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by wdewind 8y ago
Kind of depends on your definition of "getting screwed." The venn overlap of companies that are very successful and also screw early employees out of stock options is very small, but sometimes expectations aren't properly se
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by wdewind 8y ago
I agree with nearly everything you said except this: > If the company becomes some run-away success there will be opportunity to get more equity but getting a cash raise in 6 months is infinitely harder I’ve found. The size of grants yo
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by wdewind 8y ago
I've been reading you on here for a while and I respect your experience and deep thoughtfulness on these issues so I'm really interested in your opinion on this: what about the other half of the problem? How can we navigate the b
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by wdewind 8y ago
Late reply and IANAL but I don't believe you can actually do a token model where the people buying tokens early on pay less for them than they will be priced at later. Pretty sure that doesn't pass the Howey Test[1] because there
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by wdewind 8y ago
What are some examples of ICOs that are not illegal securities offerings?
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by wdewind 8y ago
I'm very into combat sports and I've seen this argument a lot. It makes no sense to me. Watch some bareknuckle boxing, people are not holding back and just break their hands all the time and knockouts happen much earlier. The n
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by wdewind 9y ago
> why did the handwriting look like the landlord's and not their own? TLDR: carbon monoxide is a helluva drug
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by wdewind 9y ago
My experiences with ANA have been pretty fantastic. One time I was flying to Japan and the plane were going to get on was hit by lightning as it landed. Apparently the FAA then requires a mandatory rebooting and testing process that takes
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by wdewind 9y ago
https://np.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/34l7vo/ma_posti...
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by wdewind 9y ago
A lot of it, yeah. Look at the physics and funding that came out of the bomb.
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by wdewind 9y ago
There's a lot in here I agree with. I am not discounting the private sector's value in bringing state sponsored tech to market. This is huge. But what I am saying is that the state leads. Innovation has not traditionally been
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by wdewind 9y ago
> But at what cost? How many wars? How many lives lost due to our infatuation with the MIC? I'm not implying the military industrial complex is good (or bad). I'm simply saying the narrative that silicon valley gave the milit
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by wdewind 9y ago
> Yet we shouldn’t forget that civil-military antagonism and the deep American tradition of distrusting the state have been crucial to the United States’ ability to innovate. There are good reasons why defense-tech giants of the 1960s, ’
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by wdewind 9y ago
> How about the thousands of people who have already sent millions of dollars back home to developing nations where they previously had to rely on western union and their exorbitant commission fees. Sorry to be that guy but do you have a
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by wdewind 9y ago
What's the dApp equivalent of the space shuttle?
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by wdewind 9y ago
> It's precisely the application of market economics to fields of technology, communication and society that previously were mostly voluntaristic that is one of the main opportunities for blockchains We don't actually let marke
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by wdewind 9y ago
I'm saying the technology is derivative of the economics and politics of our culture, and it is unlikely that this relationship will invert itself. Tons of political science and economic thought has gone into designing systems where b
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by wdewind 9y ago
The "blockchain is just a database" critique is an application of Conway's Law ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law ). The basic critique is: the problem being solved with the overwhelming major
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by wdewind 9y ago
In fact, this is a really common thing we see in the market/government dichotomy: the market doesn't, and shouldn't, have a stomach for long term, high risk plays that could possibly benefit all of society. That's not t
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by wdewind 9y ago
Sure, that's true if you are raising from a few, relatively speaking, large investors, and also only if you care about fundraising as a one time event, instead of funds management as an ongoing process. The entire point of ICOs seems
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by wdewind 9y ago
> Whatever the structure, it isn't new. But now maybe it's order of magnitude or two cheaper and so you can do a whole bunch of them where you used to be able to only do a few. Does that change anything? I really don't k
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by wdewind 9y ago
The same way it's done in kindergartens around the world? They say "write me a story about your family" or "draw your family tree." So ok: "write me a program that is somehow relevant to your life." Imag
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by wdewind 9y ago
To build on my snarkniess: it's almost as if the incentives behind research and education aren't nearly as aligned as we think.
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by wdewind 9y ago
Totally! I definitely didn't mean to imply this is the Prof/TA's fault. It is the fault of many institutions and systems above them. I meant that TA's shouldn't be responsible for grading 4 sections of 60 student
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by wdewind 9y ago
Here's an idea: why not make the assignments personal enough that you cannot cheat on them? "But wait, that would require huge amounts of time investment from the professors/TAs" Yes, it's almost as if paying $65k a
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by wdewind 9y ago
Margin | Mid / Senior full stack / backend software engineer | New York NYC NY | ONSITE http://www.margin.co Margin is an early stage startup looking for a mid to senior backend or full stack engineer. AWS/ops ex
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by wdewind 9y ago
Thanks for posting this. I am not bullish on SNAP but I highly encourage people to look at that data here. It is a much less dramatic story than the article, a lot of the data actually looks pretty good and at this point the data is fairl
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by wdewind 9y ago
> A strategy could have been "start with a $700 offering at the top of the market and work down," but that's not something they tell you on the way in This is absolutely the kind of thing you should be asking about and th
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by wdewind 9y ago
Hi, FWIW I did not downvote you and don't agree whoever did. > I looked at those studies. They do not at all address issues like PTSD, personality disorders, trauma and other mental health issues which, for example, would certainly
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by wdewind 9y ago
Off hand I have no idea, but it's also the severity aspect here that is different. Color blind people do not have problems with executive function, maintaining social relationships, depression etc.

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