Asparagirl

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by Asparagirl 13y ago
I'm not sure where you live, but in the US, the standard commission for a registered broker selling a house is six percent of the selling price of the house, not a flat fee. But yes, they do not get to keep that six percent in perpetu
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by Asparagirl 13y ago
So the Syndicate guys are kinda like real estate brokers, and AngelList is the MLS?
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by Asparagirl 13y ago
Think how many private business meetings have been conducted over Skype. Anything from board meetings, sensitive HR issues, acquisition or takeover discussions, to new product roadmaps. Now think about all that corporate espionage material
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by Asparagirl 13y ago
"From your mouth to God's ears" as my grandmother would say.
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by Asparagirl 13y ago
That's a feature, not a bug.
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by Asparagirl 13y ago
While I agree that you absolutely need to see a psychologist or psychiatrist as soon as you can, it does strike me as unusual that you have these attacks so rarely and they involve losing consciousness or memory, followed by bad headaches.
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by Asparagirl 13y ago
The US government's acquisition of people's biometric information, including DNA, has already been outed by WikiLeaks in their release of the Embassy cables a few years ago. Did you see this story? http://www.guardian.
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by Asparagirl 13y ago
From the article: "Jason Nazar, the founder and chief executive of Docstoc, said: “You can have your start-up and one thing. You can have your start-up and your health. You can have your start-up and your family. Or you can have your start-
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by Asparagirl 13y ago
What would I build with a human body data stream API? A real-time fertility / menstrual cycle monitor. Basal body temperature + hormone spikes monitored remotely, hooked up to some kind of a real-world notification system (push message to
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by Asparagirl 13y ago
You mean, add something besides the concrete examples I gave of why women might not want to work at a start-up, or the first-hand experiences I noted being the exact demographic he's talking to/about? (Oh HN, don't ever change.)
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by Asparagirl 13y ago
sighs Look, I would not want to work somewhere if there was even the slightest chance that I got the job on account of my gender. I do not want to be some progressive nice guy's feel-good story, I want to be good at what I do. So while
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by Asparagirl 13y ago
That's not strictly true, but actor Jason Alexander isn't usually known by his birth surname.
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by Asparagirl 14y ago
In LA (Burbank, actually) we had one manager, two devs (me and a slightly more junior person), and two video editors who transcoded stuff almost on-the-fly and kept our online video library humming along. In New York (at 30 Rock) we had ab
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by Asparagirl 14y ago
Over a hundred thousand. I was the Senior Web Producer (head geek) at Bravo, the cable channel, and we did live voting during "Project Runway" first-run episode commercial breaks, where viewers would respond to on-air questions either thro