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by patio11 9y ago
we only allow a user to be signed into either mobile or desktop at once to avoid even more excessive account sharing. I would perceive this to be hard broken if that happened to software which I or my employer was legitimately paying for.
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by patio11 9y ago
Tokyo waves hello and says, in a friendly but firm tone of voice, that the decision to not built up is political and not based on earthquake-resistant buildings being an engineering technology humanity lacks access to.
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by patio11 9y ago
I think I'm still an advocate of inbound marketing, but feel like I've also been learning a bit over the last 10 years. One thing I've learned is that the lead time on it, particularly if you're starting from the positio
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by patio11 9y ago
Spiffy! I'm happy that worked for you. There are a lot of ways to business. I think that tech-savvy founders often have an excessively narrow view of the solution set due to internal barriers -- I know of many founders (and have probab
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by patio11 9y ago
Some prospects have that understanding of what is reasonable, just like some startups really think they can find experienced engineers in SFBA for $60k and 10 bps, but the actual buyers who successfully consummate transactions definitio
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by patio11 9y ago
Do you think non-lsat experts might want to buy a business like this? Most business owners are business owners because they enjoy the returns of the asset, not because they are themselves experts at every facet of maximizing those returns
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by patio11 9y ago
Thanks! That made my day. (I would have liked it regardless of the context but particularly nice to hear in the context of helping a business to a materially successful outcome.)
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by patio11 9y ago
That's a curious way to phrase "Congratulations on making a company which has sold several hundred million dollars of software." I don't get why HN, of all the places in the world, would seek to tear down software compan
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by patio11 9y ago
Is there a particular line of business of Goldman Sachs that you believe is either vulnerable to people's opinions of it as non-competitive with Bitcoin or factually imperiled by the existence of Bitcoin a technology?
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by patio11 9y ago
Close.io -- clean, stays out of your way, very extensible API for when you want to tie it directly into your site/dashboard/various marketing mechanisms.
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by patio11 9y ago
This seems like the classic "OSS is free if you value your time at zero" answer, but I don't think it is wrong. I think this is the type of tool which I model you as having relatively little need or use for (since you care ve
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by patio11 9y ago
Can I pick on myself in the course of larger picking on the cult of "A players"? I'd rate myself as C- at my first job, local-A-but-global-C at the salaryman gig, A at Bingo Card Creator, C- at Appointment Reminder, A+ to B-
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by patio11 9y ago
I mean, why do I need to make $1M/year in order to prove to the US government that I'm worthy of investing into a startup Accredited investor is defined as either of $1m assets exclusive of positive home equity or income north o
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by patio11 9y ago
Cross-posting a comment I made 7 years ago when NYC had their $600 million payroll project blow up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2716319
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by patio11 9y ago
See also an obscure nation in the Pacific which has higher GDP than any single-payer country.
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by patio11 9y ago
That is a major factor, but there is a bigger one: the product that an insurance company will agree to sell you and the product they will agree to sell your employer are not materially the same product . The actuarial assumption is that su
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by patio11 9y ago
Could someone explain why [a company in San Francisco] needs to raise funding? What's your guesstimate of how many engineers it takes to run the company? Multiply that by $200k [+]. Quintuple [++] the result. Divide by your guesst
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by patio11 9y ago
Much of the money getting made in China is ending up in the hands of government employees who should not have very lucrative jobs, and the combination of lavish personal consumption by them and obvious advantages afforded to their children
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by patio11 9y ago
Really happy to have helped. That kind of company is pretty near and dear to my heart, for all the obvious reasons, and it is very, very in scope for us at Stripe Atlas. Not everything we publish will be laser-targeted to the needs of the
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by patio11 9y ago
My notes for folks who don't like video: https://gist.github.com/patio11/598ec35c6c1675c97d93383f41b3... But seriously, if you care about this at all, watch the video. It is one of the best conference presentatio
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by patio11 9y ago
Can I add: August ~13th, 2013: CEO blames issues on Mizuho bank; claims that Mt. Gox was greater than 50% of Mizuho's SWIFT volume (!) and DOSed their banking systems multiple times (!!); also says that Mizuho has limited them to ~10 o
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by patio11 9y ago
I'm sorry you lost money, sincerely. One of the reasons that I'm so vocal about my opinions on Bitcoin is that I think that, when it achieves its true value of 0, it will wipe out a lot of geeks of good will. I cannot agree that
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by patio11 9y ago
How would one perform investigative journalism on a Japanese company? One way might be "write down everything they say", "identify the subset of these statements that an external actor has signal on", "identify the
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by patio11 9y ago
The adjective I would have chosen was not "probably", but being any more explicit than I was might have earned me a "What did you know, when did you know it, and what was your part in this ?" from either of two governme
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by patio11 9y ago
It was not impossible to tell this was going on. https://twitter.com/patio11/status/370728763790594048 Note the date. I only posted that after I was sure I could beat the libel suit; was pretty sure much earlier.
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by patio11 9y ago
I watched this over the weekend. As someone who has spent an absurd amount of hours following this case: it breaks new ground, has great depth, and is absolutely riveting. There are at least seven jaw dropping moments in it. One is explain
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by patio11 9y ago
Freezing credit is not a write lock. It is a read pseudolock. Writes against the CRA succeed as normal.
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by patio11 9y ago
Freezing doesn't protect the information, but it does protect your credit account from being added to. Going to take the liberty of adding to this because the imprecision might cause some people to develop a poor model of how financi
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by patio11 9y ago
My perspective weights towards industry, not academia. That is an important thing to acknowledge up front; note that almost everyone you talk to on a university campus has the opposite perspective and many of them are unaware of it. It is f
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by patio11 9y ago
Among other things, it was influenced by ~2 million men leaving the civilian labor force temporarily because the government urgently required their services to fight a war. The part would have been disproportionately true for jobs lower dow

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