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by jtbigwoo 13y ago
You've lost me. Why would a consumer ever bother with BTC? Especially if both ends of the transaction are paying fees, spreads and paying for an escrow service. Also, does the merchant set your prices in BTC, and change prices a few
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Alternatively, if you want to open a restaurant, you shouldn't need to be an expert in plumbing, electrical, framing, HVAC, upholstery, cabinet-making, painting, and floor refinishing just to get the place ready to open.
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My experience has been the opposite. I've received offers based on interviews where we talked about: the local radio landscape, the best local lunch spots, the most ridiculous internet-bubble perks we'd seen, or color choice in 1
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This is a pretty common strategy. Many companies have poor record retention and backup policies because it's in their best interest to "forget" the things they do. I know of large companies that limit email boxes to 50 MB p
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There's theology behind it as well. Puritans believe in Calvinist predestination. In a nutshell, God has known you for eternity. God knows what's going to happen and what you're going to do. God decided whether you will be
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Your clock isn't running out to the extent that you think it is. At the rate most of us go these days, you've got forty more working years, with at least 10 to fifteen childless years if you continue to be drawn to entrepreneursh
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He's probably very clever, but his definition of "great hacker" is vastly different than your definition. His definition is probably "someone who makes stuff work." Yours is probably "an expert in his field.&q
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I think it depends on your background. I'm guessing that you had a bigger net beneath you had a bigger net beneath you than most people (student at Stanford, probably from an upper-middle class family that would support you if things
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They can't even get on a boat to cross the Atlantic. Does anybody know if other countries reference the U.S. no-fly list? Could one of these plaintiffs drive to Canada and travel abroad that way?
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Neuromancer by William Gibson
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All the nerds I know (which is basically everybody I know) like the Vlad Taltos books. As long as you're OK with dragons, sarcasm, and crime you should like them, too.
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Look for page-turners rather than literature as you're getting back into fiction. Business and popular non-fiction books these days are written in a very elementary style. I take nothing away from Malcolm Gladwell, but his writing style i
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All of Neal Stephenson's books have a breezy sense of wonder and adventure with a dash of science-y cleverness.
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There are more companies like Amazon, but they don't exist online. Amazon is Walmart, Costco, CVS, and Target. (You could also compare them to Home Depot, Meijer, Kroger, etc.) There are two traditional paths to success in business--high
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>> Bill Gates could probably easily get away with stuff like this too. The difference is that Gates doesn't do stupid things like this because Gates knows that he is a public figure. He hires people who know what they're doing and
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It was a bad policy for all sorts of reasons, but there had been a really careless loss the previous year. Something like a hundred thousand customer credit files were left on an unencrypted laptop in the back of a reeturned rental car. L
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I've told this one before, but I worked for a company that had a "lose your laptop and get fired" policy. They also had full disk encryption and remote wiping capability, but I guess someone up top thought a preventative policy was needed.
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I went to college with dozens of Jason Triggs (including myself). We'd talk all the time about the money we'd make right out of college and how much good we'd do. ("$36k to work at a soulless consulting company? That's amazing! I'm livin
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As I understand it, the trouble is that money isn't evidence, necessarily (while Dotcom's server data would be) and civil seizure of money only applies to the proceeds of a crime. If you're a mob boss, you probably have lawyers and account
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There's more than a bit of hype in this press release. Tripling the number of superchargers only gets them to 27 with almost half of the stations in California.
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Can someone smarter than me comment on the danger of having one of these next door to an apartment or office building? I assume that we're talking about lots of volts and amps here. Are these stations any more or less dangerous than a gas
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> diversity of thought slows you down What a fascinating idea. I suppose if you don't know whether you're going the right direction you might as well try to get there as fast a possible. I worked for a while with a bunch of former vide
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Don't forget transfer payments from other auto companies to Tesla in accordance with California law.
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One more thing from someone who survived a couple startup bubbles: Don't value shares as more than a dollar or two unless the company is the equivalent of Microsoft in the 1990's. It's easy to talk yourself into a "small" valuation of $10
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Counter offers have a really low success rate in my experience. That person has already weighed the pros and cons of staying and decided to leave. It won't take much to push them to leave again. In addition, everybody else in the company
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Even with a college degree in computer science and math, I don't think that engineer applies to me. I'd say that you get to be an engineer if the "Engineer" is printed somewhere on your diploma. Unless you drive trains.
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This is applicable for big businesses, too. As a consultant my heart sinks when I open somebody else's code and see a custom-developed sorting library inside a a home-grown MVC framework.
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There's a great moment in the first Jobs email: >>4. $9 per new release should represent a gross margin neutral business model for the publishers. We are not asking them to make any less money. As for the artists, giving them the sa
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>> Coming in as a brand new CFO, you have to prove yourself quickly and justify the high salary you just took. The easiest way is to do that, is to find cost savings within the company and implement them expediently. Right. I bet t
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It's a hard problem for them. In traditional industries there's some natural protection from the problems that google encounters with product management. It would take Samsung forever to start up a factory to make a new kind of washing mac

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