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by wgerard 8y ago
It seems like you're more interested in being correct than having a discussion, so I'll leave you to it.
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I'm not sure what your argument is here, it seems like you don't think reverse splits have any implications or consequences for the company. You can't casually do a reverse split just to avoid being delisted. You're tell
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by wgerard 8y ago
> even Sun did a reverse split 3:1 on its way out of existence "on its way out of existence" being the operative phrase there :). Either way, Sun had been a public company for 20 years at that point - Blue Apron's been one
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by wgerard 8y ago
> It's a symbolic milestone It's actually not symbolic at all, it's a very real (negative) milestone that has ramifications for the company.
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Doing a reverse split just to meet the share price requirements is generally viewed as a sign the company is spiraling out of control (i.e. investors will continue selling to cut their losses). I don't have the numbers offhand, but I w
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by wgerard 8y ago
It's not arbitrary at all (well, I suppose the listing requirements are arbitrary), as I've noted elsewhere: > You'll get delisted from the NYSE if you fall below $1/share or below a certain market cap for more than 3
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by wgerard 8y ago
The SEC actually has a pretty concrete definition of what a "Penny Stock" is: https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=f4effbf9fb932f767e... That being said, there's also the common usage of the term wh
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by wgerard 8y ago
Investors aren't stupid and realize a company doing a reverse split just to maintain the minimum share price is doomed. See also: $HMNY.
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NYSE has minimum share price/market cap requirements, so Blue Apron will get delisted if this continues for more than 29 consecutive trading days. i.e. It could easily become one.
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by wgerard 8y ago
You'll get delisted from the NYSE if you fall below $1/share or below a certain market cap for more than 30 consecutive trading days. Being delisted is generally a very bad sign, and it becomes much harder for shares to get traded
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by wgerard 8y ago
Re: Github Discussions Preface: I don't think this resolves the issue completely by any means. It's seemed clear to me for awhile that Github discussions need threading, badly. The 200 comments on one of those issues probably amou
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by wgerard 8y ago
I don’t think that’s totally true, and admittedly its somewhat arbitrary where to distinguish chemistry from medicine in this regard, but eg Humorism was a pretty popular theory until (IIRC) a chemist disproved it.
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by wgerard 8y ago
I think I see what you mean, though maybe I'm misunderstanding still. The answer (from my experience at Etsy, anyway) to questions like: > how to modify the schema of the events going into B to add a specific piece of data, was &quo
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by wgerard 8y ago
> I run into conceptual completeness problems of the "how do I think about this?" sort much more than "how do I do this?" problems. While I agree with you, the latter problem is particularly frustrating to encounter.
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> 1. Solve the legal issues before you take the first dollar Err, it actually seems like they generated a lot of legal issues that they could've easily avoided. You should read the attached court documents from their fight with Re
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I mean, it's obviously valid because this incident happened (and many other events that show the same validity). The logic is that the US says any transactions involving USD fall under US jurisdiction, because it's their currency-
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Uh I mean, maybe not officially but there's a whole lot of precedent that if you engage in trade using USD that you're under US jurisdiction.
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by wgerard 8y ago
I'm also much closer in age to high school students than I am to senior citizens. I wouldn't say I fit in particularly well with either group, though.
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I can say for certain that I worked for a company that wasn't Google and employed plenty of ways to track people that didn't involve cookies. We used it mostly to try and track malicious users (banned users, etc.) but it's st
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by wgerard 8y ago
But that's exactly what I take issue with - you're not! Someone's delivering your food, someone's working at the bodega you go to. You won't encounter nearly the same level of homelessness as you do in SF, but you w
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by wgerard 8y ago
I also hope the author was joking about being part of the underclass--which I'm willing to give them a charitable interpretation because of the quotes. The mere fact that they can afford to live in a 1-bedroom in the EV is, well, evide
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by wgerard 8y ago
Are you commuting into midtown? If so, there's a reason Astoria is exceptionally popular.
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If you're living in SF you already know what the thresholds are like, mostly. It heavily depends on your life situation. If you're willing to live with roommates and don't have much in the way of expenses, the threshold is si
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by wgerard 8y ago
Curious because it's not mentioned: How much of that is due to higher availability/usage of Narcan?
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by wgerard 8y ago
In general, the IRS rarely cares about how you're generating income more that you just remember to pay taxes on it appropriately.
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by wgerard 8y ago
Interesting. Thanks for the response!
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Hah, fair enough! For some reason I'm imagining the worst-case scenario of a pedestrian completely oblivious to what's going on around them and just crossing without looking on a busy street, which I realize is pretty unlikely.
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by wgerard 8y ago
I don't think that's true, it's just a very minimal fine (which I would be completely fine with): https://www.mass.gov/how-to/respond-to-a-jaywalking-ticket
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by wgerard 8y ago
From my original post: > It could work, but I think it would involve re-designing countless intersections to provide higher visibility of pedestrians for drivers--not a bad goal, but I think a pretty unfeasible one.
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by wgerard 8y ago
Wait, is it just inside the major cities? Not everywhere?

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