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by nirvana 14y ago
Why is it when someone talks about a bad experience they had, then they are biased? Why do you feel the need to minimize my experience? "Slighted"? No, I was slighted by microsoft thru an unintentional sequence of events. I'd still say
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by nirvana 14y ago
>You can always count on nirvana to come up with the maximal libertarian argument. Thank you! >What proof is there that this is a government created monopoly? I'm sorry, but I thought everyone knew that in the USA, most municipaliti
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A Seed Stage Valuation Guide(jordancooper.wordpress.com)
1 points by nirvana 14y ago|0 comments
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by nirvana 14y ago
Generally responses where you mischaracterize what someone has said are not preferred on this forum. That is what I'm saying, and you continue to do it. Effectively, you're just calling me names. In this example, you're claiming that I'm s
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by nirvana 14y ago
I did read the article. I saw nothing in it that contradicts my position. I haven't seen any statements from others that contradict my understanding of the facts. Your comment doesn't provide me any understanding of your disagreement with
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by nirvana 14y ago
How can consensual sex be assault? Even in the UK?
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by nirvana 14y ago
I think you missed my point. My point is that a crime was not committed, based on the present facts. The law itself criminalizes a non-crime. I'm not saying trials are unnecessary, I'm pointing out there isn't any dispute on the basic fac
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by nirvana 14y ago
I think its "kids these days" don't realize its hard for us "old folks" to read... but then he is a designer so.... What gets me are the sites who somehow break the generally very good scaling that Safari lets me do to make the text bigger.
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by nirvana 14y ago
Of all the government created monopolies, the cable monopolies are some of the worst. If cable companies had to compete to keep business, they'd offer better service and treat their employees better. Southwest airlines is a good example of
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by nirvana 14y ago
Oh, sorry, I am not uneducated. I have read a great deal of accounts on this issue back when the charges were first leveled. I have heard the story from both sides in interviews, saw the tweets, looked into the charges and the law itself.
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by nirvana 14y ago
The charge is that he had consensual sex with these women and prosecutors decided it was "rape" because they didn't use protection. Weeks after the fact, when they wanted him for other reasons. They aren't even claiming that it wasn't con
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by nirvana 14y ago
Having worked for Microsoft and Amazon, there is a reason that so many engineers go to work for Microsoft, or Google, after working at Amazon for awhile. It isn't just that they offer better benefits than Amazon. I do not think this program
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by nirvana 14y ago
Especially since the one "innovation" I'm aware of from him is his habit of throwing very exclusive parties and using access as a mechanism to profit.
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by nirvana 14y ago
World War II, the Berlin Wall. Remember the Wall only came down in 1990ish. There is still a huge swath cut thru the city where it used to be, without buildings. The former east german side has many old buildings built up in the prosperou
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by nirvana 14y ago
By definition the problems of greece are the problems of germany because they share the same currency. As greece is unable to pay its debts, the only ways to help it are inflationary. Monetary inflation is what drives down the value of cu
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by nirvana 14y ago
Berlin has the largest turkish population outside of instanbul. They have turkish restaurants everywhere and also grocery stores. The population is ethnically very diverse, though of course, more middle eastern people than latin american o
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by nirvana 14y ago
I think you're bringing up good points, which I would summarize this way: The berlin startup scene is great for recent graduates as an employee, but if you're more experienced, then you want to be a founder.
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by nirvana 14y ago
We were there in the winter of 2010, which was called "the coldest winter in berlin in a century" at the time. Walking around outside on the coldest days, it was rather cold, but not that bad at all. Certainly getting around on the u-bahn
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by nirvana 14y ago
We've been traveling with our startup for about 4 years. Berlin is by far the best city of all the ones we've visited, though Amsterdam is very close in terms of being a nice place to live. Living on the eastern side of the wall, rents are
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by nirvana 14y ago
Besides being polite this letter provides two remedies that are unusual, and I think there might be a potential third that would make these cases much less contentious. First off, it doesn't demand a removal of the book for sale, but merely
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They still complain about its loss... in the years since it has never been replaced. As an employee, I had no choice in the decision.
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by nirvana 14y ago
People are used to having a Facebook id. They go there to hang out with their friends or their old buddies. They're not used to needing to log in to search google, and I doubt they are going to want to. Google is increasingly making you n
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by nirvana 14y ago
FWIW, I was an early employee at a startup that was acquired around 1998 for around this amount of money. In those days this wasn't considered an "acquihire" but a "successful exit" or a "base hit". (e.g.: not a failure but not the success
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by nirvana 14y ago
Could it simply be that Google is willing to so overpay for engineers that it makes sense for Sparrow, which, in previous times would itself be a nice successful small business (like eudora used to be, etc.) Back in the day, Sparrow might h
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by nirvana 14y ago
I think github would be the exception that proves the rule, because the github investment isn't a typical "Venture" investment- it was much closer to a late stage hedge, or hedge fund investment. This was a company that was profitably growi
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Kim Dotcom responds with a song (not bad even.)(rt.com)
3 points by nirvana 14y ago|0 comments
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The problem is, you do need to be a millionaire to be an angel investor. IF not you open your investments up to liability unless you really are "friends and family". This industry is regulated and McClure sorta completely glossed over it.
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by nirvana 14y ago
Nothing. There's also nothing to stop you from having a $30k income, and taking out a $130k unsecured loan, with a consequential $0 net worth (EG: $130k now n the bank and a $130k loan balance).... and going to Las Vegas and putting all $13
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Apple tends to replace these things in 30 minutes. Maybe - and by definition this is speculation on all sides- the new machine's battery can't be replaced according to Apple's historical standards. But it seems highly unlikely. On the oth
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by nirvana 14y ago
Talk is about 36 minutes (then questions). The theoretical part at the beginning is the best, and then seeing the actual implementation for Bloom was very informative. I do think this will highly influence my solutions for these kinds of p

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