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argigg

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    Comment #13734884

    Are you claiming that, for any fraction x of traffic that must be dropped, overall subscriber utility is completely independent of what type of traffic is dropped?

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    Comment #13734003

    There has been plenty of shame since the 80's, it didn't stop HIV then and it's not suddenly going to start working now.

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    Comment #13733990

    Modafinil is Schedule IV in the US. The law may or may not be enforced with respect with to Modafinil, but possessing that drug without a prescription is illegal.

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    Comment #13733759

    This is going to give you biased results. Consider what would happen if you used the same method to determine the life expectancy of computer programmers.

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    Comment #13733687

    Surely the main upside of expanding an airport wouldn't be "1-10 jobs", it would be increased transportation and commerce?

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    Comment #13733648

    People have been talking about rentec for a long time, and their gains are larger than would be expected if they were merely the most lucky of a large group of random investments.

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    Comment #13726781

    It's a little early to declare mission accomplished. The IPO hasn't actually happened yet. It will be hard to know if limited shareholder supervision reduces the value of the compa…

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    Comment #13726662

    If the company is successful, they will pay a dividend or do a buyback later. For example, Facebook raised $16B in its IPO, and recently bought back $6B worth of shares at about 4 …

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    Comment #13721455

    When you early exercise, don't you pay the 409a price? Why would you owe taxes at the time of exercise?

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    Comment #13701547

    To state the obvious, the downside of early exercise is you might lose that money if the company does poorly.

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    Comment #13692844

    I know someone that was offered ~$800k in equity late last year. If the stock stays at the target IPO price (big if), that's a million right there. I would guess that a large porti…

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    Comment #13685834

    >The recruiter took me to another room and asked me what my salary expectations were. I told him my current salary and he said that it was a little high for their base pay and that…

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    Comment #13650319

    Why would the number of jobs be fixed? Do all countries have the same number of jobs, regardless of population?

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    Comment #13626712

    It benefits people who eat food, by allowing more food to be produced for lower prices.

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    Comment #13620635

    A company that accumulated enough cash could, in theory, buy out its investors. This would allow an impatient VC fund to return cash without involving any other party. Not sure if …