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811.
by spacehome 13y ago
A secondary market investor is someone who will buy the shares from you after you've exercised. These people may or may not exist, depending on how attractive the company is. The shares you purchase from the company will likely be re
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by spacehome 13y ago
They may have reasons for not wanting to give exact numbers, because backing out changes in this number over time can give information on the compensation of your peers. However, any honest company should be willing to give you numbers in
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by spacehome 13y ago
Maybe. But just looking at expected value ignores risk. Most people are risk averse, especially at the amounts of money we're talking about here.
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by spacehome 13y ago
No. The golden handcuffs arise from the fact that the employee doesn't have the cash on hand to exercise the options and pay the taxes since there is no liquid market from the shares. If the employee quits, then they forfeit the upsi
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by spacehome 13y ago
While SICP is a wonderful book and should be recommended, it is not meant as a tutorial on Scheme. SICP only uses Scheme to have some concrete language to talk about deeper themes. The grandparent might have better luck with a book that i
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by spacehome 13y ago
Atoms aren't stable in a classical universe.
817.
by spacehome 13y ago
Saying "quantum rules aren't important for most objects" just isn't true. I understand what you're trying to say -- that we mostly use imprecise metaphors in place of what's really going on -- but that's
818.
by spacehome 13y ago
> Yes, quantum mechanics is important to some biological processes. I'm not quite sure how to parse this statement. Wouldn't quantum mechanics underlie all biological processes?
819.
by spacehome 13y ago
Thanks!
820.
by spacehome 13y ago
> Men wearing a wedding ring, another marking campaign invented in the 1940's. Do you have a reference for this statement?
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by spacehome 13y ago
Of course there are.
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by spacehome 13y ago
I'd still put a pretty high likelihood that it's biased. A run of 98 in 10 billion flips of a fair coin is vanishingly unlikely.
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by spacehome 13y ago
Yes.
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by spacehome 13y ago
You really wonder what the penalty would be? Do you regularly consider shooting unoccupied cars?
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by spacehome 13y ago
* lower or equal
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by spacehome 13y ago
If she gave me a paycheck every two weeks, I'm sure we could work something out. :)
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by spacehome 13y ago
This is a pretty poor description of the problem if you've never heard of it before. The salient information is that there is a single binary switch in the room that can be turned to an 'on' or 'off' position. The
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by spacehome 13y ago
Not sure if it's exactly what you're looking for, but I use a Firefox Add-on called Invisible Hand. http://www.getinvisiblehand.com/ When you visit a product page on Amazon or other retailers, a notification bar w
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by spacehome 13y ago
I can confirm. I was raised in a Unitarian Universalist church, and there were a sizable minority (best guess is 10-20%) of adults who were mostly atheistic but wanted a deeper moral, spiritual, and ecological rooting than mainstream athei
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by spacehome 13y ago
> Money solves nearly all problems in the world these days Looks like somebody's not rich.