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by larrys 12y ago
Not true. I was bragging about negotiating the government down. Reason you (and others) jumped to that conclusion?
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by larrys 12y ago
"Your brevity almost sounds like gloating" Well yes I was bragging. I was pretty proud that I got it cut in half after an attorney told me to just pay the full amount that (he was a labor lawyer) he didn't think they would bu
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by larrys 12y ago
"Did the employee not complain to management prior to involving DOL?" Definitely not. Was a small company so I would have known. "And if the employee did not, do you have an idea of why?" I think they were probably upset
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by larrys 12y ago
As I've put in my other comment elsewhere I got hit with a DOL action many years ago. It definitely wasn't willful but we were running afoul of some hidden rule that even some lawyers had never heard of and didn't know about
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by larrys 12y ago
I had this happen to me at a company that I owned in the past. I got the DOL to chop the total amount due in half and then got them to allow us to pay it out over 4 or 5 years. (All without a lawyer btw...) Edit: Reason for downvotes?
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by larrys 12y ago
Note specifically the email section compared with these two: http://www.softlayer.com/virtual-servers http://www.hpcloud.com/acceptable-use-policy
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New Rackspace AUP (August 2014)(rackspace.com)
1 points by larrys 12y ago|2 comments
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by larrys 12y ago
God know I still have all the O'Reilly books dating back to the 90's that I refuse to throw out. (They are in a back room not on a bookshelf although they were on a bookshelf at my old office mid 00). But here's the thing. H
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by larrys 12y ago
What is interesting is that the technique (wedge) will work even if the authors are fully aware that that is what Amazon is doing.
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by larrys 12y ago
"Angel investors" and "angel investors in the valley" are not necessarily the same thing. Also the idea was not to invest in the particular product but in the entrepreneur and his capabilities.
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by larrys 12y ago
"but twice in a row clients have a hard time swallowing." May I ask what your clients are paying? Maybe the answer is to charge them more instead of giving them a low price (an assumption on my part of course which is why I ask wh
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by larrys 12y ago
The collective "HN" is really obsessed with the topic of success and intelligence. Almost in the same way that I would imagine teenage girls are obsessed with why some girls are popular and they aren't.
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by larrys 12y ago
Did that NPR report account for the fact that his mother knew the head of IBM from the Red Cross? Had that not been the case it's really a stretch to think that Gates would have made it to where he is today. (He would have been succes
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by larrys 12y ago
Re: Bob Jones of the world "Wiseman also found lucky people go out of there way to try new things and meet new people." You need to factor in looks as well. No doubt a good looking man or woman has an easier time getting people to
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by larrys 12y ago
"The SUV is the perfect "form factor" for an electric vehicle because" Don't agree. SUV has big wind drag (not sure if that is the right word for it) which reducing efficiency in gas powered vehicles. I can't
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by larrys 12y ago
What about angel investors? With some money what do you think you could might be able to do that you can't do now?
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by larrys 12y ago
"I don't think there is any privacy expectation there" I think the expectation of a typical cell phone user would be that there are not people other than phone companies for the purpose of providing service slurping up data f
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Kleiner's Laws(kpcb.com)
2 points by larrys 12y ago|0 comments
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by larrys 12y ago
I first thought that perhaps spin wasn't the right word maybe it is (I just looked this up). From this; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_%28public_relations%29 I see this: "Bernays was able to help tobacco a
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by larrys 12y ago
Although I'm a critic I don't think it's a stretch that they could be profitable. I still buy from them even though they now charge sales tax in my state and that was one of the reasons I started to use them way back. I think
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by larrys 12y ago
"Bezos has been completely transparent about his philosophy" I don't know if this is transparency as much as controlling the narrative and preempting and spinning potential criticism. Rhetoric. This is often done in marketing
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by larrys 12y ago
"Excess cash in a business that can not be explained should be just as worrisome" Really good point. As it happens one day recently I questioned my wife why our personal account had so much money in it. It turned out that she had
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by larrys 12y ago
I think I'm a bit older than you. They were "jerks" back when I started in business. But things have changed as you've pointed out. I had a run in with the labor department at my first company. I wouldn't exactly ca
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by larrys 12y ago
"How is $1 salary justified to IRS? " What they report to the IRS and what they show on financials could be 2 totally different things. Entirely possible that they are paying taxes on a higher salary.
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by larrys 12y ago
"Unfortunately for them the IRS accounts for this hack, and if an IRS audit finds the salary isn't reasonable then those amounts will be subject to payroll, social security, medicare, potentially higher income tax, and moving forw
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by larrys 12y ago
"Without making any value judgements about the operations of this particular company, one valuable lesson from the post is: do not ever use the Bank of America Payroll feature." There are actually all sorts of gotchas in business
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by larrys 12y ago
"I've chosen to never speed because it reduces my cognitive load." Never? Never speeding also means not always keeping up with traffic which might be flowing at a higher rate of speed. Consequently you are chancing a greater
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by larrys 12y ago
"In reality, though, the main point that you missed is that in a world made of shades of gray, the only person you can ever truly rely on is yourself. If you don't have scruples and you don't have honor, you don't have a
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by larrys 12y ago
"I asked him about his unwillingness to do what others have done (at the time it was drive faster than the speed limit on an empty road) " The above (parent comment) as well as your comment "I pulled all the money out super e
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by larrys 12y ago
"It's because check-ins don't work. After the novelty wears off, nobody wants to check in. Nobody. Like those stupid plastic awareness bracelets, check-ins were a fad that flared briefly and is now completely, 100% over.&quot

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