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by ojbyrne 10y ago
Easy explanation: all the other search queries for that phrase were spread over 2-3 months leading up to the vote.
842.
by ojbyrne 10y ago
I highly doubt they don't also have GAAP numbers. For marketing purposes, they use the numbers that put them in the best light.
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by ojbyrne 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments
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by ojbyrne 10y ago
I grew up in Canada and now in the US and after reading this, the first thing I thought of after reading this is - there are vastly fewer neighborhood bars in Canada. Strict drunk driving laws (obviously more important) and cold winters see
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by ojbyrne 10y ago
While the point is somewhat valid, California hasn't had a budget deficit (let alone a "massive" one) since 2012.
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by ojbyrne 10y ago
I often just go for walks at this point in the afternoon.
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by ojbyrne 10y ago
Which is in a foreign bank, many of which have U.S. subsidiaries. What's your point?
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by ojbyrne 10y ago
It is called the "New York Times."
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by ojbyrne 10y ago
You, in turn, donate $50k a year to politicians who work to cut the Franchise Tax Board's investigative budget.
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by ojbyrne 10y ago
As the quora question here - https://www.quora.com/How-did-Bill-Gates-own-such-a-large-sh... - says, its for a pretty straightforward reason, economics. If you need investor money to grow, you get diluted. If you don't
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by ojbyrne 10y ago
Certainly good points, but one of the unique things about the Bay Area,especially compared to the east coast megalopolis, is that you can also be in the wilderness in 15-30 minutes.
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by ojbyrne 10y ago
The moral problem I see with this, is that actually pursuing a lawsuit is so inordinately expensive, that someone like Hulk Hogan, who presumably earned some cash in his life, can't pursue it on his own.
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Startup Employees Invoke Obscure Law to Open Up Books(wsj.com)
424 points by ojbyrne 10y ago|171 comments
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by ojbyrne 10y ago
I wonder how much of an overlap there is with "waiting in line." because that's a big use case for me.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
"...almost as if they were looking for a reason not to hire me" Essentially that's what is going on. Easier to exercise your biases when the default is "don't hire."
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Aging Runners Find Help for a Question: How Slow Will I Get?(nytimes.com)
4 points by ojbyrne 11y ago|0 comments
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The Mirage of a Return to Manufacturing Greatness(nytimes.com)
4 points by ojbyrne 11y ago|0 comments
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_subduction_zone
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
Really seems to be casting things in an "us vs. them" light, which is just bad.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
So I started reading this book, and the immediate thing that strikes me is the obvious age bias (against young people) of the author. It's full of phrases like "just out of high school," (about a director:) "looked like
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
Unless they can "batch" up deliveries enough. I.e. that 30 minutes actually involves 8+ deliveries to people near you. Hard to do obviously.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
It's in the article: 'The "misappropriation theory" holds that a person commits fraud "in connection with" a securities transaction, and thereby violates § 10(b) and Rule 10b-5, when he misappropriates confiden
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
H1-B is actually a "dual-intent" visa and is often used for people on non-immigrant visas to move towards getting a green card.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
You can be a "co-founder" of a funded startup though. As long as the company has enough financial backing to prove they can pay you a market wage, and you meet the other requirements.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
I found it interesting that while VCs are peddling gloom right now, both Box and Square - 2 much criticized IPOs - both announced good results that beat expectations. Expect he herd mind to turn yet again.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
I think you meant $600 billion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_...
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
More important than quitting, in my opinion (as an H1B) is the threat of getting fired.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
It's still not in Mountain View.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
My father is a "true" engineer. He has said to me that the amount of education I have and work I have done would make it easy to be certified as a P.E.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
It seems like "parallel construction." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction The FBI already have what they need, by illegal means. Unfortunately, due to security, they're stuck.

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