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by brentm 10y ago
If you're in the US I would consider forming an LLC in your home state and use that as a catch all entity for your projects. If any of the projects take off you can spin that project off into a different entity type (if you want). LLCs
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This is a tough position for FB. No matter what they do, half of the the world will think the actions they take are wrong. Most humans are intelligent enough to know that stories like Hillary Clinton running a child sex ring (or whatever) a
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by brentm 10y ago
It's a local news story posted to HN at this point. Local news always covers these type of events, especially with theatrics like a fireball caught on video. It doesn't seem like something that would become national news based on
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Total phase. The "only Mac update for the next 3 years" meme is just fanning the drama flames. Once you back out of HN into the real world the vast majority of people aren't going to hop into a laptop using Linux. Maybe some
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One thing is clear to me and that is there will be many wounded companies in the battle for attention. Pro sports and the ancillary industries surrounding it are not immune. Twenty years from now I believe we will look back at this period a
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I hate to take away from the complaining in here but I actually think it looks pretty nice. I was pleasantly surprised with the interactions they demonstrated with the new ribbon display. I knew they were going to announce it and didn'
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This is nothing but a pirate business model, it's deplorable. Blocking ads alone is pretty bad but wedging yourself into the middle and then collecting a marketplace fee is nothing short of a pirate move.
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Airbnb Adopts Rules in Effort to Fight Discrimination by Its Hosts(nytimes.com)
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Truly autonomous vehicles are probably the best and worst thing that will happen to Uber. One of Uber's greatest strength is having all of those drivers, it would be very hard to create a competing service and recruit that kind of flee
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You can also avoid rental fees by moving into newer buildings that have in house rental offices. I've never actually had to pay a broker fee in the 10 years / 4 apartments I've had here. Brokers are the worst. Their incentive
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Security and reliability could probably be sorted using the Thin Client. For security could that not be done by validating the checksum of client received against some expected value only available on the real server? In terms of reliabilit
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I agree with this. I've tried redux-form and just manually handling it with Redux but letting the form data live in the form's component state felt the most clean to me.
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I don't trust LinkedIn at all. They are constantly trying to trick you into engaging just a little bit more. One example is iOS accepts of invites to connect. They use cards to show network requests. Once you've gone through the p
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by brentm 11y ago
Seems a little fishy. I would expect a greater level of operational security from a Saudi Arabian official in the position to be involved here. If you knew the long term plan why would you ever hand someone a key piece of evidence in an env
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by brentm 11y ago
Interesting concept. I was married in New York last September so I think I understand the pain points. Getting married today probably isn't much different then it was in the early to mid 2000s. The vendors have simple websites and all
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There is too much money & shareholder interest tied up in those companies for that to happen. You can't just shut down a money machine unless shareholders approve or you can show why this is the best thing for your shareholders and
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I spent some time last year working out a We Work office in NY and I will say one of the best things they did was create nice private bathrooms. Each stall was a small private room in itself, similar to some airport lounges.
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My exact thoughts. One would think rule number one in the patent troll manual is to limit your own downside by doing everything through a shell company.
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by brentm 11y ago
Though I agree with a lot of his concerns the kicker for me was when he mentioned he is on 10 different Slack teams. That's like signing up for every email list you can find and then complaining that you get too much email.
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by brentm 11y ago
This comment also follows a worrying trend: Attempting to put a person down for ones own personal enjoyment while adding nothing to the actual discussion. The original comment was not perfect but it was at least on subject.
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by brentm 11y ago
Does anyone know the largest net loss a company has ever had for the year prior to an IPO? Uber must be 2 years max from going public and their losses seem to be accelerating[0]. [0] https://www.theinformation.com/ubers-loss
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by brentm 11y ago
I've never personally gotten into SoundCloud but I fill a similar void using Spotify. They have a constantly evolving set of background music playlist under "Browse" > "Genres & Moods" > "Focus".
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by brentm 11y ago
> I also cant think of a single example of the NSA/CIA preventing a major terrorist attack in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsuccessful_terrorist...
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And one other thing -- Maybe less younger people will sign up as time goes on (I don't disagree with the kids not wanting to be where their parents are theory of why FB will fall apart) but FB has shown the right instincts in acquiring
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> Facebook is headed toward irrelevance. If you only consider relevant company to be one that is creating a new and disrupt technology as their core product then sure they will have to fight daily not to become irrelevant. However, if yo
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by brentm 11y ago
The Walton's own a lot more of Walmart, closer to 50%. Bezos less than 20%.
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by brentm 11y ago
It's not quite the same as Apple deciding that all apps in the app store, regardless of what you'd like to sell them for, are free during a 3 month introductory period.
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by brentm 11y ago
This feels like an inevitability at their scale. Outside of the tech world it was always going to be hard to sell their labor pool as contract when put under the microscope.
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Introducing OB1(usv.com)
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by brentm 11y ago
I hope this is a precursor to Apple Pay on the web.

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