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by uiri 10y ago
That $0.75/share price is already adjusted for the splits. So the stock price back in 1996 would have been around $20/share. So that's $200 in 1996 that would be ~$32k today. A 15000% return is still nothing to sneeze at and
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by uiri 10y ago
The only thing really sneaky that Apple did was pressure the Irish to give them a special deal, but it's still legal, and rational. If Apple did get a sweetheart deal, that is illegal under EU rules. That is what the whole dispute
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by uiri 10y ago
The bar graph is reflecting growth as a percentage. I think it would have been better to plot IT positions vs Cybersecurity positions to show the hockey stick growth that he is trying to illustrate.
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by uiri 10y ago
The antitrust case about IE was related to Microsoft using their position in the operating system market to give them an unfair advantage in the browser market. It had nothing to do with the embrace-extend-extinguish which they attempted on
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by uiri 10y ago
Won't YC get diluted along with the founders? That 7% will end up being less than 5% after a few rounds of VC when the founders' collective share of the company is 40-60%. 7% for $120k is a pre-money valuation of ~$1.6M. The value
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by uiri 10y ago
Although I too was initially expecting a tale about how UNIX came to rule the world, I think "top" in the article's title instead means the top of Bell Labs/AT&T.
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by uiri 10y ago
Chocolate, Pretzels, Mustard. Chocolate-covered pretzels - great! Mustard on a pretzel - great! Chocolate and mustard - http://archive.jsonline.com/features/recipes/159818205.html All three? WTF!
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by uiri 10y ago
Yes. They're hiring at a remarkable pace to the point that they're having trouble scaling the process. They're in the same position that Amazon was a few years ago.
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by uiri 10y ago
The opposit of a profit is a loss. It is unrelated to the non-financial meaning of the term. They had revenue of $98M, a loss of $66M means they spent $164M over that time frame.
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by uiri 10y ago
Given its government's track record, I would think that data centers in the US should be walled off in much the same way as data centers in China. It is frankly surprising that American companies are blind to their own government'
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by uiri 10y ago
The salaries here do cover the higher cost of living, and if you are able to capitalize on the additional opportunities that are uniquely available here, you could end up doing much more than covering costs. This conclusion is patently fa
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by uiri 10y ago
Pebble's debts exceed $40M. The asset sale was for $34~40M. They're in bankruptcy proceedings: http://www.proofofclaims.com/PebbleTech/documents/ The financial and legal incentive is not going to jail an
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by uiri 10y ago
I agree with you, finding jobs for ~50 of the 120 employees is better than firing 110 of them. The investors aren't getting their money back no matter what the cap table looks like now. Pebble went bankrupt. The founders are also walki
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by uiri 10y ago
I haven't been able to find any substantiated source for the $740M figure. All the other news sites cite an article on The Information[1] about the FitBit deal which is paywalled. [1] https://www.theinformation.com/fitb
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by uiri 10y ago
Isn't AdSense pay per click and not pay per impression? So it is ok to load impressions but not ok to click them?
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by uiri 10y ago
I tried googling this but nothing came up until I stumbled across https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS_MZ_executable which says it stands for Mark Zbikowski (which is supported by a quick Google of that name).
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by uiri 10y ago
Don't even tell your employer about side projects. Leave them out of the loop entirely. This depends heavily on the employer. Google, for instance, is extremely friendly towards both side projects (done entirely on your own time and
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by uiri 10y ago
Don't you mean a seller's market? A buyer's market would be in favour of the employer (they are buying labour). A job isn't a product that is bought by employees.
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by uiri 10y ago
A few Suggestions/Questions: * A Table of Contents would be extremely useful. * Which states require the existence of typical officer positions? Perhaps list out what California, Washington state, and New York require. * What is the di
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by uiri 10y ago
People who are 30 now were 22-23 in 2008-9 during the Great Recession. This particular cohort (plus/minus a year or two) of graduates will likely have slightly depressed lifetime earnings relative to those a couple years older or a cou
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by uiri 10y ago
I interned at Amazon in 2014 and in 2015. I have not worked there since. The non-compete and non-solicit for customers & business partners lasted for 9 months from when my internship ended and the non-solicit (titled "Non-Interfere
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by uiri 10y ago
Just because they make that claim does not make it true or even enforceable. Generally anything you write on company time or using company equipment belongs to them though.
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by uiri 10y ago
Pebble is bankrupt. It owes more money to people/companies than it has/is owed. People whom Pebble owes money to ("creditors") will be ordered in a list. FitBit is buying some of the assets (software, IP, etc.). The proc
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by uiri 10y ago
No, Pebble is bankrupt and winding down operations. FitBit is buying some parts and offering jobs to the software people. This is not an acquihire. The designers and hardware people are not joining FitBit. The owners get nothing. Some of Pe
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by uiri 10y ago
How exactly does this work? You have a contract with company X. Company X sells your payments to company Y. Your payments per the contract should still be going to company X unless the contract stipulates otherwise - that they can have you
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by uiri 10y ago
I've been on a J-1 multiple times with different employers and they've always used Cultural Vistas. Cultural Vistas has to be the worst, most bureaucratic organization with which I've ever had the displeasure of interacting.
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by uiri 10y ago
> When people think Cal has too few senators for it's pop., one solution is to divide. Isn't the whole point of the US Senate to prevent the more populous states from passing stuff against the interests of the less populous sta
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by uiri 10y ago
California, the most expensive state to live in according to the map that they linked, pokes a big hole in their cost of living argument. It has a lower % of people living with their parents than their national average and approximately the
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by uiri 10y ago
It always requires a partial interview loop (the "conversion" interviews) now; they changed it in the last year or two.
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by uiri 10y ago
> 2. Only conclusion 1 is necessarily true, because of the transitive property of inequalities; X ? Y and Z/Y can be rewritten as X < Y <= Z. However, we cannot relate any magnitude information to V and it is not necessarily t

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