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by patio11 6y ago
They're fun, too, in that the ultimate authority for setting the recipient name is on the sender but the ultimate authority for accepting a transfer is the bank of the recipient, which can result in that failure-to-sync causing someone
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I endorse the above comment in my personal capacity. Valuations in Japan are below a fifth of similarly situated YC companies, where funding is available, and there are founder/business profiles trivially fundable in the Valley which w
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by patio11 6y ago
Confirm this with your tax advisor, but FMV at exercise is your basis in later years (generally because the difference in FMV and strike will have caused you a taxable event). c.f. https://www.untracht.com/news-insights&#x2F
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by patio11 6y ago
There is an interesting chicken-and-egg problem in our line of business, in that we have to convince you that we're not just normal-software-company levels of trustworthy and competent, but trustworthy and competent enough for you to p
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by patio11 6y ago
There are a lot of people whose single recollection of Romeo and Juliet is the garden scene, and who understand that scene to have Juliet aware that Romeo is present in the garden because of "Wherefore art thou Romeo?", due to sim
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I don't believe I've said that. For what it is worth, if a customer of my previous (salaryman-heavy) employer asked for this, we'd tell them an actual no, which is extremely rare in client relationships in Japan. A contextu
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by patio11 6y ago
Thanks; that is a regression. We'll fix it.
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(I work at Stripe.) Here's the story on partner credits: A thing we do at Stripe Atlas is go to companies in the ecosystem whose services we like and ask them to bid on the opportunity to support a large cohort of Internet businesses.
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I'd imagine it is different for authors in different phases of the business, starting at very substantial while one does not have a lot of a personal platform and decreasing markedly when one does. Someone, and I'm forgetting who
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by patio11 6y ago
Some people are (book) authors professionally, some people are authors recreationally, some people are authors professionally exclusively , and some people are authors professionally but their primary monetization engine is elsewhere. If o
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My point was demonstrating that there are broadly accepted professional situations where even quite public people operate under pseudonyms due to perceived risk of harm, in a way which is probably not legible to the news media.
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by patio11 6y ago
(Offered in the hopes that this helps someone.) After struggling with it for about twenty years and dealing with a particularly bad episode, exacerbated by 2020 things, I was diagnosed with major clinical depression and started treatment to
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by patio11 6y ago
Ignoring the specifics of this issue and the specifics that you're in a dispute with Coinbase: Escalate this out of their CS queues. The most straightforward way is to involve their legal department, either by sending a letter that wil
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The tax treatment of directly owning real estate is also extremely favorable to landlords in the US, particularly mom-and-pop scale landlords. Many will have businesses which make an economic profit and many of that subset will positively
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Many are, but they're not typically 5:1 (or 33:1) no-recourse leveraged.
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This was reasonably common for our office-based employees in better times. I expect it will be even more common when we re-open our offices.
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Time zones are not the sole constraint we have, and many of those constraints are not ones that we can simply waive by mutual agreement. For example, some activities we engage in are restricted to regulated entities in some countries, and t
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I'm pretty confident that we made only true claims, particularly the ones with numbers. If your model doesn't agree with our SQL, I think the maximally polite observation I can make is that one of us is probably wrong.
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Feel free to check back in the next time you're looking; our appetite for "remotes in the same city / metro area we have an office in" has been increasing over time, particularly as individual offices mature.
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Broadly, there are tradeoffs, including organizational risk tolerance, and which margins one is permitted or not permitted to take which risks on. For example, some software companies are regulated in some jurisdictions. A not-too-hypotheti
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by patio11 6y ago
1) We're extremely solicitous of there being advancement opportunities for everyone in every office. This is something that we're looking at over time. Companies that can't manage this will lose to ones who can, as their seas
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I would caution people from attempting to math from a count of positions, as in some cases one job listing will result in many people getting hired (a very common case for e.g. engineers), and we do parallel listings when we accept a job in
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by patio11 6y ago
I work at Stripe, including on this post. As we mentioned, our remote hiring is in scaled production mode in the U.S. and Canada, and in early stages elsewhere. We anticipate this will change, and are working towards changing it, as quickly
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by patio11 6y ago
I am aware of at least one company which does this from my consulting days, and would caution you that what you get in perceived security benefits from making sure that tenants can't interact with each others' data you'll giv
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by patio11 6y ago
To be fair, I was acknowledging a common criticism for the purpose of refuting it. My purposes for doing so are a combination of fighting against the tendency to underrate the importance of the Internet and, and this second factor is a litt
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This is similar to Gell-Mann amnesia in that I had relatively little to do with writing this law ;) (For what it's worth, I think it's likely descriptively accurate, but not sure it's an observation worth the namespace.)
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I don't recall saying that grellas was a lawyer for Microsoft but I assume that might just be a transcription infelicity. This is the comment which I was referring to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1137669 The e
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Worth noting that dropshipping is not particularly new nor particularly the province of undercapitalized mom-and-pop operations. Some of the largest retail/wholesale companies in the world also dropship; it's an obvious thing to d
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Bespoke professional services work costs bespoke professional service work rates, film at 11, but one factor not already discussed here: A lot of contracting arrangements like this will ratably assign overhead to particular change orders or
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by patio11 7y ago
Stripe doesn’t make the distinction between software engineers and SREs that some firms do. We’re all responsible for shipping things that work for our customers, regardless of whether we’re working on a product team or an infrastructure te

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