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by opendais 12y ago
I don't believe that is legal.
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by opendais 12y ago
Did anyone else find the only part of the jibberish they heard was "...next stop" and they heard it on the first pass?
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by opendais 12y ago
If it is buffer like transparency, the VC can still read through and provide feedback at their leisure. No commute or anything. ;) At least to me, lowering the effort results in more/better participation.
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by opendais 12y ago
The program being opt-in is probably why. If you don't want "in" you can go to a different college.
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by opendais 12y ago
> It's called 'taxes'. The problem with "taxes" as the solution is if the grad leaves the state, they wouldn't get the money. "Taxes" is not a solution. The only way "taxes" would work i
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by opendais 12y ago
You can't actually tell if I'm home by driving by. You'd need to get out and walk. That is, assuming you know the schedule of my automated lights and can accurately guess if I'm home or not with blackout curtains over my
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by opendais 12y ago
It sounds like they pay Nest based on: http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2014/01/13/nest-gives... "Nest founder and CEO Tony Fadell told Forbes last month that his company had struck deals
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by opendais 12y ago
Wouldn't Buffer-like transparency be just as effective, honestly? The thing implied seems to be "The process to generate the presentation to the board == Value due to focus on key metrics." If you know what your key metrics a
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by opendais 12y ago
Yes but at that point you are theoretically traceable and can be found. It isn't like a botnet. Someone had to buy the domain.
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by opendais 12y ago
You aren't. The reason I'm on HN so much lately has more to do with my disquiet about work than anything else. That is another flaw, I am a trace of a worrier. :P I did try that for a year [straight partnership, the project I was
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by opendais 12y ago
It was a discussion of the long term trend, not specific to that instance. So you are saying more people lie about owning a gun to a nosy stranger than they did over the past 40 years? It also isn't a democrat or republican issue. The
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by opendais 12y ago
That is valid, I guess this is a case of my point of view clouding my judgement about what other people's options are. :)
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by opendais 12y ago
NCIS checks are up over 50% since 2002. http://www.forbes.com/sites/frankminiter/2012/08/23/what-the... So overall purchases are up. However, the number of households with guns is down: http:/
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by opendais 12y ago
> I didn't notice any changes in this after the post-Watergate "reforms", which happened not long after I became politically aware. That is why I added the 'at the latest' bit. I didn't want people to get hu
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by opendais 12y ago
Basically, yes. He should have tried [or not done what he did]. However, he made a mistake and paid for it.
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by opendais 12y ago
Fair enough, I don't agree but at least I'm sure I know your position now. :)
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by opendais 12y ago
> I think it is awesome that you went from 'no job in your area of expertise' to 'normal income' in 18 months. I'm pretty sure my outcome so far is 50%+ luck and I don't know if I'll be able to sustain
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by opendais 12y ago
> My nights & weekends developing software for my employer are investments in myself. No offense, but if they were investments in yourself I think you'd be either: A) Moonlight for $$ B) Working on a startup idea you were thinki
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by opendais 12y ago
The minority VC that gets left out in the cold? ;)
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by opendais 12y ago
Keyword: transfer I'm disagreeing about their being a transfer of power at this stage. There is no power transfer. The basic power blocks already existed in their current form, were the primary source of money for politicians, etc. s
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by opendais 12y ago
> "I can't create a job in the area I am trained/passionate about." A) Demand B) Access to Capital If you can't find an employer, there is likely insufficient demand. As someone who "created his job" in
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by opendais 12y ago
If the majority of intelligent, educated people make the wrong choice and you want to blame those people: A) You believe you are smarter than 60% of people with degrees and are accurately capable of predicting supply/demand. B) You bel
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by opendais 12y ago
http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d13/tables/dt13_318.20.as... Please find me 60% in a single class of major in that table for me? How about we write off two entire categories . Say Humanities and &quo
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by opendais 12y ago
It wasn't a noncompete. It was an invention agreement.
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by opendais 12y ago
Oh, I am sure. ;) I just would go with my valuation of the total compensation, not theirs. Same as I would do selling/buying a car.
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by opendais 12y ago
I don't think this is really a coup of some kind. It is more a consolidation of power by the oligarchy into a handful of politically powerful, wealthy groups. I think the reason this is working so well is the marketing. Almost no one g
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by opendais 12y ago
Yes. The only people in my social circle I know that didn't boomerang were STEM graduates. http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesmarshallcrotty/2012/03/01/m... 60% can't find a job in their fie
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by opendais 12y ago
> A lot of those 11% are still "failures" for the employees though - IPOs almost always are positive for employees, but acquisitions are not. > My personal, unscientific ballpark is that the odds of exiting your options for
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by opendais 12y ago
If they had an offer for $200 per share, they should get $200 per share even if Uber is the one buying it instead. > Two months ago, an early Uber employee thought that he had found a buyer for his vested stock, at $200 per share. Sorry
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by opendais 12y ago
I wasn't advocating you take a pay cut for options. ;) But I think $0 is wrong as well. http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000087239639044372020... 75% fail. 11% go public or acquired. It is a lottery tic

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