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$4000 to exercise, but a lot more in taxes. Given that his shares were worth about 1/6 of what they are now, and assuming the FMV for tax purposes was about 1/3 that, he would have…

If the "You may not use the material for commercial purposes" clause applies to the wire protocol itself, does MongoDB itself get an exception to that for Atlas/MongoDB Enterprise?…

You're off by a factor of 3600-- 1 watt is a Joule/second, not a Joule/hour. 1 GJ / 1800s ~= 555kW, not 2GW.

Yes, but that only stops you from claiming capital loss, you still pay taxes on gains

If you only want a subset of the repo's files, you can use Github's Subversion interface: https://stackoverflow.com/a/18194523

According to this article on Wikipedia, it's a linear relationship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_power_dissipation Edit: maybe this takes into account that when you increase f…

https://www.google.com/search?q=2^256 You're off by about 68 orders of magnitude; it's 2^32 that's approximately 4 billion.

There have been reports of drivers changing ratings retroactively after seeing their own rating drop, or if a customer doesn't tip.

There have been reports of drivers changing ratings retroactively after seeing their own rating drop, or if a customer doesn't tip.

You can find engineering samples of the chips on Digikey: http://www.digikey.com/products/en?FV=ffecdb78&pkeyword=fpga Looks like the cheapest one is $17k (so 15 Titan Xs? 24 1080T…

Keep in mind it's highly unlikely that all of those employees are engineers, probably lots of sales/marketing/customer service people. Still, with benefits and stuff I'd estimate m…

You can't, they're a private company. Can't short Uber either.

Zed Shaw, author of Learn Python the Hard Way , thinks Python 3 strings are broken. He also needs to read this article. https://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/nopython3.html

Who says that high profit implies high tech? Your Wikipedia link only says high tech often offers the potential for high profit. Is the Large Hadron Collider not high tech if it do…

Currently, there is absolutely no realistic way to set up the infrastructure required to operate such labs in third world countries. The costs would be astronomical. While, yes, id…

For him, the kicker was the battery life. How do you test battery life in the Apple store? You're not allowed to unplug the thing. (And even if you could, who's going to spend seve…