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by kwis 15y ago
Tarsnap provides exactly the sort of service you're referring to, where they only store encrypted data and don't have a copy of the key. I'm a big fan of that architecture, if only because it greatly reduces the payoff of a successful attac
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by kwis 16y ago
Good luck cashing that out without crashing the market. Somebody pointed out, just a few days ago, that a $10k sell-off recently scrubbed 25% off BCN/USD. A 400,000BCN sell-off would almost certainly drop it to pennies.
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by kwis 16y ago
I was specifically noting that I was getting a return by not using Spreedly, as compared to having used it. My apologies if that was unclear.
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by kwis 16y ago
The only situation where I can imagine it being a pain is if you aren't already following good security procedures. If your ops/DevOps guys are experienced pros, they're probably going to be pretty close to compliant, just out of habit. Th
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by kwis 16y ago
You need a written security policy, but that was pretty close to pro forma. The compliance firm wrote us one which we disseminated appropriately. You basically just need to follow some reasonable security standards. Firewalls, ssh/ssl adm
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by kwis 16y ago
It took us a couple hours to be in compliance with section C. If memory serves, we dealt with a vendor who did a scan, made us install AV software on our Linux boxes, and one or two other minor process adjustments. It wasn't a big deal. G
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by kwis 16y ago
I didn't mean to upvote you, I misclicked. I disagree with most of what patio11 said, and have found (like bryanh) that using ActiveMerchant with Auth.net was no harder than when I tried Spreedly. As such, I'd pass on patio11's advice and i
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by kwis 16y ago
There is no way I would ever take a job at such a joint, even if the original offer was fantastic. If I create a lot of value, I want to be able to capture a portion of it in my salary. I don't want to capture some average wage determined
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by kwis 16y ago
> but that is to be expected with any new currency. I think the problem is somewhat unique to unbacked currencies. BTC has value solely because some people agree that BTC has value. It can go to zero (and stay there) for any reason. T
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by kwis 16y ago
> By new insurance products you probably meant something like CDS? Or credit rating agencies using those improvements in risk analysis to rate those CDO's as AAA+++ would buy again? I made a list of a dozen or so recent, top-level finan
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by kwis 16y ago
> Yes, it's enough to talk about probably the biggest invention in financial sector in last 20 years. Off the top of my head, I would state that the following are unquestionably larger financial innovations in the past 20 years: SPDR
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by kwis 16y ago
Don't forget that you can switch jobs internally as well. Companies love to recruit internally, because it's a low-risk hire and they get to retain talent.
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by kwis 16y ago
> What should the punishment then be Punishment is overrated. The blame game is a game with no winners. The new CEO is setting a new tone, new structure and new priorities. Getting rid of people who fail to adopt the new vision is fi
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by kwis 16y ago
> and probably even some firings I was with you until you said this. If the problem was a company-wide cultural mismatch, it strikes me as somewhat absurd to declare that the answer is to fire the people who happened to be posted near t
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by kwis 16y ago
Just as a data point, I think it sounds like a feminine hygiene or household cleaning product.
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by kwis 16y ago
If you target everybody, you target nobody. They're segmenting a crowded market (on both the investor and entrepreneur sides of the market), investing in founders they understand, and I wish them luck with their new niche. Nordstrom's doesn
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by kwis 16y ago
It looks like I got confused because whoever edited the wikipedia article came from a country that uses '.' as a thousands separator. Looking more closely, they're a strange sort of conglomerate. At a glance, I see two banks, two insurance
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by kwis 16y ago
Mondragon has annual revenues of €174/employee. I have trouble viewing that as a proven model.
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by kwis 16y ago
What evidence do you have that extension classes are easier than their traditional counterparts? It's certainly easier to get into Extension than other Harvard colleges, but I see no evidence it's easier to graduate.
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by kwis 16y ago
Layoffs are routinely used as an opportunity to flatten organizations by removing layers of management. I don't think I've ever seen a corporate reorg where middle management wasn't amongst the hardest hit groups. They're expensive, and yo
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by kwis 16y ago
I've helped organizations transition from waterfall to agile, and there was absolutely no decrease in the workload for management. You still need some form of functional management to get the right staff, make sure they have what they need
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by kwis 16y ago
http://www.houshasen-pref-ibaraki.jp/present/result01.html This is a site with real-time radiation levels . The readings from this, and several other sites, have been verified as accurate. I see a disaster, but not a coverup. edit: http
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by kwis 16y ago
Sure. I think it's a potentially effective promotion for exactly the reason you describe. (free test, and if they're not actively dissatisfied, switching costs will likely cause them to stick with you.) That's an idea worth testing. I jus
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by kwis 16y ago
I'm surprised by this reaction. It's less than three weeks of hosting. I can't imagine being meaningfully swayed by that.
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Why Not To Do a Startup - Dave McClure(vimeo.com)
4 points by kwis 16y ago|0 comments
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by kwis 16y ago
> having laid claim to much of the best talent from the late '90s-era Atlantic Monthly. Thank you for answering a question I'd had for some years now, as to how VF became a source of serious long-form journalism.
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by kwis 16y ago
Perhaps it was intended as a non-snarky, non-aggressive statement, but I still have trouble reading it as anything other than passive-aggressive snark, especially given the context of the conversation. I find myself wishing I had a 'meh' fl
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by kwis 16y ago
I'll go ahead and suggest, since it's on topic in this thread, that passive aggressive snark like this is one source of HN's decline. One can disagree without being snarky and disagreeable.
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by kwis 16y ago
I assumed that the target market for HN is people in startups and people about to start startups. That said, if the target market is just 'hackers', just modify my question to refer to 'hackers' rather than 'founders'.
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by kwis 16y ago
It's interesting, but is it useful for a busy founder? Or to make that more concrete, would you forward that link to multiple portfolio CEOs and suggest they take time out of their day to read it and discuss it?

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