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931.
by sowbug 3y ago
Do you mean seeking out areas with less existing competition? I would hazard a guess it will always be relevant.
932.
by sowbug 3y ago
How else would you have explained the key story element of why FB was willing to run down the deal clock? Edit: removed a sentence that made the same point as benzible already did.
933.
by sowbug 3y ago
The situation might seem "extremely straightforward" to you, but it is an expensive and time-consuming kind of legal dispute, because it requires discovery of years of business records, expert witnesses in forensic accounting, and
934.
by sowbug 3y ago
They should be required to burn the cash publicly. Serves the purpose of deterring those awful, awful drug dealers they've been letting go. And it also removes the incentive to, you know, steal cash from innocent people. (But they shou
935.
by sowbug 3y ago
Coordinated discovery would still be within the arbitration process.
936.
by sowbug 3y ago
I agree. It seems like a legitimate collective-action problem. Team network effects do matter, and the medium of the network does matter.
937.
by sowbug 3y ago
Adverse possession can be thought of as the other half of a statute of limitations. Either sue when you have a claim, or lose the right to sue.
938.
by sowbug 3y ago
For the same reason people use VPNs, buy burner phones, have two Gmail addresses, sign up for porn sites with fake email addresses, delete web cookies, and walk through white neighborhoods while Black. Because we live in a free country, and
939.
by sowbug 3y ago
Sorry for your loss, and glad you and your family got such good advice beforehand. (The ~$40,000 is based on the fee for a sadly typical $2.5 million SF Bay Area home, bought before the interest-rate hike.)
940.
by sowbug 3y ago
Yes, but maybe it's your family's home, where your now-orphaned kids have lived all their lives, and they might not want to have to move and change schools just to pay an attorney whose services they didn't want. Their guardi
941.
by sowbug 3y ago
Yes, but at least some US jurisdictions require an attorney (and fee) to go through probate. California even charges the fee as a percentage of the gross value of the estate, ignoring debt. So you can die with zero net worth, but your estat
942.
by sowbug 3y ago
I might be one of the few with full experience (assuming the rest who have used it start-to-finish are dead). I accidentally let mine trigger a couple years ago. It was on a Gmail address that my family knows is me, but I don't sign in
943.
by sowbug 3y ago
"But CBP says it can only process so many people in a day." Which means that from CBP's perspective, the system is functioning properly.
944.
by sowbug 3y ago
Your understanding is about 8 years out of date. The Nexus line followed the JDM model you describe, ending with the 2015 Nexus 6P designed by Huawei. Starting with the Pixel in 2016, Google has been the designer and seller of record for al
945.
by sowbug 3y ago
It's hyperbole. I'm dying to know whether you already understood that.
946.
by sowbug 3y ago
I think GP already addressed that point. If you perform, you help keep the company in business. If you don't, you increase the chances that the company will fail. Aside from the relatively recent innovations of stock options and their
947.
by sowbug 3y ago
This is ChatGPT's attempt to rephrase your comment in polite, constructive language. It's important to consider the various factors that influence people's choices, as the question seems to overlook the complexities of life.
948.
by sowbug 3y ago
I have a very old Gmail account. For purposes of this discussion, call it sergey@gmail.com. I often get real email sent to addresses like sergey2000@gmail.com. By "real" I mean important stuff that people would miss if they didn&#
949.
by sowbug 3y ago
You might have meant to use a word other than "sporadic." That word describes a recurring event that happens at unpredictable intervals, such as snow in a normally hot desert, or a Linux crash caused by a race condition. Other wor
950.
by sowbug 3y ago
That depends whether the development model is branch-stable or trunk-stable.
951.
by sowbug 3y ago
What percentage of the massive expense in following that process would you say is regulatory capture?
952.
by sowbug 3y ago
"Also, that driver should be charged with negligence." It's surprising this isn't the first (and maybe only) salient point. Autopilot is a slightly more capable cruise control. If a driver sets a car to drive 45 mph and
953.
by sowbug 3y ago
I took a few of those USB-PD decoy boards and soldered them to some universal power jacks. Now I have a home kit that can power any legacy barrel-jack devices. I did have to label each cable with the hard-wired voltage so I don't mix t
954.
by sowbug 3y ago
Related: "we're experiencing longer than normal hold times" on phone calls with businesses. They say that so often that hmmmm, I wonder whether hold times are normally longer than normal.
955.
by sowbug 3y ago
Session musicians are typically paid per session. Do you have an idea for a better system?
956.
by sowbug 3y ago
Seems fair game to use fake MSRPs against them.
957.
by sowbug 3y ago
I have no doubt that owners appreciate the benefits of offloading business risk to their employees. Heck, why not reclassify staff as independent contractors and charge them an hourly rate for the opportunity to interact with onsite custome
958.
by sowbug 3y ago
No, your point was not lost; in fact, what you said is exactly what's so grating about "guilt tipping." Think of it in terms of privacy. Whether I can afford to pay $1 or $5 or $50 for a cup of coffee is none of your business
959.
by sowbug 3y ago
Your argument depends on twice saying "not hard for a lot of people on Hacker News." You've nicely illustrated the point.
960.
by sowbug 3y ago
For the same reason people don't like haggling in almost any other context: they want to know the posted price, so that they can decide to buy or not. I want to buy coffee, not take a mandatory personality test.

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