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by qwrusz 10y ago
Hopefully one never needs to exchange their watch for cash in an emergency but I see the advantage, in general do you insure it against theft or loss while traveling overseas with it?
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by qwrusz 10y ago
Honestly, I don't know enough details and the Chapter 11 process needs to play out still, so I think it's to soon to really say who were the winners and losers here. Also it depends how you want to define winners and losers. Well
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by qwrusz 10y ago
What would you like to know? I read your comment and I think you pretty much get the gist of it, but if you have q's about how private equity (PE) works in this situation I'm happy to try to answer. As for this deal. First it was
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by qwrusz 10y ago
Easier to write a reply on here than walk the walk, take HN comments and advice about what others claim with a grain of salt. First, I recommend anyone asking this take a moment to do a double-check on your mental health. At least for depre
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by qwrusz 10y ago
Not to take away from challenges of the legacy telecommunications industry right now, but this article slides in the private equity LBO part of Avaya's story at the very end - and then only hints at what happened here. I hope the pensi
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by qwrusz 10y ago
> I probably sound arrogant, but I'm not. I'm smart enough to decode this shitty aspect of human nature for what it is. Your post does sound a bit arrogant and that's OK. A bit of arrogance is so common it shouldn't d
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by qwrusz 10y ago
More clickbait bullshit from the Washington Post. Took a study about MIT graduates: some stayed doing research after graduation and others went into finance. So yes not all MIT graduates go into finance. Misleading and inaccurate study of M
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by qwrusz 10y ago
This article totally misses how brands and slogans are translated into Chinese. Accuracy in translation is important but is often superseded by other decisions. The right word is not necessarily the most accurate word. Company budgets to
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by qwrusz 10y ago
Hey, I didn't down vote you but based on your question and your edit of an "unsubstantiated claim for which there is conflicting evidence" I think you may have mis-interpreted my comment. Apologies for any confusion. I was no
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by qwrusz 10y ago
Be skeptical. I am too. Especially when it comes to statistics coming out of China things where details can be very unclear and the skeptics have been right a lot lately. We can debate what the actual literacy rates are or how to define it.
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by qwrusz 10y ago
> It's like corporations focus on the quarter. Futurists focus on the century. What group of people focuses on the decade? Corporations focus on the decade. But the focus on the quarter part is what is made public. Disclaimers aboun
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by qwrusz 10y ago
I think I understand your confusion. I also spent time as an ex-pat in China. This is a bad sentence from the article: "Before Pinyin was developed, 85% of Chinese people could not read, now almost all can." In reads like the deve
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by qwrusz 10y ago
Right. In terms current thinking I can't speak for an entire field, and I should say from what I have seen economics maybe still follows the lead of hard sciences where coming up with a theoretical model and a beautiful equation on pap
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by qwrusz 10y ago
I'm not sure how to answer within the scope of this thread, but a short answer is: the better way to measure the impact of technology infrastructure on the economy is to measure the impact of technology infrastructure on the economy .
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by qwrusz 10y ago
A bit frustrating to see these outdated ideas and old ways of thinking continue to generate headlines. Total Factor Productivity (TFP) is a made-up best-guess legacy issue based on mathematical remainders/residuals/error terms fro
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by qwrusz 10y ago
Like everyone else in the same boat (having both the awareness to ask and enough money to do something about it)... you spend the rest of your life trying to answer this question. Good luck.
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by qwrusz 10y ago
Are we sure this is for Zuckerberg himself? The visit 50 states makes me think yes, but still I always thought Sheryl Sandberg would make the better politician.
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by qwrusz 10y ago
> They charge high fees and consistently beat the market with low volatility, without leverage >>I haven't seen even the most sophisticated alternative fund allocators (eg big university endowments) sufficiently explain what
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by qwrusz 10y ago
While this is not how validating demand works, I take issue more with the title of this blog post than its content. The techniques described are not necessarily wrong nor are they anything new nor even that useful. I'm not trying to kn
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by qwrusz 10y ago
What is this? It looks like just an advertisement for startup consultant based out of Raleigh, North Carolina? There's a cynical saying that is basically: anytime you meet a "startup consultant for hire" there's usually
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by qwrusz 10y ago
Not a bad succinct analysis. Good points and explained clearly, and I agree on the concerns. Unfortunately, this is a penny stock, so stock analysis exercises like this are pretty much a waste of time and they mean nothing. If you tried t
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by qwrusz 10y ago
Unfortunately Wickedly Bezos Tortilla Chips are only available from amazon's site. So if you order them odds are you would get counterfeit chips from China instead. Dangerous.
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by qwrusz 10y ago
Perfect choice for a name. No business is safe, Amazon is your competitor or soon will be. Hide your kids, hide your wife.
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by qwrusz 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carried_interest#Definition_an... https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/12274462/Legnani...
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by qwrusz 10y ago
Haha, oh that definition of curious. My bad. (side note: I am curious why the M-W dictionary puts the archaic and obsolete definitions first) Gotcha on the carried interest. Ya we have come a long way from sailing molasses across the ocea
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by qwrusz 10y ago
Not exactly sure what you're asking but happy to try answer any q's. Couple points: I realize your example scenario is very hypothetical and just rough math, but a heads up about understating fees as these add up fast: For the hed
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by qwrusz 10y ago
By lately do you mean 7 years? Clickbait has been their entire business model from pretty much day 1. To their credit, BI's clickbait headline writing skills are stronger and their thesaurus of adverbs thicker than many competitor site
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by qwrusz 10y ago
Reading my comment again I should have worded it better and more clearly. Thanks for pointing out what you did. My comment was specifically meant as a response to the portfolio recommended above, that was linked to and that appears in Tony
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by qwrusz 10y ago
What? Sorry to rain on your common-sense parade, but the article says: "twitter is a useful measuring stick here, as it is a company of intense worth that is hard to value." I don't know what that means. But after exploring M
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by qwrusz 10y ago
Nice work. I wish twitter implemented something like this that helped track convos better. One of the reasons I stopped using it was navigation issues.

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