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by callmeed 6y ago
Yup, just got it too.
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by callmeed 6y ago
Employees that get and exercise stock options are not accredited investors either. Couldn't they take a similar route? I admit, I ask mostly selfishly (my wife and I are superhosts, we have managed a full-time AirBnB in CA for 2 years)
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by callmeed 6y ago
I heard a podcast discuss the possibility of AirBnB offering shares or options to superhosts (like me) ahead of the IPO–essentially as a "thank you" to the people who helped build the marketplace. Anyone have thoughts on if that i
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by callmeed 6y ago
Options go up/down in value at a different rate than the underlying stock. This is known as the "delta" (one of the "greeks"). More info here: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/delta.asp
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by callmeed 6y ago
Sorry about that bad experience. It sounds like the interviewer wasn't good at communicating. To be fair, it also sounds like you were conflating popular hash functions like md5 with the general concept of a hashing data structure and
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by callmeed 6y ago
Well put. My dad would say (pre-WAR) that it cost him at least 100-150 home runs, likely putting him ahead of Willie Mays and behind only Ruth and Aaron (among pre-steroid era players).
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by callmeed 6y ago
Well fly fishing in general is an activity that requires a good amount of coordination and practice to do well. For Williams specifically, I think it was essentially him applying the same perfectionism, discipline and scientific approach to
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by callmeed 6y ago
Wild to see this on HN. I'm a huge baseball nut and Ted Williams was my father's hero so naturally I learned a lot about him as a kid. I believe this image is from his book The Science of Hitting . Williams has a fairly fascinati
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by callmeed 6y ago
I've used Cameo twice, both times for my wife. Both times were a big hit. I suspect this is one of those startups/services that the HN crowd just doesn't get–but the average person probably thinks its pretty cool.
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by callmeed 7y ago
I blame it in part on "hot take culture". From sports to politics to business to tech, it has become an unfortunate part of public discourse. Think of it like contrarianism or playing devil's advocate to the extreme . I don&
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by callmeed 7y ago
I don't get what introvert has to do with focus. Besides that, if you really need to stay off your phone, consider a "distraction free" phone as outlined in the book Make Time by Jake Knapp. Its a solid book but you can als
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by callmeed 7y ago
Background: engineering manager of a team of 6 at a large tech company. 3 are located in one of our offices, 4 (myself included) are remote. > If you're in a remote team you know how difficult is to "connect" with other c
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by callmeed 7y ago
I recommend reading How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World https://www.amazon.com/How-We-Got-Now-Innovations/dp/1594633...
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by callmeed 7y ago
Would you mind sharing some of your favorite IG follows for illustration? I'm just getting into this on the iPad.
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by callmeed 7y ago
Looks really cool and I have some ideas and side projects that could use this. Why is there no demo on your site?
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by callmeed 7y ago
Don't agree and I love Chase bank. I have multiple Chase accounts and transfers between them are instant. Transfers to/from external places like my TDA brokerage account, Venmo, etc. are there the next day. They also have Zelle&#x
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by callmeed 7y ago
I had the same dilemma when I wanted to launch a food blog last year. I ended going with Ghost on a digital ocean $5/mo droplet.
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by callmeed 7y ago
L. Strauss and W. Fargo did okay and they were in the same category.
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by callmeed 7y ago
I suppose that's a fair point but I've personally looked at that problem as an opportunity. We rented out our house on AirBnB specifically so we could force ourselves to get organized and our kids clean their rooms.
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by callmeed 7y ago
Anecdotally, I've noticed this here on the central coast of California. We don't use Instacart or Uber Eats a lot, but when we do, its usually delivered by women/moms in their 40s or 50s (as this article points out). I will p
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by callmeed 7y ago
Based on history and other industries, I'm gonna say they'll take the profits. At the very least, any savings they pass on to consumers won't be proportional to what they experience. eBooks save money on printing and distribu
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by callmeed 7y ago
We care a lot about "ownership" in our teams. In fact, its one of our core values. But I don't think we define it the way you mean here. To us, it means putting care, professionalism, and follow-through into the feature or re
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by callmeed 8y ago
Well Twilio is "phone spam" when abused so I guess its a good match.
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by callmeed 8y ago
Does that mean you would turn down a lucrative acquisition offer from a big corporation? That seems to be the paradox of founding a startup for the reason you stated.
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by callmeed 8y ago
In my experience as a parent, a lot of parents are just as bad as their kids when it comes to smartphone addiction, phubbing, or whatever you call it.
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by callmeed 8y ago
One piece of feedback that stood out to me on the home page: in the headline you say you're building a community of "young" people. You can probably imagine that–for some–that statement doesn't really jive with being &qu
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by callmeed 8y ago
I sold a business through FE International (mentioned in some comments here). If you’re going to sell through a broker, I can’t say enough good thing s about them. Very professional and great to work with. The only downside with going the b
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by callmeed 8y ago
I don't think its anger. It's just that police and fire departments have garnered this "can do no wrong" mindset to the extent that trying to fix what they actually do wrong (waste money) has turned into a political thir
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by callmeed 8y ago
I thought they're called the "greater fools"
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by callmeed 8y ago
Used to fish a lot in my teens and twenties. I liken it a lot to golf in that its a great waste-the-day activity that can be enjoyed alone or with friends. Fast-forward several years and I don't fish much now. Last Fall I took two of

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