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by auganov 9y ago
The big story I think many are missing is - what happens if the US+SK manages to completely flip NK into a pro-western nation.
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by auganov 9y ago
It's standard to pay founders livable but below-market salaries. In my experience asking founders to completely forgo salaries is uncommon. Now if it's a very small bridge round and they basically want you to take no pay for a few
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by auganov 9y ago
Kind of. Likening Falun Gong v. China to USA v. Russia is misleading. Nation state conflicts are usually pretty mutli-dimensional. Economy, geopolitics, ideology, religion etc. The strife between the Falun Gong and China is limited to the i
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by auganov 9y ago
Keep in mind sabalaba has an ongoing business interest in the PRC. The company they co-founded touts the CCP-aligned Tencent as one of it's customers. Per own bio, sabalaba has also co-founded a Beijing based incubator.
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Hard to Believe: Film Explores Chinese Regime’s Killing of Prisoners for Organs(theepochtimes.com)
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by auganov 9y ago
Mention what? What facts may one omit that justify this ongoing atrocity? Perhaps you're just ignorant about it. In which case it only goes to show that it's an interesting, relevant fact people should be aware of. Yes, I imagine
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by auganov 9y ago
Dang, they're not "my assesments". They're cold, hard, well-known facts relevant to the discussion. Almost all the comments are political. The standard HN policy on threads that go too political is to just nix the whole
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by auganov 9y ago
No, I don't think that China is an omnipotent censor that's going to ban you for an odd comment on HN. In the same way you can be gay, go to the most vile anti-LGBT places in the world and have a blast. Who cares? The point of cri
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by auganov 9y ago
False. Examples: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-42053790 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/22/australian-cri... Be notable or persistent enough and it'll ge
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by auganov 9y ago
How exactly are uninteded civil casualties in military operations comparable to systemic and deliberate jailing and killing of innocent people? This is very low grade whataboutism.
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by auganov 9y ago
To people debating whether China are the good guys or not - hundreds of thousands Falun Dafa practicioners are locked up in Chinese concentration camps. Thousands have died of torture. Many more are suffering it everyday. China is ruled by
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by auganov 9y ago
So how many interviews? In what way do you think you're failing verbal interviews? You say getting offers in the past hasn't been a problem - this suggests communication patterns might not be the key issue (assuming you haven&#x27
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by auganov 9y ago
I think it's a little less true each year. Poland used to have the no-smiling reputation just like Russia. Perhaps it still does. Yet if you go to Russia the difference is absolutely undeniable. Stereotypes often outlive the actual beh
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by auganov 9y ago
My impression of the current seed and pre-seed enviorment is traction trumps everything. Revenue being the favourite sign of traction. A lifestyle business usually tries to establish revenue very early on. Another aspect worth mentioning, t
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by auganov 9y ago
Assembling a team is tougher for a lifestyle business. A startup lottery ticket is more desirable. "Build this with me so we might get rich" is better than "build this with me so we might pay ourselves large salaries". T
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by auganov 9y ago
In terms of design patterns, I wouldn't expect js to be that different from python. JS is a very non-opinionated language and so is the community. Just make sure you understand prototypical inheritance. "Modern" js is mostly
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by auganov 9y ago
Don't forget you can raise a round and take a salary. Probably in the 100k range but still. And if you fail, a VC backed startup looks a bit better on the resume too.
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by auganov 9y ago
Wondering if Atlas gets a lot of money launderers. Incorporating has always been super easy, but most agents wouldn't open a bank account for you. Especially at this price point.
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by auganov 9y ago
Given the political momentum I could see SOME law getting passed. But if you look at the industry they're too different. The US has many significant players that'd suffer. Europe has few, hurting an already insignificant tech indu
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by auganov 9y ago
Deep Work by Cal Newport - just a mashup of random cliches. Felt like I got duped into reading one of these "ebooks" by Internet Marketing types. Utopia Is Creepy by Nicholas Carr - this one I haven't read. Probably the only
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by auganov 9y ago
Instagram got 'hacked'. When a game gets hacked people stop playing. Rather than fundamentally alter reality or whatever, it's just going to accelerate migration towards high-frequency, ephemeral, video-first social.
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by auganov 9y ago
Ok, so we agree Europe is so much worse for a startup person. Sure, there are many nice cosmopolitan cities in Europe. If you want to get a few year-long stint doing whatever - not a problem. What happens once you get children? Are you goin
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by auganov 9y ago
1. VC funding is hardly well-spread in Europe - UK, Germany and France compromise roughly 75% of European funding too [0]. 2. The entire European pie is roughly 25% of the US. 3. That's racism and it's a problem in the EU too, alb
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by auganov 9y ago
We're on HN. The startup industry in most of Europe is non-existent. Very few options. As a founder, much of Europe looks pretty much the same. Want to actually assimilate - good luck given the prevalent ethnocentrism. It's nothin
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by auganov 9y ago
Are you going to need other WebRTC (or similar) infrastructure? For many use cases, you'll want the TURN server to be colocated with the rest of your infrastructure.
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by auganov 9y ago
Yes, I've seen the exact same Ray-Ban scam multiple times over the years.
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by auganov 9y ago
These kinds of tools are very sticky. Every once in a while I might come across interesting design software, with features I'd want etc. But at the end of the day, it's very risky to switch. Takes a long time to develop a good wor
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by auganov 9y ago
Chances are it's just impostor syndrome. Nobody's gonna care unless there are hideous hacks everywhere. When reading other people's code the first instinct is to assume everything is there for a reason. Given the effort it ta
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by auganov 9y ago
On a fundamental level, there's not much difference between Lisps and any other language with real runtime eval. It's just that, say, in your average JS project you're going to have a lot of state all over the place, state th
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by auganov 9y ago
Once upon a time, my fav food ordering place had the discount encoded in the URL. Couldn't stop myself from trying, reduced the price by a very small number and it actually worked irl!

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