pastpartisan
Re:America Is Basically Irrelevant To The Future Of Facebook
on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @05:13PM (#6993119)
companies like amazon, facebook, priceline, twitter, and google are essentially recession-proof and make great investments.
Would love to invest in snapchat at that 4 billion valuation
Re:11 more reasons to leave the Bay Area
on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @03:55PM (#6992781)
love the perpetually rising real estate prices though
maybe live somewhere dirt cheap and keep your bay area home rented
Re:The Decline of IE and Firefox
on Sunday December 29, 2013 @04:22PM (#6981443)
Firefox has become too slow with too many updates and internet explorer merits no further comment
Re:Rap Genius Traffic Has Dropped By Over 80%
on Sunday December 29, 2013 @04:18PM (#6981431)
It started out as rap genius and now its extending its tentacles to all types of music and even non-music related subjects Eventually, it would become just another annoying agitator website that clutters the search results with less than helpful results, so this was a good move on google's part.
Re:Ask HN: Why is the spelling poor on HN?
on Sunday December 29, 2013 @12:46PM (#6980406)
locally we can expect a positive correlation exists. don't see too many dull kids winning selling bees
Re:How Expedia Buys Its Way To The Top Of Google
on Saturday December 28, 2013 @08:29PM (#6977690)
I wish there were a way to delete since now i'm gonna get negged to death and I will probably need to make a new account
Re:Ask HN: What book changed your life in 2013?
on Saturday December 28, 2013 @05:13PM (#6976881)
tldr version of his books: stuff can happen that you don't expect
Re:Bitcoin Is Evil
on Saturday December 28, 2013 @05:09PM (#6976867)
krugman is a broken clock
Re:How The Content Industry Almost Killed Blockbuster
on Saturday December 28, 2013 @05:08PM (#6976865)
blockbeester is already dead I thought?
Re:How Expedia Buys Its Way To The Top Of Google
on Saturday December 28, 2013 @05:08PM (#6976858)
brb gonna declare bankruptcy (google ads are reallly expensive and lots of bot/garbage clicks)
Re:Using Bayes’s Rule to Think About a Bitcoin Bubble
on Saturday December 28, 2013 @05:05PM (#6976847)
seems like the bostom simulation argument...not really convincing but due to a mathematical trick
Re:Twitter now worth over $40 billion
on Thursday December 26, 2013 @01:11PM (#6967176)
Yea so much for the inevitable 'it's a bubble' arguments. Stocks like Facebook, Linkedin, Zillow, and Trulia that the pundits called 'obvious' bubbles are trading 50% or higher than their IPO price. This throws more water on Garry Shiller's argument that bubbles can be predicted or that betting against 'obvious' bubbles is profitable. Only in hindsight can we proclaim something a bubble. Even if an overvalued stock does fall you can still lose all your money shorting if you get a margin call, because the price can rise much longer than you can remain solvent as attributed to John Maynard Keynes.
Personally, I'm long Twitter by selling covered calls. Pretty much if Twitter stock stays above $70 I will make $10k by the end of January.
Re:Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
on Thursday December 26, 2013 @05:45AM (#6965887)
hackers steal 11 million virtual dog meme coins
the truth is stranger than fiction
Re:Facebook is basically dead and buried with UK teenagers
on Thursday December 26, 2013 @05:40AM (#6965883)
And yet Facebook stock keeps going up everyday
Probably because kids are using instagram which is also owned by facebook, so either way facebook wins. Facebook is becoming increasingly popular among the middle aged and this also is the most profitable demographic.
Re:We’ll finally see that the Fed has done nothing to help Main Street
on Wednesday December 25, 2013 @04:07PM (#6964245)
no kidding..it helped make me richer in terms of rising stock prices, web 2.0 valuations, and real estate but didn't help mainstreet because it was never intended to. fighting unemployment is the excuse the fed uses to sell the program and the media buys it.
Re:Should RapGenius be able to "negotiate" with Matt Cutts and Google?
on Wednesday December 25, 2013 @03:49PM (#6964194)
the rankings will be restored. rich, successful ppl always get their way