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by jam 17y ago
"I don't necessarily see 'undersea welder' as a future proof job. Our whole prediction of the future, currently, is the end of oil, which means the end of offshore oil platforms, which probably means 90% of these jobs will be gone. This doe
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by jam 17y ago
Google Ventures seems like a good proxy for this behavior.
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by jam 18y ago
I'd sure hope not - it would make the program far too easy to screw over.
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by jam 18y ago
My fanboyish love for Tesla Motors aside, I found this quote the most interesting part of that link: "I can say that the second model will be a sporty four door family car at roughly half the $89k price point of the Tesla Roadster and the t
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by jam 18y ago
Thanks a lot for the link. It looks like going for PCI compliance is what's necessary for credit card information storage - any idea whether there are similar regulations around bank routing / account information?
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Ask HN: rules for storing banking info?
9 points by jam 18y ago|5 comments
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by jam 18y ago
There sure is a lot of cheap land out there, but nary an allodial title to be found.
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by jam 18y ago
...by buying your company. ^_^
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by jam 18y ago
I'm in a similar boat, and as far as I can tell, ability > tires > drive wheels. It isn't that they aren't important, but people tend to place faaaaaaar too high a value on drive layout for winter driving. Now, on the track, it make
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by jam 18y ago
The RX-8 handles beautifully and is a lot of fun on the track... but it's woefully underpowered and very difficult to modify. Very unfortunate, as it's such a great platform.
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by jam 18y ago
Like Zak said, the drive wheels don't have much to do with actual driving dynamics. That's all tires and differentials. Four wheel drive is great for a lot of reasons, but in the winter it's only real benefit is acceleration - getting you u
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by jam 18y ago
Save yourself $20k and get an IS300 (previous version) instead. It's a much better car.
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by jam 18y ago
Pretty big gearhead here. My most important requirements: price < $20,000, weight < 3500 lbs, go > 200 hp / torque, rear or four wheel drive, fully independent suspension, limited slip differential, manual transmission available
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by jam 18y ago
Seems like you may be looking for some sort of aggregator that can interface with other auction sites (both buying and selling) as well as doing its own listings. What's eBay's precedent in allowing websites to repost scraped data from its
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by jam 19y ago
I mean, it's one thing if your site has very little interaction with its users. If you want to have any sort of meaningful long-term relationship, though, go ahead and verify them.
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by jam 19y ago
Two huge reasons that activation emails are worthwhile: - validation (to a reasonable extent) that a user is who they say they are - enhanced security for users The whole war on sign up forms and the like is far overblown imo. If your users
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by jam 19y ago
Right, that's the obvious solution. I'm still curious to see if anyone has come up with a different way of doing things, though.
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Ask YC: How do you deal with account downgrades?
14 points by jam 19y ago|10 comments
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by jam 19y ago
+1 for the Squirrel Hill and Shadyside neighborhoods in Pittsburgh. Incredibly cheap housing, biotech jobs are numerous, and there's more capital available than you'd think. CMU & Pitt churn out lots of science and engineering students
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by jam 19y ago
Starting as a C-corp from the beginning makes it much easier for you to take investment. If you aren't planning on doing that, though, then an LLC or S-corp are fine.
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by jam 19y ago
From what I can tell, the key to these niche social networking sites (of which yours isn't exclusively one, but sort of is) is to find an existing network of people and replicate it online. It seems like you've found a great application of
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by jam 19y ago
I've worked as an analyst for an early-stage VC firm, and at that stage valuation is much more an art than a science. With pre-revenue companies, there are two important questions for the VCs to ask themselves: 1. How much money do they nee