jjeaff

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by jjeaff 3y ago
Venture capital is where we rent wrong. they are to startups what PE is to developed companies.
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Zoom also does not require an account nor does it require installing their software, although they try to hide that feature.
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So apps installed on MacOS have to be signed? They don't just give the end user a scary, but by-passable warning message like Windows?
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I guess they were right but for a different reason. I realize some of the creators were convicted but it seems the Pirate Bay is still around.
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Causation is not correlation. Prison in the US is pretty awful, so I wouldn't expect "harsh treatment" to be a reason that crime is low. Additionally, Japanese recidivism isn't particularly low (50%). Japan also has more
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Most credit and debit cards have the option to get a text message for any transaction over a certain amount. all of my cards are set to send me a text for any transaction over $0.
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if the app automatically categorizes things, you don't ever have to look at it. doing it yourself requires that you review every transaction individually.
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this is exactly what Slack does (or did, I don't know if they still do). they only charge you for employees that have used slack during the month. though I don't know what "use" entails.
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I agree that taxes need to be applied separately so the public knows how much they are paying in taxes. Also, if you required including the tax, it would not be possible for most sites to advertise any prices without the user creating an ac
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That one penny eBay truck may have been meant to confuse people in some cases, but it was more likely that it was a way to get around eBay fees. For a time, ebay only charged their 15% based on the sale price, exclusive of the shipping cost
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I think a closer analogy would be if your neighbor walked over while you weren't home and lifted on your garage door, noticed it wasn't locked, so went inside and poked around a little. Then came and warned you later that your gar
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So the win was that you settled out of court? They didn't just drop the suit? You actually paid them money to go away and they got to claim you settled?
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We don't all have helicopters because they are extremely dangerous and loud and require a helipad and trained pilot. Small helicopters can be purchased as cheaply as a used car and I suspect even cheaper if they were being mass produce
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I wouldn't hold my breath. Patents seem to be granted purely based on the power and persistence of your patent attorney or team of parent attorneys. Look at the Amazon one click checkout. Extremely obvious, there was prior art, how you
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I don't think secret tech or cloak and dagger business moves are what makes an aircraft company win. it's a far more complex amalgamation of government intervention, regulations, institutional knowledge, and company culture. Thing
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by jjeaff 3y ago
Do you feel the same about physical security? It's fine for people to walk around your building, peak in the windows, maybe pick the lock on the door, maybe even take a little walk inside, as long as they don't steal anything?
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It seems they do now. They returned cash to investors and got pro-rata shares back to founders and employees putting them at 80%. Not sure what order it all happened though.
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I realize lots of people have learned languages by watching movies in the target language and reading subtitles in their native language, but I have found that to be highly difficult. I guess everyone is different, but given that the vast m
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ya, but they aren't really making money insider trading. at least in aggregate. full analysis of their trades usually show an underperforming portfolio, despite grandiose articles that claim the opposite, which just cherry pick a few s
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As far as calculating payroll and remitting payments to the proper agencies federally and in their respective states, that shouldn't be a hindrance at all. There are countless payroll service companies that will do all the calculations
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I feel like Google breaking ad blockers on chrome will ensure survival of browsers like Firefox.
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it sort of is. with very few exceptions, hedge funds do not beat the market over the long run. While, I guess in a sense they are making money if they have a positive return, the fact that an unmanaged index fund of the market has better re
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That would of course be fine. But then imagine that because human memory is not able to keep all that information straight, you made copies of all those newspapers. And then you started charging people for your knowledge. And then imagine t
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That's basically what all the crypto incubators consist of.
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the number of red flags thrown would be excessive. Who hasn't purposely crashed their plane in a flight simulator just to see what happens.
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I guess so. But I've never thought this was the true spirit of that phrase. To me, fake it till you make it means to pretend you know what you are doing until you do.
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And what about an engineer that drives a train aka railroad engineer? Perhaps that is not common parlance in Canada?
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ACH transfers are basically instant in the US. But because they can, the sending bank holds on to the outgoing transfer for as long as they can get away with and the receiving bank waits to make the transfer available to the customer for as
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Use something like privacy.com. you can generate a unique cc for each subscription. just go and cancel that virtual card number to stop paying for the service.
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so funny. and I remember people commenting about how stupid and simple his talk was. and yet I think about it every time I use a public restroom.

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