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by omouse 8y ago
There are bitcoin tumblers , essentially the idea is to split up the transaction into multiple transactions of varying sizes to various addresses and to keep doing that in such a way that it doesn't look weird... Basically they try to
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by omouse 8y ago
> They have class C shares, which do not have any voting rights. Shareholders without voting rights have absolutely no power to influence policy. You're right, they're using class C for compensation: https://www.in
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by omouse 8y ago
You're right, it will be peace for our time if they bend slightly less: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_for_our_time
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by omouse 8y ago
Is net neutrality a thing in India? Because that sounds like a clear case of an infrastructure providing content which could lead to a lot of conflict of interest (like the bundling and lower price that you mention)
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by omouse 8y ago
> further strengthening management's choices I think people are forgetting that each of those Google (former) employees have shares and are also shareholders and shareholders will start to get pissed when management is screwing
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by omouse 8y ago
The job description is prioritization which is essentially saying "yes" or "no" to certain tasks. Especially in tech companies, the front line reports can always find something to do. Software developers want to automate
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by omouse 8y ago
"Dry.io also has no business model, yet." Well at least they're not taking VC funds and are funded by the previous exit of one of the founders (though I'm guessing their previous startup wasn't profitable or had
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by omouse 8y ago
Here are a few quotes that are, hopefully, explanatory of why it's bad: > One Ontario social worker, who participates in a Situation Table and spoke to Motherboard on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak
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by omouse 8y ago
Linear is more predictable and easier to manage, mentally, so I don't think that will change any time soon.
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by omouse 8y ago
Public roads are supposed to be paid for through fuel taxes, which every Uber and Lyft driver pays Do Uber and Lyft pay those drivers' fuel costs?
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by omouse 8y ago
Identities in comment sections have always been fake and anonymous and this is a good thing even if it results in occasional spam reviews Comments are not the same as reviews. This is why Amazon, for example, has "verified purchase&q
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by omouse 8y ago
What is actually bad about people not recognizing your brand correctly Yeah I'm sure Cuke and Papsi would have no problem with that as their coca-cola soft drink products are instantly recognizable as soon as you drink them.
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by omouse 8y ago
With TypeScript it's basically like Emacs-Lisp in terms of the volume of warts, if not in the same space of bizarreness.
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by omouse 8y ago
FINALLY. "In addition, the order requires the defendants to notify Amazon, Inc. that they purchased Amazon reviews of their Quality Encapsulations Garcinia Cambogia capsules and to identify to Amazon the purchased reviews." Onli
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by omouse 8y ago
They're only well-funded for now. That funding can go away if enough people, such as yourself, complain about this. They need to sustain themselves, just like any other organization. If they are a net negative in the world, I would wit
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by omouse 8y ago
Biggest missing piece here is what drives the plan and the development. Delivering value? How is the value defined and where's that coming from? Customer surveys every few months? Number of clicks on a feature or page? Can't have
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by omouse 8y ago
This is basically why I end up going back to Emacs. It's waaaaay too easy to start writing functions and the built-in help system (with docstrings almost everywhere for every function and variable) is invaluable. Though I'm beginn
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by omouse 8y ago
I wonder if there's an impact from the increase in startups? Since most early employees are getting paid in equity rather than real dollars wouldn't there be a stagnation for a few years until the equity is transformed into cash?
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by omouse 8y ago
Congrats to Dyneti Technologies, Point, Traverse Technologies, MyScoot, Sunsama, Postscript on getting in! Skill-lync looks awesome, nice to see more startups in the education/training space: https://courses.skill-lync.com&#
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Companies from the YC Winter 2019 Batch Part 2(blog.ycombinator.com)
2 points by omouse 8y ago|1 comments
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by omouse 8y ago
This is why we need unions.
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by omouse 8y ago
This is the saddest part of this new artificial intelligence gold rush; not everyone has security/cybersecurity/defensive programming training. The mistakes we see with ETH smart contracts or with JavaScript on web apps is going t
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by omouse 8y ago
>Is it just to keep the in house design team busy? Yes, that's essentially it. Most projects are make-work to some extent when you're paying for people's time in monthly or yearly increments.
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by omouse 8y ago
This was the cool part as others have noted. For the techies and nerds, # = IRC and it's like "cool, a nod to tech we know and love and now we have a replacement for". For the Twitter or Facebook generation it's a hashta
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by omouse 8y ago
>Marketing veteran here. Just like Uber and Instagram, they messed up big. They took something iconic and replaced it with something forgettable. The first sentece after they show it tells the lie: Yep; exactly. These companies are succ
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by omouse 8y ago
It's illegal though, you have to disclose your affiliation with the company, no?
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by omouse 8y ago
>There are a lot of people who believe that building a huge Instagram following is a core component to building businesses, especially in the fashion/fitness/lifestyle arenas Yep and they are the suckers in the game that are bu
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by omouse 8y ago
How naive. Spotify playlists are now sponsored, so if they know what music you like and can predict what you will listen to in the next few days, they can offer playlists that you will likely play. When I played music using iTunes or MPD, i
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by omouse 8y ago
>. With their massive amount of users and incredibly diverse service offerings I'd love to see their backend architecture design choices/tradeoffs. Probably helps when the govt is footing at least part of the bill in order to a
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by omouse 8y ago
>It is probably the most successful social network app/money transfer app out there The gamification is intense .

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