crapshoot101

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by crapshoot101 11y ago
Victor David Hanson is a pretty conservative guy and his point certainly has some merit, but there's definitely some "rose-tinted" glasses here. For example, while I tend to agree with him on the water and environmental asses
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Jack Dorsey gives 1/3rd of his Twitter stock back to employees(bloomberg.com)
5 points by crapshoot101 11y ago|0 comments
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by crapshoot101 11y ago
This is a fair point, and I don't disagree, but the lobbying is by no means limited to private corporations. For the best example, look at California and the State prison guard unions, who have consistently argued for more mandatory se
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by crapshoot101 11y ago
Btw, Mark Bowden, the author of the story that's cited as the "official" version, makes his case here. http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/10/mark-bowden-bin-laden...
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by crapshoot101 11y ago
One big danger is assuming that the Pakistani state is some sort of monolithic entity - it isn't. The ISI is a state within the state, and there are significant sectarian movements and tribal loyalties on top of it, and that's wit
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by crapshoot101 11y ago
I think its more that the market is pricing in two things in its probability estimation: 1) The deal won't actually close until next summer. Even if we know for certain that the price is locked in at the numbers specified (due to colla
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by crapshoot101 11y ago
Its a fair point, but its a little bit more complex than that. For example, EMC's valuation is really dominated by VMWare, of which it owns 80% (indeed, much of the strategic discussion around EMC before Dell emerged had focused on a m
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Mohamed El-Erian on economics, politics and his hope for a 'Sputnik moment'(ocregister.com)
1 points by crapshoot101 11y ago|0 comments
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Dave McClure Tweet Storm on Seed Round Valuations(genius.com)
2 points by crapshoot101 12y ago|0 comments
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by crapshoot101 12y ago
That's absolutely false. To take one example, ModCloth came out of CMU. Way back in the past, Lycos came out of CMU (a multi-billion $ exit back in the old days). More recently, something like Anki is a bunch of CMU engineers; GroupMe
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Jet Investor Explains Why the Need $220M in Funding(recode.net)
1 points by crapshoot101 12y ago|0 comments
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Guardant Health Raises $50M for Biopsy Free Cancer Screening(techcrunch.com)
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The new GT is the sickest car Ford has ever made(theverge.com)
2 points by crapshoot101 12y ago|0 comments
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The Thin Skin of the VC Market(thisisgoingtobebig.com)
1 points by crapshoot101 12y ago|0 comments
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Tesla wants to sell you a used Model S(techcrunch.com)
62 points by crapshoot101 12y ago|51 comments
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by crapshoot101 12y ago
The most amazing thing for me of the piece is the realization that HP still had $110B+ in revenue last year - its a useful reminder to us (put myself squarely in this category) of some of the behemoths in the valley that get short shift at
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The Story of How the Apple Store Cube Ended Up in Manhattan(nymag.com)
3 points by crapshoot101 12y ago|1 comments
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by crapshoot101 12y ago
Michael Pettis is one of the smartest guys alive covering China - well worth a read. Though I wonder if he thinks the demand-side issues are truly fixable in any systematic sort of way (ie, he doesn't seem like a Scott Sumner type) - c
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by crapshoot101 12y ago
Japan may not officially have nuclear weapons, but they do not lack the capability - if they decided to weaponize (which would never happen short of a Chinese existential threat), they could do so in a matters of days, not months - the nucl
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by crapshoot101 12y ago
By the way, Tyler Cowen has an interesting link on this (Citing the FT): note that financial services are the biggest part of Scotland's GDP now, and getting away from the pound would affect that: http://marginalrevolution.c
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by crapshoot101 12y ago
You think Boris wouldn't be the heir apparent in that case, not Osbourne?
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by crapshoot101 12y ago
Would be shocked if this actually happens. Most Scottish business will move down south (they've said as much loudly), they will not be able to use the pound, and because of the EU's "any member can veto policy", I think
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by crapshoot101 12y ago
Agreed. There are people doing good work in this area, but if we've learnt one lesson, its that the economic gravity tends to win out. In the drug war (not a perfect analogy by any means), as long as US consumer demand exists, people w
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by crapshoot101 12y ago
Tiger's are another issue - a big reason for the decrease in India's tiger population is that the demand from China is so overwhelming; apparently a tiger's gonads are considered a valuable aphrodisiac. This kind of insanity
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by crapshoot101 12y ago
Ditto! Was very confused at the application of long treatises to remote acesss!
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ZenPayroll launches an API(techcrunch.com)
2 points by crapshoot101 12y ago|0 comments
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by crapshoot101 12y ago
Interesting, took an uber in Berlin about 3 days ago. The options here are much more limited (its UberPop, instead of UberX), and the driver coverage is smaller (my friend recognized the driver as being the same one he had seen a month ago)
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by crapshoot101 12y ago
Nah, that's a famous quote "the playoffs being a crapshoot", which makes the point you attribute (ie, you may well lose 3 games if you have a 55% chance of winning each, despite the probabilities suggesting you wouldn't
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by crapshoot101 12y ago
Heh, same bucket - I don't even try and have FB load on the phone anymore. My primary use case is email, Twitter (When I'm bored), WhatsApp / SMS / Snapchat / Google Maps (spending summer in a new city) and listenin
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by crapshoot101 12y ago
That's definitely fair, and its one of the main reasons I try explaining to non-tech friends why many (not all) of these valuations are complete and utter BS - they are options, not real equity purchases (note: some companies with $mu

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