calgaryeng

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by calgaryeng 1y ago
You are apt to be wrong.
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by calgaryeng 4y ago
More (content inside the brackets than) out!
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by calgaryeng 7y ago
If I could downvote this comment, I would.
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by calgaryeng 7y ago
> brother’s wives posting about their kids and stuff like that Either that is a misplaced apostrophe, or you are revealing more about your family than you intended! Punctuation is important :)
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by calgaryeng 7y ago
Blue was taken
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by calgaryeng 7y ago
Peak pedantry - I love it
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by calgaryeng 7y ago
Isn't it odd to think that one day, there will be a top post on Hacker News: "Alien Life Discovered on Nearby Planet (430 points)".
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by calgaryeng 7y ago
That's not how business works. - Corporate tax vs. individual tax - Deferred tax assets - Sum-of-the-parts valuations - Internal project NPVs > NPV of investments available to an investor
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by calgaryeng 7y ago
> Then we got a YC interview and were rejected for what (I think objectively) was a pretty random reason I don't think you can expect to be completely objective/unbiased in this kind of situation...
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by calgaryeng 7y ago
> But it seems unfair to hold Tether up to a higher standard than even our most established banks. You mean standards held on banks that are insured/backstopped by the government, have mass-adoption amongst the vast majority of the
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by calgaryeng 7y ago
"Enterprise Value" is one of the legitimate measures of company size, and is defined as market capitalization + net debt. You can think of this as equivalent to the size of the company because it would be the amount of money you&#
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by calgaryeng 8y ago
> Cash flow is much harder to fake than earnings Unrealized gains on private, illiquid investments are neither earnings, nor cash flow.
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by calgaryeng 8y ago
On the contrary - GAAP earnings give the most accurate picture of cold hard cash. That is the reason they exist , and securities regulators are specific about its definition. Paper gains are notoriously easy to stretch.
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by calgaryeng 8y ago
I'm reasonably certain that the starting point for public valuations is not the most recent private valuations. These deals are typically centered around public valuation comps (i.e. other similar companies) based off of revenues/
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by calgaryeng 8y ago
Just an FYI from a native english speaker - sums of money do not use the plural version of the value unit. i.e. should be "raised $4.4 billion" not "raised $4.4 billion s "
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by calgaryeng 8y ago
I think the other person was talking about quantitative data (e.g. from Google Analytics), not qualitative data from customer conversations / complaints.
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by calgaryeng 8y ago
Your comment seems largely unnecessary.
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by calgaryeng 9y ago
Marketing and ride subsidies?
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by calgaryeng 9y ago
This is comical. Anyone who tells you that currency was actually worth $300MM is out of their mind. This is an interesting experiment, but seems more like a pump-and-dump.
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by calgaryeng 9y ago
Overconfident comes to mind....
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by calgaryeng 9y ago
For public companies that are covered by equity analysts, converting PP&E to OPEX is typically favorable from a valuation perspective.
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by calgaryeng 9y ago
You should be aware that there are a number of oil sources that are far more carbon-intensive than the Canadian Oil Sands. Many of which ship direct to the United States. One is even produced IN the United States (Bakersfield, CA). On a
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by calgaryeng 9y ago
Bootstrap is great and I used it on a couple projects. Unfortunately I gave up waiting on a V4 release and started using Semantic UI. This has been a long time coming!
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by calgaryeng 10y ago
- December 22, 2016: ClusterF *ed - December 15, 2016: Reflecting on a Year of Change and What’s to Come in 2017 ("All in all, 2016 was full of tests and triumphs and I can promise that 2017 will also be a big year for the company.&qu
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by calgaryeng 10y ago
The simple act of using/leveraging technology does not a technology company make.
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by calgaryeng 10y ago
Sue them for libel then?
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by calgaryeng 10y ago
> The stock market doesn’t reward big acquisitions in these categories as they often do with Silicon Valley giants, and they’re expected to justify these purchases, at least partially, on financials. This massively constrains the realm o
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by calgaryeng 10y ago
I seem to remember reading about a service almost exactly like this not that long ago (~1 year maybe)? It failed.... Am I going crazy?
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by calgaryeng 10y ago
This is not done in practice. Be careful getting engineering advice from the Free Dictionary.
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by calgaryeng 11y ago
> For backend web development Rails is still miles ahead of any Clojure workflow. I feel the same way. And in my opinion, is a symptom of the "library vs framework" culture that is present in the Clojure community. While that i

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