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by shawnee_ 11y ago
I’ve gotten hundreds of private messages on IRC and emails about sex, rape, and death threats. Not sure what IRC channels she has been hanging out in, or what her spam filters are letting through, but this has not been my experience at al
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by shawnee_ 11y ago
If IPOs are getting significantly delayed and are potentially at risk of not happening at all,[1] we need to change how compensation is structured. Not sure that this is the best opening argument here. With things like the JOBS Act passi
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by shawnee_ 11y ago
Beekeeping analogy: both über and lyft are hives. The California Labor Commission's ruling does more to preserve hives in general (and thus the well-being of bees (drivers) as a whole), rather than any specific hive. Yeah, it's
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by shawnee_ 11y ago
A pretty good documentary that explores this idea further: https://archive.org/details/The_Corporation_
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by shawnee_ 11y ago
It may be interesting and important to note that some of the "failures" on this list may have simply been before their time. I see a few going back to ~2006 that might actually have a decent chance today if given another go. Some
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by shawnee_ 11y ago
Have a look at RC's "Annual Report" from 2014 ... http://www.redcross.org/images/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m4... This is a fluff piece full of pictures and words. No numbers or financial statements
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by shawnee_ 11y ago
This rootkit is designed for a major brand of hard disk and can infect the firmware from within the operating system (no physical access required), it's also completely undetectable to software running on the host computer. Skeptical
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by shawnee_ 11y ago
... where people could throw pocket change on valuation wagers. We never had any intention of operating in a regulated industry, nor do we have the resources required to do so. "Oh, it was just for shits and giggles" ... when
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by shawnee_ 11y ago
An REIT in Chicago, Illinois which is able to come in and quite literally leech the low-income wealth of a community in East Palo Alto ...yes, that REIT should have to pay the city of EPA or the state of California for that "opportunit
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by shawnee_ 11y ago
Sam Zell’s Equity LifeStyle Properties (ELS) is the largest mobile home park owner in America, with controlling interests in nearly 140,000 parks. In 2014, ELS made $777m in revenue, helping boost Zell’s near-$5bn fortune. I first read up
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by shawnee_ 11y ago
WePay has managed to differentiate itself and stay independent in the credit card API / marketplace payments space.. I've been asked to explain WePay's place in the market before and have been unable to Because contrary to
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by shawnee_ 12y ago
A long overdue step in the right direction. Some historical perspective on the history of what I like to think of as the "Cookie Licker Laws" [a]. A middle-of-the-road option for both investors and entrepreneurs in this space has
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by shawnee_ 12y ago
Back when people typed two spaces after the end of a sentence. When the convention changed is not clear, but 'tis been a tough thing for me to un-learn.
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by shawnee_ 12y ago
This explains quite a bit when it comes to YC tending to not give a fair shot to companies whose business model hinges on/around creating [a] niche community. It occurred to me recently (before reading this comment) that the idea I app
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KwikPay and RenWeb – Nelnet's malware in the student loan industry(ink.hackeress.com)
1 points by shawnee_ 12y ago|1 comments
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NRL Researchers Pattern Magnetic Graphene(nrl.navy.mil)
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by shawnee_ 12y ago
There's an even larger issue driving this problem: As Table 1 shows, Infosys and Tata pay very low wages to their H-1B workers. The average wage for an H-1B employee at Infosys in FY13 was $70,882 and for Tata it was $65,565. Compare
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by shawnee_ 12y ago
These people won't be spending 30% of their time coding, they will be spending 80% of it coding... and 20% helping everyone else out Oftentimes companies think they need a "Tech Lead", when what they actually need is a real
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by shawnee_ 12y ago
Bingo. What all of these supposed "gig" economy jobs have in common is the parent company's tendency to shift all the risk to non-employees / ICs while reaping most of the economic value of the reward -- taking a heftie
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by shawnee_ 12y ago
Still, what Quirky has done for many inventors is to make placing a product on store shelves an attainable aspiration. And that has attracted a crowd of enthusiasts: a million registered users, 66 percent male, with the largest single clus
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by shawnee_ 12y ago
According to a 2006 study by the National Research Council, the thermoneutral zone for a domestic cat is 86 to 97 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s the range of temperatures in which cats are “comfortable” and don’t have to generate extra heat to
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by shawnee_ 12y ago
The implications are bigger than for public companies' insider trading. Think about the success of the Oatmeal's Exploding Kittens card game on Kickstarter. Aside from the fact that KS's new payment processor Stripe is lee
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by shawnee_ 12y ago
Yup. http://ink.hackeress.com/2014/12/crowdfunding-is-too-expensi... Treating everything by default like it's a credit card transaction is _the_ glitch in the matrix... these companies are not "like&quot
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Why I'm a boat rocker(ink.hackeress.com)
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Crowdfunding is too expensive(ink.hackeress.com)
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by shawnee_ 12y ago
One important concept that I came across was Opportunity Cost -- the notion of quantifying what you give up when you chose one option over another. I asked myself: Why am I rushing to pay off loans with 3% to 6% interest rates when the S&a
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by shawnee_ 12y ago
If all of this is not enough to propel Americans into the streets in mass protests, perhaps the history of how the coddled Citigroup handles the money of its investors and shareholders will stir the pot. The root of this problem is that b
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by shawnee_ 13y ago
The good news is that it's not a hopeless cause, even though it might seem that way. I used to think that mine was.. totally genetic and thus incurable; that I was doomed to the same death-by-alcohol fate as many in my biological fami
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Startup Employee Bill of Rights(stockoptioncounsel.com)
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by shawnee_ 13y ago
There's probably a parallel somewhere here between Jevons Paradox and this idea of what big data is all about. Jevons Paradox was the observation that the consumption of coal increased, rather than decreased after steam engines came

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