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by chadash 8y ago
>> I do wonder how many people know that the wealthiest companies are private Some of the largest companies are state-run. If that's what you mean by "private" companies, then yes this is true. But I think that when p
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by chadash 8y ago
It always saddens me a bit when I see companies looking to hire outside executives rather than promoting from within. You promote someone to CEO and that opens up a slot for someone to replace that person, and then the next person and so on
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by chadash 8y ago
The problem is that outside of a few tech hubs, most companies are unwilling to pay developers salaries that even come close to what they can make in a tech hub. So the best developers move to the tech hubs, where the jobs tend to be more i
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by chadash 8y ago
VCs are one piece of the equation, but so is talent. Google could care less about VC money at this point, but they have large presences in Boston and New York where there's a strong local talent pool to draw from. And there's not
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by chadash 8y ago
Simple explanation of what this means. Here are current yields on Treasury Bonds (expressed as an annualized rate)[0]: 1 Mo - 2.47 2 Mo - 2.47 3 Mo - 2.46 6 Mo - 2.49 1 Yr - 2.41 2 Yr - 2.26 3 Yr - 2.19 5 Yr - 2.21 7 Yr - 2.32 10 Yr - 2.43
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by chadash 8y ago
I don't know your financial situation. Maybe $13K isn't much to you. However, I probably wouldn't buy these shares for the following reasons: 1) The company just fired all of its employees 2) The company just fired all of its
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by chadash 8y ago
This seemed like the most interesting startup in the batch to me. For those who didn't want to comb through 85 startup descriptions, Prometheus claims that they can "remove CO2 from the air and turn it into gasoline" for abou
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by chadash 8y ago
I think this misses the point of the analogy. Airbnb and netflix are both new competitors to hotels and blockbuster respectively, which are (or were) the entrenched players. Whether hotels are better or worse than apartment rentals doesn&#x
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by chadash 8y ago
A few aspects of weddings have been disrupted: - Registries: the article itself talks about Zola, for example. Although traditional registry sites (e.g. bloomingdales, bed bath and beyond) seem to still have most of the market in my exper
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by chadash 8y ago
"We are also making it much easier to try out and return a Tesla, so that a test drive prior to purchase isn’t needed. You can now return a car within 7 days or 1,000 miles for a full refund. Quite literally, you could buy a Tesla, dri
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$35,000 Tesla Model 3 Available Now(tesla.com)
10 points by chadash 8y ago|1 comments
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by chadash 8y ago
Some more notes: * basic model interior has cloth seats and paired down amenities compared to current model 3 * Looks like autopilot costs $3000 over base * Full Self-Driving Capability (on-ramp to off-ramp highway driving, autopark and sum
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by chadash 8y ago
https://3.tesla.com/model3/design#battery is showing a $35K base model
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Amazon's cloud competitors: We won't compete with you(cnbc.com)
3 points by chadash 8y ago|0 comments
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Do 'Close Door' Buttons in Elevators Do Anything?(mentalfloss.com)
1 points by chadash 8y ago|0 comments
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Spread the Digital Wealth(nytimes.com)
3 points by chadash 8y ago|0 comments
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by chadash 8y ago
I wonder if Google wants them around so that they can point to them as a competitor when anti-trust suits come up in court.
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The Golden Age of Rich People Not Paying Their Taxes(theatlantic.com)
199 points by chadash 8y ago|182 comments
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by chadash 8y ago
I have a theory on this. For most interview style coding problems (which tend to be algorithmic in nature), scripting languages such as python or ruby: 1) are less verbose 2) don't require worrying about typing 3) have really easy ways
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by chadash 8y ago
Article 14, part 4: The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. To
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by chadash 8y ago
I didn't want to get too much into the weeds, but it's actually the market [1] that determines the rates. What the US wishes to pay is irrelevant. As stated in my original post, the treasury sets an interest rate and a face value
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by chadash 8y ago
A quick explanation in layman's terms: I have money on hand and I want to put it into something safe. The US government is constitutionally bound to pay its debts, and is generally considered to be very safe (if not the safest invest
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by chadash 8y ago
As of 1:04 pm EST, looks like MSFT has a market cap of $807B compared to Apple's $812. If you look at their Q2 filing [1], their business has 3 main components: Productivity and Business Processes ($9.0B) - includes office, Microsoft D
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by chadash 8y ago
Pretty sure that Amazon and Apple registered their names quite early in the internet frontier days when domains were not very expensive. Not sure what Nike paid, but they were already a huge company by the time the internet came along. Ther
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by chadash 8y ago
Long Island prices are probably not going to be noticably affected. 25,000 people moving into NYC is a small blip. Perhaps Long Island City [1] prices will go up a tiny amount due to people who want to walk into work. To keep things in pers
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by chadash 8y ago
To be fair, the most well known examples of architecture tend to cost a lot of money to construct, and people spending lots of money want someone with experience. If you look at painters for example, a lot of them produce great work at rela
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by chadash 8y ago
I'll spare you the need to click through to this article. Basically, there are enterprise users and enterprise purchase decision makers. The article says you can't fail to market your product to the latter in addition to the forme
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by chadash 8y ago
Article says that they have ~$10.5M revenues with ~350 employees. That works out to $30,000/employee. That's really not very impressive. I'm sure this puts them pretty deep in the red (assuming their employees make a good amo
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by chadash 8y ago
Is there any reason Snowden would be in a position to know this? The article doesn't give any evidence, but merely an accusation. Snowden was privy to intelligence info in 2013, but it's been 5 years since then and I imagine that
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by chadash 8y ago
Counterfeits are actually a very big issue in the textbook industry. Anyone who deals with used textbooks knows this and they need to be very careful to avoid legal action from publishers. Do a google image search on "counterfeit textb

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