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by Geekette 10y ago
This seems more a gesture than putting a foot down. I expected the tax to be higher (15% may not deter overseas buyers already willing to overpay) and accompanied by comprehensive residency verification system with additional tax on non-inh
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by Geekette 10y ago
Interesting that it's described as currently catering to Kenya, Ghana and Nigeria because the content is solely Ghana specific. These 3 countries also have very different social perspectives and very different flavours of entertainment
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by Geekette 10y ago
This follows up on the story of the company laying off 60 workers in Toronto and relocating to San Francisco ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11961182 ).
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Ex-Joist employees share their side of the layoff story(betakit.com)
3 points by Geekette 10y ago|1 comments
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Ghost city of Ashgabat, Turkmenistan: Recently built in marble and unoccupied(varlamov.ru)
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Increasing failures of startups in private aviation(nytimes.com)
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Ebbu – the rise and fall of a startup as modern weed dealer(pando.com)
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by Geekette 10y ago
You probably have an account: LinkedIn has many ghost accounts auto-generated based on findings from trawling users' address books/contact lists.
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by Geekette 10y ago
I wonder if this has to do with the internal problems at Nest[1][2]. [1] http://www.businessinsider.com/whats-going-on-at-nest-2016-2 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11105510
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Why Earth is called Earth, not Assbeads (satire of software product management)(thevunderkind.com)
3 points by Geekette 10y ago|0 comments
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Earth as a prototype of celestial software product management (satire)(thevunderkind.com)
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Inside the Net-a-Porter/Yoox merger planned behind the founder and ex-CEO's back(businessoffashion.com)
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Tim Cook to announce expansion of software center and new accelerator in India(reuters.com)
2 points by Geekette 10y ago|0 comments
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by Geekette 10y ago
Yahoo Pipes. Meticulously remixed, filtered, etc RSS feeds rendered useless with no viable alternative to date. Curses to Yahoo, especially whoever made the decision to kill it.
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by Geekette 10y ago
Probably not: He owns whatever portion is vested, subject to dilution in event of future fundraising. Some of his equity will already be vested based on his tenure and vesting schedule used. Plus, if his agreement has any kind of vesting ac
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Infighting threatens to close VC Firm XFund and its $100M fund(nytimes.com)
4 points by Geekette 10y ago|0 comments
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by Geekette 10y ago
I'd read of that elsewhere but wasn't sure. Here's to hoping both countries have adequate agreements to facilitate shipping him back home to face the music.
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by Geekette 10y ago
What exactly is unacceptable about hoping that an established liar and conman is made to account for his actions? At the very least, getting millions of dollars from fraudulently claimed tax credits is certainly not a trivial issue. Also do
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by Geekette 10y ago
As I said on the other related thread[1]: Given his history as a prolific liar, I find his post to be utter bullshit. Note how he's still lying about things he was caught at: "When the rumours began, my qualifications and characte
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by Geekette 10y ago
Given his history as a prolific liar, I find his post to be utter bullshit. Note how he's still lying about things he was caught at: "When the rumours began, my qualifications and character were attacked. When those allegations we
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by Geekette 10y ago
I know some cite it as a good smell but they are in the minority. Plus, In my admittedly anecdotal experience, I've found that people who say that mean that they like the smell of sweat from people they're already attracted to ,
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by Geekette 10y ago
The onus is on the publisher to include key data like sample size and cite sources on an article presenting such claims. EDIT On skimming the links you gave, I find that the samples and the researchers' conclusion in each study do not
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by Geekette 10y ago
I think the concept of “emotional contagion” is a stretch . I simply do not believe that empirically[1], people who smell sweat excreted by frightened people will also feel fear. Disgust as general reaction to all sweat samples is more bel
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by Geekette 10y ago
In addition to details on the interview process, postings would definitely be more useful if they also included: - Expected duration of interview(s). 1-2 hours differs drastically from all day. - Salary within 10k. If hiring for multiple po
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by Geekette 11y ago
Sounds like the wiki sections of questions and topic FAQs of Quora. There are also other sites (including Wikipedia itself, albeit not set up in question format) with similar info-organization purpose around. How would this differ?
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by Geekette 11y ago
Might be useful to focus on products within a certain niche and/or people of certain profile (e.g. comic book enthusiasts or specific genre of art). Otherwise, there are already so many gift/shopping suggestions services with big
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by Geekette 11y ago
This would be very useful. It'd be great if accessible via desktop not just mobile. It would be cool if it ultimately ended up being incorporated into the main HN site. Not sure why the opprobrium against it - it's a fully optiona
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by Geekette 11y ago
A polled ranking sounds good but that may not be a reliable gauge of a project's ultimate "interestingness" or viability, just a gauge of HN community's preferences. E.g. a project with great potential (market, usage, et
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by Geekette 11y ago
The images showing these logos in use at other companies decades ago are pages from a book titled Trademarks & Symbols of the World: The Alphabet in Design by Yasaburo Kuwayama (1989).
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No design is new: Medium, AirBNB, Flipboard, Beats are replicas of older logos(twitter.com)
2 points by Geekette 11y ago|1 comments

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