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by gyardley 13y ago
Right now? Probably not. However, you don't know and can't predict how the government will change in the future. Data collected today is data that can be abused tomorrow.
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by gyardley 13y ago
Man, I don't know. If I was a lot stupider and could get the drop on them, I might like my chances against two agents with handguns. A SWAT team, on the other hand - I don't care how dumb, drunk, or high I am, if ten officers with
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by gyardley 13y ago
While you never know who's armed and who's not, in these cases they're probably just as worried about the destruction of evidence - a polite knock on the door and an 'excuse me, sir, we're the FBI' might give h
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by gyardley 13y ago
It's possible for someone to be visionary about some things and nuts about others. Stallman seems to be right about the government's actions after 2001. That doesn't automatically mean he's right about the way I should o
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by gyardley 13y ago
Did I sleep in the day we actually made that decision? Because from where I'm standing it looks like the government made that decision for us, without telling us about it. Had we been asked to participate in the decision somehow, armed wi
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by gyardley 13y ago
Depends on the level of criticism, I suppose. I expect to hear the perennial favorite at some point: "It's all Bush's fault because he did it first!" If things get really bad, perhaps there'll also be a bit of "I was as shocked and angry as
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by gyardley 13y ago
Tasks from which a potential intern may learn the most are quite likely to be tasks which create value for the employer. Sounds plausible to me, along with your point about learning experience, but the comment you're responding to is just
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by gyardley 13y ago
Seriously. When the first executive to say 'no' to the government has his entire life put under a microscope and ends up going to prison for something 'unrelated' that they managed to dredge up -- yeah, people are going to draw the obvious
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by gyardley 13y ago
Whether a degree was the right choice or not, it was the choice you made and you can't unmake it, so there's not much point in dwelling on that. Dwelling on things you can't change will just drive you crazy. HN is full of threads on how to
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by gyardley 13y ago
Sure, absolutely. The standard mechanism for this is accelerated vesting - I think Nivi wrote the definitive bit on it, here: http://venturehacks.com/articles/acceleration-termination
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by gyardley 13y ago
A repurchase right can mean different things - you'd need to go to the specific language to really determine what it means. In the case of Sam Altman's founder-friendly term sheet, what you're describing is covered by the 'ROFR/Co-Sale Agre
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by gyardley 13y ago
Gridlock generally occurs when one of the two parties is opposed to a bill, but here the President is following Republican initiatives - in the Senate, John Cornyn's 'Patent Abuse Reduction Act', and in the House, Jason Chaffetz's 'Saving H
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by gyardley 13y ago
What if you were tell him the same thing? Why on earth is he to trust you, but not vice versa? You two are now equals and peers and it's time for you to start acting like it. If that's unacceptable to you then you never should have put your
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by gyardley 13y ago
You tell him 'here's how you access the source code.' After all, it's his company too. You shouldn't have found a cofounder if you're not willing to do this.
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by gyardley 13y ago
You might be different, but I've always found firing employees and/or not meeting expectations pretty stressful, no matter what my personal financial situation.
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by gyardley 13y ago
Fair enough, but unless you can predict the amount and terms of any future investment, you've got no way of knowing this. I'm guessing you'd need at least 2% up front to have an even chance of having 0.66% (or $1MM + taxes, in a $200MM exit
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by gyardley 13y ago
That guy? Paul Graham. From http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html - What do I mean by good people? One of the best tricks I learned during our startup was a rule for deciding who to hire. Could you describe the person as an animal? It mig
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by gyardley 13y ago
He's already done alright for himself, because he was wise enough to take money off the table when he had the opportunity to do so. What I don't understand is why he's still at it. This must be an enormously stressful time. Why wouldn't he
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by gyardley 13y ago
I've used it twice in the past for logo work, with good results both times. Comparable to using a professional design shop, which I've also done multiple times. However, some notes: - You'll want to pay more than the average to attract a wi
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by gyardley 13y ago
It's a No True Scotsman fallacy because Marxism has been tried in wildly different cultures under wildly different circumstances using wildly different methodologies, and in each and every case you've lumped them under a single type of 'n
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by gyardley 13y ago
You could just click on the link provided and read about his previous education and career experience.
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by gyardley 13y ago
A classic No True Scotsman fallacy. If you really want to dig into this, I recommend Andrzej Walicki's 'Marxism and the Leap to the Kingdom of Freedom'.
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by gyardley 13y ago
He's saying that because salaries aren't quite as high here. On the other hand, there's no state income tax and the cost of living is lower, so you may come out ahead. Depending on your personal tastes, you may find the lifestyle better as
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by gyardley 13y ago
Or perhaps just somebody who came up with the same solid but not particularly earthshattering idea independently.
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by gyardley 13y ago
I suspect he's asking a question, probably for his own benefit, instead of commenting on the education of the person in the article.
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by gyardley 13y ago
Usually my wife. She uses some sort of fitness wrist-thing to wake up - maybe a Jawbone? I love it, because there's no more harsh alarm noise - no noise at all, usually, although sometimes I can hear it buzz a wee bit.
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by gyardley 13y ago
Understandable - but from what I understand, your givens aren't typically given.
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by gyardley 13y ago
Yes, a big part of negotiation is knowing what you should do and how you should react despite your internal feelings about your situation. I know I've looked utterly disgusted at offers that were already making me giddy on the inside. It's
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by gyardley 13y ago
If however, you are like a vast majority of job applicants, you are really nobody special. Some talent maybe, but not enough to make me drool. If this is the type of person you're extending an offer to, it's no wonder you don't care if yo

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