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by ryporter 10y ago
I agree. Others here are making arguments as to why they think this is akin to gambling, but there is a specific legal definition of gambling (at least here in the U.S.) -- "A person engages in gambling if he stakes or risks something
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by ryporter 10y ago
While I certainly think that Penny Auctions are less than useless, I really don't see how they can be classified as gambling. I think that the salient point here is that there is no element of chance. Sure, you don't know how yo
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by ryporter 10y ago
I do not believe that both Koller's and Andrew Ng's transitions out of Coursera reflect badly on Coursera or on MOOCs in general. Instead, what you're seeing is two incredibly brilliant professors (I was a grad student in th
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by ryporter 10y ago
Prior successful exits is obviously a key factor.
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by ryporter 10y ago
I trade this market professionally, and it is quite easy to massively elevate your stock price if you control most of the floating shares. These sorts of price run-ups happen very regularly, but, to their credit, the SEC normally stops the
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by ryporter 10y ago
I think that California will eventually be forced to change as more and more people migrate to states to like Washington. The data only goes through 2010, but the Tax Foundation has a nice table for net migrations from state to state. [1]
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by ryporter 10y ago
I moved from Palo Alto to Seattle in 2014. One factor was cost of living (including taxes), but another was that Seattle had a large number of very nice, relative new high rise apartments. I had my pick of great apartments, while in Palo
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by ryporter 10y ago
The article omits the key component of transmitting information between venues. For lines between continents, the improvements are orders of magnitude greater than the ones discussed in this article.
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by ryporter 10y ago
I think it's a great idea to study algorithms and math for CS, and that OCW is a very good resource. Also consider taking a Coursera course on algorithms. One taught by Tim Roughgarden started Aug 8. [1] I haven't taken the clas
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by ryporter 10y ago
Monster's P/E ratio yesterday was around 65. Given that the company is far from a high-growth startup, that suggests that this deal isn't cheap. (That's not to say this is a bad deal -- the synergies between online and
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by ryporter 10y ago
For $3B, they could have hired are pretty energized and engaged team. Seriously, whenever I see these big acquisitions by companies of a product they have been trying to develop internally, I always think about the person in charge of that
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by ryporter 10y ago
Private companies often want to control who and how many of their shareholders are. It is likely not because they fear being shorted. The market for short selling private companies is currently a very distant threat. Let's say you pl
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by ryporter 10y ago
Fundamentally, the underlying inspiration is the growth of these companies. The fact that interest rates are so low, and that investors are chasing yield elsewhere, helps to enable it. However, these deals would still happen even if debt
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by ryporter 10y ago
My point was that it would be if Airbnb's fundraising were truly a pyramid scheme, which it obviously is not.
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by ryporter 10y ago
Investors are not blindly giving these companies cash (insert tired Theranos joke here). They see far more information we do, and they do more due diligence than most investors do in publicly traded companies, including (and especially) du
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by ryporter 10y ago
Thank you. I, too, am tired of comments along the lines of "I don't understand, so it must be a scam or a ponzi scheme."
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by ryporter 10y ago
That implies that their stock price will plummet after they IPO. You'll be able to make a fortune shorting their stock.
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by ryporter 10y ago
They will if it's clear from your resume that you took 6+ years to graduate. It's a reasonable concern for an employer, since the cause is often different from yours (namely, lack of effort). So, as other have suggested, don&#x27
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by ryporter 10y ago
Much of the difference is in land/home values, but, yes, it would mean that people in states like Hawaii would save more by shopping online. (This of course assumes that the online store doesn't pass along the increased transpor
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by ryporter 10y ago
I'd be more interested in the real value of $100 of income in each state, which would account for differences in state income tax. On such a map, WA would look significantly better, and states such as CA and NY would look even worse
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by ryporter 10y ago
The author's evidence is incredibly circumstantial, and does not merit the certainty that he projects. Can we please have some actual, hard evidence?
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by ryporter 10y ago
I just moved from downtown Seattle over to Bellevue, and the sea of cranes certainly got on my nerves, but the design of the buildings did not. Many of the new building exteriors have a lot of glass, and I find it rather attractive. I&#x27
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by ryporter 10y ago
The NY Fed is in New York.
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by ryporter 10y ago
Not to mention repeated game effects (of setting a precedent in this case), which make the setting even more difficult to analyze.
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by ryporter 10y ago
Normal banking systems can have the same problem when they, too, have lax security. Witness the $100 million heist from the Bangladesh account at the NY Fed. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/hackers-steal--100-million-fro
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by ryporter 10y ago
Agreed. The bait-and-switch wasn't at all necessary. It's not like no one would show up if she held a press conference to announce a new product.
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by ryporter 10y ago
Everything mentioned in this article is a relatively small factor compared to the largest -- Didi Kuaidi is a Chinese company, and Uber is not. Didi may indeed have the superior approach, but we won't know until the two companies both
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by ryporter 10y ago
Not when a Chinese company is buying a company from a foreign company. The Chinese government stronger favors Chinese companies, all the more so when they are partially owned and/or well connected to the state. There is no way that t
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by ryporter 10y ago
Google is perfectly able to invest a few dozen million in the Android development chain, if they so desire. If they don't, and if you're right that it would be a good investment, then that's simply a bad decision made by Goo
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by ryporter 10y ago
Did Larry Ellison just transfer billions of dollars from himself to himself in a taxable transaction? I'm surprised the deal was all cash.

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