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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> The 'price goes down, yield goes up' generally refers to secondary markets. No. It also refers to the bidding process when the US Govt goes to initiate the sale of bonds. Regarding the rest: Yes, that is why I included "more or less
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> Again this is based on the same logic that people will treat the U.S. Government the same way they'd treat any other person and that's just not going to happen. It's not a matter of how "people" treat it. Many funds are prohibited fr
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
Good god. I took Sussman's course when SICP was still in the notes phase. I never would have predicted that it would have such a following almost 30 years later.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
$50K is not even close to the right number.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> but other than a rare sexist I don't hear anyone saying that. The thing about rare sexists is that they are not all that rare.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
Most important one imho = #5: Our analysis of more than 500 companies in high-growth industries revealed that not even 11 percent of these companies took venture capital at any stage of their existence. The Kauffman Foundation ran a simila
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
My favorite part from Bill: > So I did the reboot because it INSISTED on it. Of course that meant completely getting rid of all my Outlook state. The fact that you can lose Outlook state by a reboot doesn't seem to bother anyone. It do
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> If you want loyalty/passion, give me equity/profit sharing. This tactic works only until the employee knows a sufficient number of people that have been screwed out of their equity. Usually, that takes some time and experience. In a
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
Ug. You were replying to a deleted comment. My apologies. I'd delete my comment if possible, but the delete key has vanished.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> and the facts available to you OK, time for a quiz. Someone who has made an investment is going to take the side that is a. good for investment returns, or b. bad for investment returns. This isn't rocket science. And if basic obser
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
FTA: "Even if you don’t believe they are nice guys (which they are, among the nicest of all the people we’ve funded)" Why anyone would believe somebody with a vested financial interest is beyond me.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
In truth, I got what you originally meant and was expanding on it. The fact that VCs can have such a low hit rate and such a low return rate, yet still have a job, is astounding to me. I think the underlying problem is that there is an ince
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
FTA: "Rearden has built a test system with several access points in Pflugerville, Lake Austin, and Austin — all cities in Texas." Great. Show us the data.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
A quick check of 10-year IRRs will tell you that this problem is not localized to Boston.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> Regardless - 400 employees for a $5 Billion company is on the absolute low end of where they will be if they actually justify that (rumored) valuation. This is backwards thinking reminiscent of the bubble. "I want my company to be wo
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
I think it has more to do with the end of QE2. Free money is ending, and asset prices are going to reflect that in the near future.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
There was an IMAX crew on the mountain at the time, and the film they produced would have been good just as a film, let alone the IMAX format.
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by jpdoctor 16y ago
3 words for you: Ginger Snap Molasses.
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by jpdoctor 16y ago
> "You're a moron and your beliefs are idiotic" isn't a nice thing to say. Are there seriously people who think that this is appropriate The only thing that I can say is: You're a moron and your question is idiotic. cackle
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by jpdoctor 16y ago
... which translates to 3ms of downtime in 10 years with their current data, which makes no sense. I'm guessing it's closer to the way that telecom guys work: 1 bit error in 10^12 bits is common for fiber comm.
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by jpdoctor 16y ago
Not sure what is meant by "S3 has 11 nines of durability". Obviously not an availability number, but what is it?
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by jpdoctor 16y ago
> The same steps you would take in your own datacenters to ensure high availability would work in the cloud to ensure the same availability If I'm engineering the same steps in the cloud as I am in the data center, then I'm going to ski
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by jpdoctor 16y ago
> near-instantaneous availability That implies something about reliability. The downtime today is real data about that availability.
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by jpdoctor 16y ago
The SLA uses great legal weasel words: "AWS will use commercially reasonable efforts to make Amazon EC2 available" So anything that is beyond commercially reasonable is outside the SLA. In truth, as with all businesses, the reputation for
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by jpdoctor 16y ago
Every time someone bitched at me for not having a "cloud-based strategy", I kept asking how many 9s of reliability they thought the cloud would deliver. We're down to 3 nines so far. A few more hours to 2 nines. The cloud is not for all bu