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by avinium 8y ago
For what it's worth, we've been able to file individual income tax returns in Australia for as long as I can remember (15+ years). For the vast majority of taxpayers (i.e. salaried workers), it's completely painless and MUCH
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by avinium 8y ago
No, I think they are referring to YouTube's early days, where the company allowed/encouraged (and even participated in) the upload of huge amount of unlicensed content. It's a fair comparison, but I suppose YouTube had: (a)
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by avinium 8y ago
Grooveshark - one of the first/greatest music streaming services around. Comprehensive music catalogue, servers never went down, and UI was simplicity incarnate. Totally illegal business model, so it's not surprising that it didn&
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by avinium 8y ago
> I never understood why one would want to make a veggie burger taste like meat. Properly made veggie burgers taste delicious by them selves. Much more flavour than the meat versions. Because some people - myself included - like the tast
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by avinium 8y ago
Giving up 80% for "an idea" is fine. Giving up 80% for the first customer? That's a big ask. Someone noteworthy said that 50% of building a business is going from 0 to 1 customer. The other half is going from 1 to many custom
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by avinium 8y ago
If he/she is back with the same pitch, it probably went well enough to try again.
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by avinium 8y ago
> At least I got the story. Would you mind sharing?
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by avinium 8y ago
I can't speak for "founder/tech startup" scene in China, but I did spend 4 years as a manager in the property development arm of a large foreign retailer. 1) As far as I know, the overpaid expat days are over. A lot of C
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by avinium 8y ago
Using Tensorflow to generate Verilog to run Tensorflow? That’s s flywheel that could destroy the universe. In all seriousness, this is cool. Are there any writeups about the state of ASICs for ML? I understand Google TPUs to be the same thi
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by avinium 8y ago
I've written about my poor experience with WeWork before, and I'm too lazy to repeat it again. But in simple terms - they suck, they're loud, and I'm pretty sure the company will tank in the next few years.
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by avinium 8y ago
I read this on Ars earlier today, and I couldn't help feeling so...uneasy about the current state of the gaming industry. Financially speaking, Fortnite (and its F2P antecedents) have found a business model that's clearly superior
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by avinium 8y ago
Has anyone registered an AWS China account without a Chinese company? The application process requires you to select a Chinese city/postcode.
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by avinium 8y ago
As with everything, the devil's in the details. If your funding arrangement allows a minority investor to veto future fundraising, subordinate liquidation preferences, etc etc, they can kill your company. Of course, most deals aren&#x2
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by avinium 8y ago
> bad for innovation overall and our economy in the long term. It's probably the best time to be a founder looking for a quick exit though. Aren’t these two points contradictory? When acquisition opportunities are plentiful, people
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by avinium 8y ago
Actually, I don't mind the ads themselves. What I loathe - to my very core - is most of the social networking ecosystem that's developed to support ad delivery. The constant whinging, outrage, passive-aggressiveness, and superfici
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by avinium 8y ago
Yes, I meant Google Search itself (plus the broader AdWords partner network, YouTube, etc). I'm on DDG for my primary search engine too, but (a) I fall back to !G for at least 50% of my queries. (b) You and I are a tiny, tiny minority.
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by avinium 8y ago
I've been following ROCm development closely, and everything I read is pointing towards it being a first class competitor to CUDA. That being said, I don't have any personal experience because, well, I don't have AMD GPUs to
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by avinium 8y ago
Which year? I bought mine in 2017 and can honestly say it’s the best laptop I’ve ever owned (though to be fair, it’s almost always plugged in - battery life started around 7 hours, and is now around 5)
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by avinium 8y ago
> Patreon is a classic VC tragedy. They are already a monopoly. They could be fantastically profitable right now. All the growth that is there to get in their market segment, they are already getting. The $64,000 is - would they have re
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by avinium 8y ago
Even Adwords, their supposed jewel in the crown, has the worst customer support I've ever experienced. Have you ever tried contacting them? It's all offshored to India/Phillipines. They refused to honour their GSuite free cre
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by avinium 8y ago
Incredibly illuminating. I'm not an American, but anyone who decries government waste should be forced to read it. Sure, money gets wasted on benefits programs and other government departments. But - if the article is true - these are
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by avinium 8y ago
[1] is fascinating, and gives a much better explanation of my comment above that "it's not as simple as the law of thermodynamics". The endocrinology and psychology of "why do we feel hungry?" and "why do we ov
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by avinium 8y ago
Oh, in terms of real world results, it's definitely an ongoing process of experimentation and adjustment. I have no background in the field so I can't claim much expertise, but it seems the profession is just starting to scratch t
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by avinium 8y ago
I used to believe firmly in this too. Now, I'm a bit more open-minded, and I don't believe it's as simple as the "law of thermodynamics". True, noone can store more energy than you ingest. But - as the article says
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by avinium 8y ago
You're not wrong. But ethics can become a lot more flexible when someone's dangling a few million in stock options in front of your face.
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by avinium 8y ago
Completely disagree. This is just my personal opinion, but I (and my circle) have found Discord to have the worst UI of any mainstream application. First, there's only a dark theme, which I find much more difficult to read than Slack
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by avinium 8y ago
Can you explain what you mean by "request glue"?
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by avinium 8y ago
I'm experimenting with IF/keto at the moment, mainly to see if it helps put on lean muscle. For context, I've also been eating relatively clean (low carb, high protein/fibre) for years now. I take all the internet commen
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by avinium 8y ago
Did the whey contain artificial sweetener?
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by avinium 8y ago
> A slightly more charitable way to phrase this might be “Some people prefer to be treated as professionals, with dignity and respect.” You've just proved my point - what I might consider "handling a fragile ego with kid-gloves

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