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by mason55 10y ago
The problem with startup RSUs is that you are taxed when the RSUs vest. If there is no liquidity (which is the case for most startups) then you're paying taxes on RSUs which you can't sell and may never be worth anything.
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by mason55 10y ago
That is why YC is investigating guaranteed basic income.
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by mason55 10y ago
Seems like this would have been straight forward with a virtualenv?
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by mason55 10y ago
Cold brew at the Starbucks in Zurich airport is CHF8 (~$8)
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by mason55 10y ago
> Maybe the existing knowledge of the API and general head start will cause people not to switch? It's hard to imagine anyone switching. Presumably if Amazon started trying to compete on price then Twilio could lower their prices
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by mason55 10y ago
The new law is against advertising the apartment. So NYC can go after people just for putting the apartment online instead of having to rely on AirBnB taking it down.
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by mason55 10y ago
Standard wash and fold service is not that expensive, at least in NYC, and usually they'll pick up and drop off for free.
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by mason55 10y ago
It's frequently used in law contexts as well in American English ("treble damages")
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by mason55 10y ago
Did you come out of the womb knowing how to program or is it something that you spent some time on, reading, practicing, working your way through uncomfortable situations? Social competency is a skill just like any other and requires practi
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by mason55 10y ago
One problem is that junior and mid level developers have a lot of trouble figuring out good coupling because they are not experienced in the ways things can change. I was reviewing some code yesterday and the developer had a bunch of interf
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by mason55 10y ago
You skipped the second part of that. Unless your web application is running on the database server then you are no longer running single node, your web app and db server can become partitioned.
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by mason55 10y ago
They absolutely do this and have been doing it for awhile. If you google "Facebook shadow profiles" you'll get plenty of info about it.
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by mason55 10y ago
I shared an office with a guy who did a couple years for white collar crime. He got out and started a business that placed local voip numbers near prisons then patched the calls through to long distance numbers. He charged way less than t
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by mason55 10y ago
The darknet is very straightforward to use and almost riskless for a small time buyer
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by mason55 10y ago
Unless you're using a language with lazy evaluation
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by mason55 10y ago
> I dont think its every girls dream to be a sex worker when she grows up. Is it most people's dream to be a fast food worker, Walmart greeter, or street sweeper? Tons of people work jobs they didn't dream of because they pay
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by mason55 10y ago
Which is why a liquid emergency fund is the first recommendation for anyone trying to secure their personal finance situation.
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by mason55 10y ago
You have to do a multi-step transition 1. Add new database structure (new columns, new tables, whatever) but leave all the old structure in place 2. Update all servers with code that writes in the new format but understands how to read both
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by mason55 10y ago
> most people ... would prefer to work remotely. I'm really curious about this. I did full remote for about 3 months and I thought I was going to go crazy.
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by mason55 10y ago
Prices would be much higher here. I imagine your $10k goes much further in Czech
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by mason55 10y ago
Think about all the automation improvements blocked by unions. With UBI you'd likely have much less of that.
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by mason55 11y ago
> OR invest in their own company more, quality is down over the past 5 years, they can invest in more engineers. And if you want a baby faster then get nine women so you can have a baby in a month
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by mason55 11y ago
> So we're in the price war stage still, not much at the differentiation stage. Depends what you're looking for I suppose. If all you need is basic compute instances then, yes, it's a price war. Any products beyond tha
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by mason55 11y ago
Sure, a basic VPS could be a drop-in replacement, but think of all the stuff that goes on with managing that. If you want to automate the creation of new servers then you have to script it or use something like CloudFormation or Tropospher
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by mason55 11y ago
> they build cloud agnostic software that treats providers as a utility It's like browsers all over again. As long as each provider is offering different things or different implementations of the same thing we will either need t
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by mason55 11y ago
That's interesting, when I interviewed (admittedly it was like 8 years ago), the first interview was standard CS questions and the second interview focused on deeper C++ questions (things like analyzing how a vtable is constructed).
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by mason55 11y ago
Overall bodyweight is controlled by calories in vs. calories out. The different types of calories that you consume (fats vs. carbs vs. proteins) control things like how the extra bodyweight is stored or burned off and the signals your body
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by mason55 11y ago
> and their choice is diminished to the extent that any software gets swept into this kind of system. The nice thing about software is that if the app is really so simple that it's only worth a few bucks then someone (or many peop
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by mason55 11y ago
It's survivorship bias. Sure, it's easy to point out how obvious the winners were, but there are probably 10 others that looked like winners but ended up failing.
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by mason55 11y ago
> She regularly has nights where she makes $300+ in tips. If tips did not exist, the restaurant would presumably pay her minimum wage or something close (as opposed to the "minimum wage with tip" they currently pay). There is

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