 There seems to be an established name for what you call mixing an acid and a base: Neutralization Chemistry. Even freshwater lakes like lake erie ar pH 8.4,
985.
by 001sky 13y ago
Conversely, acid doesn't "eat away" at anything, it's that things happily dissolve themselves into acid. These things don't disolve into acid--because they disolve into dilute alkaline solutions. This is unlike ac
986.
by 001sky 13y ago
giving voice to stories and ultimately serving as an independent check on government and power What is this "check" then? SCOTUS checks legislation by throwing it out. Nobody has elected or consented to "journalists" h
987.
by 001sky 13y ago
LA RTC / palmdale has alot of military air-traffic. Within 100 miles of it are major military installations in ridgecrest, ca (China Lake Naval Air Station etc). It would be very interesting (if unfortunate) if a recent SW upgrade coul
988.
by 001sky 13y ago
The resource curse seems to be mitigated the more the local population is involved in the engineering and science of the various resource exploratin/extraction processes. Norway having a tech-sector to "tilt" towards resource
989.
by 001sky 13y ago
So-called ocean "Acidification" appears to be 100% propoganda. "scientists do not think the seas will become truly acidic (with a pH less than 7.0), but rather less alkaline" So, it is not "acid" that is eati
990.
Get Ready for Regulators to Peer Into Your Portfolio (blogs.wsj.com)
1 points by 001sky 13y ago|0 comments

More ›