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by bspn 9y ago
For the founders this represents a very nice exit but for investors, not so much. It obviously depends on when they entered, but later stage investors aren't likely to be making much (if anything) off the exit. Getting money back fro
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by bspn 9y ago
No, it was genuinely stressful! I forget the name of the plant now, but too much sun and it would die. Too little sun, same result. Move it the wrong way and, yep you guessed it, death. And that's before we even get to the watering
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The Rock Test: A Hack for Men Who Don’t Want to Be Accused of Sexual Harassment(medium.com)
9 points by bspn 9y ago|8 comments
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by bspn 9y ago
I once agreed to take care of a friend's plant while they were overseas - it was a terrifying day-to-day experience. Don't ask your friends to look after a plant.
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by bspn 9y ago
I'm learning more and more about this by talking to my wife's doctors, and you're right in the sense that there are some forms of depression that can be cured, but sadly not all. I'm broadly generalizing here, but depres
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by bspn 9y ago
It's a condition that can largely be controlled through medication, but based on my wife's experience it's a condition that has a horrible tendency to rear it's ugly head without notice and for seemingly no apparent re
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How an inmate hacker hid computers in ceiling and turned his prison upside down(theverge.com)
4 points by bspn 9y ago|1 comments
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by bspn 9y ago
This is great advice, which surprisingly few people follow. A few years back I scanned all of our personal records, tax returns, visas, dog vaccinations etc and created a dedicated Box account with a Google Drive backup. It was a massive u
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Startup Bets on Tech Talent Pipeline from Africa(nytimes.com)
2 points by bspn 9y ago|0 comments
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by bspn 9y ago
Which, as I discovered today, is a massive PITA. A letter arrived in the mail saying the freeze won't be effective until I mail them a copy of my photo ID.
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by bspn 9y ago
Having a credit/debit card in that situation wouldn't help you either. If power is down, then so are the payment terminals and likely also the ATMs. Cash is the only option in that scenario and the prepared take cash out in adva
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'Our minds can be hijacked': the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia(theguardian.com)
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Whole Foods Investigates Card Breach(pymnts.com)
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Elon Musk plans London to New York rocket flights in 29 minutes(telegraph.co.uk)
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by bspn 9y ago
Yes, health insurance is an unavoidable PITA, but I'd argue that contracting actually better insulates you from major market corrections if you have multiple client relationships. While a major dot.com type bust may wipe out most of t
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by bspn 9y ago
I don't believe in this case the hack targeted any cards held on file, as the article suggests it may have been a hack of the POS software system that would allow the thieves to copy the info from the magnetic strip as it was captured
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Nothing Is Too Strange for Cities Wooing Amazon to Build There(nytimes.com)
2 points by bspn 9y ago|0 comments
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by bspn 9y ago
Ha, NZ was the unnamed country in my post!
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by bspn 9y ago
Where I grew up the city actively avoided traffic lights (too expensive!) and opted for roundabouts wherever possible. While you would always encounter the odd tentative person who screwed things up, generally they did a wonderful job of r
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by bspn 9y ago
They're very common where I live, but to the best of my knowledge they're weight-based so I'm not sure a cyclist would trigger it.
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Welcome to an American City Where the Government Barely Exists(splinternews.com)
1 points by bspn 9y ago|0 comments
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by bspn 9y ago
I know you're framing this as a failure to raise, but believe it or not you're in a very fortunate position that most founders (including VC-backed ones) would kill for. You have complete control of the decision and by the sounds
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by bspn 9y ago
This feels like groundhog day. New iPhone [insert model] has the best camera ever! Fast forward two months: new Google [insert model] has the best camera ever! I think we're getting to the point where the incremental gains we're
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Equifax’s security chief had some big problems. Being a music major wasn’t one(washingtonpost.com)
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by bspn 9y ago
> If the regulators bring about these changes, they are doing their job and I'm happy for them to scare the holy fuck out of Uber and their management team in the process to make that happen.. Not a Londoner, but this was similar
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Border Patrol Arrests Parents While Infant Awaits Serious Operation(npr.org)
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How to build a rich life, even if you aren't a financial genius(chicagotribune.com)
3 points by bspn 9y ago|0 comments
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by bspn 9y ago
Agree, although my opinion is admittedly influenced by the volume of packages we receive from Amazon delivered by UPS (although USPS seems to be delivering more these days). We tend to have the same UPS delivery person who generally knows
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We are the ones making the iPhone and Pixel more expensive(theverge.com)
2 points by bspn 9y ago|0 comments
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by bspn 9y ago
Amazon sells a slightly different but much wider range of "cheap plastic crap" thanks to FBA. There's no shortage of budding sellers with an Alibaba account who think they have the next best thing (read: re-labeled, generic

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