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by cal5k 9y ago
It's interesting that on one hand you stress the importance of neighbourhood consultation, yet on the other emphasize urban planning experts. These two can often be diametrically opposed in their views. One of the biggest problems with
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by cal5k 9y ago
I'm in the Merchandise building, and we have Beanfield too. So I'm not sure what's so special about that.
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"I've been debating buying one myself just to fiddle around with it." Isn't that the point? ;-)
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In Toronto many people who were formerly institutionalized are now living on the streets. I walk through an area with a high concentration of shelters on a daily basis, and I can tell you that most of these people suffer from some kind of m
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by cal5k 9y ago
It actually makes me incredibly optimistic about the future of humanity to know that such people exist. It's important to fight for the rights of all - you never know when your cause or beliefs will be in the crosshairs instead of a gr
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Makes you reflect on the ephemerality of life - entire civilizations that existed for thousands of years have come and gone. A computer program that's been around for 10 years has had a good run.
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It actually didn't seem idiomatic... I suspect that english is not their first language and they might not have realized they were being rude.
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To what degree is this reflected by actions? Has anybody checked past survey results? It could just be that renters in SF are the grumpiest ;-)
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It'll never go to zero, but in a well-off society you see mental health issues accounting for a lot of crime. In poor or chaotic societies, there is the added element of otherwise normal people forced by circumstance into doing terribl
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Why does it suck to be them? If all goes well their options will be worth something. If it doesn't they'll have no value - that's how equity works. If you want guaranteed, predictable outcomes, negotiate for a higher salary i
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The negotiations allow founders and investors to arrive at an agreeable set of terms by which investors put money into the business. You have a very strange view of venture capital.
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No, we can call it the result of negotiation between companies and investors. It's not at all uncommon for investors to use a liquidation preference as a negotiating point to counter founders' demands for a higher valuation.
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I think the reality of most tech journalism is that the journalist is being paid per-article, and not particularly well at that. The time required to adequately fact-check and get the details right would mean lower output and, thus, lower i
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A true capitalist would make them pay rent!
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I think visualizing Linux kernel development can give a little perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iFnzr73XXk If you view it in a single graph... yes, it seems completely intractable. If you can break it down into
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by cal5k 10y ago
Except during the sub-prime banana stand crisis.
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I don't think he meant that literally, he meant that he hopes they continue to exhibit gross managerial incompetence.
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I'm not asking this disrespectfully, but how do you intend to identify such people? Track down a list of all Uber investors who have not written such a letter?
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One other plausible explanation: the quality of trauma response protocols in different cities.
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by cal5k 10y ago
Founder of Akira here (www.akira.md in case you weren't familiar). We try not to break any rules, but you're spot on about the grassroots thing. We decided we couldn't wait for the policy to catch up to the serious problems w
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by cal5k 10y ago
This is entirely because of the private sector... the two largest lab companies, Dynacare and LifeLabs, have a duopoly on the lab testing market (at least in Ontario). They may have received some incentives to do this but afaik there was no
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by cal5k 10y ago
Shopify bootstrapped for a loooong time before eventually accepting venture money.
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by cal5k 10y ago
You're making the critically flawed assumption that the space of all DAOs is a finite set!
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by cal5k 11y ago
This is perhaps the best analogy I've read all year! ...and I've read quite a few.
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It's improving. The capital is there, you just have to think globally fairly quickly. We can always whine about how things in Canada are never as good as in <x>, in this case the Valley, but overall it's actually pretty good
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by cal5k 11y ago
As a Toronto-based startup founder, I'm sorry you had that experience! (Shit, how Canadian of me... Apologizing for other people) In any event, I think for the first time there's a really good cohort of Toronto founders with Ameri
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by cal5k 11y ago
No, but he sure did think about it!
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by cal5k 11y ago
Akira | Android Engineer | Toronto, Canada | Full Time | http://akira.md Akira is a doctor in your pocket. We're on a mission to automate medicine. We're hiring an Android Engineer to lead development of Akira for Andr
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Ask HN: Would you use a docker-based PaaS/IaaS?
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by cal5k 12y ago
Not to mention that reddit serves highly customized views to authenticated users.

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