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You are apt to be wrong.

More (content inside the brackets than) out!

If I could downvote this comment, I would.

> 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 …

Blue was taken

Peak pedantry - I love it

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)".

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 i…

> 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 ki…

> 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, …

"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 com…

> Cash flow is much harder to fake than earnings Unrealized gains on private, illiquid investments are neither earnings, nor cash flow.

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…

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.…

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 "

I think the other person was talking about quantitative data (e.g. from Google Analytics), not qualitative data from customer conversations / complaints.

Your comment seems largely unnecessary.

Marketing and ride subsidies?

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.

Overconfident comes to mind....

For public companies that are covered by equity analysts, converting PP&E to OPEX is typically favorable from a valuation perspective.

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 ev…

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!

- 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…

The simple act of using/leveraging technology does not a technology company make.