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by kenneth 8y ago
I'm amongst the most frequent guests at Starwood, spending >100 nights a year in their hotels. I wasn't thrilled when it was announced they'd be acquired by Marriott. This year, they began the switchover process to migrati
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by kenneth 8y ago
Granted — I subscribe to EF for other reasons, not the visa information. But perhaps you could look into using it as an API backend to gather the data for your site.
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by kenneth 8y ago
https://www.expertflyer.com/ also exposes this airline information. Requires a paid subscription. Very useful for frequent flyers.
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by kenneth 8y ago
Great website! I travel a ton (50+ countries in the last few years) and usually use Wikipedia to check visa requirements. I'll be switching to this. Where did you import all this data from in a structured manner? How do you plan on kee
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by kenneth 8y ago
They were acquired by Stellar's commercial division, Lightyear and merged to form a new entity/brand called Interstellar. It's now an enterprise consulting company with the aim of getting Stellar used in production and deploy
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by kenneth 8y ago
Founder vesting is usually set up either at the onset to protect multiple founders from breakups, or as a term requested by investors in a priced round of funding. If you set up a business of any type, you're free to give yourselves a
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by kenneth 8y ago
Perhaps the downvotes are because you call it "VC bullshit" — which is not a very thoughtful or productive way to debate ideas. Having it for solo founders makes sense in case another founder or executive comes later, in which cas
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by kenneth 8y ago
I'm a VC, so let me shed some light on this. The biggest reasons we require founders to be on a vesting schedule is not really to protect our investments (as mentioned by another commenter). If the founders were to decide to screw us o
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by kenneth 8y ago
You could explore puerto rico. It requires some foresight and planning, but it has major tax benefits if done right.
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by kenneth 8y ago
I'm in the U.S. on a EB-1 green card. I spend a lot of time abroad. I don't have much of a desire to get U.S. citizenship, but I do want to preserve my ability to live and work in the U.S. any time in the future without having to
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by kenneth 8y ago
As someone who goes to China for business regularly… I am not feeling the trade war much. It comes up in conversation— the Chinese business community is not happy and worried about the economy. Otherwise, it's business as usual. I have
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by kenneth 8y ago
If there's anything you've ever wanted to do, but felt too stressed out about work to do, this is your chance to think about it more seriously (e.g. living in Europe for a year). Beyond that, divide it up into a low-risk portfolio
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by kenneth 8y ago
Listening to audiobooks while you sleep? Please do elaborate? Do you feel like you get subconsciously smarter by hearing content during sleep? Is there a reason for listening to books while sleeping? For me, lack of attention is a key reaso
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by kenneth 8y ago
OP probably has a US-centric view, and in that frame of reference it is amazing in comparison. Everything is relative.
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by kenneth 8y ago
I'd take NYC's dystopia over any other U.S. city's transit options.
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by kenneth 8y ago
So what? Should the environment be subsidizing a benefit to the poor? We have better ways to help the poor than to let them trash our planet.
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by kenneth 8y ago
They sometimes work fine when they're built by Governments. See Brasilia, Canberra, or even D.C.
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by kenneth 8y ago
Great story, and happy to see SubEthaEdit live on as open source software. Its main collaboration use case is still relevant and unique today. I'm glad they were at least able to get the technology integrated into Coda, and that they w
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by kenneth 8y ago
I'm pretty sure my needs are just as complex as yours. I run a venture fund and have a dozen accounts with them. It's just that anything I need can be done remotely. I've gone in branch (to deposit large amounts of cash or to
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by kenneth 8y ago
You're just using bad banks. I have a great private bank in San Francisco (First Republic), where I get personalized service via email, phone, or in person any time I need it. I can use any ATM in the world free of charge, and any time
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by kenneth 8y ago
Real estate is not a security, unless you buy a derivative of it (like equity in a REIT)
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by kenneth 8y ago
This uncannily reminds me of how I first learned to program (at ~10 years old, not 4, sadly). Growing up, at my grandparents house, we had a communal old Mac (running OS 7 or 8, and BeOS for a while). Being a curious kid, I would often watc
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by kenneth 8y ago
Would be a fantastic answer to the YC interview question on how you've handed a system, though
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by kenneth 8y ago
Not really. It's very finicky at best. Activating a WeChat wallet requires a Chinese ID or a bank card, and the latter works very unreliably with any foreign cards.
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by kenneth 8y ago
We already have blockchain anchors: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mycryptopedia.com/what-is-a...
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by kenneth 8y ago
It only scans the outside of the letter, not the contents. I'm not sure I follow how that's enough to steal a credit card number or other sensitive information in the mail.
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by kenneth 8y ago
The annoying thing about this proposition is that it proposes allowing the legislature to attempt to move to permanent PDT… which requires changing our timezone, something which requires an action from federal congress. If we had simply cho
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by kenneth 8y ago
There is no risk of SoftBank's financial situation causing a collapse at one of the companies in which they hold a minority stake. The worst that could happen is they don't fund Uber the next time they need funding.
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by kenneth 8y ago
Detroit I'm sure has plenty of real estate waiting for a good use. Yes, a lot of the blight has been razed, but my understanding is that there's still plenty of underused urban buildings.
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Planetary Resources Acquired by ICO Factory ConsenSys(planetaryresources.com)
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