emosenkis

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by emosenkis 6y ago
According to an article I read recently, the reason that equatorial reasons will see the greatest rise in sea level is that ice currently exerts a significant gravitational pull. As ice melts, that gravitational pull is reduced, causing sea
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by emosenkis 6y ago
Thanks! That was an interesting read. You talk a lot about how to understand the client but not at all about how that translates into whether it's a good client/consultant fit. Did you write about that somewhere?
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Show HN: Lunchbox Ninja
1 points by emosenkis 6y ago|1 comments
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Show HN: Lunchbox Ninja
1 points by emosenkis 6y ago|0 comments
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by emosenkis 6y ago
Looks cool! The pricing page doesn't include how long the free trial lasts and the $7 listed there doesn't match the $9 on the Stripe-hosted renewal page.
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by emosenkis 6y ago
https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards
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Ask HN: Do you use a a tool to organize your startup?
6 points by emosenkis 6y ago|1 comments
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by emosenkis 6y ago
Loon is not a tech demo: https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/7/21315961/alphabet-loon-bal...
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by emosenkis 6y ago
Of course that's true for accepting donations, but what about contributions that aren't treated as donations? Or could another foundation receive donations and hold them in trust until the new foundation is able to receive them? I
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by emosenkis 6y ago
Some companies don't prohibit side projects... My current employer typically allows them if not related to the company's areas of business.
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by emosenkis 6y ago
Are you working on expanding beyond US nonprofits? That would be a requirement for competing with Benevity for customers that are multinational corporations.
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by emosenkis 6y ago
Any chance of providing a donations API? This sort of no-fee approach would be amazing for building all sorts of charity-focused apps, from walkathons to nonprofit crowdfunding campaigns, public matching campaigns etc. The minimal functiona
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by emosenkis 6y ago
To elaborate on another comment: Jewish law is seldom concerned with absolute certainty; it much more often is a question of degrees of doubt. In many cases two disjoint causes for reasonable doubt about facts that would impact the whether
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by emosenkis 6y ago
That's correct; I updated my original comment to mention that the Jewish laws of the sabbath aren't meant to apply to non-Jews (there is, however, a large and rather entertaining body of practical discussion of under what conditio
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by emosenkis 6y ago
I'm still not sure what distinction you think I made... what I intended was: 1. All Jews are people 2. Computers are not people 3. Therefore computers are not Jews As a Jewish citizen of both Israel and the US, I understand that it can
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by emosenkis 6y ago
Sorry if I came across as apopleptic - I'm mostly not at all confident that most gentiles or secular Jews would readily identify it as satire - when I clicked on the link, I expected to see something real.
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by emosenkis 6y ago
As on Orthodox Jew, while I don't have anything against this and it sounds like a fun hobby project, I don't like that it misleads regarding what Jewish law actually requires. As several others have mentioned, there is absolutely