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   by baseethrowaway 9y ago

   Statistics. Imagine 70% of all applicants being Indian nationals. Randomly sample all the applicants and with a big enough sample size, the distribution will be the same, i.e. ~70% of your samples will be Indian nationals. Countries that ha
2. 32.▲
   by baseethrowaway 9y ago

   That sounds interesting! Tell me more about how much time and involvement you have with your startup, please. Hours per week? Other employees? Free time? How long have you had the startup for, before starting work?
3. 33.▲
   by baseethrowaway 9y ago

   I would disclose it. Disclosing it is the right thing to do and would give me a stronger position when negotiating, along the lines of: "If the offer isn't compelling enough, I'll just walk over to this thing that I have goin
4. 34.▲
   Ask HN: Regular job after establishing own company, but still running it?

   15 points by baseethrowaway 9y ago|7 comments
5. 35.▲
   by baseethrowaway 9y ago

   Probably a bad translation on my part from my native language. I meant radix economy, which is ideal with radix e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_economy "e has the lowest radix economy ... A base with a lowe
6. 36.▲
   by baseethrowaway 9y ago

   Maybe a coincidence (I don't know details of computer history), but another interesting reason why binary is used might be information density. Base e (2.71...) has highest information density. Of course, computers can't use irrat