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by frellus 5y ago
100% of everything you said I agree with. We're in a downright recession on freedoms. "I now realize it's not that hard to persuade the average citizen into accepting such things." Yes, and worse I feel it's not eve
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by frellus 5y ago
Technically, insider trading is defined by anyone trading on or passing non-public knowledge to an "outsider". So, yes.. if a Congress member passed along material information to someone that they traded on, both should get prosec
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by frellus 5y ago
As a founding member of a startup I can say that to early exercise using QSBS while the capitalization of the company is <50M is to take a huge risk. If the company folds, my stock is worth $0 and I lose. It's a gamble. Why does th
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by frellus 5y ago
Nice tool at a fraction of the price of others in this space, but to be honest I'm not sure how it is a "better tool" - it's a code pad for coding interviews, but there are no rich features or any ways it distinguishes i
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by frellus 5y ago
+1 on the point about "early exercise". The ability to exercise and file the $0 value increase with an 84(b) (assuming the company is < $50M capital) is the way the game is played in the Valley. Ex: You get 10,000 options @ st
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by frellus 5y ago
At a startup though, although there are bands, there is almost always the ability to go up from what is first offered. I would always try to negotiate up by 50% from whatever it is. With startups, it's harder to go up by 50% on cash, b
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by frellus 5y ago
I like and support anyone trying to do a Linux laptop, but sorry System76 -- I hate, hate, hate your keyboard layout. Awful! Take a look at the keyboard layout before you decide to purchase a system. Also, ask yourself if you shouldn'
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by frellus 5y ago
Yes and no. The real answer (with an Erlang bias) is to look at Elixir + Phoenix + LiveView. Here's a neat demo. No JavaScript required. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZvmYaFkNJI
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by frellus 5y ago
When I saw this the article title being about cement and carbon, I got excited that someone invented a way for cement to better absorb heat and solar radiation. I have to imagine global temperatures are affected by the reflection of cement
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by frellus 5y ago
Maybe because 20%+ of the staff were laid off due to the sub-prime issues in 2008, and the poor dude who used to maintain this is a name no one can remember. I'm not that dude, but I bet I used to know him.
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by frellus 5y ago
No input by the CIA but did you catch the note about some data gathered from the FBI? "I WANT TO BELIEVE" (in the Cigarette Man, Moulder and maybe especially Scully)
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by frellus 5y ago
With phrases like "your interlocutor will try to trick you into making a decision" I would treat this article as less than gospel. I've been on both sides of the negotiation table. With any negotiation, both sides must "
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by frellus 6y ago
Woke political correctness gone wrong. Nothing about getting kids back to school, until just recently -- but all about virtual signaling by the school board. Glad they put aside this issue, but even on the face of it's seems insane to
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by frellus 6y ago
I'm so glad we're not politicizing science . . .
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by frellus 6y ago
Spot on. I have two girls. Neither were "encouraged" to play with dolls, nor was it any sort of "gender role re-enforcement". Girls like dolls because it's roll play on many levels (relationships, role) as well as a
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by frellus 6y ago
I was in a "startup inside a <mid-sized> Company" (about 5 years old at that point, pre-IPO) a few years back. It operated independently, separate building, separate recruiting with a large amount of equity compared to the m
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by frellus 6y ago
Amazing story, and real journalism. If only the news spent more time uncovering the truth instead of opining about politics. I'm so sick of politics.
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by frellus 6y ago
L1B visas are as abusive as anything... can't transfer, and now they want to impose non-compete? These companies like Amazon, Apple, etc. really screw the L1B people. Not only are they terrified of loosing their jobs, but now even if t
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by frellus 6y ago
Your larger company built up those things over time, but likely with management support and pushing and enough of it built into the culture that everyone realized the value. In your smaller company these things need to be done, and you need
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by frellus 6y ago
Honestly, I don't know why this isn't mentioned yet -- I wouldn't live anywhere . I'd be a nomad, spending a week maybe in a place, ideally ones cost friendly (see https://nomadlist.com for some ideas). Whe
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by frellus 6y ago
Yesterday, while driving in downtown Mountain View, CA, one of these damn things stopped short of coming into the crosswalk. So I and the opposite direction person stopped, like we would if it were a person. The damn thing made us wait for
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by frellus 6y ago
Spot on. This is our approach at Ghost Locomotion - L3 is pretty darn good, and highways are actually pretty standards driven, unlike local roads or cities. https://medium.com/ghost-blog/the-long-ignored-most-obvious-.
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by frellus 6y ago
No issues, so long as you can still amuse your friends by typing: 6006135
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by frellus 6y ago
After laying off 14% of their workforce they're going with an acquisition? This makes zero sense. Healthy companies do not have a large restructuring and then try to burn capital on an acquisition for revenue. Restructuring to be acq
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Uber lays off 3700 employees via Zoom(dailymail.co.uk)
78 points by frellus 6y ago|52 comments
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by frellus 6y ago
Maybe it's almost a good sign it's only 14% of the company -- I don't know anyone that's been taking Ubers since March
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by frellus 6y ago
Why not Mattermost ( https://mattermost.com/ )? If the key feature of keybase was encrypted chat, seems like Mattermost solves the problem. Or Signal?
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by frellus 6y ago
Self-driving company here. We're doing on-prem because we have a clear projection on the amount of data we'll need to injest, store and process using GPUs. The advantages of running things in a cloud are clear -- and as an infrast
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by frellus 6y ago
Easy there, Dr. Frankenstein ..
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by frellus 6y ago
Not jumping the science, but on the outside this is a terrifying idea. If cells still have life maybe consciousness could as well. It reminds me of a scene in the TV series "Fringe" where they wheel a body into the evil corporatio

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