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ConnorBoyd

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    Comment #48358739

    The S-1 itself isn't made public in a confidential filing.

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    Comment #39463059

    I was surprised to learn that Cakebread Cellars is actually named for its founders, Jack and Dolores Cakebread

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    Comment #37486690

    Last I heard, Starlink isn't reliable in a forest. The trees intermittently block the signal.

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    Comment #27752252

    It's called the "greenhouse effect" because the CO2 traps heat in the earth's atmosphere, just like the walls and roof of a greenhouse trap the heat inside the greenhouse. Greenhou…

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    Comment #16447878

    CD quality is 1.4 mbps 16 * 44,100 * 2 = 1,411,200

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    Comment #15196630

    They traded based on material, non-public information, so I would have to say yes, this is definitely insider trading, but I'm not a lawyer...

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    Comment #12756538

    Nobody except the eight cameras on the car

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    Comment #9098763

    I definitely wouldn't consider that to be a "melt-down"

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    Comment #8838051

    Maybe because that would give an advantage to people using faster languages, and they want it to be more about the machine learning algorithms

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    Comment #8784985

    11% might be the long-term historical average (last 75 years or so), but that still sounds pretty high.

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    Comment #8389598

    They're really bad at numbering. First the Xbox One, and now this

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    Comment #8353687

    Well that's kind of boring

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    Comment #8229194

    10 nodes with 100GB each. 100 nodes with 10GB each. 1000 nodes with 1GB each. Spark is built for scaling out.

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    Comment #8061200

    Sort of a misquote. The Bloomberg article quotes the Google Ventures managing partner, who says the long-term market value could be $200 billion or more. This article makes it soun…

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    Comment #8024720

    Plus for international travelers, restaurant wifi is sometimes the only way to get internet access

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    Comment #7814007

    So they buy Time Warner and still have $120B left over

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    Comment #7723495

    According to their wiki page, Quora's valued at over 900 million after their most recent round of funding.

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    Comment #7551230

    I did an hourly internship last summer and got 4th of July off, paid. It must depend on the company.

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    Comment #7471429

    Plus $16M back in June

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    Comment #7198916

    Their search revenue is still advertising revenue though

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    Comment #6924273

    I'm probably biased, but I think the Denver/Boulder area would be a good candidate