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by amosson 2y ago
I think the headline is incorrect. All items seem to be 2.9. 3.2 is less food and energy.
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by amosson 5y ago
Previous discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28603398
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The NYTimes represents 50% of all paid news subscriptions(visualcapitalist.com)
2 points by amosson 5y ago|0 comments
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by amosson 5y ago
Have you considered Wise. You get a “US” account that you could route (or wire money) into from PayPal. Wise only charges 40-50bps to convert to SEK.
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Pattern Matching in Python(github.com)
37 points by amosson 6y ago|4 comments
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FT.com Visual Vocabulary(github.com)
1 points by amosson 8y ago|0 comments
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Bash Shell written in Python(oilshell.org)
2 points by amosson 8y ago|0 comments
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by amosson 9y ago
Why not a Chromebook in Developer Mode running Ubuntu?
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Bazaarvoice to go private in $521M deal(bizjournals.com)
1 points by amosson 9y ago|0 comments
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In Which My Identity Is Sought by Federal Grand Jury Subpoena(popehat.com)
174 points by amosson 9y ago|71 comments
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Dignity and Sadness in the Working Class(mobile.nytimes.com)
2 points by amosson 10y ago|0 comments
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by amosson 12y ago
It looks like there Free Cash Flow in 2014 was about $4MM positive so they aren't really burning cash
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The Age of Unicorns(fortune.com)
54 points by amosson 12y ago|20 comments
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by amosson 13y ago
Music companies don't see Spotify as competing with purchases, they see it as competing with "free" (aka, piracy)
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by amosson 13y ago
The liquidation is pro-rata for the common shareholders. So once Preferred gets paid, the common splits the remaining pro-rata. With the actual docs (Shareholders rights agreement that goes with the purchase, it would be clear). 8% of the
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by amosson 14y ago
I can't speak to Oregon, but in California the voters also specify the things the government has to spend on. We have legislature must spend on. For instance we require that some 60% of the budget go to education. The legislature only ha
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by amosson 14y ago
Much has been written about the dysfunction of California's government. I would summarize it as we have a direct participation system, in the form of propositions, that has limited what the government can do. Specifically, the voters have
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by amosson 14y ago
Those in CA thinking about implementing such a policy will need to be careful. IANAL, but having been CFO of two CA start ups now, you will need to give CA employees at least 1 day per month worked that will need to be paid upon terminatio
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by amosson 14y ago
Since they are debt, they accrue interest and the note is due and payable in full at some point down the road (say 18 months). If the company successfully bootstraps, they need to be in a position to pay back the note + the accrued interes
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by amosson 14y ago
I am not a lawyer - so don't take this as legal advice. But if I read your post correctly, you said you were never properly served. Since it sounds like you have access to all the court documents, if you search through them some where in
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by amosson 14y ago
This move fits with HBO's (and really every content provider's) anti-piracy strategy. Namely, content needs to be encrypted from the time it leaves their server's to the time it is decoded by the screen. The reason for this is simple, if
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by amosson 15y ago
Here's an anecdote. My first job out of collage was with a Big 6 accounting firm as a IT consultant. As part of training, we took the Myers-Briggs test (which places you on the Introvert/Extravert spectrum) and spent an entire day discussi
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by amosson 15y ago
It's unclear whether there will be any breakage. Most states have escheat laws that apply to gift certificates. Basically merchants are required to remit to the state any unused gift certificates after a certain period of time. While the c
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by amosson 15y ago
At my company we've used Jaspersoft and Pentaho and at various times paid for commercial licenses in JasperSoft's case to get support and some consulting (which we only used once) and in Pentaho's case to get a bug fix patch faster. Both to
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by amosson 15y ago
A few large consulting companies in the 90's, Cambridge Technology Partners and Viant, for example, were very successful with this model. They were selling against the $100-200/hr Big 6 type consulting firm so there was plenty of room budg
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by amosson 15y ago
Should 50 people be allowed to create magazines titled "Entrepreneur", regardless of whether the word is commonly used. If you are the first to think of something, shouldn't you have some limited right to protect whatever investment you a
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by amosson 15y ago
Here is Atwood's response http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/03/revisiting-keyboard...
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by amosson 15y ago
The terminal hasn't changed much in 40 years because it very good at what it does, that is, allowing experts to get stuff done . One of the usability lessons of modern computing is that the mouse is a productivity killer. Having transiti
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by amosson 15y ago
The ability to sell patents give investors some downside protection when funding a startup. Every VC I've ever pitched to asks - "What's patentable". If you don't end up making money off selling a product / service, at least there is the h
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by amosson 15y ago
Don't be so sure that Apple knew about this. There is a school of though on doing patent research before developing a product. It says do no research. That way, if you are sued and loose, the infringement can not be views as willful - wh

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