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by ganeumann 12y ago
My great-great-great-etc-grandfather fought in the war that monument commemorates, and I feel Snowden exemplifies the values he fought for.
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by ganeumann 12y ago
I built the scraper part of this tool about four years ago: http://neuvc.com/labs/vcdelta or https://twitter.com/vcdelta , for daily feed It wasn't in practice that hard to set up, it's a scra
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Flash Boys a Year Later(vanityfair.com)
69 points by ganeumann 12y ago|70 comments
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by ganeumann 12y ago
From Forbes, yesterday: "Today, there are more than 80 unicorns, or companies with a valuation of at least $1.0 billion—that’s more than double the number last year, and, according to CB Insights, just three fewer than the last three y
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by ganeumann 12y ago
Well, sure, but the referenced paper mentioned "net worth", not cash. I assumed they were ignoring people whose net worth included hard to value private company stock.
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by ganeumann 12y ago
It actually seems low to me too. $30 million is a lot of money, but given the number of companies with $1bn+ valuations recently, you'd think there would be at least 200 from those alone. It may be they are not counting paper wealth in
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by ganeumann 12y ago
Remember, the part of the bonus used to buy the stock comes right back to the company, it's just one pocket to the other. The tax piece is out the door (and is mostly a dead-weight loss if the company doesn't make it, one of the r
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by ganeumann 12y ago
There's definitely adverse selection bias. The companies that can raise the money from a good investor will raise the money and pay for the video. The ones that can't will take the video. Sandwich only gets equity in the companies
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by ganeumann 12y ago
The headline is a bit clickbait-y, but the referenced paper is interesting. Main idea is that people have been saying that pleasing combinations have overlapping flavor profiles, but Indian food is characterized by strong negative food pair
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by ganeumann 12y ago
Microsoft did take venture money, albeit when it was further along. Microsoft began its hypergrowth in 1981, after they contracted with IBM to provide the PC's operating system. It wasn't until then that they needed outside capita
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by ganeumann 12y ago
Meh, I still think your first paragraph is straw men. I do have some voice in the matter, as I do with the government. That I have very little voice is not really the point here. Thanks for the links. A couple of new papers to read there. F
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by ganeumann 12y ago
Fair enough in theory. But in my experience both the research and the commercialization efforts leading to patents are paid for via grants. Perhaps that would be a fair trade, since the University provides the opportunity for all of this to
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by ganeumann 12y ago
WebVan.
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by ganeumann 12y ago
Your entire first paragraph is straw men. It doesn't matter how much any individual pays, it doesn't matter what any individual's sentiment is. If Google pays a researcher to do some research, they own it, regardless of how m
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by ganeumann 12y ago
As a taxpayer I'm certainly entitled to think that the work I am paying for, I own. Just as in almost any other business relationship. As far as I can see, if a professor runs a lab, he or she gets grants to fund it. If they can not ge
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by ganeumann 12y ago
They weren't lame products, they were lame companies. Yeah, Google had a better way to search. But it was obvious that Google, without any viable revenue model (they planned to lease their tech to other search engines) could never comp
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by ganeumann 12y ago
I advocate switching to hydrogen for birthday balloons. "Blow out the candles! Blow them out, quick!"
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by ganeumann 12y ago
I disagree. They launched a beta to see if anyone would use it. If no one used it, then they could cut bait and move on. But people did use it, enough that it caused them to be horrendously slow. This means they should put more money into m
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How a Fight Over a Board Game Monopolized an Economist's Life (2009)(wsj.com)
17 points by ganeumann 12y ago|4 comments
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Can Economic Growth Continue Forever? Of Course(freakonomics.com)
6 points by ganeumann 12y ago|0 comments
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Proposal for adding extend to CSS(lists.w3.org)
1 points by ganeumann 12y ago|0 comments
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by ganeumann 12y ago
When I was an entrepreneur, the only thing I scheduled was meetings with investors (and potential investors) and meetings with customers (and potential customers.) When I went over to the investing side I had to change that: everything is s
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Why has innovation slowed down? (Or has it?)(scottberkun.com)
3 points by ganeumann 12y ago|0 comments
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by ganeumann 12y ago
My point was to capital as a whole (that is, all of the capital.) When I say "get large" I meant as a large percentage of all capital. Even multi-billion dollar funds have this problem, and that's just a tiny fraction of all
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by ganeumann 12y ago
But then it's coming at the expense of some other investor (unless I'm misunderstanding.) No value is created . This might work if the amount being invested is small, but not as it grows larger.
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by ganeumann 12y ago
> For obvious reasons, it can't be more than the wealth of the world I think your reductio ad absurdum carries more weight than you give it. Real risk-free interest can't on average over a long period be greater than economic
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by ganeumann 12y ago
John Galt, is that you?
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by ganeumann 12y ago
I'm not a lawyer, and at the risk of sounding stupid, there's something I don't get. Every time someone talks about debt v. equity in funding a startup they say that debt is better because it is less paperwork, easier and che
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by ganeumann 12y ago
Network effects, user lock-in.
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by ganeumann 12y ago
Thanks! And no. That blog post was a start at trying to sort out my disagreement with Perez (thinking out loud, basically.) My initial concern was her too-neat cycles and that the chemo-therapeutic revolution (anti-virals, antibiotics, etc.

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