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by mathattack 12y ago
Yes. To scale you would need an awful lot of this though. (I believe that biomass is relatively fixed, but would like someone else to delve into this more, as I don't know if the full dinosaurs -> oil -> gas and fertilizer cycl
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by mathattack 12y ago
We then identify locally abundant biomass available in that region to give the soil whatever nourishment it needs. This seems like it would ultimately be the critical path item. You need a lot of fertilizer for them to grow. I applaud wh
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by mathattack 12y ago
What's interesting is that GM essentially sold off their IT to EDS in the 80s. You have to be a very well run company to do your own IT well. I'm not convinced that GM is very well run. I do see some of the points that others have
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by mathattack 12y ago
You can always just search for the title in Google to get ungated WSJ articles.
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by mathattack 12y ago
True - I had heard of Yik Yak, but not Fade.
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by mathattack 12y ago
Yes - good point. Gravity or even collisions if this star had planets around it.
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by mathattack 12y ago
Despite some of the snark-worthy issues raised by others, I found this to be very useful. Having a good interaction between Project (or Product) Managers and Developers is critical. Setting up QA to enable developers is very important too.
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by mathattack 12y ago
This is tricky. Generally the spammers are doing it because they're paid to do it by someone. Penalizing is the right thing to do. But you raise an interesting point - perhaps an unscrupulous firm would unleash a spambot pointing to th
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by mathattack 12y ago
Unfortunately this is the darkside of chasing one's passion.
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by mathattack 12y ago
The current consensus is a Manhattan-sized asteroid. [0] The science behind this is pretty strong. What's come open for question is how fast this happened. A new theory posits that the dinosaurs were wiped out in a matter of hours in t
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by mathattack 12y ago
All very true. The value per user is just an imperfect heuristic when other measures (such as cash flows) aren't available. It's also a decent (and still imperfect) measure for acquisition value, though it has the limits that you
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by mathattack 12y ago
I think you did a very good job describing the valuation process. In the absence of a PE ratio, folks fixate on $ value per user. I'm not a VC, but I've seen a lot of valuations. Two caveats I would add: 1 - Investors will modif
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by mathattack 12y ago
Is it 100% clear that there's a Good Guy and Bad Guy here? Is employment 100% preferable to freelancers? In many cases it is, but there are people who would say, "I get my benefits from somewhere else, and don't want to be
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by mathattack 12y ago
This is a very touchy area. Firms can pay $20 an hour for cleaning services precisely because they're not paying for sick days, health insurance and the like. If they have to pay all that, then the wages go down. This is one of many
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by mathattack 12y ago
I've dealt with vendors in other situations who felt they had a right to free and open access to the Mother Ship, even when they were competing with it. You can't get around that mindset. The only reason to be angry is when the Mo
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by mathattack 12y ago
Thank you for answering my anticipated question. I was thinking, "There is some beauty here, but this seems very slow relative to other options."
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by mathattack 12y ago
“The continuity component is surely helped by the custom of adopting (adult) sons to carry on the business, displacing ‘natural’ sons when direct progeny are not viewed as suitable,” I have a Japanese friend that's part of a 400 year l
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by mathattack 12y ago
Fair enough. Over the long term, rent usually fixes to a certain % of "All in" housing costs. (Usually close to mortgage payments plus upkeep plus condo fees) The difference is that rent is a short term costs, so for startups the
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by mathattack 12y ago
It's not an exact comparison... For instance - if I bought a house in the 1990s for 200K and it's now worth a million dollars, it isn't stealing $800K from anywhere. That's new wealth that I have that I can also put to
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by mathattack 12y ago
Right. But if people diversify across all risky government bonds, even after defaults, they'll outperform people who only invest in the ultra-safe governments. The yields are higher to entice people to take the risk, and live with th
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by mathattack 12y ago
* as had happened many times before when investors made the imprudent choice bought government bonds that were never going to be paid back* I would just argue that it's not imprudent. They get higher than "risk free" yields,
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by mathattack 12y ago
They key is this applies for mature companies. He quotes $50mm or higher in revenue. It breaks down earlier.
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by mathattack 12y ago
Yes, two software executives posing as academics confused us about bots posing as humans.
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by mathattack 12y ago
Per the wikipedia article, it was named in Stevenson's spirit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_Club_%28secret_society%...
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by mathattack 12y ago
There are tradeoffs. And the tradeoffs shift over time. Sarbanes-Oxley has (on the margin) made it more costly to be a public company, so we're seeing companies hold out over time. (One can are argue that this strengthened the system
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by mathattack 12y ago
You've just highlighted the tradeoff. The question for public money is "How much information to actually release?"
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by mathattack 12y ago
There's tradeoffs. Public companies are more boring, but having permanent capital does bring a little more stability. Different things for different people. To borrow from Peter T, it's much easier for private firms to get from
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by mathattack 12y ago
The market would work more efficiently, but it violates securities law for it to be selectively released. If you allow 1000+ employees to see the #, you might as well have it appear real-time on the investor relations page. (I'm ok w
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by mathattack 12y ago
I'm amazed that it took this long, given that the # is material to how the stock trades. (Look at their volatility on earnings day) Why give thousands of people access to information whose inadvertent release could cause public discl
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by mathattack 12y ago
The title is definitely linkbait!

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