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by tomasien 9y ago
It's a little different I guess since the public invested too. I think that's a good thing though but I may regret this comment if crypto (specifically Filecoin) goes totally sideways. The public should be allowed to take risks th
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by tomasien 9y ago
I would do exactly what I'm doing now (building for profit companies and doing non-profit work @ spreadthevote.org) except I would be much more thoughtful between for-profit projects. I would likely work on slightly bigger problems.
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by tomasien 9y ago
Yeah exactly. Anyone who has engaged with the protocol knows there are huge unknowns - they're acknowledged in the whitepaper. They have theoretical solutions which are often discussed in public on Github and Gitter, and they've g
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by tomasien 9y ago
Something like Filecoin is necessary to make IPFS what it could become, I recognize there are huge unsolved problems with it but it's not legitimately so that they can't be solved. It's worth a shot and sophisticated private
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by tomasien 9y ago
Buying common stock and a different price from preferred is not a discount. Come on, this is just annoying at this point.
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by tomasien 9y ago
Guess again
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by tomasien 9y ago
"this should be solely their problem" - from a legal standpoint, it is. The only reason it "isn't" is because the credit bureaus suck and don't move fast enough. I'm generally not in favor of using regulat
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by tomasien 9y ago
"The filing is what makes it officially into a real lawsuit before the court" That is only true in the sense that the court will now view it as "something" rather than "nothing". You are not being sued until a
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by tomasien 9y ago
This is filed not served right? That would mean he’s threatening to sue Ronco I believe. That may seem like semantics but the difference is not trivial at allll.
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by tomasien 11y ago
My favorite savings app launched Android this week so I thought it was a good time to share here. I've been using the iOS version for almost a year now and I love it. I just let the founders know that I've posted it here so if you
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Qapital – save money based on (almost) anything(qapital.com)
6 points by tomasien 11y ago|1 comments
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by tomasien 11y ago
yeah what happened - this thread somehow became recursive Admins - the URL should be https://www.qapital.com/
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by tomasien 11y ago
I love and use Qapital everyday, and with the launch of their Android app I wanted to share this with HN! Qapital is a free savings app where you can save money based on almost any real life event. You can connect IFTTT to the app, so you c
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Statistical analysis on the price of weed(hiphoff.com)
2 points by tomasien 11y ago|0 comments
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by tomasien 11y ago
I think it would make sense at some point to do this for financial services / fintech. I think there is infrastructure that is very specific to fintech that some accelerator out there will nail at some point and it will help them becom
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by tomasien 11y ago
Depends but it's possible. Given the decision though it was important to distance themselves, both culturally and legally. Anybody who is seen to contribute to non-compliance WILL NOT be celebrated. What the regulators want to see, wha
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by tomasien 11y ago
You are massively underestimating the magnitude of this screw up. You seem to be implying that this was a mistake and changes had to be made, but it's time to move on. Non-compliance can put everyone under you at risk of going to jail.
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by tomasien 11y ago
Zenefits is lucky to have David Sacks for CEO. But this is an important reminder to Fintech companies: compliance is your life.
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Why simple is better: people need to know what they are buying(istommydrunk.svbtle.com)
3 points by tomasien 11y ago|1 comments
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by tomasien 11y ago
That would be a pretty weird "market" if money didn't shift to the opportunities created in such an environment.
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by tomasien 11y ago
Retweeting makes this a huge problem. The way the edit button could work, however, is to remove all RTs and favs and create a new tweet. This isn't what people who complain the most about the lack of an edit button (celebrities) actual
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by tomasien 11y ago
People always act like Paypal can just do whatever they want - they lose tons of money to fraud and are heavily regulated. That drives a lot of the annoying things they do.
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by tomasien 11y ago
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...
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by tomasien 11y ago
I don't know what Tableau Software is and I found it pretty amazing that when I Google it I could still not figure it out because all the results were about the stock price. I think people might be focusing too much on stock price is G
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by tomasien 11y ago
It's a negative but not a huge negative. I, and basically anyone sane, would prefer them to have a business model we could evaluate in our minds - it's just an unknown that isn't helpful. However, it's common and we can
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by tomasien 11y ago
Containing features does not a well designed product make. Matter of taste, but it's the removing of features that makes this concept interesting.
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by tomasien 11y ago
Love this, hate "Tinder for Email" as a tagline. Keep us updated!
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by tomasien 11y ago
Hey I know these guys - what they're doing is AWESOME.
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by tomasien 11y ago
This was the most meandering anti-tech piece ever. "PE is subsidizing growth and Apple hoards cash overseas and some little University project in Iceland died RABBLE!" There are LOTS of great reasons to be skeptical of Uber but co
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by tomasien 11y ago
According to the about page, the author is an engineer at a startup and is on sabbatical. That feels weird given the criticisms leveled in the piece. FWIW I live in New York and prefer it massively to SV, but I mean....

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