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by robzyb 10y ago
> Going back the the original post - EV is the real value of the company EV is one way of valuing a company. As is market cap. > Ford could sell down their debt by issuing more equity Absolutely. It's logical to say that a compan
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by robzyb 10y ago
> Obviously both are worth the same amount: each company has an "enterprise value" (the value that all investors in all securities place on the underlying enterprise) of $1,000,000. The only difference is that company A has onl
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by robzyb 10y ago
[edit]: Current finance professional here. > When two companies have wildly different capital structures, you have to compare them on enterprise value, not the market cap of their equity. So while I give kudos to Tesla for building a val
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by robzyb 10y ago
My opinion: It's structure is simple, but that doesn't preclude it from being confusing. For example, where do you go to see a list of your volumes (virtual block storage, like EBS)? Well you click on the "Droplets" butt
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Trump, with NASA, has a new rocket and spaceship. Where’s he going to go?(washingtonpost.com)
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by robzyb 10y ago
Damnit. My initial thought is that I didn't take into account air pressure. Now I feel like an idiot, time to research...
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by robzyb 10y ago
> The link I posted is the only good technical summary Agreed, except for... > Its automatic high-speed protection system was triggered 3s later, with a maximum indicated air speed of 358kt (662km/h), or Mach 0.9, recorded.
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by robzyb 10y ago
> If you read their S-1, they list a dependence on Google cloud as one of their big risk factors. Yet they then go ahead and make this commitment instead of working towards eliminating it. If they ran on bare metal then they'd list
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by robzyb 10y ago
Octopart (YC'something, now part of Altium) have an excellent Common Parts Library: https://octopart.com/common-parts-library I also often refer to Sparkfun's product list as a reasonable starting point.
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by robzyb 10y ago
> The most common situations for having a bug that works on my machine but not other people's have to do with memory access violations. That has not been my experience. Especially with software written under time constraints includi
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by robzyb 10y ago
> This is another common and overlapping problem, companies that can't explain what they're selling. There is logic behind hiring some people to build the product, and different people to explain the product.
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by robzyb 10y ago
I would love a Chrome extension that does this.
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by robzyb 10y ago
Thanks for writing this! I'm thinking about using Spark for a little 2M-data-point project that I'm working on, just for the learning experience. Out of curiosity, what kinks did you find?
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by robzyb 10y ago
> But that would make them just like Spotify, and several other services. I think it would be hard to compete that way. Its even harder to compete if your product is crappy... which is essentially what the OP was suggesting. > If you
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Poundland's 2016 power banks (not a good start)(youtube.com)
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by robzyb 10y ago
> From a practical standpoint, going with 32-bit over 16-bit means not much more than making the datapath twice as wide Actually, that is more true from a theoretical standpoint. From a practical standpoint you have twice as many traces
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by robzyb 10y ago
> There is a saying in electronics engineering world: "Every sensor is also a temperature sensor." I've never heard that before, but its awesome. Though, it could probably be generalised to "every component is also a
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by robzyb 10y ago
I hate to be "that guy", but you are talking about the Unicode space. UTF-8, UTF-16, etc. are just different encodings of the exact same Unicode space.
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by robzyb 10y ago
> We like to say that Lemonade is the oldest new idea! I think that the OP is drawing issue with the fact that the title described it as "the world's first P2P insurance."
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by robzyb 10y ago
> I'm assuming the cost of actual coffee at starbucks is negligible And yet takeaway coffee costs me the same price whether its at Starbucks or just a hole-in-the-wall that only do take-away.
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by robzyb 10y ago
> The article hints that that is technically possible, but also states that it is not implemented. bool auto_fire = false; // Don't forget to set to false before deployment
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by robzyb 10y ago
Off topic, but whats the advantage of Transdata over Alteryx?
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by robzyb 10y ago
> They use very expensive record keeping and clearinghouse arrangements (often involving quite a lot of physical paper) that in theory could be cheaper to do with a distributed ledger. Do you have some quantifiable facts or sources to ba
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by robzyb 10y ago
I agree. And I'm an Australian in Japan learning Japanese. (I was expecting it to be a rant about insufficient unicode usage.)
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by robzyb 10y ago
> What would make me prefer corkpage over ask.fm and other similar services? I haven't heard of either of these services before, but I just spent 30 seconds on each. With corkpage: I told FB to accept the request and I was logged in
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by robzyb 10y ago
> Put another way - if you are not part of the invited group, and you submit an issue, but do so poorly, or without a clear Proof-of-Concept, and concise description, you can reasonably expect to hear no response from Apple, with no grou
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by robzyb 10y ago
Just for the sake of discussion: Are they opening up because they need to do this to survive? And they need to do this to survive because their products aren't as good as they used to be and they can't live in an enclosed environm
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by robzyb 10y ago
That setup doesn't make any sense to me. Either its an open program or a closed program. A closed program that allows submissions from others is an open program. What reasons what they have to do it this way? My first guess is to tick
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by robzyb 10y ago
It seems to me that a good way to reduce the amount of cars onto the road would be to build large buses.
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by robzyb 10y ago
Wow, this could be quite interesting. Firstly, it would be cool if this could be a single gateway to "all the data in the world". Right now its a pain to find, say, energy generation statistics for, say, Portugal, but it would be

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