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by Gaussian 15y ago
The right play for Arrington here: admitting he straddles a unique spot in the tech coverage universe and pledging that he will do his best to keep things straight-up. He deserves some criticism. But that said, one of the reasons he conti
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by Gaussian 15y ago
Utterly agree. Swisher's measures are draconian. And Arrington comes off like an impudent 17-year-old here.
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by Gaussian 15y ago
By employing the words "Bin Laden Killing," is the post author guilty of the same SEO play that he espouses to hate? Or is it intentional irony?
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by Gaussian 15y ago
What's amazing to me, especially after seeing these few photos of wreckage, is that everybody inside got away alive, according to the Pentagon. Intuitively, I've always thought that any helicopter crash = death sentence. Clearly, that's n
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by Gaussian 15y ago
I've found the smartest people I know tend to embrace the ethos of this piece almost instinctively. As for those who have to be spoon-fed these strategies? Well, in short: they're not as smart.
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by Gaussian 15y ago
I think it's the value of the index X $1,000. So the notional value traded per day is more like $1.1 billion because the index is now around 73.
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by Gaussian 15y ago
I doubt there's much liquidity to be had in these dark pools. More likely they're dark deserts.
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by Gaussian 15y ago
Save the pedantry for execution, not micro-managing equity splits. To me, job No. 1 is keeping your small team happy, united and focused. I don't think you maintain the camaraderie necessary when you're tossing 5% and 20% bones to people
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by Gaussian 15y ago
This is getting more than interesting. Out of the new entrants, I have to give the edge to Facebook. Assuming all of these companies can put together sales forces capable of finding good deals and vendors--but getting a corps of 2,000, li
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by Gaussian 15y ago
The venomous use of the word "copycat" when it comes to competitors permeates the Groupon culture, from the C-Suiters to the sales folk. It's really something. They would be better off, IMO, dropping the nastiness, and simply continuing t
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by Gaussian 15y ago
Definitely a serious ramp up going on here. We'll see if they can hold their ground.
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by Gaussian 15y ago
The number quoted by Groupon to vendors is 15%.
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by Gaussian 15y ago
He takes the same "it's easy" tack when explaining how people can green their homes. He then describes what he's done at his own home, which, he fails to mention, is a 12,000-square-foot mansion for which he bulldozed an existing house to
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by Gaussian 15y ago
If only there were a way to short middling private schools. The hedgies shorting the for-profit schools are well documented. But you have to think that the lower- to middle-tier non-profit private schools--the ones that charge tuitions no
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by Gaussian 15y ago
I prefer the Forbes PG cover.
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by Gaussian 16y ago
All true, obviously. That's why there's real power in rebalancing your portfolio on a regular basis. It forces you to push money into sectors that have headed down and pull money (take profits) from sectors that are up.
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by Gaussian 16y ago
Also a good point on Comcast. But just because they own both pipes doesn't mean a revolution couldn't be kindled in one of them (the net pipe).
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by Gaussian 16y ago
Good point on Apple. I was more thinking of specific channel content and making it available a la carte. So, say, $7/month for an ESPN stream.
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by Gaussian 16y ago
At some point, Comcast and its buddies are going to be felled by somebody, somewhere who figures out how to offer premium content a la carte. It's hard for Hulu to do that now because they don't want to upset the cable people, but if they
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by Gaussian 16y ago
Somebody will package this whole thing--along with the rest the question marks from Facebook's nascent days--into a banal biz school class: "How to avoid squishy Facebook problems."
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by Gaussian 16y ago
Why would that be the case? If he had 50% back then -- same as MZ -- his stake would still be worth billions.
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by Gaussian 16y ago
Exactly. The average American's day starts in the kitchen. It then migrates to the seat of a car, then to a comfy chair at a desk, then back to the steering wheel, which, of course, gives way to the kitchen and the dinner table. Then to
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by Gaussian 16y ago
The oldest of the Chicago IKEA stores (Schaumburg) was allowed to be arranged without the blinder walls until just a few months ago. Having never been to a different IKEA, I was confused upon walking in last week. I did feel as if I was i
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by Gaussian 16y ago
What will truly be interesting: How will Google wield its patent cache when, inevitably, waters get rougher in the future and some upstart punches them in the nose? If they shake it off and say, "let's dance," rather than calling their pat
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by Gaussian 16y ago
There's a cassette reference, a beeper mention, Netscape 3.0 and 21 Jump Street. This is a winner.
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by Gaussian 16y ago
Simply plotting their apartments or stuff for sale on a map would make a big difference in ease of use. A YC company, Padmapper, does this for you, but why doesn't CL see this as utterly necessary? Searching for something, be it an oak ta
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by Gaussian 16y ago
Try NuclearPhynance.com
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by Gaussian 16y ago
So, Bob, how many customers is one dead elephant worth? Next time you could leave the film crew at home maybe? Or would that subvert your whole point?
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by Gaussian 16y ago
Even with this solution and well-designed code, a trader needs external infrastructure that plays on the same low-latency level. Most HFT strategies aren't as secret as you think; there are usually dozens of shops running similar trades.
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by Gaussian 16y ago
As the ad states, Florida is the place for news. I've heard more than one editor advise reporters to go there early in their careers. Drug smugglers, immigration, presidential electoral swings, real estate boom and crash, jungle panther

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