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by fraserharris 10y ago
This may be true if measuring "most businesses" by legal entities. In the US at least, 17% of US employment (27 million) is for the Fortune 500 (2015) - definitely spanning multiple time zones.
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by fraserharris 10y ago
They used to (maybe still do) have a pizza & pop special for students. It was something like $199 to print 4 copies of your PCB and you get a large pizza and 2L of pop from Domino's Pizza. I got it as an engineering student in Ca
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by fraserharris 10y ago
@__yesmeck Cool! broken link to https://ant.design/docs/pattern/principle on https://ant.design/docs/spec/introduce
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by fraserharris 10y ago
Huh? Venmo requires a bank card - that's all.
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by fraserharris 10y ago
BufferBox (YC, acq Google) too...
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by fraserharris 10y ago
(recalling verbatim from a friend): TN-1s are not available for "owners" of a business. Technically, ownership is defined as > X% of a business (X is some number I can't recall like 30 or 40). Recently, some Canadian fou
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by fraserharris 10y ago
The largest gravitational waves, emanating from black hole collisions, have now repeatedly been detected. Scientists can iterate on the design to build more sensitive detectors. This will give us a new way of studying the universe that do
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by fraserharris 10y ago
Exactly. Developers are economically incentivized to subdivide to the maximum extent. Low minimum lot sizes encourages small lot sizes = high density.
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by fraserharris 10y ago
Poorly recalling from my memory. Given that a "block" is a variable metric, the actual number is less important than the concept that it is a static. There are only ~5 cities in the US with > 1,000 of these blocks: NYC, Boston,
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by fraserharris 10y ago
The best way i've seen this framed is: in all of the US, there are only about 2,000 blocks of housing with sufficient density & walkable services to support car free living. This is some of the most sought after and expensive real
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by fraserharris 10y ago
TPP binds governments from requiring local data storage, not private contracts.
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by fraserharris 10y ago
Probably related to ICANN being moved out from under the US State Department.
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by fraserharris 10y ago
Thats 12% of > $1B. Those "vulture capitalists" have invested >$230M into Twilio at various valuations to help it grow.
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by fraserharris 10y ago
The key problem with the finger print background searches is that they often take >30 days. Uber & Lyft have significant driver churn (due to it being temporary employment for many people) and the delay discourages drivers to sign u
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by fraserharris 10y ago
To all new founders, get a legal agreement in place from day 1 with your collaborators. Here are some amazing free resources (vetted for Canada, a million times better than nothing in the US, pass it by a lawyer if you have the money): ht
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by fraserharris 10y ago
Reminds me of Barcelona prior to expanding beyond the Roman walls: "As there was no more land left inside the city walls, all kinds of inventions were used to build more lodgings – houses were literally being created on empty space. Ar
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by fraserharris 10y ago
DAO stands for Decentralized Autonomous Organization. This seems to be an experiment in democratic group action. The "process" is: the community approves or declines plain English Proposals backed by smart contract code aimed at b
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by fraserharris 10y ago
DAO stands for Decentralized Autonomous Organization (that's as far as I got)
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by fraserharris 10y ago
Its more favorable for SpaceX to lower prices as much as possible to crush incumbents (ULA). Extracting maximum profits just gives time for other competitors to catch up.
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by fraserharris 10y ago
And that doesn't incorporate the government administration cost, which the author's number includes (by taking the actual city budget).
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by fraserharris 10y ago
More history: In 1964, an 9.2 earthquake in Alaska caused tsunamis along the outer coast of Vancouver Island. Port Alberni, at the end of the 25 mile long Alberni Inlet, was the largest and worst hit settlement, with a loss of 55 homes. T
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by fraserharris 10y ago
Author Investments: - can you automatically collect payment like Square or Shopify? - have you considered a fund that buys future royalties directly (as opposed to a marketplace)? only need 1 side of the market and reduces competitive insig
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by fraserharris 10y ago
It is worth noting that Chicago Public Schools is functionally insolvent and the City of Chicago has a $20B pension liability (relative to a $7.8B annual budget). Pension payments have been routinely deferred ("pension holidays")
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by fraserharris 11y ago
The University of Waterloo has provided some free legal documents for this case: "IP Assignment - Potential Collaborator" and "IP Assignment - Joint Venture". They have been crafted for Canadian law, so see a lawyer bef
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by fraserharris 11y ago
Another logical place is your WiFi router. Google's OnHub is an interesting development. Will its team eventually be subsumed by Nest?
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by fraserharris 11y ago
Invasion by the Soviet Union was an ever present risk. Neighboring Finland has been repeatedly occupied by Russia. During WW2, the Soviet Union attempted to annex Finland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland%E2%80%9
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by fraserharris 11y ago
Specifically, Christmas' of 2014 & 2015.
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by fraserharris 11y ago
These are property and sales tax abatements on property and sales that only exist because Tesla set up shop in Nevada. You can quibble about the length of the tax abatements (10 and 20 years), but the perceived "$1.3B gamble" is
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by fraserharris 11y ago
The obvious explanation is that companies that truly accelerated raised VC, removing the need for added acceleration.
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by fraserharris 11y ago
and they can re-price existing options as well.

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