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by dkhenry 9y ago
Spending money while building out your main product pipeline is perfectly acceptable to me. How many quarters of runway would you want them to hold on hand? If in six months when their cash on hand gets low they can issue a new round of fun
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by dkhenry 9y ago
There is a narrative in the business world that TSLA doesn't know what its doing. They are taking a three month delay to its first mass market car as an opportunity to push that. Anyone who has done anything of significance knows that
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by dkhenry 9y ago
You have been reading too many finance blogs. Their finances are far from a mess, they are just not what finance people like to see. They have cash on hand and a roadmap to execute on. If they don't execute they will go out of business
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It is both, the Federal rate of 28% starts at 91k, but 25% starts at 31k. Since California starts their 9% tax at 51k I can change my comment to be that those making 51k get taxed at 41%. Even with a "progressive" tax system you a
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by dkhenry 9y ago
If you live in California once you hit 91k you will start paying 45% in taxes ( 28% Federal, 9.3% State , 7.6 OASDI) So clearly you are advocating a decrease in taxes since from your experience you can get taxed less and still have better s
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I don't want to negate your personal experiences, since they sound pretty horrific, but from a data perspective, I can't find a single person who was killed by a cyclist in California since 2014. They might be there, but consideri
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by dkhenry 9y ago
I am from philadelphia as well so I know there are bikes who stop at red lights and stay on the streets. I am not so nieve to think everyone does as I have also run across people who don't obey any traffic laws, but over the last 15 ye
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by dkhenry 9y ago
What I have found is there is a tiny minority of people who _hate_ bikers. They tend to pop up and make wild claims about how dangerous bikers are, or how much they dislike how bikers use the streets since streets are for cars, and bikes ar
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by dkhenry 9y ago
I see what you mean now, you are correct there are parts of the Trump movement that are more mainstream, but this article and others try to lump all 63 million voters, and anyone who supports any of his policies into the extreme fringe of h
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Its only the most sound proof of echo chambers that someone thinks everyone who voted for Trump is a member of the alt-right, and a fascist.
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by dkhenry 9y ago
I think this is a good article to remind us of how fast hate can spread, but I don't think it applied to Trump and the alt-right. By far they are a fringe movement, whose impact is grossly exaggerated. When I look around for the "
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by dkhenry 9y ago
Here is what I don't get. If a company can IPO just for the sake of having a publicly tradable security, what is the big overhead for a large company. I am really starting to believe the only reason companies aren't IPO'ing i
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by dkhenry 9y ago
You can do much better the Philz, depending on where you are at there are lots of good options. In you're in the bay area look up Four Barrel, they roast great beans and their SF coffee shop is really nice.
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by dkhenry 9y ago
organizations are very different from labor unions. I think software engineering would be well served by a professional association, but they have the problem of having deep connections to higher education institutions and licensing boards.
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Your comment shows the real divide on unionization and its not about someone's political ideology, its fundamentally about how they view the profession. If like you said programmers should unionize before the army of $12/hour prog
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by dkhenry 9y ago
The Screen Actors Guild is an interesting model for professionals. They go much farther then most professional organizations in terms of protecting workers right, but they also don't have rules like you have to hire the actor with 20 y
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by dkhenry 9y ago
I would hope not. I see tech-workers as professionals not as laborers. I think the great battle to be fought by tech workers is to stop having them treated as common laborers that perform some kind of rote process. Some times we call softwa
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No its not. This is a union fluff piece. The reality is these are contractors who will get dropped as soon as it makes sense. Thats why you hire these services as contractors. I think the real test here will be how long till the union pushe
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by dkhenry 9y ago
My kids and I have Barnyard Dance memorized. We will often recite it as we dance around the room. I think Mrs. Boynton's work will be treasured for years to come and I hope she receives the credit for the amazing work she has done.
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by dkhenry 9y ago
You don't have to trust them. Its open source https://github.com/18F/identity-idp
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I don't think that was the concern being expressed by the grandparent. If the concern was the government now has a secret trove of all your information this specific product doesn't change anything on that front as it doesn't
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Its important to remember that login.gov isn't an account its an Identity Provider. It will allow you to prove to an agency that you are who you say you are, but all the account information will be stored by the agency.
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I don't understand how Philadelphia is not near the top of the list. The cost of living is way lower then any other top 10 metro area, There is a huge local talent base, and lots of highly ranked feeder schools.
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What I find the most amazing about this story is the time scales we are talking about. They mention the Ju/’hoansi had lived for 70,000 years in their environment. I often wonder how long we could live with our current standard of livi
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Its not unusual at all. Anyone could have had these same circumstances.
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Just to pile on, I have had people who complained that they should have been a senior dev because they knew the most about algorithms and the internals of compilers, languages, libraries, and CPU's. Those same people couldn't comm
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The tech sector is the worst at this. The skills we test for are the ones that can be figured out in about a month, and the ones we don't test for are the ones that need to be learned over a lifetime
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I am surprised people are trying to poke holes in this article. You're arguing with data. This isn't an extrapolation or a estimate, this is numbers based on actual use. You can say you don't think it will work like this for
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The ships are surprisingly agile. If you were paying attention you could maneuver out of most of the things heading towards you in open waters. However in the environment these ships were in its less of a "look there is a boat coming r
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by dkhenry 9y ago
Their early track record was fantastic, but recently they have shifted to less then great strategy games chasing after the professional gaming market.

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