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online.wsj.com 12y ago

The drone the shot down the feds

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www.ft.com 12y ago

Silicon Valley is turning our lives into an asset class

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

The Rise and Future of the New York Startup Ecosystem

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www.latimes.com 12y ago

Senate Committee approves media shield bill, Defines 'Journalist'

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www.latimes.com 13y ago

Man has 75% of skull replaced with 3-D printed implant

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www.dailymail.co.uk 13y ago

Virginia woman is sued for $750,000 after writing Yelp review

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phys.org 13y ago

Data from LHC suggest the collisions may be producing a new type of matter

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www.washingtonpost.com 13y ago

Einstein’s brain was unusual in several respects

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thehill.com 13y ago

Federal officials take down 132 websites in 'Cyber Monday' crackdown

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readwrite.com 13y ago

Google in Cherokee

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www.dropbox.com 13y ago

Dropbox down?

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detroit.cbslocal.com 14y ago

Dark Matter ‘Scaffolding’ Of Universe Detected For First Time

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www.cbsnews.com 14y ago

CIA head calls Stuxnet virus "good idea"

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www.bloomberg.com 14y ago

Obama Looks to Hollywood to Raise Millions for Re-Election Bid

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people.ischool.berkeley.edu 14y ago

Why Old Media and Tom Cruise Should Worry About Cheaper Technology

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www.youtube.com 14y ago

One guy hacked his Kinect and Wii to create a cat-brushing robot

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www.theatlantic.com 14y ago

Internet Compulsion Disorder:

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www.bloomberg.com 14y ago

Zuckerberg: Jobs Advised on Company Focus

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patimg2.uspto.gov 14y ago

IPhone 5 Patent Application?

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www.washingtonpost.com 14y ago

Steve: Apple TV is Coming

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www.economist.com 14y ago

School of the Dark Arts

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www.npr.org 14y ago

Lucretius, Man Of Modern Mystery

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espn.go.com 14y ago

Technology, namely the iPad, is changing the way the game is played

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Potentially dumb question: if there are 21 million bitcoins (and therefore 21 million bitcoin addresses), would that limit bitcoin's efficiency as a medium of exchange? Ie wouldnt there be potentially billions of transaction moving through a financial system powered by bitcoin daily? (Apologies in advance for any flawed assumptions).

GoPro S-1 12 years ago

I found mine washed up on a beach in a waterproof case (had no way of identifying the true owner). No idea how long it had been floating in the ocean before it washed up on the beach, but it works perfectly.

Stop the Slow Lane 12 years ago

Wasn't that the strategy prior to the SOPA vote when Wikipedia blacked out? It seems the strategy is more to give everyday internet users an idea of what life would be like if this was passed.

These also allow for deductions at Tesla's applicable plain vanilla debt rate, which would be much higher than the cash interest rate on the notes (by using a call spread on top of the embedded option). So there's a tax arbitrage as well.

Source: I used to structure and sell these for a living

"In connection with the offering of the notes, Tesla intends to enter into convertible note hedge transactions and warrant transactions, which are generally expected to prevent dilution up to approximately 100% over the common stock price at the time of pricing of the notes due 2019 and 120% over the common stock price at the time of pricing of the notes due 2021. Tesla intends to use a portion of the proceeds from the offering to pay the net cost of the convertible note hedge transactions. In connection with establishing their initial hedge of the convertible note hedge and warrant transactions, the hedge counterparties or their affiliates expect to enter into various derivative transactions with respect to our common stock concurrently with or shortly after the pricing of the notes, including with certain investors in the notes."

I've used this service in New York and found it a beneficial networking tool. Clearly, some individuals hosting on the platform will have more to offer via their networks or experience than others and those high value time slots will be harder to come by as the service grows. That said, the potential for a serendipitous meeting to create value for someone just starting out, or simply seeking advice, can be big especially when one keeps an open mind and goes in with little or no expectations.

Profitable, yes. Vulnerability to competitive threats looking to undercut its position in the market, also yes. Zynga is a media company, and as such it's competitive advantage lies in its ability to use the FB graph and continue to pump out games. Will people get tired the constant barrage of new titles in the same way Facebook's users are starting to tire its core product? I would speculate yes, but that remains to be seen.