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by danrocks 5y ago
I wonder if anybody has built a Computer Science curriculum from the OCW lectures in a playlist or some other form, so people could (in theory) follow the same path as an actual MIT grad from beginning to end. This dude did something simila
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What the hell, is that a thing? Does it have a name?
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So you’re infinitely short? Joking. What I meant is that the cap table was not disclosed and changed so often that nobody really knew what it was at a given moment in time.
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Vast majority of startups will not disclose cap table, outstanding shares, liquidation preference, nothing. Try asking and see how it goes. The only one I've interviewed with that does disclose some of it was Stripe.
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I have learned my lesson. Been at large company with fat RSUs for 5 years now.
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I don't think anybody knew the cap table for those companies. To be more precise: one of them didn't even have a cap table, the other was a secret between the lead investor and the original owner (an incubator). Needless to say no
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by danrocks 5y ago
I made $10k on a $138m sale and $50k on a $125m sale. I am that early Engineer you speak of.
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Author intends to present a rational, quantitative view of compensation yet begins by emotionally dismissing any advice contrary to his beliefs. Kind of defeats the purpose here.
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Not joining one startup whose worth will be $0 in the long run is not enough. One needs to evaluate another type of exit that, in fact, is much more common that an IPO: acquisition by another company. In that scenario, you've worked ha
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by danrocks 5y ago
Weird attempt to emulate the Gravity Payments dude, but without the profitable company and the good hair (presumably).
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> At no point did any parent on Facebook tick a box that says "show me products and services that may benefit my child" and then hand over their child's demographic information. That's quite literally right there in t
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I am very conflicted about this situation. On one hand, I recognize that Facebook may be a sort of anger multiplier when people scroll only through content that reconfirms their biases and buries said people deeper into their "truth bu
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Right on. As a friend of mine said, he hasn't been fired because he has all the receipts.
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This is what made me angry about this story the most. "Mental health episode" is quickly becoming a universal excuse anybody can use for anything for mild discomfort to downright criminal behavior. Elizabeth Holmes is going down t
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Did you miss the part where he trademarked company property and tried to sell it back to the company? Or the part that he acquired buildings and leased them to WeWork at inflated prices? There's an argument her for Adam Neumann to be a
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It is a logical fallacy known as Relative Privation: https://academy4sc.org/video/fallacy-of-relative-privation-a...
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On the streaming topic: piracy is becoming rampant again due to subscription fatigue and player fragmentation. So there is an alternative if people don't want to pay up.
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I live in Hong Kong. Many media outlets are closed monitored and relentlessly attacked with fake comments by the state apparatchiks. It's easy to spot, given: 1) Pervasive use of whataboutism; 2) Similar arguments in all comments, with
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The fact he wrote other 4 books with "new" confessions speaks volumes about his credibility. Peddler of nonsense.
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Maybe there should be a strong third party precisely for the reason you're describing - could be disastrous for the Democrats. It could also be disastrous for the Republicans. My point being that, if a third party is sufficiently stron
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Friedman did support it, though: https://medium.com/basic-income/why-milton-friedman-supporte...
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I am curious to know where democracy is not an illusion (if it is in all the "globalised West").
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Half-truth here. Younger people, recently more influenced by Xi Jinping's heavier hand in dispersing Marxist indoctrination, are indeed very supportive of the CCP ("generation N"). Other demographics, specially in southern Ch
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I live in China, and really the US/European flavor of democracy is much better than what we have here.
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You have zero data to back up what you just said. Zero.
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I am actually relocating to another Asian country, not to the US. I totally agree the US has pledged support but right now with zero practical effect.
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I wouldn't bother replying due to your submission history, but I will. The city was not "almost destroyed" in 2019. There were months-long protests with hundreds of thousands of people, and they only became violent after the
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Take a look at some of the things being done: Under the guidelines, students as young as six years old are expected to learn the names of the four offences under the national security law – subversion, secession, terrorism and collusion wi
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All that is being washed away. I foresee Hong Kong will be a regular mainland, primarily Mandarin-speaking city within a couple of decades.
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by danrocks 5y ago
Good comment. Additionally, we can't forget the fact that, for all their external policy blunders (which are many), the Chinese leadership is extremely skilled in manipulating domestic public opinion. They have mastered the weaponizati

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