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by kenneth 8y ago
No chance we let Turkey join the EU after the mess of the last few years.
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by kenneth 8y ago
Could be the German Büro
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Backbone of the Sahara [video](youtube.com)
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> [Libraries provide] welcoming public spaces for the poor, the homeless and young people. And isn't this precisely why normal people don't use libraries anymore? Because they've become de facto homeless shelters with unsa
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by kenneth 8y ago
I'm particularly excited about the prospects in Colombia and Mexico. Brazil has large potential too. What works well in Colombia easily translates to the whole Andes region (Ecuador, Peru, Chile). Note some large startup successes in t
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by kenneth 8y ago
As an investor based in the valley, I've been thinking about this for a long long time. I've traveled most of the world, and always made an effort to meet the local ecosystem. For the past few years, it's been hard for me to
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by kenneth 8y ago
I've flown pretty much every single first class long-haul product. There are some great first on non-Asian airlines too. You name Emirates / Etihad. I'd say my all time favorite first class is Swiss, and Lufthansa is great to
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by kenneth 8y ago
Frequent flyers fly business class. It would be insane to fly a full work flight schedule in long-haul economy. The occasional SFO-NYC in economy where my upgrade doesn't clear is torture. I can't fathom doing my usual 10h weekly
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by kenneth 8y ago
Business class has gotten pretty cheap these days. I'm in the middle of a trip from LA to Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and New York… all in business class with the long-hauls on lie-flat seats. Total cost… $1700. Entirely reasonable, and f
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by kenneth 8y ago
I just say PT all year (Pacific Time). Problem solved.
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Regular sails actually work similarly to a wing, in that pressure differentials on either side create a force we call lift on a plane, rather than simply being "pushed from the back" by directly catching the wind. That's why
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by kenneth 8y ago
You can buy bullion at close to spot prices on eBay from trusted sellers (APMEX or Kitco or JM Bullion)
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by kenneth 8y ago
On Mac, the little green light that comes on any time the camera is used is enforced at the hardware level. This gives me reasonable certainty it isn't being used illicitly. I find the camera covers everyone uses to be a form of unreas
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by kenneth 8y ago
Light aircraft are pretty cheap. A Cessna 150 can be acquired for just ~$15k.
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It's not the decryption process that is slow (computers can do AES really really fast these days), it's the deliberate slowness introduced by PBKDF2, which attempts to thwart brute force attacks.
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by kenneth 8y ago
Here's what did the trick from me: learn how a plane works. In detail, every piece. What are flaps, what are ailerons, what is lift, etc. etc. Read all the Vanity Fair articles explaining famous crashes. When you understand it all, it
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by kenneth 8y ago
The magic works of "let's sync offline" or "call you on your cell" are pretty good key phrases
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by kenneth 8y ago
Modest liquidity from previous startup successes (low six figures).
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Liquidation preferences are not unfavorable terms. A 1x non-participating liquidation preference is standard and protects investors against cheap acquihires founders would otherwise be inclined to take.
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by kenneth 8y ago
8 weeks is extremely fast for a seed round.
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I spent the bulk of this year fundraising, something which I was previously unfamiliar with (I've been in startups a few times, but there was always another "fundraising guy" who took that role. This time I rolled up my sleev
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by kenneth 8y ago
Spent most of 25 having freshly broken up by my long-term girlfriend and quit my job, flying around the world in first class on miles & points, while doing a bit of consulting work and investing, and a lot of spending down my savings (m
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by kenneth 8y ago
I use self-synced standalone 1Password for this reason. Much smaller attach surface.
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by kenneth 8y ago
This is in the USA. While I've invested in a few foreign companies, I'm not familiar with how other countries deviate generally from SV norms.
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by kenneth 8y ago
As an investor who invests at the Seed to Series A stage, I can tell you that a non-participating 1x liquidation preference is standard. I would refuse to invest in any deals that didn't include it, but won't be asking for anythin
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by kenneth 8y ago
Republic | Senior full-stack engineer | ONSITE, NYC or SF Republic is an investment crowdfunding platform, where anyone can be a startup investor with as little as $10. Republic is part of a prominent startup ecosystem: our sister companies
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by kenneth 8y ago
Very well explained — I wish this was the top comment on this entire page. These things are perhaps not entirely intuitive, but once you understand how an exchange really works they are quite obvious. It's disappointing that Bloomberg,
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by kenneth 8y ago
Take the Chase Freedom Unlimited card, for example. It ears 1.5% cash-back in the form of points. Those same points can also be transferred to airlines (as long as you have their premium card) If you have 115,000 points, you can use them to
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by kenneth 8y ago
A first-class ticket on Emirates bought in cash is a whole lot more than $1,500. But it'd be about about the points equivalent of that.
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by kenneth 8y ago
I disagree. I have no interest in fungible dollars when the alternative is miles which can be used to get outsized return on experiences. I have plenty of ways of making money, and trying to optimize for a %age of cash back is not particula

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