Pyxl101

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by Pyxl101 8y ago
The only way to make reasonable business decisions is to think about costs in any company.
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A capitalist and a laborer who both contribute nothing should expect nothing as a return. A capitalist who contributes capital should expect investment returns, and a laborer who contributes labor should expect the agreed-upon compensation.
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Investors do not demand that companies pay a dividend, and prefer companies do not issue a dividend, when the company is growing rapidly. Investors would prefer to keep that cash in the business, to use as fuel for further growth. Recently,
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Does SciHub need an actual domain name? Could they provide their website on a well-known IP address, kind of like CloudFlare's 1.1.1.1 DNS? Other people could build websites that redirect to or reference this known IP address. (Or can
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> You seem to miss the point that instead of staging changes out of your working directory and then committing them, you could just commit those changes out of your working directory. The extra step of staging is not needed. How would yo
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You would compose a series of local commits and, if you wanted, test them individually before pushing them. With a bunch of changes made to your files locally, you'd use tools like `git add -i` or `git add -p` to stage subsets of your
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> But lots of times you want to look at the file view, find the line of code that looks like the problem, and then zoom out to the changeset. BK makes that trivial, Git makes that miserable to impossible. This criticism doesn't ring
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
What do you think are they key deficiencies in most founders that prevents them from being able to scale their businesses? I'd be very curious to hear. (Are they unwilling to delegate and trust others to make decisions? Overly focused
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
I don't see any dead comments. Are we referring to this comment? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16589161 - it does not seem to be currently dead, so perhaps it was vouched by someone.
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Require a receipt for all returns?
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Agreed. Many ICOs have been securities offerings. Not all of them have been, however. Ethereum was arguably not a security. It's not necessarily a security offering if you are putting something up for sale that has a value of its own,
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FYI: Grab is the company that Steve Yegge moved to. He wrote about leaving his last company for it in a recent blog post: https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/why-i-left-google-to-join-gr...
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It's worth notice that "assault weapons" is a loaded term, that really just means "rifles that are [scary looking | painted black | etc]". It's not a meaningful technical class of weapon distinct from other sem
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I don't think Google's contractual terms are illegal, though they certainly have a profound impact on any competition that uses Android or builds Android apps. See this article for a detailed analysis of Google's Mobile App D
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You can also edit the URL and replace wsj.com with fullwsj.com, which employs the same redirect technique.
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Dividends and stock buybacks both distribute value to shareholders. Dividends distribute cash, and stock buybacks distribute value by increasing the price of shares. In a rational market, distributing an $X dividend or buying back $X worth
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"Work being done" refers to the output, not the way in which that output is produced. For example, let's say that the task is to add up a list of 10,000 numbers. It might take a human a while to accomplish this accurately. A
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An article about this research was submitted to HN earlier today, and provoked vigorous discussion with 271 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16407678 Here's a link to the actual paper: http://j
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Let's explore some other possible theories for the gender ratio of doctors and nurses. What if it was the case that men more than women are attracted to the most demanding jobs? And women more than men favor family-friendly hours and w
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> Are men more accepting of high risk, low QOL careers? This question has been studied and the answer is yes: men on average show greater interest in high-risk behaviors, and high-risk, demanding careers than women. Here is one study on
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> [Damore's] argument proposed that women are biologically less capable than men to perform certain software-associated tasks The line and paragraph that quoted above makes no judgments about the capability of men or women for softw
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An apt comparison! Netflix, as a point of reference, talks about "team versus family" in their culture page: > A dream team is one in which all of your colleagues are extraordinary at what they do and are highly effective colla
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Honestly, the slide deck to me looks like a positive and important correction from a company that's been too lax and directionless in its management (this is an inference - I don't know anything about Meetup specifically). It&#x27
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That first video looked terrifying. Is the cable also twisting and tangling while that’s happening, or is the litter spinning freely around it? Edit: I was expecting it to stop twisting and begin turning the other way, like string that I&#x
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WotC could price individual cards based on the price of a pack, and the chance of getting a card in a pack. For example, if a booster pack costs $10, and the chance of including a given card is X%, then price the card a la carte at X% * $10
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Thank you for clarifying. Let’s not characterize programming as masculine or feminine (since that would begging the question and stereotyping). Let’s characterize it in terms of properties that have been scientifically studied. I would char
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That claim in Damore's memo shouldn't be controvertial. Here's what Deborah Soh (PhD in sexual neuroscience) had to say about it: > Within the field of neuroscience, sex differences between women and men—when it comes to b
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> Damore’s screed was also rife with fallacies and unsupported generalizations, let’s not forget that Was it really rife with fallacies? Lee Jussim (professor of social psychology at Rutgers University) wrote: > The author of the Goog
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When Netflix used a star rating system, the star rating it showed you was Netflix's guesstimate of your expected rating. It's guessing how it thinks you'll rate the movie, based on what you've watched and rated, and what
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To clarify, do you mean Tesla the person or Tesla the car company? I figure the answer should probably be obvious to me, but I'm not an electronics person and it's not.

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