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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> At this time, there is no evidence indicating that an FBI laptop was compromised Yes, there is. It's on pastebin. They need to say why the evidence is false.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> it makes no sense to judge his long-term results based on a short stretch of under-performance. It makes enormous sense: He missed the biggest economic event of three generations. If you can't call the big ones, then there's very l
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Previous personal research, mainly. However, a quick check through the LSE paper you linked: However, performance in the late 1920s was disappointing, as we saw in the previous section. His 83% equity allocation at the end of August 1929
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> Well, once you open the doors to investors and banks, they become your lifeblood. Not if your CEO has the controlling interest. In theory, Zuck can let the stock drop to near zero, and then take the company private by buying outstandi
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> PS. FWIW, Keynes accumulated a fortune by investing his own capital during his lifetime. And FWIW: He also lost a fortune by investing in his own lifetime. (He was nearly wiped out in the 1929 crash, which he failed to foresee.)
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
The antecedent of "this" is ambigous. You don't think it true that HN has significant financial incentive to censor or promote the links of YC companies? or you think there has been a lot of discussion about the HN conflict-of-interest? (p
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Thanks for that link. FTL: Hacker News is operated by a company, Y Combinator, which has a significant financial incentive to censor or promote the links and discussion posted on the site that relate to Y Combinator-funded startups (or co
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
I concur! In fact, I think this would have made an excellent release of the "first man on the moon" photo; It's just a recrop of their original: http://i.imgur.com/PyiKT.jpg , so no disallowed manipulation.
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Kleiner Perkins no longer seen as dominant (businessinsider.com)
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> In the US we tend to take for granted how much a functioning regulatory system Really? Which people are in jail because of the mortgage fraud? And Jon Corzine's MF? Who is going to jail because of that? I find that the US has pocket
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> It's perfectly reasonable for Microsoft to hold on to their shares--even if facebook goes broke they still have billions in cash. Common shareholders are last in line when a company goes broke.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> representing quite an efficiency boost. It's a somewhat backwards way of thinking about it. They chose the filesize and then set the dials for the encoding. They could have chosen the 720p to be smaller larger or the same size compa
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
I'm assuming it's proprietary like the other MPEGs - Any word on how problematic the licensing will be?
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
The traditional name for this: The agency problem. http://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/agencyproblem.asp#axzz23...
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Yes, the wavelength is on the same order as the circuit elements. You can tell from the layout of the IC that this is a traveling wave amplifier: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_amplifier
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> So don't build your apps on it. The other reason: Putting a company with FB's reputation in your critical path is just asking for trouble.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
I'm in agreement with your hard time agreeing. New ads imply stupidity on the part of users. I do not remember that happening in any other apple ad.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
It does seem to prove that blogspam links are not limited to blogs.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> A lot more of them have survived to be embarrassed by their predictions Predictions are hard, especially about the future. -- Yogi Berra But seriously, I was in my mid-20's in 1987 and not a lot of these predictions seem outlandish h
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> rely on the user for inputs most will not know (do you know your marginal tax rate?) Anyone who does not know their marginal tax rate has no business borrowing $100K's to buy a house. The fact that such lack of financial knowledge is
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
So Reid Hoffman invested his own money and then LinkedIn blows several million in acquisition of IP from a company that is in the deadpool. No conflict of interest there. Can't wait for the lawsuits.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Pointers to a comparison across languages would be welcomed. TIA.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> His dogged investigation of the Challenger explosion is the most generally well-known demonstration of his mindset. IIRC: In his second book ("What do you care what other people think"), he essentially admits he was a tool in this i
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> Efficient, well-managed HR system with minimal bureaucracy and red tape. Noobs are under the impression that HR somehow supports employees. That is not the function. There is one and only one function for HR: CYA for the company.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
If cash is king, then 2x cash = 2x king. Again: If you know the stock is about to double, you go get a loan against the shares. Sellers do not believe this.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Look at it from the buyer side: Employees know what deals are on the table waiting to close, and new product announcements, and all sorts of things related to the stock. If they think the stock is going to double in the next 6 months, do yo
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
CORRECTED: Thanks to diego and smackfu below. Facebook sold X shares for the IPO. Y shares were created for the sale. Z shares were sold from the insiders pool. Obviously: X = Y + Z. The headline says: Z = 0.57 * X In old-fashioned days
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
There are two sides to the IPO: The seller and the buyer. Buyers who see "liquidity events for founders and investors and employees" as a valid reason for buying the IPO will continue buying until they don't, just like other bubbles.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> Who else is going to sell Facebook stock if not "insiders" You don't understand the IPO process. Normally, it is a company with more opportunity than capital. So it creates additional shares and then sells it during the IPO. This
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> Accordingly, I moved to MinGW with gcc 4.7 and use Code::Blocks as my IDE. I note that eclipse + MinGW works quite well, though I wish the debugger was a little more configurable. I haven't used Code::Blocks, so I can't compare.

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