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by awillen 6y ago
This is exactly what I came here to say... there's just no way, right?
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by awillen 6y ago
Truly commendable that he would do this, but deeply terrible that a private citizen, no matter how wealthy, can beat governments to the punch on this kind of aid.
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by awillen 6y ago
What's the thing in the top right corner, though?
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by awillen 6y ago
This is cool - glad to see lots of folks being productive! I got a bunch of great feedback from another HN thread, so I'll leave my new lockdown company here as well (I also submitted it on your site) - https://coopersdogtre
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by awillen 6y ago
It's just silly... even if you're a nationalist, isn't the prospect of bringing over talented people from foreign countries to work in America and help our companies profit plus deprive their home countries of their skills a
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by awillen 6y ago
Could they just put in a random explanatory video and say the functionality for non-users is they're able to watch the video? It seems like they just need to have any kind of non-user thing to do... That said, I think Apple forbids you
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by awillen 6y ago
That's not AI that's just sensors and cameras.
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by awillen 6y ago
I just never understood this... like, isn't it just a vending machine company? And isn't the whole "AI-powered" really just basic analysis on what products people are buying?
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by awillen 6y ago
In the next step, the assistant can play golf.
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by awillen 6y ago
Awesome, thanks - just sent you a DM on Twitter.
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by awillen 6y ago
It's just the little stuff like scheduling calls/meetings - you don't realize how much time you spend going back and forth with people getting stuff on the calendar. It's not about proactively assigning stuff for them to
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by awillen 6y ago
I've had a couple of startup CEOs I worked for really resist the idea of an assistant then finally get talked into it and suddenly realize they've freed up like 30+% of their time and can never go back and curse their past selves
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by awillen 6y ago
Man, lots of critics here. I think this is great and even with the security of owning a home, it's still a big leap to go your own way. Where are you finding businesses to buy? I've been considering something similar and have been
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by awillen 6y ago
PM here: I agree completely. A lot of PMs aren't great with phrasing requests, and they come off sounding way more urgent than they are. I used to be guilty of this, and I thought it was great how responsive the engineers were until a
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by awillen 6y ago
Unfortunately I probably don't have much of anything that'll be useful. The genesis of that book was that I was on sabbatical and had decided to get a job again, so I interviewed at a ton of places. I took a lot of notes for my ow
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by awillen 6y ago
https://www.amazon.com/Buying-Small-Apartment-Buildings-Succ... The first version was really short, something like 80 pages and priced at $2.99, though as you can see from some reviews people apparently thought that was too
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by awillen 6y ago
Everything there now just says censored. Now I'm really curious...
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by awillen 6y ago
I just don't understand how US government officials can criticize private companies for kowtowing to China because of its importance in the world, when the US government unequivocally does the same thing every day to a much greater deg
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by awillen 6y ago
The question, though, is how long he'll continue to make sales. I wrote my first short book on a couple of plane rides, and it has reliably done $50-100 a month in royalties since launch. I'm not doing anything at all now to maint
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by awillen 6y ago
Very cool, congrats. I've published a couple of books on Amazon with similar levels of success ( https://www.amazon.com/Product-Management-Interview-Manager-... is the most recent), and the one thing I'd strongly r
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by awillen 6y ago
I agree that to a lot of people, defund seems to imply abolish, which is not a great position. On the one hand, I think the word choice is somewhat purposeful, as it's designed to sound extreme and appeal to people who see the police a
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by awillen 6y ago
100% - any smart buyer of a company is going to inquire about key employees to ensure they know who to retain. If you can be in the sale meetings so the buyer knows who you are and how critical you are, that's ideal. If they know what
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by awillen 6y ago
I just do not get the appeal of being on Nextdoor - I guess there's some value in actual important announcements (I found a lost dog once and my roommate who's on there found a post about it and got in touch with the owner, which
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by awillen 6y ago
Related question: do up/downvotes from users with more karma count more than those from users with little karma?
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by awillen 6y ago
I'm not an expert and will need to double check, but I believe an S-corp is more complex, and since it's just me it's not really any better. And from the tax side as an LLC you can elect to be taxed as an S-corp so no benefit
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by awillen 6y ago
Glad to hear it!
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by awillen 6y ago
Thanks!
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by awillen 6y ago
I'm afraid it's not really very interesting - I moved to SD, it was very hot, and I wanted to make frozen treats for my dog (the Cooper of Cooper's treats). I looked up recipes, but they all had ingredients he's not a fa
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by awillen 6y ago
Sounds great, thanks!
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by awillen 6y ago
Thanks! I spent 10 years as a PM in enterprise SaaS, and my favorite part was always talking to our brick and mortar small business customers. Maybe it's just a grass is greener thing, but doing something with a tangible product has al

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