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by simon_ 13y ago
Gandhi, though the claim may be exaggerated. Hard to find a good source, but here's something: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2521/did-mahatma-ga...
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by simon_ 13y ago
Relatedly: DO NOT CHEAT ON YOUR TAXES. If you have any BTC profits and do not report them to the IRS this month, they are reasonably likely to catch you and make an example of you.
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by simon_ 13y ago
A decline in market value of more than $10B, implying that for the $2B FB spent, they will receive hugely negative value. Seems extreme, although it was a bad day for tech stocks anyway, so the portion of the drop attributable to the acquis
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by simon_ 13y ago
Conditional on having an illegal policy, enforcing said policy in an effective manner similar to your enforcement of other (legal) policies should not earn you extra condemnation.
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by simon_ 13y ago
Although I get that these sorts of agreements may well have been illegal and unethical, all this outrage over the attitudes of the executives seems overblown to me. Try putting yourself in Eric Schmidt's shoes: from his perspective, th
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by simon_ 13y ago
Raising a $250MM IPO is amassing a war chest. If that becomes harder, they become less competitive.
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by simon_ 13y ago
Is this partially an attempt to throw a wrench in the gears of the Box IPO? If there's going to be a price war anyway, better to start it now and prevent a competitor from amassing a big war chest. I don't understand how much Box
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by simon_ 13y ago
EDIT: Some of this answer maybe still applies, but basically I seem to have misread the question. Apologies. HN has in fact changed quite a lot over the years and PG has been visibly tweaking it continually. I guess you are asking specifica
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by simon_ 13y ago
I just read Ben Horowitz's new book, and he describes taking Loudcloud public as a Hail Mary because private markets were essentially too smart to give them any more money at a horrible time (while the original dotcom bubble was in the
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by simon_ 13y ago
I was going to write a response disagreeing based on the assumption that, like any normal exchange, Derivabit would fully intermediate the trade. But after reading the guide, I realize you are correct! They explicitly say the maximum you co
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by simon_ 13y ago
I will be interested to see if this works. Best of luck to you, but I am skeptical. For an options market to work you need both buyers and sellers of volatility. Is anyone really going to show up to sell vol here? At what kind of price? Eve
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by simon_ 13y ago
When you say "nobody benefits", you are leaving out the employees, who will see higher wages as a result of competition for their services. In fact, if you only consider the companies (and not the employees), this kind of competit
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by simon_ 15y ago
This will definitely not happen. There is no way it would win the support of BAC's shareholders and board.
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by simon_ 16y ago
He removed the enamel from his artificial cap?
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by simon_ 16y ago
There is not actually survivorship bias in the DJIA, because changes to its composition are not retroactive. If an index member goes bankrupt, it will absolutely bring the index level down substantially.
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by simon_ 16y ago
Doesn't the strong response demonstrate that the offering price was too low?
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by simon_ 16y ago
I understand your sentiment, and don't really disagree, but keep in mind that it's basically impossible to innovate or build wealth under unfavorable institutions. So... some value probably "should" accrue to nations.
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by simon_ 16y ago
Perhaps NPR celebrates inverse April Fool's Day (1/4)?
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by simon_ 16y ago
This is not a correct understanding of "market cap". Goldman's market cap includes the value of ALL shares, not just the shares available for public trading.
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by simon_ 16y ago
This has to be mostly mortgages, which makes it a little misleading.
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by simon_ 16y ago
I really disagree with this. Far from being more than anybody needs, a million dollars is actually not enough to secure a dignified existence in the US. Sure... a "trip to Thailand" doesn't require a million dollars, but what if you wan
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by simon_ 16y ago
Um... I don't see $/tab specified anywhere. Perhaps the distribution of "tabs" will just decide how they allocate their $1,000,000?
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by simon_ 16y ago
I don't think this is right... FICA is capped, so my social security contribution should not scale linearly with income.
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by simon_ 16y ago
Any chance you can find a buyer?
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by simon_ 16y ago
"Things that kill children" is not identical with "things parents should worry about". For example, immediate mortality is probably not parents' major concern with drugs (#5 on the list).
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by simon_ 16y ago
This "infographic" does not seem to contain any information.
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by simon_ 16y ago
Keep it in cash! USD if you are in the US. In the bank or in T-Bills. Any angel or VC would require you to do this. Basically all serious business do this. If you have a solid business with even a small chance of requiring additional inv
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by simon_ 16y ago
I use that software every day. Want to get in touch with me? (Email in my HN profile.)
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by simon_ 16y ago
Why do you say "INTL" in the headline? It's only one letter shorter than the complete name of the company and the stock ticker (if that's what you were going for) is INTC.
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by simon_ 16y ago
What is this process designed to optimize? My guess: it's massively arbitrary, which would be really shameful given the impact immigration policy has on lives & families.

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