squaresmile

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by squaresmile 7y ago
From the shareholders (owners) whom they have duty to.
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by squaresmile 7y ago
> Again, I can only see this as a risk, basically because no underwriter will push the stock to investors. They don't need the cash but want to make it easier for stockholders to sell. Now also seems to be the time for tech IPO.
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by squaresmile 7y ago
From https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-04/warren... > Here is the essential fact of that alleged scam: Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway invested $340 million in it, and in exchange clai
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by squaresmile 8y ago
I think a thing to keep in mind is this is about antitrust and "Google is dominant in the market for online search advertising intermediation in the EEA". Exclusivity deal was nothing strange but abusing "this market domina
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by squaresmile 8y ago
I think the press release [1] did a good job of detailing the specific activity that was over the line: > Starting in 2006, Google included exclusivity clauses in its contracts. This meant that publishers were prohibited from placing any
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by squaresmile 8y ago
For comparison in Japan where the animators union is non-existent or not as strong, the working condition is usually pretty rough to downright horrible. [1] https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2017-06-07/nhk-
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by squaresmile 8y ago
I think it would be great if people don't have to learn English to program. There are tons of people out there using computers, programming with very very poor English knowledge. Besides technical implementation issues, I see no reason
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by squaresmile 8y ago
I think they are two different things: > The RBI said Microsoft agreed to disclose information on 3,036 occasions between 2014 and 2016 in response to more than 4,000 government requests or legal demand requests for data of Indian custom
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by squaresmile 8y ago
This sounds neat. Thanks for the work, vortex_ape and others. When I last needed this, I used tabula via tabula-py. Tried camelot on the PDF [0] I worked on and unfortunately the default option returned less-workable dataframe than tabula-p
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by squaresmile 8y ago
Aren't both Google and Facebook on NASDAQ and not NYSE? Anyway, I can't also find any reference to NYSE refusing to list dual class shares so I would be grateful if you can point me to some resources.
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by squaresmile 8y ago
That's a weird narrative you are saying. SEC settled quickly and little because this is not a "bad" security fraud. There's little reason to punish him harshly since he probably doesn't have malicious intent. The pu
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by squaresmile 8y ago
This is not evidence regarding the claim, I simply want to know more about subject. I searched the literature and found the following paper (synopsis below). I still need to find the full paper elsewhere but it looks like it provides a good
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by squaresmile 8y ago
I'm pretty certain the whole report was created in MS Word and the flowchart used Word flowchart as well.
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by squaresmile 8y ago
ECB and BOJ are currently working on a joint research project on distributed ledger technology called project Stella. Like you said, Bitcoin right now is unfit for Real Time Gross Settlement system. However, the project also concluded that
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by squaresmile 9y ago
I just searched around and there is a fair chance the number might be legit. In the first paragraph of this article [1], it says that the amount in VND is converted from 650MM in USD, taken from the ICO organized by the Modern Tech company.
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by squaresmile 9y ago
Right after the part you quoted: "That, in turn, should lead to higher spending in the economy.(1) The way in which QE works therefore differs from two common misconceptions about central bank asset purchases: that QE involves giving b
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by squaresmile 9y ago
> There are two quite separate kinds of "activist": > One kind wants companies to make more money by being meaner: They call for efficiencies, stock buybacks, mergers, less spending on perks, etc. This stuff is often stereot
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by squaresmile 9y ago
Their blogspot where they talk more about the decision: https://www.ovh.ie/a2536.anti-ddos-protection-why-ovh-must-k... The increase in price is €1 to €10 ex. VAT/month. It's pretty reasonable given the anti-DDoS
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by squaresmile 9y ago
Hubic is quite slow at around 1-3 MB/s and that's from a server in OVH's datacenter.