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    Comment #18016677

    He then went and taunted short sellers on Twitter when the stock went up in response to his tweet. Also I don't believe his intent matter for criminal liability in market manipulat…

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    Comment #18016623

    There's a clause in Tesla's debt that if the share price is >$360, they can pay their bond notes with stock shares. If it is <$360, they have to pay their debt payments in cash. Th…

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    Comment #17939896

    It's illegal for foreigners to own a Chinese company. A shell company based in the Caribbean is publicly traded. It owns no assets. https://www.barrons.com/articles/beware-the-pitf…

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    Comment #17931938

    The A11 chip's CV module is the reason FaceID works as well as it does. And FaceID was their one of their major marketing points of the X and likely the phones being announced this…

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    Comment #17883278

    Hillary received far more negative coverage across the media than Trump did. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2017/08/... >A December report from Harvard Univers…

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    Comment #17864482

    Usually means an obsessed superfan but have evolved to mean someone with unwavering support of a person or entity. Came from the Eminem song "Stan" about a crazy fan. https://en.wi…

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    Comment #17832888

    The line I quoted was from the article. It's a summary of the argument from the much longer paper. It's not an implied argument. I repeat the quote from the article below. >A compa…

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    Comment #17832879

    You are thinking of gross income. Net income includes depreciation for assets acquired under capital expenses.

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    Comment #17832236

    >If you want to argue against buybacks, you need to argue that they are worse than other methods of returning cash to shareholders. He does make that argument. He argues that buyba…

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    Comment #17832176

    >I criticized him for not making an argument in the article. He didn't, nor did he link to this paper. But he did make that argument in the article. It's a short-oped so he didn't …

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    Comment #17832171

    One of his arguments is that corporations spend a larger % of their net income on buybacks due to exec compensation incentives and many companies do both dividends (which tends to …

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    Comment #17831588

    >lol...maximizing shareholder value is a cause of sagging productivity? Here's the longer paper the author wrote a couple years ago that explains his reasoning. You may disagree wi…

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    Comment #17780113

    The press derived a valuation using valuation = price paid X 100/percent equity Those liquidation preferences mean that investors will pay more for their equity % than they would h…

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    Comment #17754098

    Unfortunately the piracy users for kodi now far out-strip the non-piracy users and so kodi gets de-facto associated with piracy. Just like mp3 CDs and bit torrent, when the single …

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    Comment #17700476

    Almost 100 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popsicle_(brand)

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    Comment #17627838

    You have any proof to back up this claim? My hunch is that the heaviest movie pass users were already heavy movie goers.

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    Comment #17605618

    Pretty cool of YC to link to the books on Amazon and not include affiliate links for monetization. Creates more trust in the "realness" of the creation of the list.

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    Comment #17547412

    HBO has a much better movie selection than Netflix.

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    Comment #17510388

    I'm a fan of Apache Airflow for large, complicated ETL processes especially those with depth and breadth in their dependencies.

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    Comment #17485423

    I see way more people criticize Beats on the internet than any "horde of obvious Beats purchasers" defending them. I think the criticism is just a meme at this point.

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    Comment #17418740

    How? Amazon doesn't allow 3rd parties to sell/list AmazonBasics batteries.

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    Comment #17397353

    “The existing line isn’t functional, it can’t build cars as planned and there isn’t room to get people into work stations to replace the non-functioning robots,” Warburton said in …

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    Comment #17394483

    Have you used your login for any other TV service? The OTT industry has settled on a pretty broad single sign-on ecosystem. If you've logged into any OTT service with your crendent…

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    Comment #17353201

    >(2) put asbestos in building materials http://www.newsweek.com/pruitt-trump-asbestos-chemicals-trum... https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/is-epa-allowing-asbestos-p...

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    Comment #17351648

    Someone did this to UPS's global headquarters. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/11/man-changed-...