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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> which is (most) often the best offer. I assume there is deep research on this factoid from the non-realtor community, because then the right thing to do is use the MLS API to be first and submit a lowball offer with a one-day fuse.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> you can find the cheaper houses before they go pending Which tells you the value of realtors: They don't wait around to get the highest bid (a commission in the hand is worth two in the bush.)
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> The U.S. does not limit the supply of technologists. It's what the MZ article is about: They can't find enough, they want to change H1B's. You can choose to call that something other than a limitation, but it doesn't change the fa
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Tech companies are unhappy that technologists are treated like medical doctors: The US limits the supply. This has the side effect of raising wages for both professions. The AMA is instrumental is keeping the supply of doctors limited. W
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> In the same way at a VC will often send you to an associate because they’re “too nice” to say no, I'm going to guess that the author has never raised significant money (>$10M) from VCs. The quoted sentence fragment speaks volum
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
That's one possibility. The other is that the submitter chose to retain clauses which would increase hits at the expense of wasting a lot of people's time. How many people would bother with an article telling us that academic jobs for Lite
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
GMAFB, the HN title omits the word "Literature" from the "Getting a Literature PhD" This looks a lot like the folks at slate are blogspamming. I wish HN admins would require approval on any sites with submitted content like slate, extremet
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> In plain English: stronger people live longer. You'll never get follow-up funding with a title like that.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
This isn't right. This isn't even wrong. -Wolfgang Pauli
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Why would anyone want an ETF? They can buy the currency directly at the exchange, and this way don't have to pay some intermediary's salary.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
I'm going to guess that Jake will take a lot of flak here for this article, but the truth is: I agree with him, for a certain version of "success". There are folks who will pursue money, and then an acquisition looks like a nice validation
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
To which I think the only response to Western Union can be: Whoosh.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> tl;dr if it'll take the company more effort to reply to your email than you put into sending it, you're doing it wrong. No no no, they're doing it right. All those lame responses? You think you're gonna get better behavior after hi
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
And the creative engineering in order to beat the letter of the law (but what a waste of time and resources...)
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
... with built-in money laundering.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> Use the Julian calendar in Eastern Europe and the Middle East and the Gregorian in the West? Why would google assign insignificance to those who think the Julian calendar is correct in the West and Gregorian in the East?
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> It is relatively easy to compute the exact dates for the next N years (or check Wikipedia). And would you display for the Julian calendar or Gregorian calendar, since different christian sects use different definitions of "the equin
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
OT, but you gotta love the time precision of the religious holidays. From the wiki: Easter is determined on the basis of lunisolar cycles. The lunar year consists of 30-day and 29-day lunar months, generally alternating, with an embolismic
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> attributed to some tiny company that promptly goes bust, leaving taxpayers paying for the cleanup If there was ever a reason to disallow the boundaries of incorporation, that's it.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
LOL. So someone is doing automated lookups on the D&B site, they noticed, and then they put a broken captcha on the site. Really, the only thing wrong with this picture is that they got called out on HN, so now whoever is doing the aut
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Background missing from article: Trichloroethylene was in widespread use during the early days of silicon fab, and was part of the "RCA clean" that was used in order to remove everything from the surface of a silicon wafer. It's scattered
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> It's a game of skill, not luck. I'm gonna guess that you didn't found a company at the Nasdaq peak in April of 2000.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Great! A $1B down, and now only $23B more until it becomes 1% of the total US money that the Federal Reserve has printed! http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/M1/
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> So what happens with the other two-thirds? ... Sometimes an entrepreneur will take an early exit. ...That's maybe 10% of the total outcomes. So at least 50% of the outcomes are not a win for the VC or the entrepreneur In the past, V
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> Science Based How do the experimenters pull off double-blind trials?
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> Technically, it’s not crowdfunding, but rather a venture capital advisor that raises funds online through a streamlined process rather than offline with traditional paperwork. Nice. So the VCs won't have to answer to big limiteds,
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
That only makes it more confusing. Look at the list of big names: When a big name gets a hold of a company they believe in, they usually take every share they can get for themselves. Put another way: If someone thinks a company is going t
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
I love the idea, but what is the plan to keep fraudulent fundraisers away?
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Lots more details in the report (PDF): http://www.fenwick.com/FenwickDocuments/2012_Seed_Survey_Rep...
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> Doesn't mean that there's necessarily anything nefarious Some enterprising reporter should 1. Look at where the money was raised, 2. who is on the board (or in the decision process chain) 3. Find out where they are a limited partner

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