thegranderson

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by thegranderson 10y ago
Well... depending on who you source, the majority of people already live in urban environments. In the US, the most recent figure from the census is 62.7%, which is more narrowly defined at % of population living in cities[1]. If you count
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by thegranderson 10y ago
I've always enjoyed this one: http://www.jcchhim.com/route/ It is for a visual designer, so obviously the presentation of that work is different than academic/technical research, but it is very clean and simp
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by thegranderson 10y ago
Do not have an MBA, but many friends who have gone to the top 3-5 schools, as well as some who did eMBA/part-time MBA programs. There are a few worthwhile reasons to get an MBA, but one really trumps the rest. As some others have said,
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by thegranderson 10y ago
I would guess they lost a lot less than the $200m initial investment, which included design & development of both the satelite and ground control systems. My assumption would be that only the satellite itself was destroyed in this explo
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by thegranderson 10y ago
They almost certainly aren't the same series of shares, but that in and of itself isn't a reason to expect them to be worth less. Usually preferred shares have additional rights (e.g., preferred share holders will get returned the
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by thegranderson 10y ago
Haha yeah the pronouns are not the clearest in this. Let me try: Let's set up three parties to this scam: 1. The Scammers - these people start the company 2. The Short Sellers - these are the "smart money" who uncover some fi
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by thegranderson 10y ago
Very helpful explanation from a thread about this on reddit (narrated from the first person perspective of the scammer): It's pretty beautiful in an illegal sort of way: So the clever short sellers borrow and sell 100,000 shares of sto
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by thegranderson 10y ago
Apparently this Laster guy has been an tough judge for cases like this over the past few years, and has spoken out against this before: From the article (in reference to shutting down a suit against Aruba for selling too cheaply to Hewlett
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by thegranderson 10y ago
Re: the UBS analyst question - I thought this was a totally fair response by Elon. In his previous question, the UBS guy asked Elon where their battery costs would be by the time the Model 3 launches, and Elon said he felt was proprietary.
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by thegranderson 13y ago
I've been on fb for 9 years, with 900+ photos and easily 500+ posts, but all I got was 6 photos, 4 from the past month... I guess other people are a LOT more social networky than I am.
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by thegranderson 13y ago
While Excel has SOME debugging features, they really don't work well at ALL for large formulas. I don't need something to help me debug some multiplication. But when I'm offsetting to an array upon which I'm selecting an
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by thegranderson 13y ago
The issue here isn't with tech vs. non-tech people, I think the issue is that Fox News (and they're not alone as others have mentioned) clearly didn't take the time to ask someone who DID know what they were talking about to
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by thegranderson 13y ago
Perhaps, but with New York and Philly in between, you're hitting four major population centers: Boston (4.5M metro area) New York (8-20M depending on how far you stretch the metro area) Philadelphia (6M metro area) Washington D.C. (5.7
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by thegranderson 13y ago
I think there a few specific differences for them: -Flash sales rarely have any inventory, and usually low enough quantities that they just sell through 100% of their buy and close the sale -Inventory-based store models require significant
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by thegranderson 14y ago
The Model S has also won Automobile car of the year ( http://www.automobilemag.com/features/awards/1301_2013_autom... ) and the Yahoo car of the year ( http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/tesla-model-2013-yaho... )
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by thegranderson 14y ago
It's standard practice to deny anyone who is not on the guest list or an employee. Simple as that. In my experience it's pretty easy to add people to the guest list as an employee, and the event organizer should have made sure that anyone w
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by thegranderson 14y ago
Looks like a great app, but testflight says I can't install it on my iPhone 4S - is there any reason you're not supporting this device?