alenlpeacock

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The Vidularity Is Nigh Upon Us(medium.com)
2 points by alenlpeacock 9y ago|0 comments
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by alenlpeacock 10y ago
I should have said "if they held exercised options." You are absolutely right if not exercised, and right that there are always risks of declining value if held. It is possible, btw, to exercise options prior to exit. In practice,
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by alenlpeacock 10y ago
I'll add another: 4) a bonus paid at time of exit will be subject to regular income tax, while options can (but don't always) benefit from long term capital gains tax. Rough example: if an employee were to benefit to the tune of $
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by alenlpeacock 11y ago
> Where are the VCs getting all their money? Are mainstream banks exposed? Hedge funds? Corporations? Retirement funds? VCs raise money from Limited Partners (LPs). Who are they? The regulars of course (fund of funds, foundations, endowm
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by alenlpeacock 12y ago
That's a number we hit on experimentally. Constraining bandwidth below that, currently, causes the network backup part of the system to perform very, very poorly, resulting in your data not getting out to the system in any sort of reas
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by alenlpeacock 12y ago
One of the reasons Space Monkey exists: http://www.infoworld.com/article/2856553/cloud-storage/you-c...
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by alenlpeacock 12y ago
Sorry to hear it didn't work out for you, tckr. Since initial delivery, we have made some great strides at reducing bandwidth usage. Just to be clear, we only hear about this being a problem for users with really small uplink bandwidth
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by alenlpeacock 12y ago
The confusion results from two different plans: Plan A: buy the device upfront and own it. Price includes 1 year of network backup service. After the first year, if you want to continue the network backup, it's $49/year ($4/m
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by alenlpeacock 12y ago
Everything is private, every user has a unique key associated with their account, and every object (file and folder) has unique, individual encryption keys generated for it. Because of the way data is encrypted, the system supports sharing
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by alenlpeacock 12y ago
The device needs around 400kbps of uplink capacity currently, though we are working to lower that. In my own home, I'm on the slowest DSL tier that my provider offers, and only have 700kbps upstream. Space Monkey works fine here, and I
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by alenlpeacock 12y ago
Co-founder of Space Monkey here. I can assure you this was not an acquihire. At the highest levels of the org from CEO and down, Vivint believes in the Space Monkey vision. We're super excited to have their backing, and think you will
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How We Convinced Your Coastal Tech Worker to Move to our Flyover-state Startup(spacemonkey.com)
5 points by alenlpeacock 12y ago|0 comments
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by alenlpeacock 13y ago
Being anonymous on the Internet? Who woulda thunk? In other words, back to the good old days. Now if we could just cut the cord between these companies and our identities permanently.
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by alenlpeacock 13y ago
1. there have been several attempts (including two of my own!), but it's an ambitious project 2. yes, we're actually very interested internally in opening up large parts of the system long term. We're also very interested in
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by alenlpeacock 13y ago
Unfortunately, the Kickstarter platform does not allow you to change the descriptions for reward levels once you've pushed the project live (you can add new rewards, but cannot remove or modify old ones). This KS policy makes sense: th
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by alenlpeacock 13y ago
Yes, under the subscription plan, the company is responsible for reasonable device replacement when they fail (if not due to abuse, etc). That's why the subscription plan costs more: pure subscribers are subsidizing device replacement
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by alenlpeacock 13y ago
There was also no stated warranty at the time you backed (there is now), yet we replaced a device for you that failed, free of charge and without any hassle. We have acted in good faith with you at every step of the process. I'm sorry
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by alenlpeacock 13y ago
So it sounds like you are mostly upset with our support staff? Could you help me understand what you believe would have helped to resolve this for you? What we did wrong? Going back through the exchange, it looks like our staff offered you
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by alenlpeacock 13y ago
The Kickstarter FAQ mentioned the return policy, and explicitly said that pro-rated refunds would occur once the device was returned.
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by alenlpeacock 13y ago
The very first sentence of the Kickstarter page says, "Space Monkey is the next generation cloud. For $10 per month, you get a full Terabyte (1000 Gigabytes) of storage you can use anywhere, any time."
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by alenlpeacock 13y ago
We haven't backpedalled on anything. The original rewards offered on Kickstarter stand. We will honor all backer rewards as originally offered. We simply believe that the offering we are now giving to new customers is better in most wa
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by alenlpeacock 13y ago
Evidence we've already provided you in our numerous correspondences: - Kickstarter project called itself "Complete Cloud storage subscription service" - Kickstarter project added a $349 level after a few days that included &q
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by alenlpeacock 13y ago
Hi there, I work for Space Monkey. Let me shed some light on all this. The vast majority of our Kickstarter backers have responded overwhelmingly positively to the offer. In fact, we extended the offer in large part because Kickstarter ba
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by alenlpeacock 14y ago
Yes, that is my experience too. But I don't care; google drive is for google docs, and google docs aren't useful at all on my desktop. I'm not sure why I even run the gdrive desktop app.
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The Cloud Price Wars are a Lie(blog.spacemonkey.com)
2 points by alenlpeacock 14y ago|0 comments
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by alenlpeacock 14y ago
You might like http://spacemonkey.com (when it becomes available). Client-side encryption, 60x faster upload, 10x more space.
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by alenlpeacock 14y ago
Salt Lake City, Utah, Full Time Software Engineers at Space Monkey ( http://spacemonkey.com ) Space Monkey is changing how the world stores data, forever. Winner of the 2012 Launch Festival ( http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/08/space-monkey-la
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by alenlpeacock 15y ago
I did research in this area last decade, and I'm one of the authors of a survey paper that you might find useful if this subject is interesting to you: http://utopia.csis.pace.edu/dps/2007/jkile/content/2005-fall... There is research stre
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by alenlpeacock 15y ago
There are some really good reasons to at least pay minimum wage to founders, including that it's really hard to get them health insurance if you don't. And, it's typically better to get enrolled in a health insurance plan early (when there
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by alenlpeacock 15y ago
Yes. Data durability is ensured by the network copy, not the local cache.

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