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by aneth4 14y ago
What would make you think this is not possible? As I write from the rooftop pool bar at Bangkok Hotel. I pretty much live this lifestyle, though I wouldn't say I'm all that connected into the nomadic community. For instance, I was not aware
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by aneth4 14y ago
Thanks for elaborating. An interesting counterpoint. I suppose how much money the company started with, what it was spent on, what sort of payment agreement the founders had, were all left out of the original story. There are cases where wh
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by aneth4 14y ago
Perhaps he should identify himself and elaborate.
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by aneth4 14y ago
I had forgotten about these. Does seem like an interesting product, though I think they would discovered and removed by many potential rapists. I wonder if a girl who used one successfully could be charged with assault. That would be a sad
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by aneth4 14y ago
What's your point? Nobody is arguing whether this was a mistake, not even DHS officer when asked. Nobody is saying the DHS is the most competent organization on the planet or that it can't be better. In the vast majority of cases, people en
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by aneth4 14y ago
This is not a competition for the worst experience one can have. I've had plenty of horrible ones. Ever been detained for several days in a crowded third world jail for no legitimate reason and extorted a large sum of money to be released?
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by aneth4 14y ago
Immigration processes millions of people each day. There are going to be mistakes. This sounds like they got a false positive, investigated, and released him. That's how the process is supposed to work. Making this into some massive anti-Am
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by aneth4 14y ago
This is how America ruins it's best children. I know the story so well, I only had to read the title, though I did skim the article to be sure. Children need to be given goals and challenged, not constantly told they are good enough. Childr
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by aneth4 14y ago
That link is rather optimistic. Don't get me wrong, I prefer random districts to gerrymandered. However I don't think gerrymandering is the cause of the problems you mention - partisanship, corruption, and party power. When there are proble
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by aneth4 14y ago
How do we decide on districts? There will always be a possibility of bias and there is no "fair" way to divide districts. There is more random - that's about the best we can do. No districting system ensures a majority vote wins a majority
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by aneth4 14y ago
Let me challenge some assumptions about gerrymandering. The most common misconception of gerrymandering is the assumption that close races are required for the voters to have a choice. While in current practice this may be true, the reason
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by aneth4 14y ago
While I understand the sentiment that it's wasted effort to propose impractical solutions, it is important to know what our ideal is before deciding what is possible - otherwise we are condemned to incremental change based on pessimistic as
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by aneth4 14y ago
Don't forget, cross-country air travel generally requires at least an additional 3 hours of travelling outside the city to and from the airport, checkin, security, taxiing, unloading, etc. A five hour cross country flight really takes 8 hou
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by aneth4 14y ago
Is there somewhere the detailed effects of the deal are spelled out? I see conflicting reports over such things as whether the 20% capital gains rate applies to everyone and which income the 3.8% surcharge applies too.
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by aneth4 14y ago
He does specification call this out - that something must be truly egregious when the beneficiaries of a law call for its repeal. What's your position? Should we discount investment taxes to encourage reallocation of capital and tax earned
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by aneth4 14y ago
Life isn't about having amazing experiences. It's about making mediocre experiences look amazing on Facebook. I've taken to hiding most updates ("only important" or none) of people who constantly try to show how cool they are,
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by aneth4 14y ago
Does anyone care if Facebook knows when their menstrual cycle is? Or has a prediction on when you are going to die? Or predicts when I'm going to get a cold? I don't care. If you are this paranoid, you should stop using credit cards, phones
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by aneth4 14y ago
Watch _why talk about Hackety Hack. http://orgtheory.wordpress.com/2012/03/20/_why-aa-jonathan-g...
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by aneth4 14y ago
You can also use a service like dnsimple that offers more generalized aliases to any domain. As I understand it, you can only alias to AWS services with Route 53, but that may have changed. I've been using Dnsimple for quite a while to host
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by aneth4 14y ago
Why does Photoshop need to be killed? Seems like a good, powerful piece of software loved by many.
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by aneth4 14y ago
What kind of investor focuses on valuation and ignores whether a company will be successful? You said "there are a segment of investors who use valuation to drive their decisions, even if its irrational to do so". It is not irrational to us
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by aneth4 14y ago
I don't use Expedia as I've found their service to be horrible, and their technology in the early days had all kinds of issues with losing session and the like, so I abandoned them 10+ years ago. I do use Orbitz. I'm not sure if they are gu
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by aneth4 14y ago
It seems he changed the title of the blog post and left the reference to a Chinese wall in the body. That doesn't bother me near as much as a headline blazing with borderline racial slur. Seems like that title might have gotten the article
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by aneth4 14y ago
I don't think the author intended to offend, but I do think he was rather thoughtless. He might as well accuse Facebook of being Jewy with their data, called their policies "gay", or accused them of Indian giving our privacy. It's very inap
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by aneth4 14y ago
I'm not one to offend easily, but ethnic characterizations like this really discredit the author and distract from the issue. I find this usage particularly jarring - it's at least somewhat derogatory, rather obscure to me (I had to look it
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by aneth4 14y ago
When I say "YC startups, on average, do not have a high chance of a $1B exit," I think they do have a significantly higher chance than non-YC startups. However the chance is still low. Even at 1/100, a single $1B exit only breaks an investo
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by aneth4 14y ago
Thanks. Fortunately I don't really care if it's cracked - I only care if I can have access to the western internet, and that works just fine.
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by aneth4 14y ago
I'm in Shanghai where I've lived off and on for 8 years. I've been using an ec2 image with Poptop installed. The problem is the IP addresses of the major vpns become known and blocked. Any suggestions of software that would deploy images to
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by aneth4 14y ago
I'm not sure why you are using logarithms. A) 50K at 5M valuation is 1% B) 100K at 10M valuation is 1% If the company sells for $1B, the first investor gets 200X, the first investor gets 100X. The first investor can also invest 50K in anoth
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by aneth4 14y ago
2x on the note is the difference between 50x and 100x. Often such companies are 3x overvalued, and 33x vs 100x massively changes the risk/reward ratios. Capital is always limited, and even in the 2x case, that means one can invest in twice

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