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by patio11 9y ago
You can't start a side business on a regular work visa. You know YC's question "How have you ever hacked a non-technical system?" This is my answer to it. You can start a side business on a regular work visa if th
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by patio11 9y ago
The largest bank in Japan was flabbergasted that I sweet talked them into getting a business bank account for Starfighter. Some things I wouldn't agree with: Personal bank accounts aren't challenging given a medium term status of
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by patio11 9y ago
How specifically did it signal to you that they're underpriced? Because the poster is surprised by this requirement and doesn't have standardized answers to it yet. In poker, there is this thing called "assigning a range&qu
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by patio11 9y ago
Thank you for your comment. Can you add, for the benefit of the peanut gallery, what the typical cost of a one year software license you pay for is? I have a good guess but I think HNers need to hear people-other-than-me say it to internali
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by patio11 9y ago
I think this is a signal that you're probably underpriced by a factor of 2X to 10X. So this is a sales objection. With regards to that justification, I'd want to know a) who in the business is generating it and b) what they expect
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by patio11 9y ago
It is in fact not the case that there is a single exchange on which IBM trades (it is listed on the NYSE, CsE, and at various places abroad). Liquidity factually does exist in different amounts at different places; this is a major reason wh
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by patio11 9y ago
“Realization” has a meaning in accounting and swapping property for property does, generally, realize the gains. This might or might not generate an informational return to the IRS. Most transactions in the economy don’t. They’re still taxe
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by patio11 9y ago
It is very, very difficult to offer phone support as a solo developer, particularly at low price points (below e.g. $5k per year) and for low tech-literacy customers. You can still do it, if you need someone to talk to, you want to do cus
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by patio11 9y ago
We're happy to consider anyone for Atlas; we have some requirements, but it is not a competitive process like e.g. a VC fund or Harvard. We're not trying to pick winners in advance. With regards to your other question about Atlas:
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by patio11 9y ago
All translation is a creative act and respect for the original work is likely going to counsel taking some liberties with regards to "literal" translations. Here's a line: > そんなに簡単に使えるものなのか、"魔法"ってヤツは？ > Is thi
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by patio11 9y ago
This is a subtle and difficult thing, but I promise you it is true: the IRS is not primarily scored on revenue generation. Their incentives are (approximately) hire more IRSians, minimize complaints to Congress regarding the tax code, mini
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by patio11 9y ago
Disclaimer: HN's resident cryptocurrency skeptic. The overwhelming majority of jobs at cryptocurrency companies do not touch the underlying protocols, for the same reason that the overwhelming majority of engineers at Bank of America d
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by patio11 9y ago
Keep in mind that the IRS has a number of incentives in calculating that number, and "accurately reflect the cost of driving" is not the dominant one. Like every other safe harbor in the tax code, the primary purpose is "redu
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by patio11 9y ago
It's structurally similar to getting an investor for other software companies: you find someone in the business of publishing and convince them that giving you money is a good idea. Generally, this will be by pointing out "I was i
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by patio11 9y ago
You functionally can't buy insurance on meaningful amounts of Bitcoin. You can convince an insurance company to write you a standard cyberinsurance policy, but the limits on them are far less than the amount of Bitcoin people want to
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by patio11 9y ago
Many people on HN make the jump from "I would not buy that" to "There is not a market for that", but there is, in fact, a market for SaaSifying lots of things. It's no value judgement if you want to continue using E
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by patio11 9y ago
Two for the price of one: http://article78againstnydfs.com/docs/317-cv-01882-BitfinexC...
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by patio11 9y ago
https://twitter.com/Bitfinexed/status/932139909237833728
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by patio11 9y ago
Yep, you'd expect to eventually see a sustained divergence to price in an elevated level of counterparty risk (like we saw back at Mt. Gox). In the short run, though, arbitrage bots gonna arbitrage.
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by patio11 9y ago
I suppose I could: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7304479 The short version: Mt. Gox stopped paying out USD-denominated claims, because (as was correctly perceived by many people) they were insolvent. They continued p
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by patio11 9y ago
If you haven't been following along, here's why this matters: Tethers is a sole-source cryptocurrency, pegged to the US dollar. Bitfinex produces it, though they're cagey (some would say outright lying at times) about the lev
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by patio11 9y ago
Do you need to have someone tell you you're ready? You're ready.
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by patio11 9y ago
I go back and forth on this, because there seems to be material disagreement on whether whales are, in fact, a) folks with problems or b) folks with hobbies which are, relative to a single video game, expensive. There is a good presentation
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by patio11 9y ago
They announce the reason for substantially all unscheduled stops. The most common is 信号待ち (waiting on a signal)。It is my impression that, in Japan, the lion’s share of those are discretionary on the part of the station staff for safety reas
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by patio11 9y ago
This sounds like an eminently fair deal for this site unless I’m greatly underestimating how lucrative your advertising is or you have subscription revenue you didn’t mention. You’ve made something people like. Congratulations. Nothing I sa
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by patio11 9y ago
For some color here, the Fermi estimate for number of unique consequential writes Equifax will make in a day is about ~1 billion and the number of "pull that entire file, please" is in the tens of millions. All the data is hot dat
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by patio11 9y ago
you don't need to pay someone hundreds of dollars to someone who has made a career out of the tax system. You don't. Your employer does [+], because they are responsible for (for the majority of traditionally employed folks) man
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by patio11 9y ago
You're paying higher spreads, twice, and (likely) higher fees, twice, and also going long BTC for at least a portion of the day. This is unlikely to be cheaper than Transferwise unless you win at Casino Bitcoin.
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by patio11 9y ago
I think you're entirely right on the media thing. I've used them on JP->US and US->JP over the years as my sources of income and expense destinations have shifted around. They're pretty brilliant, but it's clear
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by patio11 9y ago
My blog and newsletter are ~separate, FWIW. As far as I am aware I do not have an RSS or single page listing the newsletter archive.

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