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by kevinpet 11y ago
A P/E of 8, in today's interest rate environment, means the company is actually failing and you're buying a decreasing future stream of revenue. Out of the S&P 500, there are four companies with P/E below 8 (Delta, N
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But RSUs do not become worthless like options do when the price declines.
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> the Office has conducted “thousands” of field tests and the only false positive results of which he is aware are the results at issue in this case. I'd imagine most cops know what marijuana smells like and use the field test to ba
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Can anyone provide any info on what actually happened here? The article says that the preferred was "worth" more, which is a pretty vague statement. I interpret this as meaning that they didn't convert because their liquidati
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Citation needed. On cato.org, I can find articles arguing against retroactive liability for lead paint manufacturers (since what they did was considered safe at the time they did it), and articles arguing that the 1970s introduction of unle
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I remember when the Abu Ghraib and similar revelations came out, I was relatively unsurprised. Military training is to prepare people to fight a war, against a defined enemy, where the general gist of the available tactics all come down to
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To clarify, if you find a buyer who is interested in buying (would need to be a qualified investor), the company can exercise their right of first refusal to buy the shares from you at that price, but they cannot generally prevent you from
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This piece strikes me as downright dishonest. The table purports to be apples to apples, but while the HDMI adapter added in for the pi zero, the $13 HDMI add-on board is not included in the cost section of the CHIP. An honest comparison wo
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Sounds like a dozen already failed start ups.
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In the early days, hardware was men's work, and programming was women's work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC#Programming ENIAC started with an exclusively female group of six programmers. This Cosmo arti
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Not at all. The first thing people think of when they first learn the idea of gerrymandering is "draw districts that my party will never lose". In fact, the opposite is true. You want to concentrate the opposing party in a small n
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Here's the problem right here: '...threatens to undermine the deep faith people have placed in the technology. '"And it's not faith they should not have had to begin with," says Keith Inman, who teaches forensi
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I think this is fascinating even if it will never happen. It's important to keep in mind the nominal and actual result of human drawn district boundaries ("gerrymandering" is a pejorative). In theory, human drawn district bou
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I'm very interested in teaching my kids to program, and so this is probably of interest to me, but I stopped reading after the first sentence because I would rather not need to slog through assertions of political identity to get to th
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Consider a coin which consists of a strip along one side made of a dense metal, and the remainder made of a light metal. This would move the center of rotation to the side of the coin. Now place the coin on your forefinger with heads up and
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The organization opposes GMO foods: http://www.asyousow.org/our-work/environmental-health/gmos/ So I value their opinion about as much as I do Dr. Jenny McCarthy's pioneering work on vaccinations.
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I guess we've now discovered our generation's Ralph Nader.
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If I understand the question correctly, and it's about what to do when leaving the company, 83(b) is unnecessary. An 83(b) election says that you are choosing to recognize paper gains today that the IRS would normally require you to re
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How does this political agenda relate to protecting investors? Is the SEC now the department of labor?
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It's up to the company writing the options agreement.
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You can't get a decent low mileage car for $6800. You also cannot reliably identify a well-maintained car. You can get an Accord or Camry with 150k miles or a Scion with a bit under 100k. I bought my car for less than $5k, but I don&#x
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We all knew today would be "bad for wall street". The Chinese stock market is crumbling (due to economic, not technical reasons) and Greece is in the fiscal equivalent of the crazy guy barricaded in his house with this gun collect
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Interns working only 60 hours a week is much harder to monitor. A policy that says they can't be in the office between midnight and 7am is simple to monitor. The press has implied or allowed readers to conclude that interns were previo
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Complete click bait. GS is telling interns "you can't be in the office between midnight and 7am". I assume they didn't previously have a policy. So what anyone would consider a strict improvement over the previous situat
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It's also delusional and betrays a complete lack of economic understanding of insurance. Uber is paying for insurance. The drivers should be paying for commercial insurance. It should be all priced in. If the drivers aren't gettin
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HN holds itself out to be much closer to a curated service than Twitter, FB, or Reddit. There's no such thing as "off topic" on those services (although within a subreddit there certainly is).
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I seem to remember that my certificate for Functional Programming with Scala had a shareable link code, whereas now it is only available to me. It's not anything I ever wanted to show someone, but it's slightly alarming from a com
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I got caught up on that line as well, especially the authors use of "we". As far as I can tell, the author has certainly studied algorithms, but has never worked as a software engineer.
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I hope you appreciate the irony on claiming here that a felony computer hacking charge is the kiss of death. Hint: http://www.ycombinator.com/people/
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The article doesn't clearly say board votes. It actually says "vote the shares", which, I'm not all that clear how often or with what significance shareholder votes happen in a pre-ipo company.

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