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by elbasti 9y ago
The mood affiliation is strong here... do you feel as strongly about the rule of law when it comes to, I don't know, medical marihuana (the smoking of which is a federal crime, since it's a schedule I drug). The analogy is not ent
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by elbasti 10y ago
There seems to be an accounting equivalent of Greenspun's tenth rule: "Any sufficiently complicated financial reporting system contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden implementation of double-entry accounting." I
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by elbasti 10y ago
I very much enjoyed "Mindfulness in Plain English"
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That is correct.
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The point is that the stock was exchanged for something (referrals, marketing, etc), and that the contest was announced (ie, general solicitation). That no cash traded hands doesn't matter. There is precedent of an almost identical e
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by elbasti 10y ago
In general, the unregistered "general solicitation" for the purchase of securities is prohibited. You can't go on TV and ask people to buy your stock in exchange for money unless you have registered to do so--an IPO or subseq
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by elbasti 10y ago
Pretty cool. While this is almost certainly in violation of general solicitation SEC regulations, I doubt there would be any action taken by the regulator. The surprising part is that Jet.com's legal department let this fly.
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Product Management 101: How to deal with high friction steps(elbasti.com)
1 points by elbasti 10y ago|0 comments
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by elbasti 10y ago
In Norway, the means of production of petroleum is state-owned (majority at least), well managed, and will provide for the social safety of Norwegians for many, many, many years. So there _are_ countries with genuine socialist policies that
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by elbasti 11y ago
Most of his points on creating a pitch deck are true in the limited sense that they help create a better story, but they are all ultimately second-order optimizations. Unfortunately, in early-stage startups you see the pitching equivalent
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by elbasti 11y ago
"Some 10,000 children are housed in adult jails and prisons on any given day in America." Relevant chart: http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21647347-treatin...
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by elbasti 11y ago
My assumption is that the science needed to do this exists. We don't need any breakthroughs, but rather some one or some org or some thing to lobby, push, coordinate, and drive the use of genetically modified mosquitoes. In my mind,
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Ask HN: Making the eradication of aedes aegypti my life’s work
3 points by elbasti 11y ago|2 comments
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by elbasti 11y ago
Excellent writeup. It's a very useful example of a refactor done right. I'd love to know more about the json interface between the Python and OCaml code, since "integration" is usually where refactors like this get hard.
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by elbasti 11y ago
Note: I am an atheist, but "Jesus and The Disinherited"[0] was a very influential book for me. I read it after seeing this review[1] by Chris Blattman, social scientist at columbia. It helped me understand the relationship between