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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> I am fairly sure that even a rough approximation is better than nothing. Still very impressive. All 7 billion people on earth are better off with this rough approximation than nothing.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
It's amazing: This site can predict the best sleep cycle for all 7 billion on the planet. Hmmmmm.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> I've never been millimeter scanned and frankly the radiation aspects of it scare me. The fact that Michael Chertoff had a financial interest in the scanner company while TSA was examining them for safety should tell you everything
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
Not really. The answer to the narrowly defined title is "yes". Now percentages, that could be depressing.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> Regarding Greece, a default would be more a political problem rather than an economical one It's both. He cleverly ignores the real issue: Whatever happens in Greece is going to set the precedent for Portugal, Spain and Italy. Or
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
Do you honestly believe he is not talking his book?
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
The fact that Warren is on the hook for several billion dollars of S&P puts is mentioned nowhere in the article. When O When are reporters going to understand conflict-of-interest?
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> Telephone numbers need a DNS system! LOL. Apparently the author is too young to remember phone books. As an aside: Older folks will remember Sun receiving a lawsuit from the newly disintegrated phone system regarding their use of "
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> I just don’t think it is a feasible long term business model. Given the results, it seems that it's not even a feasible short-term business model.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
Without PacBell, Scott Adams would never have given proper birth the Dilbert or The PHB. He said that he kept that job long after the success of the comic book just for the source material. He was particularly amused when somebody from a
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
First, I am not knowledgeable enough to provide advice. With that in mind: My experience is that it makes sense to go the 83b route before any funding rounds (when the price is 0.001 $/sh). After that, there is usually decent money going o
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> maintaining them What?! How is that consistent with "invest in assets that make money for you without you having to be there"? Obviously I'm snarking. The idea that you can generate money and do no work is fertile ground for self-h
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
Another website: http://www.johntreed.com/Kiyosaki.html Kiyosaki added a note about fictionalizing, which caused a stir.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> The premise of the book is solid; invest in assets that make money for you without you having to be there. Sounds like a recipe to hand your money over to scamsters. Esp as it was proven out by "Income generating real estate" in th
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
First, IANAL. Second: 83b election essentially says: Dear IRS, I know I received all these unvested unexercised options, but I want you to tax me on them as though they were all exercised when I received them. You do this in the year they
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> Not a tax lawyer, but doesn't the Jobs family pay 35% death tax? Nobody who does any sensible planning pays the estate tax. It is a complete red herring used by politicians to demagogue their constituencies. It is beatable in so ma
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
How does this tax lawyer know that: The $5 billion he will receive upon exercising those options will be treated as salary Was it in the S-1 that Zuckerberg did no tax planning?
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> Isn't that the whole point of the story? No, it is not. This sentence in bold tells you they do not understand: "Zuckerberg will be paying taxes on $5 billion in gains from exercising options." If you don't understand why that is
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
They almost certainly don't understand the story: It's more likely worse than they are mentioning. Most reporters have never heard of the 83B election. tl;dr = Zuck already paid the tax on his options for exercise, at par (0.001 $/share i
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> If you proposed a good solution I'm sure they'd be happy to provide time and money and open source the result. If they provided money, I'd provide the time in order to produce a good result. See the problem? More to the point: FB
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
$100B company, maybe they can afford to put some people onto solving this for the open software community (and put the solution into the open), especially since nobody else in the community seems to have this problem.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> Doesn't anyone keep data startups and acquisitions? Pretty much all of the M&A guys have a column in the table which lists $$/head. The number is in the nosebleed sections of valuation lately, as near as I can tell. I doubt it
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> You sell your stocks (asset class: equity) and someone buys it and gives you cash; OK, let's write it out: Before Person1: Has $100 cash. Person2: Has equity worth $100 Person3: Has Tbond worth $100 After "you sell your
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
Sounds like BS: > On the x-axis we show the flow of capital into an asset class For every buyer, there is a seller, so every single transaction nets out to exactly $0 flowing into the asset class. So exactly how does capital "flow" i
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> I think the only reason they went public was because they had to. No, hitting the investor limit means only that you have filing obligations with the SEC. There is no obligation to trade your stock publicly.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> and display advertising is likely to follow. I think this is correct, and it explains why the IPO exit is happening now. Most of the insane growth (in profit as well as valuation) has already been squeezed out.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> and must act in good faith in a manner he reasonably believes to be in the best interests of our stockholders. As a stockholder, even a controlling stockholder, Mr. Zuckerberg is entitled to vote his shares, and shares over which he
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> it is very common for insiders to sell shares to new investors during later rounds. Since when? Way back in the dark ages (2003), it was seen as a lack of faith in the company if the insiders were selling. It is the paradox of the
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
He should write a song about it. Here are some suggested lyrics: Hey hey, my my, Piracy will never die, There's more to the torrent Than meets the eye, Hey hey, my my.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
1. You will discover noprocrast 2. It won't make a difference.

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