SeoxyS

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by SeoxyS 9y ago
Can definitely relate with the author, as I'm also a native French speaker who's mostly entirely switched to English. I find myself doing everything in English in my daily life and thinking in English. I'm starting to run int
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by SeoxyS 9y ago
Long-term capital gains hasn't been 15% for a long time. We can thank Obama for that. Furthermore, in any state that's remotely desirable to live in, you can throw in another 10-13% on top of those 20% capital gains. US taxes are
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by SeoxyS 9y ago
You don't have to sell short, you can buy puts which give you far greater (not unlimited) upside than your capped downside.
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by SeoxyS 9y ago
Nowhere near enough space on Necker (my friend just went there) for a massive conference like this. Would be cool, though.
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by SeoxyS 9y ago
The right thing for a company like Apple to do with extra cash (other than dividends and buybacks) is to invest it. There's only so much innovation it can do as a single entity… but as a VC firm (à-la Google Ventures) or as an LP (into
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by SeoxyS 9y ago
If the iPad division quit en masse, formed a new corporation, and gave out free stock to people who could prove ownership of AAPL shares; E-TRADE has no obligation to do extra work with iPad Corp to make this possible…
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by SeoxyS 9y ago
One thing that bothers me about this article, and the way everyone does passwords is this assumption that the output of a cryptographic had function is alphanumeric. It's not, is binary. Store the actual data in your database, not the
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by SeoxyS 9y ago
What Rolling Stone article are you referring to?
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by SeoxyS 9y ago
> watching the accuser ride the publicity to raise a round. Can you elaborate on this? Did I miss part of the story—did one of the accuser actually do that?
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by SeoxyS 9y ago
Numeraire for example (NMR) is a ERC-20 token which has a real-world application today.
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by SeoxyS 9y ago
I mean, you live in possibly the most inconvenient part of the city. It literally can't get more inconvenient and inaccessible than Parkmerced. I lived there for a month and had to move because it was just so dreadful.
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by SeoxyS 9y ago
Not sure in what world Lake Merritt is nicer than Soma even on an average day. Sketchiness? Yeah, Soma has homeless people and some unpleasant crowds on 6th St and spread throughout; but it doesn't even come close to the sketchiness of
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by SeoxyS 9y ago
If they keep growing into bigger boxes pooping gold, then you've done a pretty good job as an investor. It's all about IRR; if you invest and your investment grows, it doesn't matter what stage you invest at. Keep in mind tha
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by SeoxyS 9y ago
Why not just use Stellar or Ripple at this point? That's exactly what it was designed to solve. And it has the benefit of being able to use, you know, real currencies. So you can go to your coffee shop, instantly spend $5, and be done
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by SeoxyS 9y ago
You're a business flyer, have status, and would never be bumped involuntarily due to your status. (I'm a UA 1K, so I'm in the same boat.) But the point is that it's a market. Pretty much always there will be a price at w
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by SeoxyS 9y ago
The probability of a bump for a 1K is more like 0.00001f (Source: I'm 1K). Basically they'd have to bump every other non-elite and lower-elite before even getting to you. The only time it can happen is if a gate agent screws up (u
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by SeoxyS 9y ago
Luxury hotels in China have transparent VPN for their entire networks. I was quite impressed staying at a brand new St Regis in a 3rd tier city recently and discovering that I had full access to anything when connected to their WiFi network
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by SeoxyS 9y ago
What normally happens in a situation like in your example is that the SAFE or note investors would convert their principal into Series A preferred shares and the remainder would be issued as common stock. So, in your example, for each dolla
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by SeoxyS 9y ago
Bingo. This is an important detail that's easy to miss; but a VC has a huge incentive to lower its own costs while increasing capital committed. Any expenses come straight from the GPs' pockets. Capital invested is paid for by LPs
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by SeoxyS 9y ago
(I'm an early-stage angel, fwiw) Quick counterpoint to the other advice telling you to give more equity out: 1) Your new investors might feel a bit slighted by this; especially if this additional equity is dilutive, which it probably i
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by SeoxyS 9y ago
And I really liked the air quality when I was in Beijing two weeks ago. But that was a fluke. Most of the times, things aren't as rosy.
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by SeoxyS 9y ago
I went to HK in the middle of hottest times (Aug 1st) last year and it was absolutely brutal. But then again, the entire city really grew out of nowhere during the past century, so it kind of grew in tandem with air conditioning. HK is one
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by SeoxyS 9y ago
We shouldn't be migrating Electron to anything… we should be getting rid of it. Electron is a cop-out for mediocre dev teams to make mediocre desktop apps. The result is a world where we run apps like Spotify and Slack are the main bat
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by SeoxyS 9y ago
1) Apple's cash assets aren't actually cash or just a bank account. It's accounting speak for liquid assets. Any investments that they could divest fairly quickly and easily and repurpose to finance other capital expenditures
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by SeoxyS 9y ago
People call United's 772 and 747-400 2-4-2 seat business class configuration "coffin seats" because of how stacked and narrow they are. I've flown it, it's not particularly comfortable; but at least it's a lie-
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by SeoxyS 9y ago
And an additional 4in of legroom. Makes a huge difference.
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by SeoxyS 9y ago
Something that lets you lie flat usually takes >4x the space of economy seats, so must cost >4x the price to be sustainable for the airline. Air New Zealand tried that with their "SkyCouch" concept, though, where you could j
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by SeoxyS 9y ago
The market is segmented reasonably. Most people won't pay for business, so most seats are economy. On certain routes, the flight is so unpleasant that economy would be unbearable for most, so airlines have planes that don't have e
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by SeoxyS 9y ago
Mostly it's just a matter of getting used to it… when I first moved in with a long-term girlfriend, I didn't sleep well sharing the bed. But I quickly got used to it and it became a non-issue within months. years later, we broke u
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by SeoxyS 9y ago
Possibly the best card for startup business expenses is the Chase Ink. It gives 5x points on office supplies and telco, and quite a few ISPs count as utilities. Getting 5x points on your server bills is very nice. Points can be transferred

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