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by digz 13y ago
You're cherry picking a period which actually helps to make sliverstorm's point: The last few years have been categorized by significant increases in taxes, and regulatory burden, which cause uncertainty in the business environme
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by digz 13y ago
Never said it was the only part. My point was that when credit dries up, jobs are lost.... i.e., supply causing problems. Lots of reasons for why credit can dry up, but the idea that jobs are only a function of demand is ludicrous.
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by digz 13y ago
Your understanding of my point is deeply flawed. 1) Saving in itself does not create jobs, but savers allow for jobs to be created. 2) Not my fundamental statement at all.. My point was that the supply of credit (significantly shrunk due t
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by digz 13y ago
No such thing as wealth hoarding in practical terms. You'd have to keep cash under your mattress to actually be wealth hoarding. What is popularly perceived to be wealth hoarding (people worth millions/billions) are really doing
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by digz 13y ago
This article leaves me wanting more. I suspect the 'why' is much more interesting. Some thoughts: -Billionaires primary derive their net worth from stock, which is difficult for them to sell. Paper gains, don't represent in
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by digz 13y ago
So explain the credit crisis? All savers, even if they aren't founders/owners of companies themselves, create jobs by keeping their money in the financial system. Whether by owning stocks, bonds, private equity funds, or savings
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by digz 13y ago
I think you misunderstood the quote. BG is referring to hardware resource limitations... and saying it was a good thing in terms of encouraging efficient design.
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by digz 13y ago
Never mind the two international off-site trips they take everyone on each year. Look, not saying they can't do it.. just saying as an investor, I'd wouldn't support it. Money is after-all fungible. It doesn't matte
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by digz 13y ago
Disagree. The founders of my company (including me) are paid less than almost everyone else that works with us. I know few rigorous investors that would stand to pay their CEO/founders more than ~80k a year, at least until it's c
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by digz 13y ago
Don't think most users are looking to use this in a production environment. Virtually everything you can do with DN and Excel generally, you can do much more effectively without touching excel. It however is extremely useful for one-
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by digz 13y ago
The prevalence of less/fewer errors everywhere is astounding. I saw a national ad on TV the other day with 'less calories' featured prominently. This error was the first thing I noticed on the page as well... but I'm g
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by digz 13y ago
Then goodwill isn't the right word for it, because goodwill has a precise definition that isn't fudged. Additionally, the author made a good point in that many investors are not buying straight common shares. You can't simply
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by digz 13y ago
I thought the offer from facebook was 3B all-cash for everything? http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/11/13/snapchat-spurned-3-bi...
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by digz 13y ago
Sorry if my point wasn't clear. >> This makes its estimation implicitly data-starved, because with a DCF at leat you are getting a time series of independent measurements. It isn't a data-starved number. It is often as simp
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by digz 13y ago
I think you are confused by what 'value' is. 'Estimated worth', as you put it, is value. There are many ways of attempting to value a company, including looking at the discounted (and estimated) future cash flows, but t
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by digz 13y ago
A service company (i.e., a law firm) being acquired would almost exclusively depend on goodwill for the accounting of the transaction. There are few fixed assets beyond desks and chairs and possibly a property lease to include as assets.
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by digz 13y ago
No. Few companies are worth their exact book value. Accounting a balance sheet in of itself does little to tell you the true value of the company. For example, Google's book value is roughly 100B while its market cap (the implied va
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by digz 13y ago
I had forgotten about Cliff Stoll for years... I remember reading his book Silicon Snake Oil in 1995 and giving a presentation to my middle school class about how simplistic the author's arguments were. His argument and the degree to
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by digz 13y ago
As a heavy user of DataNitro in the finance world, I can attest to how much it has improved my life. It allows me to interact with my data providers' excel plugins in a much more expedient manner. I could use their direct data feeds,
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by digz 13y ago
Of domestic politically driven assassinations??? Must have been on the moon!
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by digz 13y ago
Really? Trusting the word of a guy who's son was one of AQ's top lieutenants? Here's an alternative story... the 5 'civilians' he was with were his father's old AQ friends. Comparing these two cases is a joke.
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by digz 13y ago
Workforce is not responsible for productivity increases... technology is. Also, minimum wage is a terrible measure to use here. Look at median wages, or even look at the upper end of the bottom quintile. Less than 3% of the country's
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by digz 13y ago
This also assumes that this is information that Snowden wouldn't release anyway and that someone cares about. True or not, the perception by those who believe that he jeopardized national security is almost certainly that he's lik
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by digz 13y ago
As someone of Turkish Jewish origin, I am very aware of this. I think perhaps my comment was misunderstood. My point was more broadly that democracy and the region are not compatible. For the majority of the last century Turkey was always
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by digz 13y ago
The problem is that they are not dictators... They were democratically elected. Morsi may have lost popular support, but is democracy served by a coup every time a country's leadership's approval numbers drop below 50%? In the
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by digz 13y ago
Since Roger Waters revealed himself to be an anti-semite, I can no longer take anything he says seriously.
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by digz 13y ago
And I'd guess that those 30% are disproportionally represented.
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by digz 13y ago
No, it's the government (or more specifically, taxpayers [today's or tomorrow's]) giving straight cash. It's also the only reason Goodwill exists.
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by digz 13y ago
And then we enter into a massive deflationary recession, you lose your job, people go hungry, etc... all because there's been massive demand destruction for 'shit'. Doesn't sound so great. Or just let people decide wha
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by digz 13y ago
As far as I can tell, Mueller didn't say the FBI uses drones to spy* on us. There may be specific reasons why/where drones are useful... don't really understand why this is news. Law enforcement has been using airplanes and

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