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by nonchalance 13y ago
Are the Guardian, the Telegraph and the New Statesman notable for their fair and balanced journalism (or are they the fox news of europe)?
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by nonchalance 13y ago
It's a numbers game. Let's say that 99% of your investments flop. That means the 1% of successful investments have to make up for all of the losses from the others (and earn a return). To earn a total return of Y%, you need tha
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by nonchalance 13y ago
Criticisms of Tesla are quickly flagged off the front page
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by nonchalance 13y ago
Far from it: Tesla was the one that came out and said they had the safest car on the road. Even when NHTSA said it wasn't appropriate, Tesla flaunted a 5.4 star rating. Tesla supporters came out and said the first fire was a fluke.
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by nonchalance 13y ago
WS is the ticketmaster of the financial world: public companies, private corporations, startups, VCs, angel investors, investment firms, hedge funds, and HNWIs all blame wall street for some reason, yet they thrive on the services WS provid
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by nonchalance 13y ago
Until recently, neither has AAPL. Doesn't mean the cash disappeared. GOOG has 56.52B in cash and short-term investments (as of end of september). It's on GOOG's books but could easily be paid out (either directly or in the
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by nonchalance 13y ago
It's also dangerous to assume that all companies must be profitable from day one. Facebook is a good example of a company that was "losing money" but was able to turn profits recently. Which is not to say that I believe twit
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by nonchalance 13y ago
It only sucks to be an employee if his shares or options are contingent on a market cap above the current price.
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by nonchalance 13y ago
The simple answer is that a share price is the present price to pay for the future cash flows of the company. Just because they aren't making money now doesn't mean that will always be the case. If twitter starts making billions
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by nonchalance 13y ago
The future is bright for Tesla, but not necessarily for $TSLA (which is all the financial analysts really care about)
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by nonchalance 13y ago
The problem is that the current stock price implies that they will be dramatically more successful than any other car company (electric or otherwise). It's all relative to expectations.
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by nonchalance 13y ago
http://semver.org/ > Major version zero (0.y.z) is for initial development. Anything may change at any time. The public API should not be considered stable. major version 0 was specifically designed for this use case
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by nonchalance 13y ago
Does scala follow semantic versioning? It sounds like they should still be in the 0.x stage if there are enough breaking changes to merit this discussion
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by nonchalance 13y ago
If your motivation is wealth, by far the easiest way is to work in finance.
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by nonchalance 13y ago
(somewhat controversial opinion) I would have rather heard you say that you do have an investment in Hackpad. Why don't you consider making an investment, especially if it brings value to you and USV? As for conflicts of interest, I p
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by nonchalance 13y ago
How much has FW and co invested in Hackpad?
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Ask PG: What is the current state of the "Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund"?
19 points by nonchalance 13y ago|3 comments
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by nonchalance 13y ago
Expected some price shenanigans, and found one: > * If you cancel wireless service, remaining balance on device becomes due. Total for iPad Air 16 GB $630.00 Strictly speaking, it's $629.00 for the iPad Air directly, so in fact thi
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by nonchalance 13y ago
The difference between this circumstance and the civil rights circumstance is that there is no party that is strictly better off with the NSA limited. African americans are strictly better off when having the right to vote as opposed to not
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by nonchalance 13y ago
It's also free on Nook: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/what-is-node-brett-mclaughli...
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by nonchalance 13y ago
Please avoid creating whoishiring posts before the bot! Official thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6653437
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HTML5 parsing XLS (Excel) files in browser(sheetjs.github.io)
3 points by nonchalance 13y ago|1 comments
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by nonchalance 13y ago
The first thought that came to my mind was that she was unable to game the system anymore. Turns out I wasn't the only one. gettheyayo (dead comment) remarked > What's more likely to have happened: she lost her way of making m
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by nonchalance 13y ago
> reducing the limitations and obstacles given by Javascript What are these perceived limitations? There are fairly standard idioms and pure JS libraries for getting around most problems people find
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by nonchalance 13y ago
The example makefiles appear to use javac. Next step: Java compiler in node
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by nonchalance 13y ago
Strictly speaking, they wrote: > We are proud to employ and support contributors to such projects as Lithium, Travis CI, Rubinius and RailsInstaller. Check out the comprehensive list of open source projects we’re involved in below. That
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by nonchalance 13y ago
Do you plan on making this open source? I ask because other similar projects were not made open source
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by nonchalance 13y ago
Appears the entire domain is down (getting 403). code937: based on the comments here as well as the comments from a year ago ( http://codecanyon.net/item/pure-rich-text-editor-lite/discus... ) , it is pretty clear t
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by nonchalance 13y ago
It's the disconnect rule: any article which requires disabling ghostery/disconnect to read or which have 10 or more trackers merit flagging. If the content is good, there is most likely a better home with fewer trackers / ad
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by nonchalance 13y ago
This all makes sense under QE and other easy money programs (which have a general tendency of inflating P/E multiples) but what happens if/when the programs stop? If 1999-2000 is any indication, those companies could easily see a

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