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by thisisit 8y ago
Simplest explanation is that they are involved in some kind of fraud. Given that Chinese companies and their financial data are notoriously difficult to obtain, it is no surprise either.
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by thisisit 8y ago
> it seems to be common knowledge in the startup community( and everywhere else? ) that a recession is just around the corner. Is it based on gut feeling or something else? Because there has been talk of recession since the last recessi
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by thisisit 8y ago
> In Japan the first time I went to a doctor it was for stomach pain. He gave me on ultrasound and declared I had hepatitis. Ultrasound? That is absurd. I can't speak for UK/US/Japan but in India situation is quite similar
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by thisisit 8y ago
Whenever people talk about failures of government to build infrastructure I can't help but look back at the brilliant Wired documentary on Shenzhen. It depicts a boundary line between the city and urban village. And government had the
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by thisisit 8y ago
> This is terrible for screen readers and the like which are unable to read or understand these unicode characters making accessibility a real concern Yes, Firefox for Android doesn't render it properly.
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by thisisit 8y ago
On my Firefox for Android, this is unreadable. I had to use Firefox on Windows to see what is this all about.
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by thisisit 8y ago
> Companies with low growth have a few options This is true. It is always better to return money to shareholders if there aren't any avenues of future growth. But, on the flip side there are companies which are knowingly using their
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by thisisit 8y ago
The bigger question is - what happens if you get the price 20% wrong? This might look like a winning strategy in a normal and calm market. But, it'll take only one day to wipe out all the gains.
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by thisisit 8y ago
It is not front running. These HFT are called market makers. Essentially, brokers show you the NBBO - National Best Bid and Offer. When you place an order on that price, one of the many market makers will pick it up. At any given point of t
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by thisisit 8y ago
For people struggling with forming a productive ritual/routine, you guys should try BJ Fogg's Tiny Habits: https://www.tinyhabits.com/ I went through the 5-day program this week and it seems to help a lot.
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by thisisit 8y ago
Once an accident victim is taken to the hospital a legal case has to be made. It is called medico legal case. And the hospital needs to inform the nearest police station. This to ensure that no accident gets brushed under the rug. Police th
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by thisisit 8y ago
It depends on the situation. Being private means the company doesn't have to follow compliance rules strictly. A good example of that is accounting rules. There are tons of companies out there which show non-GAAP profitability. But non
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by thisisit 8y ago
My two cents: First, Congratulations. Second, breathe. Take your time. If you are still stressed about it, talk to someone IRL. It will really help to get the weight off your shoulder. Third, beware of self-doubt. It sounds contrarian but I
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by thisisit 8y ago
Under pressure and surrounded by 10+ people he was afraid for his life. And it was difficult to getaway without providing id and contact information.
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by thisisit 8y ago
This happens quite frequently because hospitals tend to fear repercussions. First, they fear the overzealous police who might ask for bribes because they admitted an accident victim. Second, they fear mob violence. If even a small thing goe
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by thisisit 8y ago
Couple of things which needs to be added: Never get into an accident in India. First, if you driving a car mob will surround and harass you. Second, in case you get away from the mob, police will come and harass you. And things get worse if
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by thisisit 8y ago
The best one I had was where we had more of a discussion about things rather than go into a question and answer session. It was an enjoyable experience to talk to people who are working in a similar field and had seen similar things. On the
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by thisisit 8y ago
That is assuming everyone is moved by money and everything works in perfectly rational way. The problem is - humans are irrational.
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by thisisit 8y ago
> A bit click-baity, but the warning here from the father-of-index-funds is not that they've become a bad investment I really doubt that he will ever come out and clearly say that they've become a bad investment. But the insinu
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by thisisit 8y ago
> then all the governance decisions happen exactly as if they hadn't invested, right? 10% vs 90% of share votes being on auto-pilot shouldn't matter? If that was the case it would have been easy. Handful of people fighting for
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by thisisit 8y ago
Because eventually businesses wake up to the fact that they need to make money. And they do it by going the absurd route. For example, online help is free but if you need to talk to a human being support, give us $10 a call or something. An
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by thisisit 8y ago
I think you have misunderstood what is happening now. Companies are staying private lot longer not because there is some obscurity or different interests etc. They are staying private for the same reason public companies are buying back mor
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by thisisit 8y ago
> for any bigger company you do not even know how many shares are there Companies know exactly how many shares are at any given moment. The concept you are looking for is called "outstanding shares". > pricing of privately h
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by thisisit 8y ago
The developer seems to be confused about information asymmetry. For one, cap tables are convoluted and not always available for inspection so it is impossible to translate given amount of options into percentage of equity owned. This ca
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by thisisit 8y ago
> Did you read Google's visitor agreement. You give up some IP rights by signing that. Curious if you remember the wording/page number on the visitor agreement? It'll help people to be on the lookout when they visit Google
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by thisisit 8y ago
Thanks for the reference. It was an interesting read: Yet Soros wasn't the biggest single speculator to hold a position against the currency. Julian Robertson's Tiger Fund had three times the exposure of Soros with almost $3 bill
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by thisisit 8y ago
> I think we in the west ended up replacing religion with, not an absence of it, but with a religion of the Self More like objectivisim or individualism. Many of my small talks with people in the west include discussion about Ayn Rand an
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by thisisit 8y ago
> Well, he is an investor who has a history of causing financial damage to whole countries by betting against their currencies Whole countries? I have heard of only one - the infamous british pound. And that too it caused the GBP rates t
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by thisisit 8y ago
IMO, the ease of credit has led to lots and lots of consolidation and companies getting into markets where they don't belong. This has indirectly led to big companies getting bigger and even bigger and "competition slowly dying&qu
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by thisisit 8y ago
Facebook and grownups in the same sentence? Given how long Zuckerberg and Sandberg have been deflecting questions on Russian ads etc, it is not going to happen. Not until Facebook share suffers significant damage. While people have been dro

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