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by arzt 8y ago
No, this is what's termed an "Original Issue Discount" in debt parlance and allows for a lender to earn interest without a cash coupon on the loan. Basically they give them $5mm, but the "par value" of the loan is $
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Rise of global computers raises questions(ft.com)
1 points by arzt 8y ago|0 comments
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by arzt 8y ago
There is no reason to stab in the dark re: a cause. Wealth concentration is the cause. Break up the big 4 and you will cause a massive wealth redistribution by the unleashing competition that has been stifled in tech.
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by arzt 8y ago
Please, for the sake of all that is holy, let's not let Coinbase get sold to Facebook.
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by arzt 8y ago
Increasing returns in action.
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by arzt 9y ago
mainframe is attacking this issue https://mainframe.com/
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by arzt 9y ago
Does that matter? The author is speaking on behalf of the shareholders (pension funds, mutual funds etc) who are supposed to be fiduciaries to clients that expect their funds to be invested responsibly (read hyperbolically as: not in compan
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by arzt 9y ago
In investment parlance the government would build them a moat. Companies with capital to maintain compliance will have a head start on any startup looking to unseat them. Should this come, it will be a lot harder to start a startup.
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The Juicero founder is really into raw water(news.vice.com)
2 points by arzt 9y ago|0 comments
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by arzt 9y ago
More importantly, they used the overcrowding excuse as a means to raise $800mm+ from New York taxpayers. If this capital wasn't necessary given the problems they cited were non-existent, this amounts to fraud.
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by arzt 9y ago
Moviepass is likely running negative gross margins on those expensive urban theaters and this is a hardball tactic to get AMC to the negotiating table to bring those visit costs down. It is a risky move given the Moviepass provides no other
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Burger King Trolled Customers to Perfectly Explain Net Neutrality(motherboard.vice.com)
2 points by arzt 9y ago|0 comments
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by arzt 9y ago
Digital Gold by Nathaniel Popper is incredible context.
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In Portugal, ISPs are starting to split the net into packages(twitter.com)
3 points by arzt 9y ago|0 comments
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by arzt 9y ago
1990s Neal Stephenson was incredible.
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by arzt 9y ago
Yes. It was announced in local NYC papers a month ago: https://tribecacitizen.com/2017/10/06/wework-is-co-launching...
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by arzt 9y ago
Any advice for newbies looking to mine XMR?
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by arzt 9y ago
You'd hope the chain with the most utility wins out.
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Rumors China to Block Bitcoin Nodes, Will They Criminalize Crypto Mining?(trustnodes.com)
1 points by arzt 9y ago|0 comments
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Google Offers Olive Branch by Relaxing Policy on Subscription Sites(wsj.com)
1 points by arzt 9y ago|1 comments
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by arzt 9y ago
It's an indicator that the market needs to be more discerning about consumer needs. There is a lot of dry powder waiting to be deployed in the VC industry, so expect to see more specious stuff get funded until LPs decide that they can
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by arzt 9y ago
"there are “only two ways to make money in business: One is to bundle; the other is unbundle.” - Jim Barksdale https://hbr.org/2014/06/how-to-succeed-in-business-by-bundli...
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by arzt 9y ago
Could a committed nation state try to 51% attack a popular currency for nefarious purposes? It would seem to me (given these oligarchs' assets are frozen outside of Russia and that they are seemingly unbankable in the west), that havin
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by arzt 9y ago
Whole Foods is an instacart equity owner. I would be curious how this is being handled given the new conflict.
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by arzt 9y ago
Aside: there's a great Todd Snider song about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPY0tomARjU
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by arzt 9y ago
Has another consumer tech company with any visibility ever been charged under RICO?
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by arzt 9y ago
I'm curious about the naming choice as the end of the movie with Heston reveals that eating "Soylent Green" is a form of cannibalism. Does the term "Soylent" signify something outside of the movie?
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by arzt 10y ago
In another life... :)
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by arzt 10y ago
Lol, effectively. A convert is basically a forward stock sale, so if you're TSLA you're basically saying "I get a pretty good cost of capital if my stock stays where it is, but if it goes up a lot, my company is probably in b
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by arzt 10y ago
Sort of, but not really...the FASB has said you can treat the underlying shares as non-dilutive if the stock price isn't above the conversion price (this is called "net share settlement"). So basically, while outstanding, the

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