Facebook Bankers Secretly Cut Facebook’s Revenue Estimates In Middle Of IPO Roadshow

robert32907 · 3 days

His article is ridiculous. Institutional and Accredited investors bought the stock at $38. These are 'smart' people with tons of money. They took the risk, and FB (the company) made out great. $16B+ in the bank for growth and acquisitions. From a corporate perspective, there's no way you can call this anything but a success for both FB and MS - they maximized their price and return. The people who invested in the IPO may never make their $16B back, but that's the risk you take when investing in an IPO, and one of the reasons we limit IPO's to the 1%'ers.

edit:

one of his commenters nails it:

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/05/how-facebook-fucked-up-its-own-ipo/#comment-624244

jamarel91 · 3 days

Audi's don't use strut's, but if you're talking about getting new shocks/springs, coilovers are the way to go.

The gold standard are Stasis Ohlins coilovers, but they're a bit pricey at $4k for the fully-adjustable bump/rebound motorsports (i have these in my '04 S4) and $2k for their SL (only height adjustable), but both are worth it and will completely transform how your car handles/rides. The ride is smoother than stock S4 shocks, but due to how fast the shocks can react, you can run immensely higher spring rates all around - particularly in the rear, where Stasis provides a 1200lb linear-rate spring - resulting in much more balanced handling on our front-heavy cars.

Next best option are Vogtland GT coilovers, which are cheapish, but actually match the coilovers with proper spring rates.

Other options are Bilstein PSS9/PSS10's, KW V3 (or on the low-end, Koni, H&R, or Tein), but you'll likely end up with stock-like spring rates & sub-optimal handling. That said, some people don't care.

Try calling Stasis (http://www.stasisengineering.com/) or a place like Achtuning (http://achtuning.com/) for more info.

Good luck.

pepitko · 4 days

http://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-facebook-worth-2012-5

ShaneVICE · 18 days

Hey Shane, thanks for what Vice has become.

A bit OT, guessing you spent quite a bit of time there before your NK trip, so what was your favorite part about South Korea?

NeuroticsNotebook · 23 days

yeah, the V6 'stang has a slightly better power/weight ratio, but the light car is still going to be more fun to toss around. I'm sure the STI tuner versions will fix any power deficits soon though.

LunacyNow · 23 days

Btw, just wanted to note that this list is awesome and spot-on. Only place I'd add is along the lines of 15east, and maybe more tokyo-authentic in terms of the physical space aspects is Azabu down in tribeca. Food quality is similar, but 15 east is more fun though; Masa is the man.

Viper007Bond · 24 days

I just put a set on my audi S4 - 245/35/19 all around. Still breaking in, but really happy with them thus far. They ride comparatively soft, but both turn-in and absolute grip is insane. enjoy!

denniedarko · 1 month

firelands dailies. :-|

happybob007 · 1 month

No, no it hasn't. He updates his thread later with filesystem based tests that prove his first tests wrong:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/29/8

Write performace is actually up, and read vs. cpu is about even. (suggesting that multithreaded I/O may be better on newer kernels at the cost of singlethreaded I/O). There MAY be a bug with userland access of block devices, but that's somewhat unclear at the moment. (also not that important beyond filesystem creation).

trlast09 · 1 month

Without downvoting you, you NEVER, NEVER, NEVER stop on a track unless you are black flagged. (then you stop immediately, no matter what). There are really good reasons for this (mainly that it can cause a huge chain reaction accident) and all good HPDE's drill this into you when attending.

jba · 1 month

And on cue, the SI dump is on fire:

http://gothamist.com/2012/04/09/the_staten_island_dump_is_on_fire.php#photo-1

RSKMR · 1 month

Unfortunate about the downvotes, as this is the smartest thing in this thread. The fact he was MVP of the finals over Lamb is ridiculous. He's got a ways to go to be a solid pro.

haloinc · 1 month

Titanium edition. Gorgeous.

rCBB_Mod · 1 month

upvoted for sarcasm.

maddvibe · 1 month

Correct. Audi's have pretty sophisticated immobilizers.

Mind_Virus · 1 month

But given Obama's track record of "anti-war", "anti-mandate", "anti-secrecy" all being turned on its head,

Except that never happend. Obama was never anti-war (he expressly called for expanding certain conflicts), anti-mandate (he said he would prefer a single player, but was never expressly anti-mandate), and the secrecy one is up for debate (some things are more open now, others about the same as bush).

mbertels · 2 months

haahahahaahahah. This is going to be hilarious.

GuyFromLA · 2 months

you didn't grow up in a city, did you. The majority of my friends didn't have an ID till the middle/end of college.

tattool · 2 months

Spot-on. Incredible.

anutensil · 2 months

Look up "Operation Hilarity".

leeroyj · 3 months

Car Insurance is not expensive in NYC. Bundle it with your homeowners/renters insurance, and you'll be fine.

leeroyj · 3 months

It's practical, but only for getting out of the city. You're not going to want to ever drive it from place to place in the city unless you have a garage/dedicated-parking-spot in both locations. Also, you're going to want to garage it. Expect $250+/month in brooklyn and $500+/month in manhattan.

danwin · 3 months

IT'S CALLED ART.

LOOK IT UP.

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(yes, that's a joke)

Hydraulix · 3 months

Eh, i've been around on audiworld, quattroworld, and audizine since 2001 or so, and never heard of a major customer service issue with them BEYOND when they were moving their headquarters from norcal, and it was difficult to get parts on time for a few month window.

Their products are excellent and designed to tax the car in reasonable ways that don't result in it falling apart in 2 years. Also, no one in the audi world does chassis tuning better than Stasis. Do other kits make more power? For sure, but do other kits cover your warranty for 4years/50k miles? Not that i've heard of. I think it's a reasonable tradeoff. IMO, of course.

jba

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