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by pwaai 8y ago
I submitted a complaint to BBB once and the business owner sent me a letter threatening to sue. That was the day I realized we as consumers are truly vulnerable.
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by pwaai 8y ago
> And overestimating the racial issue is the best way to isolate groups according to race, and in the end, create a hate able to cause civil wars holy fuck
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by pwaai 8y ago
> but quite visible--i.e. the boss laughing about your accent. Yeah, this kind of shit made me appreciate North America a lot more and made me realize I am living in possibly one of the most open and accepting societies West has to offe
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by pwaai 8y ago
Will do, are there any specific tech hot spots in Belgium? I no very little about the country but so far very disappointed with what France had to offer to startups.
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by pwaai 8y ago
Young people vote with their feet and the brain drain in France is very much real according to a co-worker.
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by pwaai 8y ago
I actually looked into this with the local France Business startup organization. At the time, I was young (30, I am now 31) and started learning French with hopes of trying out a alternative to Anglo culture. But reality hits hard. I don&#x
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by pwaai 9y ago
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNaEBbFbvcY This is mind blowing...shatters my misconception of blackholes....is there any more books on this?
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by pwaai 9y ago
what if our universe is expanding because there are other bubbles of universes that pull in all directions? what if Buddha was right in that there are thousand fold universe systems each with their own unique civilizations? If there are bla
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by pwaai 9y ago
I also agree with Mr. Buffett that the next 100 years for American businesses will be the best....makes me think China won't usurp America anytime soon.
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by pwaai 9y ago
Part of the big appeal is the loudness of the bikes. I don't think I would want a harley if it was quiet....also if you don't like it because it's loud, chances are that you will not enjoy it and will hold negative connotatio
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by pwaai 9y ago
From my understanding of Harley fans is that they really really like their air-cooled engines. V-Rod, Street 750 have all gotten flak for not being 'true' harleys....because they improved on lot of the outdated tech. They can&#x27
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by pwaai 9y ago
ohhh fuck....what about those prepackaged thc vape pens they sell in dispensaries?
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by pwaai 9y ago
I find that a lot of articles shared on HN along the lines of "This is how you do X" conveniently cherry picks anecdotes from the perspective of an individual blind to their own intrinsic edge and attempts to generalize which pose
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by pwaai 9y ago
I noticed this behavior as well here in vancouver. It's like an unwritten rule that you need to not interact with your apartment neighbors. I always suspected being house poor has to do something with it. One time I overheard a neighbo
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by pwaai 9y ago
Yeah there's something that happens to our brains once we enter an age where we are supposed to be rearing offsprings. But I also suspect a strong socioeconomic factor as well. When you are no longer in university and in the work force
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by pwaai 9y ago
I think this is a uniquely Anglo cultural thing, in the backdrop of a stricter gender norms formed out of industrialization. Everybody is so afraid of being seen as gay while maintaining a front of being politically correct about it (I supp
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by pwaai 9y ago
fuck...I just loaded up on KODK March put options.... if I don't post on HN for a while....you know why
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by pwaai 9y ago
any specific reason why that would accelerate the downfall? how long until we find out about the outcome after the subpoena sent out last week?
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by pwaai 9y ago
Oh yes the SEC can absolutely claw back by applying laws in retrospective. Having too many offenders was never a problem for SEC. Just because you ICO'd before today doesn't mean you are safe at all, in fact I'd argue the opp
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Ask HN: What would you use the domains import.sh and export.sh for?
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by pwaai 9y ago
Did you try lendingclub? Up to what percentage of your net profits were they willing to lend to you? What was the interest rate? So a SaaS business that generates 1m ARR can't get any loan because there's no collateral asset that
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by pwaai 9y ago
This is the pattern I'm seeing over at virtually all crypto exchange subreddits. There are so many frantic threads to withdraw money but the ones that make it to top of the list or has significant money involved seems to get solved rel
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by pwaai 9y ago
hahaha! I accidentally submitted while I was still editing the title which was "hat services do you envision?"
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by pwaai 9y ago
I think startups die because they are pressured to spend a dollar or more for every dollar that comes in. Bootstrapped businesses are forced to retain cash for a rainy day. It is anti-fragile vs the fragile nature of a negative/break e
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by pwaai 9y ago
chances are that if they haven't automated it, it's not revenue generating or important enough to invest capital to fix it
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by pwaai 9y ago
> Consequently, if you looking to build a machine learning based SaaS company, find a really expensive internal process and automate it. so basically the "how to" is "find a problem and improve it" this falls short of
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by pwaai 9y ago
know any other stocks that have been inflated due to the blockchain mania?
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by pwaai 9y ago
I think this is great advice for me because I'm not looking to make a living from writing. I just have this strong urge like if I don't put in writing all the fucked up shit I encountered or read about, if I take all of those thin
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by pwaai 9y ago
> The company played some nasty mind games with their employees regarding equity. They did a 7 (I think?) for 1 split, and then had the recruiters telling employees that they had "never seen a company give out so many shares before.
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by pwaai 9y ago
then what the hell is this? https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/01/the-zuma-satellite-l... are you saying they conspired to announce a false failure to hide the spy satellite?

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