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by patio11 10y ago
Individual regional immigration offices and the individual clerks at them have pretty substantial latitude with regards to how they interpret the regulations. Another similar issue is how much salary you need to have to "self-sponsor&
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by patio11 10y ago
From my understanding, lawyers working with non-Japanese-speaking clients charge a premium. This is true for essentially all professional services in Japan (and, relatedly, can be true for renting depending on how one goes about that), an
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by patio11 10y ago
Shorting BTC on a BTC exchange involves more counterparty risk than I want to take on. (Folks have asked this before; see here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6894594 ) My current best option is hoping that a) the Wi
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by patio11 10y ago
This would be a good time for me to point to my profile disclaimer that opinions here are my own opinions, not those of Stripe.
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by patio11 10y ago
Well since you asked. Blockchain is the world's worst database, created entirely to maintain the reputations of venture capital firms who injected hundreds of millions of dollars into a technology whose core defining insight was "
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by patio11 10y ago
It's basically impossible for me to have any insight on the financial markets which has not already been said, better, by Matt Levine.
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by patio11 10y ago
Blockchain here refers not to the distributed database technology loosely coupled with Bitcoin but rather "assert the existence of a database; simultaneous adoption of it across all parties that matter in the financial industry sure wo
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by patio11 10y ago
They are not heavily dependent on each other. I do not disagree with your statements with regards to Korea (they match my relatively untutored understanding), but I would not describe my understanding of Japanese megacorps as untutored, a
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by patio11 10y ago
A: Market capitalization is of an enterprise, not of a share class. B: I think you're overthinking this a little bit. C: GOOG and GOOGL have subtle differences between them beyond just the voting rights. For example, GOOG != GOOGL. I
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by patio11 10y ago
That's something you'd expect Snidely Whiplash the Evil Capitalist to tell labor to make them feel bad about negotiating with him, but I don't think it actually works that way. Costs are costs and money is fungible; a doll
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by patio11 10y ago
They also have more than 60 million lines of COBOL in production. Cite: http://oig.ssa.gov/sites/default/files/audit/full/pdf/A-14-1...
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by patio11 10y ago
None of the following is accounting advice, but: Start moving all of your non-1099/etc expenses on to one or a small set of corporate cards. (They can be in your own name or that of the LLC; the main requirement is that they not have
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by patio11 10y ago
I swear sometimes recently I feel like I'm reading comments from a weird alternate universe HN where I simultaneously claimed to be Elon Musk and also fabricated everything. Hello, Earth 2 HNer. Back here on Earth 1 I ran a succession
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by patio11 10y ago
Covered here: https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/selling_s... in a bit of detail and here: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2016/12/30/kalzumeus-software-year-... in briefer
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by patio11 10y ago
A developer isn't a software company in the same sense that a kid good with numbers isn't a bookkeeping firm. Software companies don't compete with developers; they hire their services. Small software shops don't meanin
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by patio11 10y ago
http://feinternational.com/ is a brokerage of Internet-based businesses; presumably the newsletter is something that goes out to folks who've expressed some level of interest in attempting to buy one via the website.
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by patio11 10y ago
Having an idea for a business, and successfully executing on a business, are two very, very, very different things.
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by patio11 10y ago
Another example is allowing the employee preferential access to overtime in the last year, or them exercising unused vacation time as a one-time cash payout on retirement. The overtime thing is the most galling, since it's generally st
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by patio11 10y ago
California public safety employees (police, fire, etc) get all four prongs of that deal, I think. Technically it's 90% of peak salary but "spiking" is culturally accepted, so in practice you can have more than 100% of your f
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by patio11 10y ago
Your scenario is the company with the $1,300+ strike price will do a reverse stock split because they want to IPO with a $6,500+ share price instead?
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by patio11 10y ago
You need to know the fully diluted count of shares. After that, calculate how much of the company you beneficially own assuming full vesting, and start wargaming out scenarios of exits at $500 million, $1 billion, $2 billion, $5 billion, $
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by patio11 10y ago
Pitch the gig, sign the contract, then you do the boring logistical details. One of them is arranging travel. At my shop that was simple: "How doed $FOO handle business travel? Are you going to book my tickets/hotel or would you
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by patio11 10y ago
Yes, I think it's approximately as straightforward as building a SaaS company from scratch. Which is to say "non-trivial" but very, very within the realm of possibibility. I've written a ton on this topic, on HN and my
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by patio11 10y ago
It was an LLC in the US, but Japan (and/or the Ogaki tax office) wanted me to treat it as a sole proprietorship here. I have a sneaking suspicion that the Ogaki tax office didn't want to have to figure out how 法人税法 (the corporate
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by patio11 10y ago
If I were running a consultancy full-time, and didn't hire anyone, I'd model that as 35 billed weeks a year at $30k. Travel to a client is billed to the client separately via a magical sentence that Thomas taught me: "I will
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by patio11 10y ago
This is fixed now, but for historical context: Twilio has a feature to allow you to make calls which appear to come from a non-Twilio phone number. To do this, you have to make an API request (see here: https://www.twilio.com&#x
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by patio11 10y ago
Fixed, thanks.
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by patio11 10y ago
Yep! There used to be a product called a "signature loan" in the US which was an unsecured debt without a piece of plastic attached to it, at a rate materially lower than credit cards. These are very difficult to get these days;
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by patio11 10y ago
Thanks, that made my morning.
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by patio11 10y ago
This is believed by many people on HN. It's false. A thing you might find useful to look at: loss ratios. Loss ratio is industry jargon for claims paid plus claims-related expense over premium income. GEICO's, for example, is 82.

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