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The S-1 itself isn't made public in a confidential filing.
Re:Things Unexpectedly Named After People on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @10:53PM (#39463059)
I was surprised to learn that Cakebread Cellars is actually named for its founders, Jack and Dolores Cakebread
Re:America Gave Up on the Best Home Technology There Is on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @03:32PM (#37486690)
Last I heard, Starlink isn't reliable in a forest. The trees intermittently block the signal.
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. Greenhouses are also enriched with extra CO2 to boost yields, but that's not why it's called the "greenhouse effect"
CD quality is 1.4 mbps

16 * 44,100 * 2 = 1,411,200

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...
Nobody except the eight cameras on the car
I definitely wouldn't consider that to be a "melt-down"
Re:Battlecode 2015 – AI Programming Competition on Monday January 05, 2015 @04:44AM (#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
Re:Want to get rich? Don't pay off your student loans on Monday December 22, 2014 @03:25PM (#8784985)
11% might be the long-term historical average (last 75 years or so), but that still sounds pretty high.
Re:Microsoft Announces Windows 10 on Tuesday September 30, 2014 @01:35PM (#8389598)
They're really bad at numbering. First the Xbox One, and now this
Re:Shirt.codes: Get a T-shirt of your favorite code snippet on Monday September 22, 2014 @10:10PM (#8353687)
Well that's kind of boring
10 nodes with 100GB each. 100 nodes with 10GB each. 1000 nodes with 1GB each. Spark is built for scaling out.
Re:Charleston, SC police plan to sting UberX drivers on Sunday July 20, 2014 @03:19PM (#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 sound like that's their current valuation. Still sounds too high, but it's not quite as ridiculous.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-15/worth-more-than-toy...

Plus for international travelers, restaurant wifi is sometimes the only way to get internet access
Re:Apple Confirms Its $3 Billion Deal for Beats Electronics on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @08:59PM (#7814007)
So they buy Time Warner and still have $120B left over
Re:Quora in the next YC batch on Friday May 09, 2014 @06:07PM (#7723495)
According to their wiki page, Quora's valued at over 900 million after their most recent round of funding.
Re:Fog Creek's Intern Hiring Process on Monday April 07, 2014 @11:09PM (#7551230)
I did an hourly internship last summer and got 4th of July off, paid. It must depend on the company.
Re:Aug. 1, 2012: When Oculus Asked for Donations on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @11:43PM (#7471429)
Plus $16M back in June
Their search revenue is still advertising revenue though
I'm probably biased, but I think the Denver/Boulder area would be a good candidate