adamtmca

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Facebook ought to ditch its IPO(on.ft.com)
3 points by adamtmca 15y ago|2 comments
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by adamtmca 15y ago
I'm interested to hear why you wouldn't buy into that structure - is it a concern w/ Zuckerberg himself or an aversion to any situation where a single entity has majority voting rights?
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by adamtmca 15y ago
I was the one who asked their ages. I'm 22. I was just wondering. I knew that if I just asked "how old are you?" it would come off as a snarky comment on the situation. That's why I also included "Not making a judgement, genuinely just wond
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by adamtmca 15y ago
How old are you guys? Not making a judgement, genuinely just wondering.
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by adamtmca 15y ago
Someone managing a pension fund is a sophisticated investor. My sister is a teacher with a claim on the sizeable Ontario teachers pension fund but she doesn't pick the individual investments they do, nor should she.
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by adamtmca 15y ago
If anyone is interested, "Inside the House of Money" is a pretty enjoyable book about "global macro" hedge funds in the mid 2000's. It's just a series of interviews with hedge fund managers about their careers, their favourite trades and ho
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by adamtmca 15y ago
If I were you I would be more interested in companies that were started, got some traction and sold out for low double digit millions only to be shut down by their acquirer. Fflick, for example, was a really interesting idea and seemed to b
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Startup You(fakegrimlock.com)
1 points by adamtmca 15y ago|0 comments
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by adamtmca 15y ago
This guy was on the CBC a few months ago and I was basically screaming at my radio. One choice portion of the show was when the interviewer (who was lapping it up) asked what would be a good alternative to the stock market. He proposed bond
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by adamtmca 15y ago
hell of a username. do it justice.
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by adamtmca 15y ago
You couldn't know that without information about demand elasticity on his product. Decreasing the price could have increased the profit he extracted from his customers.
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Beers in Baghdad: Remembering the World’s Most Dangerous Bar(wired.com)
1 points by adamtmca 15y ago|0 comments
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by adamtmca 15y ago
Your comment got down voted because your tone was arrogant & you didn't actually add anything to the discussion. Here is an example (my own) of how to make a comment about business minutia on HN. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=286
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by adamtmca 15y ago
The article was about basic accounting principles, not enterprise valuation. Its unlikely that anyone who was reading that article to learn about the basics of accounting would be able to gain anything at all from your comment.
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by adamtmca 15y ago
Seems like something my mom or the local news would mention when talking about how phones can "do just about everything these days" but wouldn't actually get used. "Well Cathy, theres even an app to keep track of your tab when your out on t
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by adamtmca 15y ago
Is the fact that Google and Facebook alone are worth more than the combined market capitalization of the entire entertainment sector getting any play in this discussion? http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=entertainment+industry+...
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by adamtmca 15y ago
Ah, good point. I was thinking that if you are bothering to ship up the feedstock why not just ship the spare parts themselves? But you are right, this would reduce the total mass they needed to lift to orbit.
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by adamtmca 15y ago
Haha, good point. The acronym didn't even cross my mind when I was using it.
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by adamtmca 15y ago
Can anyone recommend something similar to Stripe or WePay for Canadians.
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by adamtmca 15y ago
The video on the right offers a good overview of their findings.
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Thought influences physical systems - Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research(princeton.edu)
1 points by adamtmca 15y ago|1 comments
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Why Innovation Can't Fix America's Classrooms(theatlantic.com)
32 points by adamtmca 15y ago|62 comments
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by adamtmca 15y ago
I'm not saying these and other business phrases aren't widely misused or used as a way to sound smart while saying nothing. But in case anyone is interested: Synergy The term comes from M&A and refers to scenarios where the whole (afte
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by adamtmca 15y ago
Their iphone app is usable, definitely not amazing. Try ordering two of the same kind of dipping sauce or removing toppings from a pizza. (I just had used it haha)
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by adamtmca 15y ago
Don't Bloomberg and Reuters offer something similar built into their news feeds? Not that this would negate what you are doing, just wondering.
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by adamtmca 15y ago
Higher IQ = go to college/ university = experimentation.
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by adamtmca 15y ago
I would also let them set the time of day for the notification.
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by adamtmca 15y ago
What would the equivalent of a popped tire look like? I couldn't help picturing shrapnel..
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by adamtmca 15y ago
The fact that the writer hasn't actually researched an important part of their largest competitor's business model doesn't speak well for Womply.
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by adamtmca 15y ago
How did you find your way to hacker news?

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