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by owens99 9y ago
thanks for this.
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by owens99 9y ago
> Conway also believed his former partner to be paying himself far and above the fund’s $250,000 annual salary cap by skimming off of SV Angel funds through a technique known as a fee waiver, a fairly common way for fund managers to cove
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by owens99 9y ago
> that would require shipping one item every 12 minutes assuming he never sleeps and works all of the 365 days He uses Fulfillment by Amazon, meaning after he buys the products he just ships them all to Amazon and Amazon will ship them t
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Rare: Story Behind the Visionary Game Developer(youtube.com)
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by owens99 9y ago
Open Sans, Source Sans, Proxima Nova, Lato, are all pretty classic. But for HTML I only use system fonts to save page load time.
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Ask HN: Material Design web app in the wild?
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by owens99 9y ago
Not nearly to the same degree as in this situation.
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by owens99 9y ago
If that non-accredited contractor falls under "friends and family" then no, it's not a problem.
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by owens99 9y ago
This is a cultural/incentive problem with big companies. They don't know how to innovate and are afraid to give up control. So they spend their time and resources on financial engineering, clinging to the old way of doing business
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by owens99 9y ago
Don't forget LinkedIn is Microsoft. The power is in even fewer hands.
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Teachers who leave Oklahoma make $19,000 more(kfor.com)
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Edible Gelatin Robots That Can Function Inside Your Body(fortune.com)
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Mobile traffic to Wikipedia now free in Afghanistan(independent.co.uk)
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UK gov. is testing “Smart” intersections(ibtimes.co.uk)
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Pre-orders for the Tesla Model 3 could go unfulfilled for several years(businessinsider.com)
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Skype Blocked in Qatar – WhatsApp, Viber, Duo, and Facetime Also Inaccessible(privateinternetaccess.com)
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by owens99 9y ago
IMO this is a drastic over-simplification of the issue. Legalization is one of many variables here.
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by owens99 9y ago
I think making it open source would be better in the long term, but I'd personally use it either way if it works.
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by owens99 9y ago
Why?
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by owens99 9y ago
Thanks for the response. I think you might find this post I wrote in Pando a while back interesting: https://pando.com/2014/01/13/dont-build-a-product-unless-you...
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by owens99 9y ago
> Your second sentence is sort-of true, but it seems to assume a lot and kinda rubs me the wrong way. Sorry about that. I am just being direct. I don't know enough context about your idea to say, but it is what I consider a pattern.
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by owens99 9y ago
> The core idea of the app depends a lot on the experience and performance of the finished product, and customers have higher standards than we expected and they need integrations with lots of other services to know if it'll work fo
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by owens99 9y ago
Thanks for this. Just to make sure I am getting it: Does this mean if you never used React, but use Preact or Vue that Facebook can still countersue you in the same way if you used React?
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Wind turbines supply energy equivalent to 93% of Scotland's household need(thenational.scot)
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Cats invited onto local Japan train(bbc.com)
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Investigation Reveals Hundreds of Canadians Have Fake Degrees(cbc.ca)
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by owens99 9y ago
> it’s not clear how much switching to another React-like library like Preact or Vue would help; you need Facebook’s patent licenses anyway — in the eyes of the law — for any library that uses data structures, algorithms, or techniques p
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Elon Musk says AI could lead to third world war(theguardian.com)
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North Korea seen moving ICBM-grade rocket towards west coast(reuters.com)
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Bitcoin's Price Is Now Down 20% from Its $5,000 High(coindesk.com)
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