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by mchannon 8y ago
And thank you for shopping at your Goleta Home Depot store. I respect what you say, but it'll be $532.78 for that window air conditioner. Cash or charge?
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by mchannon 8y ago
Snap up oneononemeeting.com and redirect it (or redirect your current to that one). I couldn't get your name right and I'd probably be typical. Firm up the pricing a little better. I get that "enterprise" would want to n
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by mchannon 8y ago
A few points this person probably didn't think about: •Nobody knows what California electricity prices are going to do in the next 20 years. By terminating the system, they just traded certainty for volatility. With that attitude I hop
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by mchannon 8y ago
Trying to be, but can't get people excited about making silicon wafers with higher purity, zero waste products and at 10% the cost. So in the meantime I write apps.
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Call it anecdata, but a few of the things I noticed after a couple decades in the industry: 1. Water Water is extensively used and it has to be as pure as you can imagine. This requires a regular investment in filters and energy. I wouldn&#
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by mchannon 8y ago
Demand-based pricing and monopolistic practices. Say SFO to DEN has the big four carriers, each coming in suspiciously close to the exact same price ($199 one week out). Then Frontier decides to run that route, charging ~$99 one week out. T
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Lufthansa Sues Hidden City Ticketholder for Throwing His Ticket(cnn.com)
69 points by mchannon 8y ago|112 comments
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if ( self_employed == employed ) working 10 hours a week = employed;
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by mchannon 8y ago
Try the Ashley Madison approach to hiring: First, accept that the vast majority of people you want to hire are already employed and normally couldn't be bothered with your startup. The leftovers are either really unlucky or not worth h
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Last month I got billed $10.00 for a 100-page transcript. March of last year I got billed $12.60 for a 126-page transcript. Not sure where you're getting your information from.
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Lucky you. I’ve seen legal professionals not limit their queries, downloading 50 pages at $.10 each, when they’ve already downloaded the document umpteen times and only want to see the first or last page. That also goes out the window when
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by mchannon 8y ago
My PACER bill always manages to end up north of $25 a quarter. Reforms are sorely needed. Imagine google charging you (and your lawyer) $.10 per search plus $.10 per returned result.
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Focus on your safety and health first. Any wearable needs a power source, and any prototype is going to involve wires and breadboards that are not by default hermetically sealed. In the event your moist skin provides a lower-resistance path
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by mchannon 8y ago
A loved one went through a few rounds of Ketamine IV at a recently opened clinic. It was about $400 a treatment, not covered by insurance, but administered by credentialed professionals. The experience was a bit like a dialysis clinic, wher
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by mchannon 8y ago
Do you have your laptop? Good. Write a program that does this while I watch you code and criticize/ask noob questions. (checks watch) We don't use that old version here. Sorry, we don't have any company laptops available with
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by mchannon 8y ago
This is a straightforward, if not simple, math problem. Likelihood of happy path * happy path exit amount / happy path years until liquidation + equity-heavy salary A few considerations in terms of populating those numbers: 1. The entr
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by mchannon 8y ago
What could go wrong with this strategy? If you’ve ever been in one of these interviews, on either side of the table, plenty. Are you going to tell me the hiring manager is going to pick the best person for the job? There’s nobody closely wa
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A Letter from Your Director
3 points by mchannon 8y ago|2 comments
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There are two proven ways to do this. One is to pick a very frothy market. For instance, about 10 years ago I acquired a preorder for four Butterfly Labs Bitcoin miners shortly before they were to ship (months behind schedule but with the q
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by mchannon 8y ago
Used to do this exclusively. Now it requires a $200+ fee. Beats nothing, if you’re up against a deadline. Unregistered filing saved me last week.
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As things stand now, obviously not. Law enforcement doesn't have to prove you did it before the search and seizure, merely establish "probable cause". Was it probable it was your computer doing the downloading? At trial (in
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by mchannon 8y ago
I did kinda muddle the difference between guilt at trial and probable cause for a search and seizure in my post, but I believe most Americans at least would be of the opinion that even considering that possibility, it's still good enou
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by mchannon 8y ago
One I'm running into right now is the science of IP addresses. Unfortunately, 99% of criminal cases are where IP address "science" (if you can call it that) typically follows the formulaic story where somebody starts download
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The catch-22 in the bankruptcy business is how your clients pay you if you help them prove they're broke. So this is a huge need. You need to put FREE in big red letters at the top of your webpage. It's on there a few times but bu
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by mchannon 8y ago
If company culture is your primary goal, start a charity or a country club. There's a depressingly small amount of daylight between the pools of investor capital available on good terms and the language this guy speaks. I imagine he&#x
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When a guy tells you his experience, and you call bullshit, it's hard to tell whether you doubt his sincerity about having the experience at all or whether the experience itself was not representative of your reality. Either way, you&#
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by mchannon 8y ago
There's a Twilight Zone episode (Season 2, Episode 16) where a bank clerk can suddenly hear his every coworker's thoughts. After he causes a $200k loan to get denied because he realizes the recipient would gamble it, he reads the
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by mchannon 8y ago
The only downside is troll posts intended to harangue people of a certain mindset. Say I wrote an article that was controversial but was everything you wanted to hear. So you upvote it. Then, the trap sprung, I name-and-shame you for going
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by mchannon 8y ago
First three rules of real estate: location, location, location. Would you be interested in renting a 400 sf dilapidated teardown shack in western Kansas, no utilities, five hours from the nearest big city, no local jobs, and not near anythi
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by mchannon 8y ago
Used to own a factory Ford Ranger EV. The vehicle was a dead ringer for the gas version, down to the same weird gearshift off-by-half-a-position thing. I even gave people rides and they didn't notice it wasn't gas. Alas, it had a

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