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by guy_c 9y ago
Has CrowdFlower renamed? Their website now redirects to https://www.figure-eight.com/
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by guy_c 9y ago
Are you paying via debit card? Might be better to get a good credit card. Plenty offer decent exchange rates for foreign currency transactions https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/credit-cards/travel-credit...
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by guy_c 9y ago
Also as a codebase grows the complexity grows. Adding or changing code has a lot more impact and is much harder. If I remember correctly Shopify is something like 400k lines of Ruby on Rails code and 400 developers (i.e. one developer per 1
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by guy_c 9y ago
That house is a small single storey building with only a ratio 33% internal floor space vs plot size . Here is what $2m house looks like it good neighbourhood of Tokyo https://www.homes.co.jp/kodate/b-75250036569/
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by guy_c 9y ago
Just some rough numbers for you: A GTX1060 6GB can mine ETH at around 80 watts. And currently, earn you $25/month of ETH with electricity costing $10/month. Cost of card is $260. https://www.cryptocompare.com/minin
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by guy_c 9y ago
I always went with local sim. This is a great resource - http://prepaid-data-sim-card.wikia.com/wiki/Prepaid_SIM_with...
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by guy_c 9y ago
She has a British passport, which is shown in the photo of the visa section of the article
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by guy_c 9y ago
Remuneration of executive is up for approval at AGM in many countries. So you probably can vote. You can also check the vote results, the majority of shareholders vote to approve the remuneration packages.
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by guy_c 9y ago
Need to also be careful how they've defined 'used'. Dealers will sometimes buy the cars themselves to hit sales targets set by the manufacturer. They then sell off those cars 'used'.
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by guy_c 9y ago
Based on the current order book at Kraken you could probably sell off about 1000 BTC and it would drop the price about 5%. Poloniex looks to be about the same. So across all the major exchanges maybe you could sell of 5-10k BTC at once, wit
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by guy_c 9y ago
In general the profits are wafer thin, but Ethereum price skyrocketed a few months ago. Far quicker than people could build mining machines. Back in mid-June a single GTX1070 was on target for $150/month profit (even with expensive ele
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by guy_c 9y ago
Continuing on my thoughts on costs, with some very quick napkin maths (apologies if errors) * From https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-cost-per-gigabyte/ 1TB of storage cost around $25. * I'll assume 3
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by guy_c 9y ago
Siacoins calculator at http://sia.tech/ is claiming a price of $2/TB/month vs $23/TB/month for Amazon S3. However it neglects to include Backblaze's B2 storage which is only $5/TB/month -
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by guy_c 9y ago
I had been recently looking at Siacoin, but still a lot of work is needed before it can displace something like AWS. Took nearly a day with lots of stalls just to sync the blockchain. Also I am not sure about how price competitive it will u
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by guy_c 9y ago
Friends & I 'invented' unsociable socializing. At the weekend we'd sometimes meet in a coffeeshop, bring our books and just read. Stopping occasionally for a chat & refilling the coffee, but the main focus was reading
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by guy_c 9y ago
Can you give some more details of how you currently spend your time? Live in a city? How many hours do you work? How long is your commute? Do you work weekends? Live alone?
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by guy_c 9y ago
In additional to the national income tax Japanese residents pay about 10% of income (after deductions) as local city tax. However the Furusato Nozei programme lets you redirect this money to various rural areas. The rural areas then kindly
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Japan's bizarre tax programme – Reduce Tax Using The Furusato Nozei Program(tytoncapital.com)
8 points by guy_c 9y ago|3 comments
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by guy_c 9y ago
A few thoughts as a foreign worker in a Japanese startup: * Foreigners get more leeway. I have colleagues that do a strict 40 hours/week. * The overtime culture isn't strictly enforced. It comes about organically. Your team agrees
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Setting up Windows 10 to run Rails using WSL(medium.com)
3 points by guy_c 9y ago|0 comments
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by guy_c 9y ago
Electric bikes are very popular in Tokyo. Many nurseries and schools forbid car drop offs of children. So parents speed around on e-bikes. Ive seen some parents with three kids on their bike. Child seat on front, child seat on back and baby
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by guy_c 9y ago
Yep!!!! Lets imagine that overtime gets you 50% more productive output. If your business plan requires 50% more output and you cannot afford to just hire 50% more people then it sounds like you are running a business with very tight margins
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by guy_c 10y ago
In Japan I found more events on doorkeeper.jp rather than meetup.com
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by guy_c 10y ago
If you've never travelled then I'd stick your apartment on airbnb, get a friend to manage it while you are away on travels. Give them a one-third cut of the income for their troubles. Assuming you are from the US, find a cheap ret
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by guy_c 10y ago
Yep. I think more context would help people to answer. How old are you? What country are you from? Have you travelled?
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by guy_c 10y ago
... and don't forget a shrinking population. Accommodation in Japan is surprisingly inexpensive.
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by guy_c 10y ago
Some back of a napkin sums would suggest the vast majority is headcount costs. 300 new employees at $150,000 is $45m/year.
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by guy_c 10y ago
A suggested solution is 'career shares'. The CEO is required to hold shares granted from incentive scheme until retirement. Incentivising them to develop long-term value - http://www.business-school.ed.ac.uk/about&
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by guy_c 10y ago
Uptime robot is reporting my sites went down at 12:55 UTC, so been down for 35mins
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OS X: application may execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges(support.apple.com)
3 points by guy_c 10y ago|0 comments

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