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by owkaye 18y ago
You cannot advertise equity investments to the general public in the USA without registering with the SEC. Do you plan to do this?
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by owkaye 18y ago
You haven't explained your proposed legal structure so it's hard to comment. How do you plan to structure it? Will the money each person contributes be a donation, or a loan, or an equity investment, or ???
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by owkaye 18y ago
Cute idea, but in firefox it asks me if I want to allow it to install and/or run "UNSAFE" software on my machine. What's this about?
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Ask HN: Vesting, equity, salaries, etc.
1 points by owkaye 18y ago|1 comments
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by owkaye 18y ago
"Then I'd fly to the moon ... and paint a big fat logo up there." Or you could get Hancock to do it for you ... :)
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by owkaye 18y ago
"What is despicable is that it is advertised as an auction site, not a gambling game." If the winner becomes the winner because he bid the highest price, then it's an auction. Since when are auctions considered to be games? Sure, it's an
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by owkaye 18y ago
Matt, you seem to know more about the legal framework than most other posters here. Which 6 states would you avoid? I have an important reason for asking since I'm working on a startup that uses a similar system -- very different in some
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by owkaye 18y ago
"Its not an auction if bidding costs money regardless if you win or not. Its more of a raffle." Show me the law that says this and I might begin to believe that you have a point here ... but right now I do not. I don't know much about auct
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by owkaye 18y ago
"It will likely be called a raffle because buying the "tickets" costs money and you will very likely get nothing for it." It is NOT a raffle because a raffle winner is selected 100% by chance whereas at swoopo the winner is the person who b
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by owkaye 18y ago
"One system is rational and what most would consider mostly fair. One is crazy and what most would consider a scam." The term "scam" requires that the person being scammed was not given the facts upfront. This is not a scam by any stretch
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by owkaye 18y ago
His conclusion is ridiculous given the fact that some people visit dozens or hundreds of sites a day and don't go back to the same times time and time again. His pricing examples are way too high too considering that almost no sites charge
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by owkaye 18y ago
The layout is ruined in a narrow browser window. Obviously you never gave this much thought. Why not? Sorry to sound so 'critical' but you asked for it. I hate websites like this even more than websites that make me scroll horizontally,
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by owkaye 18y ago
"I'm pretty sure ... that this spike in applications wasn't due to people learning of our existence for the first time." Maybe the spike wasn't, but my application was. I never heard of YC until three days before the deadline. It's a coin
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by owkaye 18y ago
"Scalability isn't a magic pixie dust you find in some boxes of cereals and not others. Scalability is extremely application specific." Absolutely correct. I have an app that is not scalable in most of the traditional ways because one live
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by owkaye 18y ago
There are existing templates available for complete websites that use php and mysql for online jewelry stores and they will be far less costly than hiring a programmer to build a custom website. Have you tried using google?
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Ask HN: Where do I find a custom browser/app?
2 points by owkaye 18y ago|1 comments
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by owkaye 18y ago
I recently offered to hire and manage three local C programmers in Cebu, Philippines for the company that owns the web scripting software I've been using for more than a decade. My offer would have cost them about 2/3 of the cost to hire o
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by owkaye 18y ago
Posterous does this and I think it's great.
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by owkaye 18y ago
Why am I redirected to /stage/index.html with nothing on the page except a confusing error message stating that I'm trying to install adobe flash player on an unsupported OS?
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by owkaye 18y ago
With two adults it's usually a male and a female who engage in activities that create a new life, and there's a cost for that new life even before it is born. Or are they thinking that two people will dislike each other enough to shoot or s
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by owkaye 18y ago
If you're married you can probably guess who moved your socks since it's almost always the same person ... :)
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by owkaye 18y ago
The first thing I noticed is the bad grammar. It never impresses me to see a website that fails to get the spelling and grammar correct. As you're using it here, the word "identify" should be "identifies": >>> For every stock
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by owkaye 18y ago
Hi smoody, No I've never investigated memcachedb. Lots of the tools people have been suggesting are new to me. I'm reading and trying to learn as much as I can so I can communicate better with folks that have been doing this level of prog
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by owkaye 18y ago
Thanks for the HUV acronym whatusername, it makes describing things easier. I think you have a pretty good understanding of the system now. I'll reword your description in an effort to clarify, and if this is not the way you understand it
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by owkaye 18y ago
Hi Martin, One reason I said your solution might not work is because it doesn't appear to store the bids, and I need to store every bid posted, and the time it was received, and who posted it. This can be done separately of course but I wa
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by owkaye 18y ago
thanks mseebach, I don't think your concept will work (and I've been known to be wrong before) ... but at least I understand how you're approaching the problem, and that helps me to get a better grasp of how I might have to go about it. It
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by owkaye 18y ago
Saturating the channel? Hmmm, I'm not sure what this means. If I'm not mistaken this is a forum where people try to help each other and try to learn and understand new things. If people don't care about this topic they certainly won't re
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by owkaye 18y ago
Thanks jwilliams, I'll more than likely be using a high performance Linux system so hopefully it will give me the precision I need.
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by owkaye 18y ago
This is a "follow-up thread" to the link you posted. I already explained this in the first post in this thread and also in the previous thread. Look, there are lots of sub-topics to deal with in this project, and the previous thread was tot
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by owkaye 18y ago
I need to understand the technical requirements first, but thanks for the suggestion.

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