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Home Depot Hacked After Months of Security Warnings(businessweek.com)
11 points by akg_67 12y ago|1 comments
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How an IPO gets done, step by step(cnbc.com)
5 points by akg_67 12y ago|0 comments
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Epidemic of Wage Theft Is Costing Workers Millions of Dollars a Year(epi.org)
2 points by akg_67 12y ago|0 comments
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by akg_67 12y ago
You should be able to get return information from State Pension Funds that invest in private equity/venture capital. For example, the Washington State Investment Board Private Equity IRR report can be access at http://www.si
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29 charts that explain Americans' financial lives(vox.com)
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Happiness from Ordinary and Extraordinary Experiences(nytimes.com)
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by akg_67 12y ago
There is a lot of leeway in exempt classification. Companies have lot of influence on law making process so I am not surprised that more jobs are considered exempt. Personally, I have seen exempt status being abused by companies. One techno
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by akg_67 12y ago
IMO, any company that asks employees to work more than 40 hours a week and doesn't pay for those hours is doing 'wage theft'. Classifying employees as exempt seem to be a common method used by employers. It surprises me how o
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More Workers Are Claiming ‘Wage Theft’(nytimes.com)
64 points by akg_67 12y ago|54 comments
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by akg_67 12y ago
I use two criteria on discussion boards and in life. 1. Can I add any value to the discussion by expressing my opinion? For example, a new data point, a different perspective, a new insight, etc. 2. What value do I gain by continuing to arg
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by akg_67 12y ago
I opened Lending Club account little less than 3 years ago. Lending Club reports my adjusted returns to be 9.91%. I currently have 300+ notes in my account though I usually sell notes that are underperforming on the secondary market typical
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by akg_67 12y ago
LC no longer invests any significant amount of own money in loans. See https://www.peercube.com/blog/post/11 for the analysis. IMO, it is negative that LC no longer has their own skin in the game as their interest
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by akg_67 12y ago
Low-end hosting is a stable cash-flow business. You buy/install/operate/manage the equipment and recover original investment + operational cost + few more percentage in return over the life of equipment typically 3 years. Aft
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by akg_67 12y ago
AWS is akin to building your car by buying and installing one part at a time. DO is akin to buying a Honda Fit. AWS is good when you got Cadillac budget. AWS has a sweet spot. When your needs are too small or too large, AWS is not the right
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by akg_67 12y ago
Host it on Digital Ocean. You can host multiple projects on same Droplet. When the traffic/load picks up for one project and can't be handled on one droplet, you can spin it out to a separate droplet. When load increases further,
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by akg_67 12y ago
This is the right answer. You can establish (own) a US LLC irrespective of any Visa you hold (or don't hold) in US or live in another country. You just can't work for LLC in US if you don't have a Visa that authorizes you to
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by akg_67 12y ago
Have you asked your users what format would they like the user guide in? If your users are okay with PDF, then stay with it. In the end, user guide and its format is for users, and not for you. Unless, users are requesting or indicating pre
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by akg_67 12y ago
What type of consulting do you do? Are you familiar with any specific industry vertical? How do you get clients for your consulting business? Acquiring contract work in data science is no different that selling in your business. It is same
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by akg_67 12y ago
Avoid pre-mature optimization and spending time on things (overhead) that don't matter to the success of your projects/customers/users/partners directly. I will suggest just have one LLC and keep introducing your project
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by akg_67 12y ago
Why do you want to avoid letting others know that you looked at their profile? I actually made a few business relationships just because someone looked at my profile and I looked at theirs or vice-versa and one of us reached out to the othe
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by akg_67 12y ago
Not to hijack your thread, may be a pivot of your idea focusing on early-stage founders. I would like to see a weekend retreat (along the lines of Sun Valley big-wig retreat, may be not such an expensive affair) for startup founders where t
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by akg_67 12y ago
I removed the question mark as you suggested. But, why?
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Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering(hbswk.hbs.edu)
6 points by akg_67 12y ago|3 comments
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by akg_67 12y ago
Requesting Failure Analysis (FA) and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) from equipment provider is pretty standard after major incidents. It helps customer understand the issue better and put process in place to handle similar incidents. Similarly,
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by akg_67 12y ago
The network problems seem to have started earlier. I received a penny for my NYC2 droplet just before this major incident. Luckily, I decided to shutdown and move the droplet to SFO before this incident. Over the last couple of years dealin
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by akg_67 12y ago
Is your goal to get into YC or have a successful startup? If your goal is to get into YC, go find yourself a warm body to be co-founder or join numerous others looking to get into YC but don't have teams. Of course, as a YC alum (Nikke
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by akg_67 12y ago
IMO this is the most realistic and cost effective solution to problem. Most restaurant POS systems that handles reservation, seating and billing should be able to provide needed info. Any RFID or sensor base system will be complex, cumbers
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by akg_67 12y ago
HP OpenVMS site http://h71000.www7.hp.com maybe the starting point to further explore it. Also, they have a hobbyist license available for free. I haven't been involved with VMS since 2000 so not sure where such people hang
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by akg_67 12y ago
Very cool. Good to see OpenVMS is still alive and kicking that also on AlphaServer. It is the best command line operating system I ever used. Never liked unix variants after that. Commands are so intuitive copy is copy not cp. File versioni
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by akg_67 12y ago
Get into hacker mentality. Do what you need to do to get what you want! If you want job and job will come by marks, then focus on marks. If you want marks and marks will only come by rote learning, then focus on rote learning. If you believ

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