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by otoburb 6y ago
It's been a few years since we left, but those prices are generally for Vancouver specials because the land is more valuable than the old frame. I know PoCo has risen in price, but not near $1.5M-$2M CAD for a starter. Many friends bit
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by otoburb 6y ago
>> Canada taxes capital gains at 50% anyway so it’s probably not a great idea to value it as much there. Can you elaborate on this a bit more? I thought that Canada only taxes half of the capital gains which is then added to your tax
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by otoburb 6y ago
>> I just picked up the more restrictive license at the beginning - being a sole funder and not working on this full time etc. I simply did not want somebody (e.g. a big company with a big team) grabbing my code along the way and runn
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by otoburb 6y ago
Where are you getting the $7K CAD number from? There's a similar number floating around from the Canadian Institute for Health Information[1] but that same source also lists USA per capita expenditure at $14K[2], and not $34K USD. It s
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by otoburb 6y ago
>> I also believe humanity’s chances of escaping the great filter is ~0% That turned dark, quickly. I was nodding my head up until that point. Things may look bleak now, but I live believing that humanity’s chances are higher than a
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by otoburb 6y ago
If the number of sales are picking up again after prices have dropped so dramatically then I view the uptick in demand as a positive sign that aspiring property owners have found new market clearing prices and are willing to move into the c
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by otoburb 6y ago
To cross all the t's and dot all the i's, you might be able to join a friends-and-family round under Rule 504, but your founder friend should still do the due diligence to ensure the participating friends and family investors resi
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by otoburb 6y ago
I believe Deno links to dependencies directly so that you can still rely on old(er) versions, but not sure it would have helped in this case.
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by otoburb 6y ago
>> If you start making private markets open to everyone, then there's no reason to differentiate between public and private markets anymore. Couple this with 401Ks now giving retail investors (likely high-fee) choices to invest
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by otoburb 6y ago
Some of the earlier proposals and discussions from public discourse included comments referring to credentials such as CPA, CFA, CMA, being a registered representative, MBA, CIMA, or possibly having been a broker, lawyer or accountant.[1][2
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by otoburb 6y ago
>> We actually restructured our entire product to win the sale of a very large customer who’s users didn’t fit perfectly into our metaphor. It was unwieldy and we basically rolled the whole thing back several years later. Did you clo
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by otoburb 6y ago
>> Both my neighbors sold in the last 3 months. Lots of people leaving, but since their properties sold it also means that people are, by definition, also buying and moving in. The key is not "how many people are leaving" b
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by otoburb 6y ago
>> ARM/RISCV/x86/GPU/TPU/storage ... those are just configuration options. But ISA still matters. Switching from Intel to AMD likely isn't much of a switch, but switching to a different ISA in the datac
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by otoburb 6y ago
I haven't been able to find a PDF version of the S-1 filing myself to compare. I will note that I'm also using Firefox and headers are aligned for me. The irony is that everybody bemoans PDF yet formatting control is exactly why i
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by otoburb 6y ago
I checked p. 3 and pp. 13-14 -- numbers match.
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by otoburb 6y ago
>> We accidentally a whole hash function… but we had a good reason! I think they missed a couple of words and meant to say that they "accidentally created a whole new hash function", but I can't be sure. UMASH was
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by otoburb 6y ago
Thanks for confirming. Functionality came back (for me).
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Ask HN: Is HN karma functionality disabled?
2 points by otoburb 6y ago|2 comments
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by otoburb 6y ago
Demand and supply. Clearing prices are higher in the US for a variety of reasons.
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by otoburb 6y ago
VDOS/Norton Commander[1] jumps to mind when I read your description, except that was more popular when everybody was migrating to 3.5" floppies. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Commander
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by otoburb 6y ago
Hopefully when investors get to see the uncloaked financial statements and disclosures there will be a breakdown of the revenue streams between consulting (aka services), license and support across the two segments (government & commerc
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by otoburb 6y ago
>> This term also allowed them to book much more of their revenues as software licenses than services, which makes them look much more attractive to investors. Changing the job title of a professional services staff member, whether i
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by otoburb 6y ago
I may have missed this in the article but I don't think the S&M expense of $450M per year was broken out by Government vs. Commercial segments. That would be more relevant to the discussion to estimate the expense allocation betwee
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by otoburb 6y ago
>> I’m getting a paywall on NYT article. I wasn't the OP but that was my underlying motivation linking to the direct data repository. The good news is that NYC provides basic visualizations across zipcodes and boroughs, and one
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by otoburb 6y ago
NYC's Covid data repository[1] has more data in case anybody wants to play around with it. Happy that NYC committed to Open Data[2] initiatives in previous years[3]. [1] https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid&#x2
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by otoburb 6y ago
Here's the announcement of the new course this submission links to: https://www.fast.ai/2020/08/19/data-ethics/
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Citi’s $900M Transfer to Brigade Capital Was a Mistake(institutionalinvestor.com)
2 points by otoburb 6y ago|0 comments
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by otoburb 6y ago
The OECD[1] has been covering the topic of the "informal" or "shadow" economy for some time. At one point the term "System D"[2] was circulated by various media outlets[3][4][5] on the back of a 2009 OECD paper
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by otoburb 6y ago
It seems that the (summary?) blog on somebody else's infrastructure has been overwhelmed. So, I tracked down the professor, Justin Murphy, and what seems to be a series of blog posts[1] about his transition from academia to online teac
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by otoburb 6y ago
>> And as to fibre backhaul - I’ve just run 300m of trenched fibre down from the mast to a really awkward spot, and including media adaptors, SWA 4x fibre, and all the rest, it came to less than £1.5k. I know it's not your fiefd

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