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by ryporter 11y ago
I (and I suspect most others) cannot accurately value a product without points of comparison. We rely on the market to conduct the price discovery process. If thousands of people have bought an item on Amazon, and it has many great review
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by ryporter 11y ago
There are no acceptable subscription fees. Why should any of us put up with paying for content when we have no interest in giving away our money?
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by ryporter 11y ago
No, I wouldn't. (Do I know you?) I don't even use ad blocker.
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by ryporter 11y ago
Intrusive ads are not some new phenomenon. Print, radio, and TV ads are all definitely intrusive as well. I don't generally hear the same crowd advocating the end of all such advertising.
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by ryporter 11y ago
Autonomous killing machines are a natural progression of military technology. They will certainly be created by someone at some point in the future. Thus, our military should definitely be researching this topic, and that's all that
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by ryporter 11y ago
Linkbait. What Hawking actually said was far more measured. The author then ran with it to express his own opinion.
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by ryporter 11y ago
While this is certainly interesting and useful, mutual funds change their valuations so infrequently that it still doesn't give us a good read on the current valuation. I would love some someone to take the much harder step of trackin
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by ryporter 11y ago
And the 5MM valuation refers to the cap?
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by ryporter 11y ago
Question for Sam -- How do you raise the first 200K at a different valuation without significant extra cost and hassle? I'm guessing it would be a SAFE or convertible note, in order to avoid issuing such a small amount of equity.
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by ryporter 11y ago
For YC companies, which also benefit from a Bay Area premium. Up here in Seattle, 5MM is not a discounted, seed stage, pre-money valuation.
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by ryporter 11y ago
It's a reasonable language choice, and the OCaml's type safety was obviously an important factor. However, the key reason why it was such a brilliant choice was for attracting top talent. People who show the initiative to learn
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by ryporter 11y ago
What's the point of doing engineering anywhere if you don't get paid as much as those other guys to shift ads around?
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by ryporter 11y ago
YC companies are in fact selected on their merit. What are you proposing instead of the current system, socialized startup advice and funding?
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by ryporter 11y ago
The question posed by this article is unfair, because it labels Ackman as a regulator. He has absolutely no regulatory authority, and if you want to claim that his money allows him to act as one, then what of all of the money put behind He
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by ryporter 11y ago
It is indeed a fact that the TPP moves us closer to Economic Integration. Claiming that Economic Integration is a threat to classical liberalism is your opinion, and is not supported by the link you cited.
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by ryporter 11y ago
You didn't argue for why the chain analogy applies here. You just argued that we should reject the entire agreement if one part is so egregiously bad that it outweighs the others, which is obviously true. Why does the "weakest l
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by ryporter 11y ago
I don't understand your use of the chain analogy. The TPP is wide-ranging agreement. How are the economic benefits of reduced tariffs eliminated by another aspect of the deal, such as copyrights?
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by ryporter 11y ago
The EFF obviously is focused on one aspect of the deal, and I don't find their arguments about the other aspects to be convincing. For the economic benefits, they use the same form of argument that global warming skeptics and creation
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by ryporter 11y ago
What happens when this company fails? I would assume the debt would be auctioned off, and a firm that specializing in this sort of investment would scoop it up at a discount. It would be hilarious if they auctioned off the contracts separa
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by ryporter 11y ago
With a normal loan, the borrower enters into the agreement with the intention of eventually paying back the loan. In this case, they do not, and are unlikely to react kindly when confronted with repayment after going through a divorce. I
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by ryporter 11y ago
I don't understand the central claim of this lawsuit: "Vanguard is cheating state and federal tax authorities by charging its customers much less than other fund companies do." This simply isn't true. A list of the 100
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by ryporter 11y ago
If this lawsuit succeeds, then we'll live a surreal world where financial companies are routinely hammered for charging high fees...and for charging low fees. Perhaps we should have a state-mandated price list for all financial servic
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by ryporter 11y ago
So, shouldn't the investors then owe back taxes based on unpaid expense fees?
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by ryporter 11y ago
How is Sacks able to assert moral authority when he was the COO working side by side with Conrad? Are there any Zenefits employees here who can tell us what the internal opinion is of the two?
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by ryporter 11y ago
Well, then you can make a lot of money off of them by shorting publicly traded tech companies trading at massively inflated valuations.
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by ryporter 11y ago
It's partly because foreign exchange was slower than, say, U.S. equities at becoming automated. If any of the electronic bond-trading platforms every takes off, then that market will see the exact same trend.
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by ryporter 11y ago
I used to work for a forex hedge fund, so I witnessed some of this trend (though primarily via my boss who had regular conversations with many banks). This trend is very real. Underlying it is the continual shift towards automation, but i
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by ryporter 11y ago
It's not nitpicking. The two are very different. Hedge Funds (and other proprietary firms) using AI-training software to automatically trade are attempting to generate Alpha, are run as a separate fund, and are available only to the
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by ryporter 11y ago
What I would love is an open source implementation of the daily tax-loss harvesting strategies increasingly being offered. In addition to saving on fees, it would allow you to specify your own basket of stocks (and weightings among those s
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by ryporter 11y ago
Honest question -- Is anyone at YC still in regular contact with the Cheungs? They seem to be embarrassing themselves with these repeated attempts. When Homejoy shut down, I still had a lot of respect for what they built. Now, if I were

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