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by nocoiner 4y ago
I think I’m on their server, but I don’t think I ever really interacted with them. In retrospect, I suppose I should have and gotten a better sense of their character (which is why I’m being a bit more careful in evaluating whether I start
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by nocoiner 4y ago
I don’t mind feeding FlightAware and Flightradar24 - they’re for-profit companies, and are clear about the terms of exchange something of (dubious) value for the data they receive. This feels a lot more skeezy. Oh well, fool me once, and al
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by nocoiner 4y ago
Welps, shutting off my feed today. I was actually thinking about this exact scenario just last week. Funny to hear that it happened.
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by nocoiner 4y ago
> not seeing many of the most popular charger brands: Blitzwolf, Baseus, Kuulaa, USLion, UGreen, etc. I see that we’re rapidly approaching the point where the only remaining words available to be trademarked are “Popplers” and “Tasticule
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by nocoiner 4y ago
It seems like it would have to be an overstatement to say that any form of money was the norm for “all” of human history. I would think that any form of money (much less something like cash) would be a relatively recent development relative
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by nocoiner 4y ago
I wish they had a one-time purchase option, even if it’s only for one or a set number of major versions. Oh well.
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by nocoiner 4y ago
Outstanding, just outstanding. Way to stick it to your server to throw a fit about a duly-enacted law you don’t like. I would have thought the price of surrendering one’s decency and regard for fellow humans would be somewhat more than two
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by nocoiner 4y ago
When you say the deal will lose money, do you mean that (1) the project’s operating expenses exceed its income, (2) the building can’t be satisfactorily recapped after completion/stabilization, (3) the MOIC at exit will be less than 1.
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by nocoiner 4y ago
Presumably this would be implemented through some sort of ERM/ECU-like mechanism during a transition period? I’m generally in favor of the European project, and think the last 75+ years of peace (ex Ukraine) speak for itself. And I und
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by nocoiner 4y ago
My immediate naive reaction is that a world where everything is perpetually protected as a trade secret might be a worse one than we have now. Though certainly our current system has plenty of faults.
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by nocoiner 4y ago
But nobody’s buying Sonos gear to get a dumb speaker. If they’re dropping Sonos money on those products, they’re buying into an ecosystem with capabilities that are a function of tightly coupled software and hardware. A whole lot like Apple
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by nocoiner 4y ago
The developer gets the upside of building a successful business and takes the downside of making business decisions that turn out to be misguided, no? To put it another way - if the shareholders had had a nine-figure exit, would they have p
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by nocoiner 4y ago
Not to further beat the horse that is thoroughly bloodied and unrecognizable, but I’d say this is more like having the water and power shut off and the furniture repossessed on the first day of a week-long stay. Maybe legally, ethically, mo
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by nocoiner 4y ago
I keep reading your responses on this topic and nodding my head more and more vigorously. I really do feel for the devs, but also seems like they had a good run - really, about as long of a run as anyone can expect reasonably have in this s
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by nocoiner 4y ago
For what it’s worth, 100% agree with you. I’m sorry for what’s happened to this dev - must be gutting - but why on earth should their customers be the ones to bear the loss of not getting to use what they paid for?
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by nocoiner 4y ago
Maybe it’s just been years since I sent an overnight envelope without my secretary’s help, but a couple months or two ago, I went to a UPS store to send a letter overnight and it was $75. Crazy. I feel like not that long ago, overnighting a
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by nocoiner 4y ago
I’m pretty sure this was written in order to invoke provisions of the relevant (unionized) employees’ collective bargaining agreement. When I first read it, I was shocked at the tone and outraged on behalf of the employees, but upon re-read
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by nocoiner 4y ago
But DFW is hotter than Houston? Houston is more humid and can sometimes feel warmer, but DFW is typically 5-15 degrees hotter on the same day in Houston, and the heat there is comparatively bone dry.
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by nocoiner 4y ago
I’m a life-long Texan (more or less), and this sounds like totally logical analysis. I love living in Texas, but I don’t particularly care for our state government, but it also doesn’t affect me enough to affirmatively desire to leave the s
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by nocoiner 4y ago
Sadly, there was a real pilot on the plane - he was on his rest period when the incident started. He had come back to the cockpit and correctly diagnosed the issue, but was too late to save the plane.
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by nocoiner 4y ago
To oversimplify it somewhat, he could back out and walk away owing the $1 billion only if his debt financing sources had refused to fund. It was unlikely that was going to happen because (1) his lenders had committed to finance the deal (ba
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by nocoiner 4y ago
Yeah, but that’s not how public company acquisitions work. Basically the reason that there’s a lag between when the contract is signed and when the acquisition closes is because there’s a lot of logistical stuff that has to happen in the me
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by nocoiner 4y ago
Fun fact: Tom Lehrer invented the Jell-O shot.
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by nocoiner 4y ago
You need lawyers involved, but one of the most important things here is going to be what the LLC agreement actually says (is there a written LLC agreement, or when you formed the company did you default to statutory LLC provisions)? As an a
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by nocoiner 4y ago
Oh man, I remember that “game”! Ironically, I lost my fleet while I was on a plane to Germany to visit a friend doing a semester abroad over there. I logged into a computer lab at his school, bore witness to the destruction of my fleet an
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by nocoiner 4y ago
????? You are painting with an awfully broad brush. I’m a dem, and I abhor what it seems SBF (allegedly) did. I hope every candidate who receive a contribution from him returns it, and if he did what he’s alleged to have done, I hope he spe
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by nocoiner 4y ago
I think you and I think along roughly similar lines. Several years back, I was in the market for an EV and seriously considering a Tesla. However, during the course of that consideration, he made the “$420 funding secured” tweet (and also I
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by nocoiner 4y ago
I’m a lawyer, and think this is great advice. I would add two caveats: 1. Some people are out to trick you. A contract won’t save you from them, but having a lawyer review it beforehand and identify it as an egregious one might be a usefu
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by nocoiner 4y ago
It seems like for the first domain on your list (angeiras.com), you’re quite explicitly marketing it to the proprietor of the popular seafood place you mention. But if you say you’re not squatting, I’m sure there’s something I’m missing.
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by nocoiner 4y ago
So, that to me sounds like equity in the parent company of an operating business. Which may well be a very worth investment! But not for me on the risk/reward scale. I’m not sure why you’re bringing up the commodity ETFs, but 100% agre

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