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by nikcub 10y ago
more info from their filing[0]: > During the twelve months ended December 31, 2015 and 2014, we recognized $682.1 million and $631.6 million of expense related to stock-based compensation, respectively. As of December 31, 2015, we had un
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by nikcub 10y ago
Stock options. It starts at the top: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cuplqd1XEAEre6n.jpg:large Being paid $72M p.a to oversee ~$500M p.a in losses. Great job if you can get it.
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by nikcub 10y ago
That is exactly what many on Wall St have been telling them to do for years. Despite the popular perception of investment bankers, they do value "patio11 style businesses" more highly than the Twitter style of spending and losing
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by nikcub 10y ago
No offense to the people I know working at Twitter, but these cuts aren't deep enough to stem the losses. While Twitter revenue grew $664M, $1,403M to $2,218M over the past three years, it is going to be a lot flatter than that at the
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by nikcub 10y ago
and in the regions most people vote for whichever party drove them to the polling booth in a bus then gave them a sack of food and a gas canister afterwards. Venezuelan elections have never been fair - there is a lot of vote rigging from al
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I know the Aeron is extremely popular, but IMO the Embody is a better chair: http://www.hermanmiller.com/products/seating/performance-wor...
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by nikcub 10y ago
Kodak is an "innovators dilemma" case study, and what they're doing by bringing in an outside group to compete with itself is exactly one of the solutions that is often prescribed.
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by nikcub 10y ago
This blog post is part of a longer trail of breadcrumbs that is spread out across multiple sources and over a long period of time. It started with the WashPo story[0] on the DNC hack and the CrowdStrike attribution (there were some good reb
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by nikcub 10y ago
If reports in the business media are to be believed, trolls and harassment cost Twitter a potential acquisition and a ~20% drop in share price (~$3B in market cap) This puts them in a tough position - finding a way to clean up the platform
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by nikcub 10y ago
You might have better luck with container specific reverse-proxy like Traefik[0] - it has builtin Let's Encrypt support with auto-renewal > I had a huge amount of headaches to get it actually working. Moving from running one contain
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by nikcub 10y ago
You're right - it's not "no value" it is "little value" - altho of the people I know who have used kratom to get off stronger painkillers all referred to a natural tapering effect that kratom has where you don&
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by nikcub 10y ago
Think if Reckitt had any sway they'd want loosening of the restrictions on doctors to prescribe suboxone. Currently only 10,000 of the 800,000 doctors in the USA are prescribing suboxone - wait lists are long and the per-doctor cap is
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by nikcub 10y ago
> Schedule I substances are those that have the following findings: > 1. The drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse. > 2. The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United
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by nikcub 10y ago
Most modern nations accept opiate substitution therapy (OST) as the most effective way to treat opiod addiction. The entire premise of OST is that you substitute a bad opiate for a "less bad" opiate - and Kratom is looking like on
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by nikcub 10y ago
Hack and HHVM solves what is, IMO, the worst feature of the default PHP runtime environment[0] - and that is the superglobals. It wasn't mentioned in the post from Slack, but default superglobals and the earlier register_globals design
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Measuring how bad Twitter is(brontecapital.blogspot.com)
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by nikcub 10y ago
Two things I can think of: 1. The lawsuit is calculated to bring Theranos to insolvency sooner while they still have money in the bank 2. It's a way for an investor to convert unsecured equity into a secured debt - pushing them up the
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by nikcub 10y ago
We started seeing more sophisticated DPI capabilities after the Feb '14 internet regulations[0] that required ISPs to block by URL and content strings IMO blocking so many sites so broadly is a sign that their DPI is failing, because t
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by nikcub 10y ago
Interesting aside that came out of this case is the issue of cross-signing intermediary and root certs and it not being disclosed. The WoSign roots were cross-signed by[0] Comodo and StartCom (owned by WoSign, but we didn't know that),
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by nikcub 10y ago
Was 20% - referring to future growth, based on guidance for upcoming quarter it is ~5% This is, afterall, the problem that sparked all the acquisition talks
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by nikcub 10y ago
I don't see this deal happening. The board are going to want a premium on a price that is already inflated because of the speculation and I can't see Disney going to $25-30B nor Salesforce being able to construct a deal around sto
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by nikcub 10y ago
Working at SAC Capital is only a black mark on your name to those outside of finance. Within the world of hedge funds SAC alumni are doing extremely well: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-23/sac-
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by nikcub 10y ago
I ended up installing the plugin after their video went viral, although I haven't used it yet to make a purchasing decision. They could pivot to filtering reviews based on web of trust - users could be able to provide a set of reviewer
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by nikcub 10y ago
Just to promote your link a little more incase anybody browses past it - the video in the post is very interesting, it was at the top of reddit a few weeks ago[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdLI62JKpCk The video is a
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by nikcub 10y ago
Removing Google's binary blobs is mitigating one issue, but replacing it with an entire binary blog from an anonymous github user might be introducing new ones. On that note - can you tell us more about the project? ie. if you plan on
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by nikcub 10y ago
I think that is to do with Twitter's architecture - they actually copy each tweet into each followers feed when you post something. Handling deletes must be a pain, which is why I think just hide them
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That would harm his business model, which is advertising. It could work with Facebook Instant Articles, he may even be better off using it since they source the advertising and have been out trying to poach and source quality content.
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Their interest is in making the attack look more sophisticated than it may have been, making them look less incompetent because they'd be one of many victims state-backed hacking (they even say that in their statement)
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by nikcub 10y ago
Here is my bookmarks folder for corporate hacks: http://www.rollingstone.com/feature/the-geeks-on-the-frontli... http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2013/07/new-cyberwar-victims-... https:&#
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by nikcub 10y ago
Yahoo shouldn't be doing the attribution, it's a conflict of interest[0]. At the moment the standard for incident disclosure is "eventually disclose the leak to users", which some companies, like Yahoo in this case, real

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