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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
Perhaps Thiel offered a minimum return on investment to Hogan? "If you win, you get 100% of a 9+ figure reward. If you lose, I give you $25m, either way we exact our revenge".
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
Quite simply, a bank would have done a risk analysis and quickly pushed for a settlement, whereas Thiel was motivate by hatred, and the kind of entitlement which comes from power and wealth. He was to happy to carry all the risk and let Hog
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
"when the truth is Thiel provided financing and likely got an economic interest in the final judgment/settlement but he still had zero influence on the case itself" Zero influence? Wasn't his $10m incredibly influential?
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
Perhaps I'm just too cynical in my old age, this feels like at best it is about turning the legal system into a market opportunity, not seeking justice. At worst it can be a tool, as with the Thiel case, to profit off of exacting reven
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Ask HN: Should being a public personae be an engineering job requisite?
2 points by somenomadicguy 10y ago|0 comments
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
Legalist just makes me sad, but I guess there's nothing more American than suing for absolutely anything. It's like the founders were looking for a business model that was even more parasitic than patent squatting. As a nomad, air
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
It's funny you should mention this. We just started tracking the time to completion of all zendesk tickets (everything we do is ticket-based) to deliver weekly reports to $uppermgmt. Sigh, yeah, it's a sinking ship. Sadly. My team
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
Yes, I do see what you mean. I guess I look at it as a white male statistically I'm far more likely to oversell myself, and I've certainly done that before. Now I might overcompensate for that. I would much rather set low/mi
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
Perhaps, but I spent most of my career heavily negotiating for high salaries which set impossibly high expectations. I've been working in IT in one form or another since I was 12, and I just no longer have the will or the energy to pe
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
I guess I look at waste because of the motivation. The only motivator in the Silicon Valley, in the end, is greed. Even if it begins with wanting to change the world, or wanting to work on cool challenges, $3k/month rent inevitably lea
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
<3 Are you hiring for remote DevOps engineers? I'm cheap, and have 20+ years experience.
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
I'll write about this after I've secured new work. Sadly they know I'm stuck there because it took me a year to find a DevOps position which would allow me to work from outside the United States.
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
I definitely agree with you here. I worked for Nokia a few years ago, and traded $20k in salary in exchange for 3.5 weeks of guaranteed vacation. When I went to take my 11th day of vacation, they refused to honor my offer letter, so I said
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Ask HN: Are open vacation policies a scam?
83 points by somenomadicguy 10y ago|102 comments
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Bay Area Startups Find Low-Cost Outposts in Arizona(nytimes.com)
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
Thus the reason I hang up on startup recruiters the moment they say "A peter thiel funded start-up". I'm not sure what is a sadder waste of this amazing braintrust we have in the United States today, all of the advertising s
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Ask HN: Why are techies so interested in Japanese culture?
16 points by somenomadicguy 10y ago|15 comments
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
Orthogonally, I've always wondered, why are geeks so into Japan? Slashdot and all of it's children, like HN, are always full of posts by Westerners about Japanese culture, language, etc, but pretty much lacking in any interest for
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Names of large and small numbers(bmanolov.free.fr)
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
"We have detected you are using an active AdBlock on your web browser. Please disable it. Do not worry, we will not bother you with ads. However, some parts of our website may not work properly or stop working, if your Adblocker is ena
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
Whoa, unless the bonus is astronomical, you would really need to question the offer, especially if relocation is involved. The longest earn-out I've ever had on a hiring bonus was 6 months, even then I left within 5 and didn't hav
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The Unabomber Manifesto, 20 years later(cyber.eserver.org)
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
Or perhaps, handful of highly trendy and desirable cities are running out of places to live.
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
Does anybody remember the fabulous disaster which was the excite@home merger? Same thing, different decade.
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
Twitter made this same threat with San Francisco when it extorted us for corporate welfare. In reality we should have a tax system which rewards job creation and creates very stiff penalties for trying to sneak out of paying for the infrast
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Ask HN: Do you let your politics guide your business decisions?
3 points by somenomadicguy 10y ago|2 comments
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
I'm not sure what we would gain from a successful coup. It could very well cause a civil war, and there are too many of those going on in this region right now. Erdoğan is the dictator we know, and while replacing him would be nice, it
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
Our agreement with Türkiye does not cover seekers of political asylum, especially when they are naturalized citizens. Don't get me wrong, Gülen is a very dangerous Islamist and I would love to see him in prison for his crimes in the U
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
Watch the news today. Erdogan stated yesterday that he would be announcing a huge new process that will stabilize the markets. We think that it will be the announcement of a secret parliamentary vote to give him the Presidential powers he
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by somenomadicguy 10y ago
As an American in Türkiye, I do not believe that we had anything directly to do with the coup, but I believe we knew about it, and we informed him ahead of time. Until about his recent to the US for Muhamed Ali's funeral, Erdoğan was h

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