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by redshirtrob 6y ago
Reading the op's post and your reply, I can only come up with two possible conclusions: 1. The op is lying about his experience. He states he answered NO to question 2, which is what you claim to be looking for. Unless his answer to qu
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
For the record, I think op is probably speculating a bit. That said, I'm not sure how you can be so sure op's not losing money unless you have intimate knowledge of the cap table and the deal.
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
Wow, I was interviewing there in 2013. I was interviewing for a fairly senior engineering position. When they sent me the details for the on-site they sent me a role two levels lower. When I asked about it I was told the Director of Enginee
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
That's a really good question. I'm not certain of the answer. When I had this happen to me the FMV was slightly higher than my exercise price, but not enough to trigger AMT. I know I only wrote off the actual cash I lost, and I us
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
Probably the op spent $100k to exercise the options. It's likely this deal will wipe out all common shareholders and only the VCs will get anything. That's a $100k loss. The op will be spending the next decade writing this loss of
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
Thanks. I was asking because I couldn't view the video and really wanted to read the post. Looks like it's available now.
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
Serious question: Is there a reason to preface this post with "This transcript will not make much sense without the equations that I show in the video," rather than include the equations in the post directly? I ask because I canno
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
That's an optimistic take (are you being sarcastic?). We've seen something similar with company stores in mining towns during the 19th and 20th centuries. They weren't exactly known for treating their residents (employees) fa
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
If I follow you, you're suggesting I look up some of the obscure button sequences to press to force some hidden behavior? We did that early on and didn't get great results.
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
> Modern fridges have a defrost cycle built in which does this automatically. I believe you. The point is this doesn't work very well. It's a pretty common complaint with the model. > Are you by any chance in a high humidity
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
> given the awful placement of the coils and motors of fridges. Oh, man. So much this. The refrigerator that came with my house, a circa 2006 Samsung, has coils that grow ice. The (evaporator?) fan is positioned in such a way that the ic
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
Ok, I edited my comment to clarify. I did not mean count to 100 as mastering counting. I meant count _almost_ arbitrarily high. And small world. My wife hails from Forsyth county.
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
I truly wish this were an option. I have an eight year old and a five year old. They play together wonderfully. But, since I can't let the eight year old have a gap year, I may as well have the five year old do stuff too. The real piss
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
Sadly no. But that's because we moved from the school district the following summer. It's a bit of a sore point for me. I have no doubt if I'd stayed there (K-6), I would have been close to fluent. After lunch was a full imme
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
I had all day kindergarten in '83. First half was in English, and the second half was in French. And no, this was not a private school. This was Cincinnati Public.
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'Kingkiller Chronicle' Editor Believes Author Hasn't Written Anything for Years(newsweek.com)
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
I don't think anyone has ever argued steroids made Bonds good (IMHO he was already a first ballot HOFer). It's pretty well understood that they aid in recovery. Bonds' most transcendent stretch came when most ballplayer'
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
And regarding his military service, he lost three years of his prime to World War II, and another two-ish years to Korea. He put up 11 WAR in the years before and after WW II. Had he kept that pace from '43-'45 and put up decent y
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
"Ticket To Ride" is a nice, casual play as a two person game. "Twilight Struggle" is fun but much more intense. "Small World" is a super fun, ultra confrontational game in two player mode.
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
Are you sure about this? I didn't comment on the previous story. I didn't tweet about this. I didn't email TripleByte. I just silently purged my account of meaningful data and opted out. I'm only commenting now to cancel
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
I hear ya. I had to disable animations on gifs and emojis. I keep Slack on a workspace in my peripheral vision. The animations trigger some reptilian fight or flight part of my brain that kills my focus. I got tired of collapsing them
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
It's pretty much impossible for us to say in this case since the terms weren't disclosed that I know of. They've been described as debt and equity. It's reasonable to assume the equity component would imply a certain val
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
The other relevant point, in favor of RSUs is they usually have a double trigger for settling. One is service time, and the second is an equity event. Which is nice because you basically earn the RSU based on service time, but it doesn&#x27
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
I'd expect the options might be under water based on recent funding announcements. Probably still expensive to exercise, but I can't see how there would be a tax liability if they are under water.
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by redshirtrob 7y ago
It's certainly possible. It's a complicated topic. There's a lot to consider and much of it relates to your personal risk appetite and financial position. There can be very serious tax consequences if the spread between your
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by redshirtrob 7y ago
I've always seen it worded as "The Company will grant you X shares subject to approval by the Board." I've never had the board not approve what was promised in the employment letter, but that wording sure makes it seem l
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by redshirtrob 7y ago
Yeah. But people say it enough I've started mentally converting it to: "I _could_ care less (but I can't be bothered)."
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by redshirtrob 7y ago
Want a uniquely Russian take on something like this? Check out "Roadside Picnic" by the Strugatsky brothers.
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by redshirtrob 7y ago
Heh. Hence my comment. I actually had to deal with that DST change on a bunch of embedded systems back in 2006 (or so). Super fun pushing updates to 100+ systems over analog modems.
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by redshirtrob 7y ago
Fair enough. I'm glad you fixed it.

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