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by whatok 10y ago
The OP's profile leads me to believe they're not in finance although I could be wrong. Change in market cap is a very awkward way to look at a recent public company because it's a very volatile measure and also is harder to m
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by whatok 10y ago
Or they had to price at a larger discount to encourage a full book and enough of a pop to support the stock.
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by whatok 10y ago
Literally no one in the industry looks at IPOs that way.
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by whatok 10y ago
Assuming all the background on him is factual, it absolutely was a terrorist attack on the gay community. Don't know how you can spin that one.
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by whatok 10y ago
Agree with this 100%. No gun control law would have prevented this from happening in America solely because we have quite a few guns here. If not procured legally, he easily could buy a gun illegally. Constitution aside, if there was a w
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by whatok 10y ago
Would Youtube even exist if it had to have something like Content ID when it first launched? Its existence definitely took advantage of the relative lawlessness of the web back then. Don't see much difference between how Youtube esta
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by whatok 10y ago
Related: how do people normally access edX on an iPad? Am I correct that there is no dedicated app?
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by whatok 10y ago
I feel like I keep up with tech stuff pretty good but I had to look up what Dynamics was when Satya mentioned it in his internal email.
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by whatok 10y ago
I think it being the butt of jokes could be isolated to the tech crowd. You're not going to find much value and definitely be more critical of it if you aren't hurting for employment opportunities.
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Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B(news.microsoft.com)
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by whatok 10y ago
> If Denton had published the tape 'for the public', he wouldn't have included the sex bit; we all know that this was classic Gawker clickbait. Denton obviously only cares about 'disclosure' when it gives him amm
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by whatok 10y ago
Can you show us where Thiel posted a picture of himself?
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by whatok 10y ago
Those people knew what kind of garbage the site published and decided to hitch their wagon to it. If I join a company that is in the news for doing things that sound like it might get the shit sued out of them and they eventually get sued,
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by whatok 10y ago
Superiority complex leading to a savior complex.
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by whatok 10y ago
Exactly. The story and "news" surrounding this incident still exists without publication of the stolen video. Coverage without the video does not deliver as many clicks so they rolled the dice with that one and have so far lost.
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by whatok 10y ago
Let's say the girl in this video [0] decided to sue Gawker. I'm going to just assume that she doesn't have the means to stand up to their army of lawyers. Is Gawker the rich person buying the law in this hypothetical? [0]
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by whatok 10y ago
Change my mind on what?
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by whatok 10y ago
Thought experiment. Let's suppose I was previously the victim of police brutality. Later on in life, I became a billionaire and decided I wanted to do something with my money. I decide to fund every lawsuit in the country against al
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by whatok 10y ago
How many of these were things Gawker originally sourced and how many of them were things that they quoted a few paragraphs and added a snarky/self-righteous sentence or two to?
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by whatok 10y ago
Hillary started on her fortune with cattle futures long before she could rely on Congressional exemption from insider trading...
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by whatok 10y ago
Where are you getting this from?
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by whatok 10y ago
Even given that misconception, I don't understand how that would equate to a better listening experience.
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by whatok 10y ago
Yeah, there seem to be very definitive statements in these comments without a basic understanding of the recording process. I wonder if these are the same people who swear they can tell the difference between various playback formats or wh
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by whatok 10y ago
I don't understand how unmastered tracks would be a lot of data. Can you explain? Also, I cannot imagine wanting to mess around with EQs for each track on an entire unmastered album. That sounds like a huge burden.
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by whatok 10y ago
As many flaws as the major labels previously had, they did discover and nurture artists. Internet radio is not going to discover a random lounge cover singer in the middle of flyover US. You are not going to have an internet radio station
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by whatok 10y ago
The biggest problem with any new "system" I've seen is that none of the facilitate artist discovery. Especially now that the bar to produce and distribute music is at the lowest it's ever been, there is no easy way to d
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by whatok 10y ago
> However, that drives serious brand awareness to the artist, who could then sell other add-ons (music tickets, t-shirts, limited edition releases, etc) Not all genres lend to live performance. Not all audiences buy t-shirts. Not all a
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by whatok 10y ago
Assuming that pop music is more easily monetizable is an iffy assumption. There's much more money to be made in pop music but the number of slices in the pie are far fewer. I don't understand how the rest of your comment will do
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by whatok 10y ago
Biggest problem of tech disrupting the music industry is that it has completely devalued recorded music for several generations of people who typically were large paying consumers of music. No regulation will fix this and the long term eff
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by whatok 10y ago
Isn't there a standalone USB version of the B-Unit?

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