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by hodgesrm 3y ago
That is a bad reason not to consult with a lawyer. Hire a good one who knows the business you are in.
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
> I am not a lawyer, but I've received several C&Ds for various things over the decades. The first one scared me to death. The first time I got a letter for a trademark issue it seemed completely hostile and threatening. My lawy
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
If you have not received a C&D before then the reason to consult with an attorney is to evaluate the risk. A lot of legal trouble arises from assuming you understand something when you actually don't. (Ask me how I know.)
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
> * get comfortable reading legal documents, this will allow you to have more intelligent conversations with your attorney Another tip. Hire an attorney who will teach you how to do this effectively. A simple rule of thumb is t
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> The ONLY answer, live your life like there's no tomorrow because chances are is there isn't going to be. The problem with this attitude is that it prevents you from solving problems that might actually affect the odds of hu
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Serious question: Why would you want to get rid of Google Sheets? * Anything that's shared will have the same issues with data. Plus it forces other users to join some product they've never heard of. * Local hosting would require
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Referential integrity is not a big problem in analytic databases. Finding things is. ClickHouse uses primary key indexes to locate blocks of rows quickly in very large tables. The indexes are sparse and by default only have 1 entry for ever
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Speaking of boring development, I took a programming aptitude test at the first company I worked for many years ago. If you got a good score you could stop doing boring tasks like data entry or tape backups and learn to write programs inste
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They Abducted a River in California. and It Wasn't Even a Crime(nytimes.com)
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> The one and a half downsides not mentioned here: Make that 2.5. If you are building new analytic products the most significant issue is that 90% of the information in data lakes is already there and not in an open format like Iceberg
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Agree. Ameliorating urban heat islands looks like another place to focus effort. [0], [1] Even better, you can attack it at the level of individual cities. I would add that the uncertainty in the underlying science means that there are as
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Humans as a population react very quickly to changes in cost. To take your first problem, water shortages, one answer is to charge something closer what it's actually worth. That actually happened in the Pajaro River basin in Californi
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
I skimmed the background article "Earth beyond six of nine planetary boundaries." [0] The boundaries don't seem especially helpful. * They don't seem to account for adaption, in particular by humans. Before December 1903
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
That's not true. To take a simple example under Section 174 rules let's take a bootstrapped business with one US-based developer developing a SaaS product. If you pay them $100K and also bring in $100K revenue, prior to Section 17
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
That's correct as I understand the tax law. The credit carries over because it's depreciating the capital investment. Net operating losses (NOLs) work in a similar fashion. You get them as a credit in later tax years. IANAL but ha
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
p.s. Reading some of the other posts referenced here it looks as if there may be a real issue. Thanks to OP for posting.
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
What problem would an open-source version of Carta solve? We use Carta and overall it's pretty good aside from the [very] disturbing problem reported here. Carta ensures we have a clear record of equity positions in the company and cor
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Do you can't stand it and still watched? De gustibus non est disputandum. [You can't argue about taste.] It can work the other way as well. I actually like Hitman Agent 47 which got an epically bad rating of 8% from the critics th
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
I would like to put in a vote for k9s, which is also on the list at Terminal Trove. [0] It's the most convenient tool I've ever found for Kubernetes management. Based on that experience I'll definitely be checking out Harlequ
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
I've never found anything like it, unfortunately.
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Joe Sutter aka "father of the 747" gave a talk at the UW School of Aeronautics and Astronautics after the Challenger disaster in 1986. [0] He was on the Rogers Commission with Feynman and others that investigated the root causes.
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Maybe instead of planning bike lanes we should be addressing the root causes of why it takes such such an absurd amount of time to make changes like this. Once we do that we can get back to bike lanes.
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
> Reason: the sales person's analysis was wrong. On the other hand, great sales people have a knack for understanding what customers really want, as well as non-technical obstacles to selling like procurement policies or management
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
> Exercise will not produce cognitive function. Lack of exercise will contribute to its decline, but you have to use your brain to train your brain. People don't exercise to get smarter. There are numerous studies that contradict yo
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
This is a render-unto-Caesar problem. It all depends on the audience. Here's what works for me. 1. Email is good for sharable things like interview or meeting notes. It's searchable and you can dump it to Google Docs/Notion f
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
> I recommend the Leuchtturm 1917 Notebook for this kind of stuff. Just bought my first one last week. My previous notebook is full and I'm eager to try it out tomorrow!
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
You need highlighting pens! I have a couple of them to circle anything significant--a bright circle means "this is probably interesting!" It makes searching vastly easier. The other thing is to date every page accurately. Notes ar
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Actually 32F without wind is no big deal if you have a decent sleeping bag. Plus it gets warmer as you do more stuff inside (e.g., cooking). Igloos have the same design and can get pretty warm. [0] The real problem in my experience is that
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
That’s how snow caves are constructed. Tunnel in and up in a snowbank so that the floor of the cave is higher than the ceiling of the entry tunnel. The air in the cave will equalize to 32F once you enter thanks to body heat. As far as I can
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
I loved Catch-22 and Gengi. Gengi has a kind of hypnotizing quality to the writing that kept me going.

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