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by il 14y ago
It's all too easy to dismiss someone completely based on their politics, but this(and government overreach in general) is one of the issues that the left and right should be able to come together on. Remember, Issa was one of the leading vo
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No, the it's highly uncommon for a proscecutor to refuse to drop any charges as part of a plea bargain. Not only would Aaron have been a convincted felon, but he would have had a dozen felonies on his record as priors. If the DA didn't want
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If they were only looking for a 6 month sentence, why did they charge him with 11 counts of fraud? The judge is free to disregard the proscecution's recommendations and sentence the defendant to the full legal maximum. This is not common in
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by il 14y ago
Have you ever played America's Army?
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by il 14y ago
This article makes that point indirectly. If the primary value of an MBA is the network, you should only go to a school where the network has meaningful impact on your career prospects: a top 5 school.
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Contacting your representatives can make a difference. We saw it with SOPA and now we see it here. Now we, as a community, need to keep up the pressure on lawmakers and make sure meaningful reforms are passed to make sure something like thi
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by il 14y ago
You're failing to make the distinction between revenue and enterprise value. EV could be a manyfold multiple of revenue.
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As an employee, your taxes going up by at least 20% immediately. As a startup, loss of many of your customers and a significantly more challenging funding environment due to a fall back into recession and continued economic uncertainty.
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He wa compliant with DMCA requests and even gave content owners direct access to delete copyrighted files. The purpose of the DMCA is to remove liability from hosts like MegaUpload.
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"The project aims to draw attention to the fact that if you have access to technical labor, the startup and operating costs for an online project in 2013 are negligible. The biggest obstacle to creating something useful is finding the time
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Are you looking for something different than a CRM? Typically people will scan the business cards they get from a tradeshow with something like Worldcard and import the CSV into whatever CRM their organization uses.
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You have to look at it from a purely pragmatic perspective. Everyone who wants cannabis, even teenagers, can currently get it very easily. Growing up, everyone knew it was easier to get than alcohol(drug dealers don't check ID). In the stat
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Some of those 80% might be successful businesses and even exits that make the founders rich in the $20M-$50M range, they just don't have enough traction to be venture-scale startups. Or let's put it this way: 80% of startups will not reach
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by il 14y ago
I don't see any reason for the doom and gloom here. Series A funding isn't a lottery with a random 1 in 5 chance. The 80% of companies struggling to raise Series A are the ones without meaningful revenue or user traction. Why do they deserv
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by il 14y ago
Most banks will give you a check scanner you can feed checks into at home to deposit them.
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Given the typical anonymous MO, an attempt is probably submitting a form with SQL injection, scanning for a common exploit, etc.
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Note that all of the above policies are considered mainstream in the United States.
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If you believe in direct democracy, many states have numerous initiatives on the ballot. You can always vote on those and leave the rest of your ballot blank.
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Have you been to San Francisco? Nobody's getting arrested for that here. No double standard, some laws are enforced more than others. This is about property/violent crimes, not snitching on victimless crimes.
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The key distinction here is between wealth and income. Most angel investors are funding startups from their existing wealth(i.e. funds from a previous exit) rather than income. And any income they do get is probably taxed at the capital gai
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We Have 10,000 Warm Leads.You Can Close Them. MixRank (YC S11) is hiring.
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Yes, but then the expected value is less than getting a job.
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This post is based on so many false assumptions that it's meaningless. Most small business owners/bootstrappers are NOT millionaires, most are just barely scraping by. Less than 3% of small businesses make $250K or more in profit. ( http://
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by il 14y ago
This might be differet for unsophisticated investors, but I've never seen an experienced technology investor invest in anything other than a C corp. In any case, investors don't want losses to flow through to them. They want losses carried
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This doesn't apply to startups, which are always set up as C corporations. Most businesses are set up as S corp or LLC to avoid our broken corporate tax system/double taxation. The high corporate tax rate obviously encourages entrepreneurs
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Since MongoHQ is profitable, empirically, yes.
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Run Sales and Bizdev at a fast growing startup?
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Launch Pad author live Q&A about life inside YC(reddit.com)
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Don't know. Doesn't really matter. I suppose I'm more the blue pill type. As long as my dreams/goals/experiences feel authentic and rewarding, it doesn't really matter if they're a product of social conditioning. A lot of it is luck. I'm so
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by il 14y ago
Have you spoken to anyone about possible depression symptoms? I think it's all a matter of perspective and attitude. Most of the things you see as negatives seem to me as positive aspects of society. Come on! Most of us reading Hacker News

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