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by dpiers 10y ago
"He is camped behind Google’s second property and recycles cans and assembles bikes from junk parts to get by." This is where the reporter lost a lot of credibility, to me. Bike parts don't just appear from nowhere. The man h
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by dpiers 10y ago
This isn't the forum for memes and image replies. Tn13 may not have the best grasp of the English language, but I was able to understand what he/she said and felt they added value to the conversation. Memes do not.
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by dpiers 10y ago
It's the default location for US-based IP addresses. Other countries have their own defaults.
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by dpiers 10y ago
Except 0,0 is not in the Arctic, it's a little bit off the coast of Nigeria. And, the problem with returning Null or 0,0 is that it implies there is no information available. There is still value in having a default location of the cou
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by dpiers 10y ago
They're defrauding retailers by manipulating the results of their trial runs, resulting in larger buys and wider distribution than they would have obtained otherwise. I would be surprised if the retailers didn't have language in t
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by dpiers 10y ago
Hootsuite could have used taking on the CC fees as leverage for obtaining a concession on a different point. Instead they negotiated a clause that benefits individuals, and not the company. If I were an investor in a company and they accept
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by dpiers 10y ago
I highly recommend against doing this if you work at any sort of real company. Negotiating trips/dinners/tickets in a contract means there was extra wiggle room and you chose free stuff over getting the best deal for the company
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by dpiers 10y ago
I don't think consumer interest in VR was oversold. The current options are doing quite well in the early adopter space, and I think we're on track for mass adoption in 5-10 years. Only a few people had plasma/lcd screens whe
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by dpiers 10y ago
Mandatory vacations are also a good way to detect fraud. Most fraud schemes require ongoing work to avoid detection, and having someone else do your job for a while can lead to the scheme being discovered or unraveling in your absence.
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by dpiers 10y ago
The number listed does not include the golden handcuffs/employee retention bonuses. Given that this was an acquihire, an additional $400MM in bonuses paid out over the next few years is plausible. Especially given that unvested employe
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by dpiers 10y ago
Portal is a slightly dumbed down version of Narbacular Drop (ND), with lots and lots of polish. In ND, it was possible to create portals through portals, which drastically increased the complexity of certain solutions.
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by dpiers 10y ago
Yes, it is... ? http://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/pensionplan.asp
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by dpiers 10y ago
No, this is actually why chatbots are going to win. I never talk at my phone. I rarely make phone calls, and I don't ask a robot questions. I do, however, text/type on a regular basis. If I can interact with a smart assistant via
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by dpiers 10y ago
Yes. An alcoholic is a person with a disability and is protected by the ADA if s/he is qualified to perform the essential functions of the job. An employer may be required to provide an accommodation to an alcoholic. However, an employ
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by dpiers 10y ago
Legally speaking, the startups do have a problem if they discriminate against her for being a recovering alcoholic.
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by dpiers 10y ago
No, the identification process requests a particular motion (ex. open and close mouth, nod head, etc) in order to confirm 'liveness'.
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by dpiers 11y ago
It doesn't, but I think that's the point - you can do stuff that doesn't scale when you're small and not worry about how to do it at scale until it becomes a problem. Another way of looking at it: giant existing corporat
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by dpiers 11y ago
Tencent purchased a 48.4% stake in Epic a few years ago (for $330M). That's a big shareholder with deep pockets to resist/counter buyout offers.
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by dpiers 11y ago
Hmm, that sounds a lot like what I was doing a few years ago... Oh. Hey Spencer. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by dpiers 11y ago
I'm not arrogant enough to claim to be an expert, but I have had a decent number of experiences for someone my age. I grew up in a small family-owned sandwich shop (which failed in 06 after 20 years). I worked for multiple mid-sized ga
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by dpiers 11y ago
I have a rather enlightened view of how SV works. I was the primary engineer on Uber's promotion and referral system for most of last year and ended up transferring to the internal audit team. I have a knack for risk identification and
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by dpiers 11y ago
This is an ideal outcome for a situation where the failure of one person to do their job resulted in 400 employees losing theirs. As CEO, it's your responsibility to understand your runway and know whether your business can afford to b
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by dpiers 11y ago
Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)'s primary provisions only apply to publicly-held companies. One survey estimated that the average Fortune 500 company spent $4.1MM on SOX compliance in 2004 alone. Much of the cost of compliance is static, so a dom
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by dpiers 11y ago
Support for mutable/updateable torrents was proposed in BEP-0039 ( http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0039.html ) and is the basis of how BitTorrent Sync functions.
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by dpiers 11y ago
This sounds like what Cisco does with their spin-in process. They invest $100MM in a new company in exchange for a majority ownership stake, and retain the right to purchase the remaining shares for a previously agreed-upon price based on p
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by dpiers 11y ago
I was in your situation 8 years ago. I decided to furlough my entrepreneurial endeavors and learn to code so I could get a high paying job with benefits and afford to get my teeth fixed. I went to a state school, hustled my way into the gam
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by dpiers 12y ago
Uber would be well served by allowing people to be very part time Uber drivers (<10h a week) as the market is both flexible and predictable. That's 100% allowed. Uber doesn't dictate where or when people using the driver app
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by dpiers 12y ago
There's an article here explaining what the permissions are used for: https://m.uber.com/android-permissions
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by dpiers 12y ago
If the concept works well, I'm considering making the recipient user-definable and running it as a non-profit to help people connect with their loved ones who are behind bars. If spam/test messages become a large problem, I will a
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Show HN: I decided to reduce the friction of writing my friend in prison(lettersforblake.com)
11 points by dpiers 12y ago|3 comments

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