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by abat 11y ago
Looks like the Amazon price is $16.79, and this customer chose to pay the full MSRP of $27.95 to buy from another store.
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by abat 12y ago
Market cap implies public company because by definition private companies are not traded publicly on a market. It's the same way start ups have "valuations" and not "market caps".
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by abat 12y ago
Seems like the math portion is becoming less about math and more like an MBA reading comprehension test.
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by abat 12y ago
I don't think GoPro went down because of the threat of the patent. Rather, investors are afraid Apple will start to compete against GoPro. People are seeing the patent as a possible product roadmap not a legal threat.
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by abat 12y ago
Honestly, it sounds like traditional enterprise software and should be valued similarly. Software like Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) or Electronic Health Record (EHR) always require very expensive integration/training/support
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by abat 12y ago
Agreed. I also wouldn't be surprised if he got paid >100X the average programmer with Oculus in the end as well.
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by abat 12y ago
1) Some programmers really are worth orders of magnitude more than others. Really great programmers will help drive product decisions that can change direction of the company and the ultimate success/failure. The more responsibility a
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by abat 12y ago
Galleries want a 50% cut from every sale of new art. He's getting a discount by buying in bulk and going straight to the artist. Edit: TBC, I don't think there's anything wrong with what he's doing, but he's clearly
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by abat 12y ago
Are they trying to deter non-serious students in order to inflate their pass rate? If they want people to take their certificates seriously, I guess it would be important for people to trust that the person listed actually earned it. The do
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by abat 12y ago
She's not really the highest paid. Most of it was a 10 year grant that finally vested. If you amortize the money over the 10 years, she's not paid more than other presidents. If anything having the pay as a retention package was p
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by abat 12y ago
And averaged 1% return a day!
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by abat 12y ago
This video may be a better introduction to Boosted boards, but it's an old vid that lacks all the news I got from the posted one: new models/software/pricing/potential future products.
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by abat 12y ago
The companies taking advantage rely on their marks/employees being naive, so you'll be fine once you know to be careful: 1) Get direct employment with a reputable US company instead of via a contracting company. 2) Don't sign
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by abat 12y ago
The Krstic article is an explanation of the short squeeze that happened near the end. This is just a small part of the Priceonomics article. The Priceonomics article includes a lot more history about the companies and people involved as wel
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by abat 12y ago
I believe the first sentence is talking about SpaceX's "largest single contract" not NASA's largest contract.
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by abat 12y ago
Acquisitions are complex and take a long time to really close. Most of the time you see articles about a company being sold, the deal isn't actually done yet. WhatsApp agreed to terms in February, but the deal didn't actually clos
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by abat 12y ago
That's not necessarily the reason for Houston having such a large Chinese community. The majority of Chinese in Houston are legal and often more educated immigrants that would not have gone through Mexico. The people profiled in the ar
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by abat 12y ago
Good article, but I think the more accurate title would be "a government bureaucrat stole my root beer in order to cover their ass"
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by abat 12y ago
Does it actually clean your clothes like real dry cleaning would? The video makes it sound like it just deodorizes your clothes and heats them up to remove wrinkles.
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by abat 12y ago
Do employee stock options usually not vest automatically upon acquisition? The SinglePlatform story made it sound like employees get screwed if there's an early exit before their options had fully vested.
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by abat 12y ago
If you're poor, the most elite colleges are either free or nearly free. Some avoid using debt at all in financial aid. The most elite colleges can be a better deal than a state school.
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by abat 12y ago
The Leica T has an outdated Sony sensor they used in one of their lower end mirrorless cameras (NEX 5). The NEX 5 was even more portable and you can use a large number of first party lenses and use many other brands via converters. It'
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by abat 12y ago
They could cache over wifi (eg sequential tv episodes for binge watchers) and actually decrease use of cellular bandwidth.
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by abat 12y ago
True, but most people only have credit to buy a home, which is another matter.
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by abat 12y ago
The idea is it's a backup battery instead of a backup gasoline engine. Being "nearly as expensive as gasoline" could still be a win because it could be used in electric vehicles without having to add a backup generator engine
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by abat 12y ago
tl;dr Acqui-hires are are turning into just hires. Companies just want the talent from failed start ups. The acquirer lowballs cost of buying out equity and but keeps high retention comp to employees. In short term this is good for start up
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by abat 12y ago
Supposedly (according to Recode.net) Beats music only has around 200,000 subscribers and most of them are free trial users from a AT&T deal. Doesn't sound a like a service Apple would want.
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by abat 12y ago
Pulitzers are US only. Technically, The Guardian US (and not UK) won.
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by abat 13y ago
The core complaint is not you need to use a cd run iWork '09, it's that you need iWork '09 in the first place. The commentary on the need for cd drive is to emphasize how unreasonable it is to require iWork '09 to open s
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by abat 13y ago
Growth = Money, hype is one way to get growth

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