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by repomies69 5y ago
This assumes the "business-y" type hackathons that are popular these days. Back when I was young, we used to organize hackathons where the point was to hack together something cool, and "winning" was not the point. If yo
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by repomies69 5y ago
> I have not revealed my preference, one way or another You have revealed your preference of evaluating morality as a choice. I think morality is a basic assumption for pretty much all human interaction. If someone chooses to be immoral,
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by repomies69 5y ago
Thanks for your generous advice, sir. Greatly appreciated.
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by repomies69 5y ago
Isn't it quite obvious, don't do stupid contracts. As a contractor/freelancer you can do any kind of contracts. You can commit to free work for whole year if you want (or are stupid enough to sign a contract that requires you
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by repomies69 5y ago
Yes, psychopaths can be wildly successful people, I will start to act psychopath right away, sir. Thanks for your advice.
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by repomies69 5y ago
That is true, but I don't see how firing the CEO typically would give gains somewhere else in the portfolio. For example VC's very rarely invest in competing companies. However what affects the situation is that VC's want a l
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by repomies69 5y ago
Though in the business world it is always like that, whatever you do. Whatever kind of deal you are doing you have to be careful and attentive. Bootstrapping is great, but it also has challenged to overcome. Many fail to do it.
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by repomies69 5y ago
If the company makes money, there is very little reason to fire the CEO. In fact pretty much the opposite, there are probably CEOs that would deserve to be fired for multiple reasons, but because the company makes good money, the board won&
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by repomies69 5y ago
Actually, the board has to believe that the replacement CEO they find from the market, will generate better returns than the current CEO. So, it is not that the CEO has to be "the best", it has to be good enough so that if he is f
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by repomies69 5y ago
There's tons of different companies, VC-funded high-growth startups are just a small subset of all companies. If you want to do programming in your own company you can set up some boutique working on some niche. Absolutely no need to b
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by repomies69 5y ago
If the company makes bucketlots of money, the board isn't going to change the CEO, even if he would be a total arse in board meetings. I think it has to be repeated that investors want returns for their investments. Also, if the compan
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by repomies69 5y ago
> They don't have a safety net to fall back on if that fails. However many people also start companies without safety nets. Some of them fail and they might have drastic life moments, but in tech you always find some job, in fact yo
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by repomies69 5y ago
The fact that VC's didn't invest in that single idea doesn't tell anything about them being risk averse or not.
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by repomies69 5y ago
You can be even more happy if you use the money to buy a new yacht.
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by repomies69 5y ago
> HN has a hateboner for cryptos, which most of the time is based on purely illogical assumptions of tech they have no understanding of. Basically all online communities have hatred towards cryptos. Not because of understanding or assump
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by repomies69 5y ago
In one company there were quite old linux boxes that were never updated. They never caused any problems, the software in them kept chugging along just nicely.
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by repomies69 5y ago
Selling to someone else with higher price is always part of capitalism, and there's nothing wrong with that. Speculation is good for the economy. Why I invest in tech stock? Because I believe the current tech companies might be 10x or
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by repomies69 5y ago
Amazon is the biggest and Bezos has too fancy yacht, thats why they get all the attention. Fair assumption is that amazon is not that different, maybe it is even a bit above average because they get so much attention.
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by repomies69 5y ago
We probably have not heard about their ethical competitors which returned -100% to the investors.
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by repomies69 5y ago
As a BTC holder inflation is great. Prices just go lower. Holiday you were planning will be actually cheaper.
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by repomies69 5y ago
> Isn't a faster boot what everybody wants? Yes, but glancing quickly at the article some solutions are not generally acceptable, such as moving filesystem processes to the application code. If you have a RPi project where you plan
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by repomies69 5y ago
> It has no fantastic democratizing magic which will make all people rich. It is. It building new things. If you prefer to hold bitcoin instead of fiat and are willing to spend a little bit effort on that and digest some transaction cost
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by repomies69 5y ago
> [0] Scandinavia in general might be amazing for hydro All the possible rivers are already used, and the plants have killed the fish from the rivers. The effect on wildlife is not that nice.
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by repomies69 5y ago
Dude, many people don't realize this until they're approaching their forties. Including me.
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by repomies69 5y ago
Laundering is the process of making dirty looking money legit. This isn't particularly good way to do that. When the miner sells the $23 million, it isn't hidden to the normal income because the amount is so large. They have expla
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by repomies69 5y ago
Nothing with banking is technically that difficult, it is about licenses and permissions.
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by repomies69 5y ago
> What's to stop a company like that from buying a bank and setting up its own credit card? They can set up their own credit card network , sure. If they want to issue their own credit card with existing network like visa or master
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by repomies69 5y ago
I don't know about insanity, in Europe it is very clear what the contract and law says, and it is very simple. People usually have the holidays around the same time of the year. Then again the salaries are much, much lower than (some p
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by repomies69 10y ago
Wow, I didn't know about these. How well do those work? Do payments work automatically? What about reputation system?
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by repomies69 10y ago
Depends on the business case. I don't think this answer can be generalized either way. You can lose a business because of the heavy costs which add little value, however it is not easily arguable that a specific cost was the deal-break

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