jonknee

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by jonknee 9y ago
But the calculator you're criticizing does not adjust for inflation...
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by jonknee 9y ago
> That kinda already exists though, with team driving. Two pilots relaying gives ~22h of driving per 24h plus 2x30mn slack (under US regs, though there's still a limit of 70h/8 days followed by 34h rest per driver). So at minim
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by jonknee 9y ago
To be fair the total annualized return of the S&P 500 over long periods is roughly 10%. You don't have to reliably beat the market to reach those numbers. It's interesting to play around with: https://dqydj.com&#x2F
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by jonknee 9y ago
What interesting things? It appears he went a week and didn't seem to enjoy it. I imagine that would be the case for any diet where you only eat the same thing for a week.
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by jonknee 9y ago
You can enter into a contract for almost anything you'd like, if you don't like the terms you don't have to agree (and thus not get the money). > This would be akin to telling my dad that I will gift him a car for his birt
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by jonknee 9y ago
Was Zagat being shopped around, or did you go looking for it specifically?
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by jonknee 9y ago
> They just bought Zagat in 2011, so selling it so quickly seems odd. That was 7 years ago...
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by jonknee 9y ago
Yes, that is possible. Though I assume they're going through this process because investors have wanted to sell their shares.
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by jonknee 9y ago
From the document... > because Morgan Stanley is not acting as an underwriter, it will not have engaged in a book building process, and as a result, it will not be able to provide input to the DMM that is based on or informed by that pro
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by jonknee 9y ago
From the document: > Unlike an initial public offering, the resale by the Registered Shareholders is not being underwritten by any investment bank. The Registered Shareholders may, or may not, elect to sell their ordinary shares covered
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by jonknee 9y ago
What's your point? Blue Apron, Cloudera and Twilio have gone public already... Financials are secret until filing for an IPO and at any given point there are not many companies (tech or otherwise) who have filed, but not yet listed. We
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by jonknee 9y ago
The F-1 tells the full story: > As this listing is taking place via a novel process that is not an underwritten initial public offering, there will be no book building process and no price at which underwriters initially sold shares to t
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by jonknee 9y ago
Spotify is not issuing new shares so they will not have any price to set. It's up to the "Registered Shareholders": > The Registered Shareholders may sell their ordinary shares covered hereby pursuant to brokerage transact
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by jonknee 9y ago
> Spotify might overprice it just because, hey, why not, they get more money and without underwriters there are no clients to disappoint Spotify isn't pricing it, they aren't even selling shares. The initial pricing will come
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by jonknee 9y ago
Google and Facebook were both profitable when they went public.
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by jonknee 9y ago
Well, that all depends on what the opening trade is!
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by jonknee 9y ago
By far the most interesting part of this is that they are doing a direct listing. There is no IPO underwriter (the bankers that the HN audience loves to bash). The shares will just start trading, pricing should be fun to watch. Update: This
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by jonknee 9y ago
Iowa has no big metropolitan cities. The largest is Des Moines and it's only a little larger than 200,000 people.
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by jonknee 9y ago
The question wasn't directed to most people which is a good thing because I don't think most people would spend $10k on anything other than a car or a home.
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by jonknee 9y ago
How are REITs opaque? You can find out exactly what they own and there is no easier way to get get in and out of a property investment than through a REIT, especially larger ones.
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by jonknee 9y ago
And on a similar note, there are surely many people who will now buy Ring because it's owned by Amazon. A small startup can go away and leave me with an insecure piece of junk, but I have some faith that Amazon will keep things up to
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by jonknee 9y ago
You're reading that stat incorrectly: > "The average age of a company listed on the S&P 500 has fallen from almost 60 years old in the 1950s to less than 20 years currently," The reason for that is there have both been
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Waymo is readying a ride-hailing service that could directly compete with Uber(qz.com)
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by jonknee 9y ago
Considering they have over 4,000 active job postings for Seattle and are building several new office towers... No.
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by jonknee 9y ago
> I wonder if Alexa or AWS are hiring. ... The very first sentence of the article: > as the company shifts resources into fast-growing areas like its work on voice assistant Alexa
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by jonknee 9y ago
It was always going to end with money, this just fast forwards it a bit.
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by jonknee 9y ago
> If they are losing, the public market or VC's cover their aes and their value stays neutral In the past year TWTR has been as low as $14.12, it has been anything but neutral.
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by jonknee 9y ago
Are you saying the giant move in the stock directly after they announced earnings is not related to the earnings?
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by jonknee 9y ago
That is still a good bet to make, it's very hard to hit anything even if you spent considerable effort specifically trying to. Also, there wasn't an intended orbit as much as there was a general direction and an "empty the ta
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by jonknee 9y ago
We have very different definitions of extended periods of time. Elon's talking about it orbiting for millions of years. It's definitely not going to hit anything anytime soon.

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