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by nrmitchi 4y ago
When "selling user data" is the line between losing 44-billion dollars and NOT losing 44-billion dollars, lines get very blurry.
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
This really isn't a just for Twitter ; this is the danger of selling any application with a large install-base. Doesn't really matter if it's a social network app, borderline-useless mobile app, Facebook App (I'm lookin
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
1. I agree, it’s a bit tangential to call this a “darknet market arrest” instead, since the “darknet market” was the “victim”. 2. People largely hate when cops find someone for doing 55 in a 54, so it’s probably not a great example, but I t
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
I could completely see an argument for tax evasion, that is a crime where the technical victim is the government (and thus, citizenry), not where the victim is an illegal operation that no longer exists. However, he isn’t being charged with
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
I may get slammed for this, but I don’t understand the resources that apparently went into tracking down some kid who stole from an illegal marketplace a decade again. This feels way less like “pursing justice” and more like trying to track
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
They’re related, but different things. Interest rate changes could (will) reduce demand because people can’t “afford” what they used to be able to. Mass layoffs can lead to people being forced to sell because they can no longer afford payme
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
I'm not sure what the "elon support" split on HN is, but in the past it seems to have been rather 50/50. I suspect that HN has recently seemed more anti-elon because the anti-elon crowd has a lot of bullshit to point to
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
That's not what I'm referring to. Starlink was attempting to get almost $1B worth of grants from the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund, which exists to "bring high speed fixed broadband service to rural homes and small businesse
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
This question could be an entire series of answers, but yes, the environment absolutely contributes to ones performance. Not only in explicit ways such as availability of resources, supportive processes, and the cognitive comfort of being w
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
Because the initial selling point was “providing access to those living in rural areas without great alternatives” and then they tried to get a bunch of government funding for providing residential connectivity in those areas (And then fail
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
As someone who has been laid off before, it’s not always as clear as you’d think when there’s a 50% chance the people you need to ask were laid off too.
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
Given that they’re explicitly setting up a situation to fire someone “for cause”, and it’s explicitly said he’s not expecting a severance package, it sounds like he didn’t get it “along with a severance package”.
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
I’d say it’s extremely unlikely that Robinhood would actually close shop. Worst case, they get bought for a pittance and customers get migrated over 12-24 months.
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
I am familiar enough with the concepts of OE. There is a difference between being good and efficient enough to handle number roles, and the borderline scam of "get a remote job and try to stay under the radar and drag it out before the
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
> It is far better to be a massive underperformer In what world do you read this and think "doing the job well enough at all 3"?
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
If by "record" they mean "write down what is said" then they wouldn't specifically be suggesting finding a colleague in a single-party consent state. Because "writing stuff down" isn't prohibited in a
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
> If you’re not in a single party consent state, get creative. Have a colleague in one of these states hop on the phone to help you record and document any layoff conversations. This feels like very risky advice. If your colleague is not
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
Why do you expect no-longer-a-public-company Twitter to report anything next quarter, or to have a “share price” that you have access to?
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
Please point to where in my comment I used the word "Trump" or tried to make this a political debate.
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
I think this (at least the first part) is fairly bang-on. There is a difference between diversity of "the place where you are forming an opinion", and diversity of what that opinion is. By saying that a council needs to equally re
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
A system, but not AirBNBs system.
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
It sounds like he had 3000 actively paying business users at the start of this negotiation, with revenue matching up with a series A level co (so likely significant, but definitely under $10M ARR. If they started with a benchmark valuation
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
It seems like it's really just reselling a commodity. Which can be fine, many companies are successful doing it, and you could (in theory) build a more useful product on top of it. There's still the fact that many of these compani
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
The word "fraudulently" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. As I understand it, the bar to get into "fraud" territory is actually pretty far down the spectrum. Dating people and limiting people you go on dates with the
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
I'm not going to disagree that this definitely happens a lot, but it's definitely not an option for many people who have been stuck in a backlog for 10 years and are already married/have children with a spouse that immigrated
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
I'm not doing this, but it would be very useful when using row level security in a multi-tenant application. You can create a single view for "all active orders" (or whatever, just an example) and querying that view from diff
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
Obviously. Grandparents should having been willing to sacrifice themselves for the sake of the economy /s
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
There’s a difference between people complaining about PPP as a concept (which I don’t think many are?) and complaining about PPP abuse, funds being given to companies that were not impacted by shut downs, straight up fraud, and people takin
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
With 0 employees, why have the office with all the desks in the background in the picture at the top of the page. It’s pretty clear there are other people doing something , whether they are called “employees” or not.
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by nrmitchi 4y ago
To be fair, there are examples of this in almost every industry and/or software-product vertical.

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