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by ticmasta 7y ago
You have most certainly never incorporated a Canadian corporation online for $20. That's the fee for filing an annual return for a federally incorporated company; the vast majority of companies are registered provincially.
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by ticmasta 7y ago
>> It’s not climate regulations. It’s economics. In a simplified view this is true, but they are also irreducible; We'll never reach any meaningful action if we don't make it economically advantageous to pursue alternatives
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by ticmasta 7y ago
I can understand this is your deep, gut reaction - "sue them!", but have you ever been to small claims court? Are you aware that most ToS define the resolution mechanism which includes the jurisdiction?
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by ticmasta 7y ago
Have you used trailforks.com from pinkbike? Their app combines a lot of data with the actual map, plus it's hard to beat how current they are due to crowd-sourcing. Definitely focused on biking but expanding into other users and works
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by ticmasta 7y ago
As a non-user of 1password, what's the value of the vault on it's own? don't you need a master password to unlock it?
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by ticmasta 7y ago
I think you are largely correct about this being a liquidity event vs series A funding; They are likely not looking at massive employee growth or marketing campaign as much as a way to unlock equity without going public. This is good for us
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by ticmasta 7y ago
Why is this sub-optimal? People may not like Cockroaches but they definitely have a reputation for durability, which isn't a bad mental link for a database company. It also provides an identity & personality which is so often missi
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by ticmasta 7y ago
Rands in Repose (Michael Lopp) talks about this in his book "Managing Humans" as volatiles and stables, the former being largely analogous to rockstars. He (I believe accurately) describes how volatiles ignite the fire that leads
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by ticmasta 7y ago
>> OK so then does YAGNI apply to investment? Why not let existing firms handle it in the S&P? Yes, don't rebuild your own balanced portfolio or pay someone to "beat the market" for you; just buy a COTS ETF, put it
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by ticmasta 7y ago
>> Just start doing it, in your free time. You'll be burning the candle at both ends for a while as you build up clients, but you're young, you've got the energy and the time. While you're employed? This is terribl
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by ticmasta 7y ago
Well, most jobs are salary so there's no notion of compensation per unit of time. I rarely expect overtime but sometimes I need help outside of regular work hours; I also don't make you get HR approval and book off time to go to t
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by ticmasta 7y ago
>> USB stick or shared drive You have limited experience in a huge piece of the enterprise / government world if you think this would ever fly - and they all run windows
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by ticmasta 7y ago
But when you need to edit text the only thing you can be guaranteed to have is notepad, which (a) has no features and (b) does the basics of text editing terribly
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by ticmasta 7y ago
I don't think people would complain about a decent text editor vs. adding yet another text-like editor. I appreciate the new calculator... notepad++ is one of the first apps I install on a new windows machine. VS Code is great for wh
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by ticmasta 7y ago
>> But if your business is buying and reselling things You mean like the vast majority of all consumer goods? Very few people buy direct from the manufacturer - isn't this exactly what amazon is, minus the requirement of having t
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by ticmasta 7y ago
Same with me in Calgary, AB, a big, spread-out city by Canadian standards. My daily commute is ~5km each way and it takes 12-20 minutes depending on weather, type of bike and how energetic you're feeling. Visiting my family is 25km eac
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by ticmasta 7y ago
agreed - season 1 covered all the interesting material quasi-related/inspired by Compaq; then it turned into a dark soap opera that was basically unwatchable
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by ticmasta 7y ago
People will spend money to going on a working vacation in a developing country with primitive facilities, or pay to drive a handsom cab, or many other far more pedestrian activities than big wall climbing. Money should be used to do things
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by ticmasta 7y ago
c) overnight success stories take years to realize, d) it takes a long time to get all the failures out of the way
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by ticmasta 7y ago
... and earned that acceptance over a very long period of time, not because they said "trust us" enough times.
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by ticmasta 7y ago
>> but for other minor stuff. Like it provides deep satisfaction in an area they really value?
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by ticmasta 7y ago
But if you get paid to do what you personally value, isn't that the ultimate win?
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by ticmasta 7y ago
So what you're saying is they are running the country like a start-up?
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by ticmasta 7y ago
Like many of the pedantic things we like to argue about, I think teams/projects should choose consistency over prescription.
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by ticmasta 7y ago
The same thing happened with the introduction of UAC.It may be necessary though it conditions people to blindly allow as their default reaction, which is really counter-productive to safety.
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by ticmasta 7y ago
this is social media, so you're not fully clean yet...
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by ticmasta 7y ago
That's likely attributed more to gun culture than a lack of racism
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by ticmasta 7y ago
Plus our municipal garbage pickup explicitly requires you to bag dirty or dusty trash like this (ex: furnace filters) so I end up transferring from a bag-less vacuum to a bag, plus get dirt and dust everywhere and can never get all the crud
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by ticmasta 7y ago
generally these types of activities don't actually follow a bell curve but a power law where a very tiny population reap the vast majority of the rewards and everyone else shares the scraps, trailing off and approaching zero. Think 10
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by ticmasta 7y ago
Work hard? Incremental progress? Contribute to society? How can you possibly hope to disrupt work with these types of values? </s>

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