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by tomasien 13y ago
Snapchat is better than IBM's entire lower-end server business. I know this is not a popular opinion, but I think what Snapchat has done is spectacular and what IBM has done is pretty meh.
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by tomasien 13y ago
Stripe is amazing - I can't believe it took until 2011 for something like them to exist. It really blows my mind - one of those "seems obvious, but only after you've seen it" things. Here's to y'all figuring ou
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by tomasien 13y ago
Agreed - I was trying to figure out whether or not this was actually the problem. That's the problem I'm setting out to solve with ACH, so I was trying to see if myself and Balanced are at least seeing the same customer problem.
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by tomasien 13y ago
Not at all, I get it. This, and I'm just trying to give feedback, wasn't a very well written article for someone who doesn't already understand the problem. After I understood the problem, the post was much, much easier to un
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by tomasien 13y ago
Can you explain like I'm 5 why ACH debits won't work and Debit Cards will? It must have nothing to do with fees, so you're saying you assume too much risk because you'd only have 2 days to reverse the transaction? I don&
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by tomasien 13y ago
It's not a circular argument, it's a circular reality. That's exactly how things actually work - we're raised in patriarchy, so we all carry some of that with us. The goal is to carry less and less over by becoming consc
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by tomasien 13y ago
Yeah. I.... Yeah. I'm so sorry.
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by tomasien 13y ago
Sure, just clarifying. I figured it was relevant to my mindset.
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by tomasien 13y ago
There's a lot of factors here, but why would the majority be silent in tech? Is it because they feel like their voice is belittled?
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by tomasien 13y ago
Didn't consider it, I'm a man though. That seems relevant. I also can not have achieved any of the chemical benefits of crying because you aren't near me. So... I don't know. I don't even really know what you'r
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by tomasien 13y ago
There's some possibility men who believe they're not sexist aren't sexist, it seems unlikely that it's a common thing though. It would take an incredible force of will for anyone to be totally devoid of the influences of
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by tomasien 13y ago
Oh. That's too bad!
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by tomasien 13y ago
Admins: what happened to this post? It's been bumped from the front page twice, is there something wrong with it? If it's my account, I'd love for someone else to re-post it - you can even take the text and put it on your own
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by tomasien 13y ago
Jessica and PG if you see this - there are some assumptions I made about you guys and the conference in this piece that I will correct if they're wrong (namely - the timing of the conference is somewhat in response to the Information i
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by tomasien 13y ago
I'd love for you to actually read the post if you have a second - even if you stand by that opinion, I think you'd have more to say if you read it.
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by tomasien 13y ago
I decided to write up a quick blog for public discussion outside of this thread Blog: http://istommydrunk.svbtle.com/the-maleonly-version-of-the-f... Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7099636 I
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What would the male-only version of the Female Founders Conference be?(istommydrunk.svbtle.com)
22 points by tomasien 13y ago|37 comments
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by tomasien 13y ago
That's actually not terrible. That's a pretty good thought framework for thinking about this problem I think.
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by tomasien 13y ago
I have no idea if this is a joke or not, but I'm a male. 6'5", 210, played college basketball, male who wants to or actually does cry reading HN comments about gender issues. (I don't think my size or athletic ability ha
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by tomasien 13y ago
This thread made me want to cry..... this thread..... oh my god you guys this thread is so awful! Does anyone have ideas about what could be done to educate against the constant same old "If it's just for women, it's sexism,
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by tomasien 13y ago
Which trackers do you sync with? Could you list them here, I think that would be helpful. I also found this helpful http://blog.nudgeyourself.com/health-tech-and-food-nerd-blog...
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How to raise money from existing investors.... in your first round of funding(fullstart.com)
6 points by tomasien 13y ago|0 comments
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by tomasien 13y ago
Solid point - the great man theory of history fails most noticeably in the Nazi movement though, so I think it was apt. My favorite example actually involves someone who, today of all days, it would be in poor taste to bring up.
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by tomasien 13y ago
AnyPerk is group discounts for corporations. It's not perks. It's a misnomer.
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by tomasien 13y ago
I hate the "Great Man" theory of history. It misses everything. Hitler was responsible for NAZIsm in Germany lets SO many people off the hook (including people in the US, UK, etc.) and "Jobs made Apple" takes credit away
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by tomasien 13y ago
Depends where you live. Where do you live?
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by tomasien 13y ago
Betterworks missed the mark in a lot of ways, but in other ways they were doing well - but their seed round and series a were so huge, if it wasn't going to be a multi-billion dollar company it wasn't worth continuing. If you want
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by tomasien 13y ago
Somebody start a company that integrates all these services in to an API for perks and let's employees choose what they want and then the company pays for them. That's what I was doing before a stronger passion called me, but the
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by tomasien 13y ago
I was hoping there would be 0 comments on this - that would have been people paying attention!
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by tomasien 13y ago
You NEED someone called CEO because partners of various kinds need to know with whom the buck stops. That's the only reason.

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