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   by wdewind 12y ago

   And yet people still choose to drive for Uber. Are they all being taken advantage of?
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   by wdewind 12y ago

   So this whole thing reads as if it was written from the perspective of the founders of Fixed, and is a story about how great their service is. Lot of talk about Submarines[1] lately, over under on this being one? [1] http://www.
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   by wdewind 12y ago

   RIP. They were so entertaining. I never knew shit about cars but always felt a bit of excitement when I was in the car and heard that we'd be listening to them instead of some of my parents' music. Also this is pretty great: &gt
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   by wdewind 12y ago

   TLDR; there are two problems with tip4commit: 1. The obvious, that they are collecting funds on behalf of other people's work and then keeping them when the funds go 'unclaimed' 2. Even if you do want to claim it, they don&#x
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   by wdewind 12y ago

   Right, we've all read PG's submarines piece. Now my question is why is NYTimes writing stuff against Amazon? I couldn't find even a pro-ish Amazon editorial when I searched, and if there is one it's severely outnumbe
6. 636.▲
   by wdewind 12y ago

   > Even Mr. O’Connell, the über-Uber devotee, is peeved. “The company is turning into a soulless psycho monster,” he said. He sides with the drivers. “I would much rather they pay them fairly than have to deal with surge pricing at 9 a.m.
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   by wdewind 12y ago

   New York City NYC Union Square Area - Justworks is hiring across the board, especially engineers. We deal with storing bank numbers, social security numbers, EINs etc., as well as moving money around and the fraud complications that come w
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   by wdewind 12y ago

   To be fair SpaceX's last launch (Aug 22) exploded too. It was a test, not a real mission, but to quote Elon: "Rockets are tricky."
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   by wdewind 12y ago

   Google cached http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
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    by wdewind 12y ago

    > You seem to get this, because you said you wouldn't mind so much if it was being sold as "an intro" instead of a "silver bullet." While it's technically true, it would probably do more harm than good. Seve
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    by wdewind 12y ago

    There are many advanced programs that squat heavy as possible every workout. Look at some of the Average Broz programming.
12. 642.▲
    by wdewind 12y ago

    I squat heavy 3x a week. It's mostly about the diet.
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    by wdewind 12y ago

    Yes, this is exactly what I'm getting at :) Have read all his stuff. Seems lots of HNers have. It's a highly analytical approach that tends to appeal to hackers I guess.
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    by wdewind 12y ago

    Are you still doing it? No offense but it doesn't seem to have had a tremendous effect besides making you feel better, which in and of itself may be totally worth it for 7 minutes of work anyway. Regardless, the only reason I say thi
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    by wdewind 12y ago

    It's an interesting story but hard to understand why they are saying it's a hedge fund. The fact that Porsche made an investment in VW that affected the larger financial markets does in no way equate to Porsche being a hedge fund
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    by wdewind 12y ago

    You're thinking ICQ.
17. 647.▲
    by wdewind 12y ago

    In a culture with intellectual property laws I'm not sure that's true. Is it legal to destroy counterfeit handbags commonly sold on the street? Honest question, the police seem to do it frequently.
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    by wdewind 12y ago

    Sure, but the chips are illegal no? Where is the moral high ground coming from... I'm not a supporter of intellectual property laws, but we have them, so I'd also be curious of any legal ground fake chip users have to stand on.
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    by wdewind 12y ago

    Thanks, that's a great answer, but I guess I'm curious about legal/ethical considerations.
20. 650.▲
    by wdewind 12y ago

    > purposely reprogramming them to make them non-functional isn't Dumb question maybe, but why?
21. 651.▲
    by wdewind 12y ago

    Sure, I guess I wasn't looking so much for an in depth text as a high level summary of different models and how they differ. Just to get an idea of what's out there.
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    by wdewind 12y ago

    Can you point to other models that are so clearly and concisely explained? Would really like to read that.
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    by wdewind 12y ago

    Sounds good look forward to it. Btw I think I found a typo on your site: http://www.codelitt.com/technologies A successful product requires lorem ipsum dolor sit amet in tenebris.
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    by wdewind 12y ago

    Yeah, sorry, I definitely don't mean to imply legal liability so much as financial liability. No one will really care legally (about you), you'll just be on the hook for the money. As I said before, it's not a matter of whet
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    by wdewind 12y ago

    > Bitcoin itself doesn't increase our fraud/risk Yikes, I disagree highly. You are operating a service that allows people to transfer USD from bank accounts into a relatively untraceable, irreversible currency. You will absol
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    by wdewind 12y ago

    Nice to see some more people in the payroll space. Very interested to hear how you are handling fraud/risk with bitcoin and with split payments (what happens when you need to clawback a payment half of which was made through USD/A
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    Justworks Raises $6M to Help Businesses Handle Employee Benefits(blogs.wsj.com)

    5 points by wdewind 12y ago|0 comments
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    by wdewind 12y ago

    Wow please do not do this. This is a great way to destroy your relationship with your boss and cement it in the exploiter/exploited dynamic. Edit: because it implies from the start that you are being taken advantage of. You are not s
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    by wdewind 12y ago

    http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
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    by wdewind 12y ago

    Well the entire US legal system disagrees with you so I guess this is just where we part ways. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-02/hsbc-judge-approves...