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Fidelity Has Marked Down 1/3 of Their Growth Investments(fortune.com)
2 points by spuiszis 11y ago|0 comments
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by spuiszis 11y ago
I'm curious as to what materially materially changed in 6 months since Fidelity invested (at $15bn pre-money)[1], considering Snapchat it looks like they have been ramping it's revenue[2]. Maybe slowing user acquisition or lower
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Fidelity Writes Down Snapchat Investment 25%(techcrunch.com)
5 points by spuiszis 11y ago|1 comments
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by spuiszis 11y ago
Also related, Vice has been covering this for awhile now and had a great piece on HBO (er, well-produced piece). Another example of the horrible spending: contractors spent $300 million to build a power plant to power Kabul, but this plant
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Big Pharma's Darknet Drug Deals(bloomberg.com)
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by spuiszis 11y ago
Copy and paste the article title into a Google Search and click the article link in the search results.
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by spuiszis 11y ago
AVG Privacy Fix, HTTPS Everywhere, Ghostery.
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How the Lexus Hoverboard Actually Works(bloomberg.com)
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Google gets into the carpooling business with the launch of RideWith in Israel(venturebeat.com)
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Lightsail Mission Control Center(sail.planetary.org)
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What is the XY Problem?(meta.stackexchange.com)
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by spuiszis 11y ago
I agree in theory but in practice, it's not always the full amount but you get things like BofA deducting $12bn pre-tax from their $17bn mortgage settlement[1] or JPMorgan able to deduct a large amount of their $13bn fine[2]. There is
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by spuiszis 11y ago
This reduces their taxable income, so part of it is a benefit to DB so the real number they pay is around ~67% of the headline number. We also have no idea how profitable LIBOR manipulation is over several years. I can imagine incredible lu
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by spuiszis 11y ago
These are outliers though. Aside from insider trading cases, the norm is institution pays $X to settle and everything goes away (tax-deductible btw).
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The Power of Starting with Yes(nytimes.com)
2 points by spuiszis 12y ago|0 comments
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New Stumbles by Prosecutors in Trial of Former Goldman Programmer(nytimes.com)
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Kik Says It’s Weighing Options, Including Selling Itself(nytimes.com)
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500 Startup's Weapons of Mass Distribution(wmd.co)
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The Data Science Handbook(datasciencehandbook.me)
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In South Africa, Ranchers Are Breeding Animals to Be Hunted(bloomberg.com)
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Opendoor Gets Another $20M to Simplify the Process of Selling Your Home(techcrunch.com)
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The True Size of Africa(kai.subblue.com)
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The True Size of Greenland and Russia, Compared to Africa(jakubmarian.com)
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by spuiszis 12y ago
Quite the contrary. CPS is making basic computer science a part of the K-12 curriculum, starting as earlier as Kindergarten[1]. It will take decades to see the actual results from this but its helping put the city on the right path. [1] htt
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by spuiszis 12y ago
“A lot of the alternative chemicals have not been adequately tested because they don’t have to be,” said lead author Deborah Kurrasch. “A compound is considered safe (by the Food and Drug Administration) until proven otherwise.” I'm no
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by spuiszis 12y ago
The email address listed at the bottom is Bryce Roberts from OATV: http://oatv.com/
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by spuiszis 12y ago
Numbers without sources have no value in an internet forum but from what I'm taking from your argument (please correct me if I'm wrong), is that: "TARP worked because, housing prices have increased across the board and as a
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by spuiszis 12y ago
Where are you getting profitability from?
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by spuiszis 12y ago
Homeowners aren't benefiting, they've underwater on their mortgages and are selling for pennies on the dollar. It's Blackstone and a number of other clever players who've been at this for years [1]. http://www
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by spuiszis 12y ago
What's important is the amount of money relative to the size of the institution. Discover and Capital One were a faction of the size of WF + Citi. In 2008, WF had $1.2 Trillion in assets[1], Discover has $78bn today (had trouble huntin

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