rjtavares

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by rjtavares 14y ago
Every antitrust law is affected by that problem. If subjectivity is a problem then you shouldn't be in charge.
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by rjtavares 14y ago
The productivity gain I had from using RescueTime was well worth the scary thought of having a spy on my computer.
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by rjtavares 14y ago
Interesting. Should be a pretty good hedge against inflation, assuming the prices aren't fixed (couldn't tell from your link).
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by rjtavares 14y ago
There's a difference between "A vs. B" and "A vs. Not A"
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by rjtavares 14y ago
"1) Nothing the OP has written has anything to do with economics." Thank you for saying that. I hate it when mostly moral or political issues are labeled as "economics"...
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by rjtavares 14y ago
It isn't wrong, it's just a convention in finance. The Nominal Annual Rate is presented "without adjustment for the full effect of compounding" [1]. In the provided example, a 100% nominal annual rate becomes a 125% effective annual rate, s
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by rjtavares 14y ago
Those $600MM are detailed in their Quarterly report: -$450MM are deferred revenues (i.e., people bought things in their games but they don't recognize everything as revenue right away, a common procedure with online video games). -$40MM are
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by rjtavares 14y ago
I don't mind the jokes - I actually find it fits the culture. They should expands with a another site for "normal" content though. Using Rap Genius has obvious branding issues...
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by rjtavares 14y ago
I would rather have them display a standard warning sign saying that Kickstarter can't guarantee the successful delivery of products, and there is no money back policy. I quite like the pre-order style Kickstarters (like the recent Project
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by rjtavares 14y ago
MIT and Stanford like Hip-Hop Music. I'm pretty sure MIT prefers Biggie and Stanford prefers Tupac (note: this has nothing to do with east/west coast, but rather pure skill vs. charisma)
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by rjtavares 14y ago
IMO, Udacity is much more interesting than Codecademy. Codecademy relies too much on exercise repetition.
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by rjtavares 14y ago
The only good thing about Windows 8 is that it provides a huge opportunity for Valve to make a Linux based Steam box. I'd be all over that...
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by rjtavares 14y ago
I can't help but think this is an overreaction to the Zynga implosion. Feeling the urge to buy...
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by rjtavares 14y ago
It lacks the great Monty Python references, though...
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by rjtavares 14y ago
It isn't made-up, apparently: https://twitter.com/arrington/status/227260848450723840
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by rjtavares 14y ago
Give people the option to sell art at an arbitrary percentage of a made-up valuation? I'm sure that would end well...
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by rjtavares 14y ago
What you said doesn't make sense. One guy's cost is another guy's revenues, not value. A good way to put it would be: "Patent laws and companies created a market for Patent Trolling that is worth $29B per year."
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by rjtavares 14y ago
The success in this courses cannot be measured only by those that achieve a pass or certification. I did one of Udacity's courses, but being short on available time I didn't do all the homework or the final exam. I still learned a lot...
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by rjtavares 14y ago
I can't find the half billion figure for Tesla in that article (only for Fisker). Also, Tesla is a public company and therefore discloses their finantials. Their total debt is 270M, and they have 280M in cash (therefore, negative net debt).
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by rjtavares 14y ago
I'm not even going into how they change official statistics arbitrarily on a particular time period, but the article itself says that "Dividends are excluded, so the chart only shows capital gains. The dividend yield of the S&P is runni
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by rjtavares 14y ago
Basing a valuation on IPO statistics is not an industry standard valuation technique. For an industry standard valuation technique, check Damodaran's analysis made well before the IPO: ( http://www.aswathdamodaran.blogspot.pt/2012/02/ipo-of