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Big IPO, Tiny Payout for Many Startup Workers(bloomberg.com)
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Bloomberg's Best Photos of 2015(bloomberg.com)
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by ucha 11y ago
The maximum estate tax rate in the US is 40%. Sure, donations are tax free, but the donated assets amount to at least 2.5 times what the government would have gotten. Is it acceptable to have the privilege to choose where your fortune will
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by ucha 11y ago
Frankly, I find this is a very cynical approach to the lecture of this letter. Most everyday Joes might not have the means to change the world but it is certain that when turn into billionaire, they rarely pledge the quasi-totality of their
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by ucha 11y ago
How does making it open source helps 95% of the iPhone owners out there? Outside of this tech ivory tower, most people don't even understand what a compiler does.
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T-Mobile Will Let Customers Stream [some Videos] Without Racking Up Data Charges(recode.net)
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Their estimated forward P/E (by Dec 2016) is 37. They compare in size to large advertisers like major cable channels; the comparison to GE doesn't seem relevant to me.
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SEC Opens Way for Wider Pool of Investors to Take Stakes in Startups(wsj.com)
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There is a compulsory tax on alcohol but its consumption is voluntary. That's like saying an income tax is voluntary because you can choose to not have any income.
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A tax is by definition a compulsory contribution. The lottery is optional. Thus it's not a tax.
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Could you expand on that? I don't really understand how you could simplify if/else logic by using this which is a bijection from one binary counting system to another.
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I didn't say that the cost was high because of private medical search. Only that a private pharmaceutical company will not want to have negative returns regardless of the origin of the costs.
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I like the example of the MI and stroke reducing polypill. However, if the only reason why this pill's not sold is because it delivers a low return on investment due to the high cost of the clinical trials, why aren't countries wh
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by ucha 11y ago
The videos can be made available on FB if they're shared as embedded Youtube videos. However, as the article mentions, there are suspicions that FB might favour native videos over videos hosted on external platforms in the News Feed.
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I recommend reading this short article published on The Economist to get a grasp of the consequences of Greece defaulting. For Greece the gains from defaulting would be slight, and the costs potentially vast. True, the country could walk a
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Outsourcing Companies Under Scrutiny Over Visas for Technology Workers(nytimes.com)
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They were bought for <2M while they received 24M in funding? Am I missing something?
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With revenue tripling every year and projected net income around or over 200M this year, I wouldn't be surprised if Fitbit was valued at a P/E over 50. They would be worth $10+ B which is a huge surprise to say the least.
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Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index at +119% over the last year(bloomberg.com)
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The whole point of taking money off the table is to keep it when the company goes bust. What you're describing is more similar to a loan where the collateral would be a slice of equity.
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Microsoft offered $31 a share in 2008. It's at $45 now.
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by ucha 12y ago
I care a lot about battery life benchmarks because, well, that's what a laptop is for: not being constantly plugged. I'm always disappointed when I see "with all the laptops set to comparable brightness (around 75 percent)&q
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by ucha 12y ago
No, it's not. An integrated oil company like Exxon has activities that lose money when the price of oil goes down (drilling, exploitation) and others that make more (refining, retail). The price of oil dropped by about half during the
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by ucha 12y ago
No, they're different. A publicly traded company detains private information. That allows it to make a better estimate of its real value compared to the public. It that value is larger than its market cap, it ultimately creates more va
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by ucha 12y ago
> Mayer returned half of the after-tax money to shareholders in the form of a dividend. Nitpicking but Yahoo never paid a single dividend in its history. Mayer vowed to return the proceeds of the first Alibaba stake sale by doing share b
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by ucha 12y ago
You are making an assumption on the host behavior, the assumption being that if you repeat the experiment the host will open a door containing a goat. If you think you're not and that the 1/3 - 2/3 probabilities are correct b
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by ucha 12y ago
That's not enough. You need the knowledge of "the organizer will ALWAYS open a door that contains a goat" to draw the conclusion of the article. That knowledge is implicitly assumed. I have shown that by assuming a different
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by ucha 12y ago
The problem is not well-posed. The debate should be about its formulation, not about the math... The key here is to understand that no matter what you do, the game organizer will ALWAYS open one of the two others doors. Now, what if the org
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It's pretty smart: x^{n}+y^{n}=z^{n} - the standard formulation of Fermat's last theorem - returns mentions of it. Now if I search for b^{n}+c^{n}=d^{n} which I shouldn't except to see anywhere, it returns results for a^{n}+b
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by ucha 12y ago
For non-physicists trying to understand what this is paper is about, here's a short article that takes a shot at vulgarizing it: http://phys.org/news/2015-02-big-quantum-equation-universe.h...

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