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by xstartup 8y ago
I've seen smart people making dumb mistakes on a bad day. You simply can't trust any random person's judgment and lose money along the way.
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by xstartup 8y ago
So, one of our talented employees was telling me that he asked to be switched from fulltime to parttime, the previous company let him switch but kept the compensation fulltime. He was moved remote to not cause resentment among existing empl
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by xstartup 8y ago
Yea, but when everyone from ICOs to shady diet piet e-commerce companies uses same tactics, it no longer works.
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by xstartup 8y ago
Most people outside the US are probably committing tax fraud in their home country. I suggest you take some legal counsel. CFCs/POEMs/TIEAs will get you busted in no time.
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Tell HN: Stackdriver is down
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by xstartup 8y ago
I use to make my own apps when it was profitable to do so. At any point, we had 50-100 apps across many categories, different companies. We were making good revenue, it was still early in the mobile world. These days, it's not as profi
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by xstartup 8y ago
In fact, you can pay customers of your competitors $100 to ask them to request erasure of data from their competitor. Have fun!
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Ask HN: Why Stackdriver is so expensive?
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by xstartup 8y ago
I think the Human mind has the ability to control genes. So, if you focus much on a single gene, you can unlock its ability. Some people have gained "superhuman" abilities with meditation-like practises in past.
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by xstartup 8y ago
Most people told me that I am good at math. But I was like an addict solving every question I could find. I got a kick from solving it before anyone else, completing the whole book before others opened the first chapter. I was looking at my
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by xstartup 8y ago
Facebook, in a few months the perks are going to be even higher if you are at the senior level position. Facebook is launching dating service. Their senior employees will most likely get a blessed account which is gonna match with more ladi
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Ask HN: Why government does tax ISPs at higher rate in places?
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Ask HN: Anyone using BVI or Seychelles for startup incorporation?
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by xstartup 8y ago
Correlation is not causation. SimilarWeb buys data from ISP DNS resolvers. During the same time, Cloudflare DNS resolver was released to the public and marketed heavily. Even my nontechy gf started using Cloudflare Resolver. She saw that o
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Ask HN: International SaaS startups which payment system do you use?
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by xstartup 8y ago
Yea, it's great. We run adtech entirely out of Germany, we've found lots of talented folks but we operate in a village, not Berlin. But then also, we just need AWS, payment processing (stripe) and a bank account. 24/7 power,
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by xstartup 8y ago
Sometimes, group exits before you. It has more experience under its belt.
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by xstartup 8y ago
I am not sure why the above comment is getting downvotes but seems like a valid question to ask. Extraordinary people need extraordinary compensation. Maybe pissing off a few people is part of compensation and company has no problem with th
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by xstartup 8y ago
But does not doing wrong, prevents you from going out of business? What if you desperately need to sign a sketchy deal which helps you keep your business afloat and if you try finding some better way which does not exist, you end up losing
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by xstartup 8y ago
There is opportunity cost as well. What if you don't it then a new startup comes, starts doing it and soon they run your business and become an enormous success. Soon, you end up selling your business and your employees are left jobles
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by xstartup 8y ago
I think some low-level employees will greatly benefit from a class in philosophy. It's not about the fault or that if the employee is right. Founder makes a promise to customers. He comes with an initial vision. It might be a flawed vi
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by xstartup 8y ago
How hard is it to know? Young investors want to invest their free time. Make a product, which lets you invest your time and gives you return on that without doing anything. For example, if a homeless kid wants to go to Thailand to have fun.
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by xstartup 8y ago
Not really. If you are in a democratic but corrupt country. Make local people aware that you want to offer the service and this service can only be offered if the government lets you lay cable. Start laying cable and offer your people servi
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by xstartup 8y ago
This is very true. Skype had huge exploits and some blackhat folks went to Skype support and told them that the victim's account is treating them and Skype banned victims can't without any investigation. Skype also banned victim w
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by xstartup 8y ago
The regions in Europe which have cheaper/faster access have either community managed infra or high population density/cheap power. Does the US have that?
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by xstartup 8y ago
Assuming that everyone knows how to take care of themselves is ignorance. We don't live in a natural state, otherwise, it would have been fine for me to kill you for my survival.
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by xstartup 8y ago
Yes, but they are fat by choice not due to lack of choice.
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by xstartup 8y ago
Most people don't exercise because no one is paying them to exercise. If a government wants healthy people, they should pay up $100 per hour to just exercise. I think this is the conspiracy of rich people to make poor people fat so tha
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by xstartup 8y ago
We also spend upward of 200K per month on Google Cloud. And recently, we moved some pieces to AWS and OVH. We only move things there is it's gonna save us more than 50% of the cost. (including maintenance etc....)
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Ask HN: Which CSS book do you recommend in 2018?
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