SkyAtWork

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by SkyAtWork 7y ago
Oh goodness, there were 4.7 million US soldiers in the first world war - out of a US population of 102 million at the time. Surely that must be major?
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by SkyAtWork 8y ago
I wonder how often this would need to be physically replaced/maintained. And for that matter what size is required - would this work for unpowered earplugs / would it be better than conventional foam earplugs?
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by SkyAtWork 8y ago
Hollywood and associated content creation/monetization businesses are historically strongly aligned with the Democrats - though I agree with your ideal, it is not likely that the party will bite the hand that feeds it.
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by SkyAtWork 8y ago
That isn't entirely true. For instance, if you are investing on behalf of a foundation or other nonprofit structure, or a similar non-taxed or tax-deferred entity (like a pension fund), you have a reason to preserve your legitimate tax
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by SkyAtWork 11y ago
I find that a stretch. Oscar Wilde is at least as quotable, though I suppose the Brits categorize him as Irish instead. How about Orwell? Lewis Carroll? Jane Austen? Emily Bronte? William Blake? There's enough Sherlock clones around t
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by SkyAtWork 12y ago
You can probably cram them through since they are flexible, but they wouldn't fit without some force; a regulation rim is 18 inches inside diameter and a basketball 9.5 inches diameter.
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by SkyAtWork 13y ago
I think I'm missing what you're saying, can you expound on this? There are records of mercantile law going back to Hammurabi; there's been paper fiat currency in China since the 7th century or so. Coinage and trade has plenty
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by SkyAtWork 13y ago
I'm somewhat surprised to see that Chrome on my Nexus 10 shows up as unique, based primarily on user agent and screen size/color depth. Both seem to be surprisingly less common than I'd expect inasmuch as they would seem to b
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by SkyAtWork 13y ago
I realize this is only anecdata but the ones I know buy EVERY ONE of the toys :)
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by SkyAtWork 13y ago
Though Jeff came out of a hedge fund (DE Shaw) and doesn't seem to have been struggling :)
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by SkyAtWork 13y ago
We're currently doing one. It's been relatively painless, most of the difficulty being simultaneously moving off old myisam tables to innodb -> xtradb
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by SkyAtWork 13y ago
I was there when they did this a long time ago (circa 2000), I believe in conjunction with Greenlight.com - at the time it was a "cars" tab which was basically just third party storefront space. It didn't last as Greenlight (
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by SkyAtWork 13y ago
Presumably it would look a lot like an accelerator, inasmuch as most accelerators don't put in any significant amount of capital but do add a lot of experience around startup growth.
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by SkyAtWork 13y ago
Probably for the perpetrators, probably not for the companies involved (which are likely to have the same set of Delaware and/or Cayman mailing addresses) :-P But sure, I would expect that white collar crime is unsurprisingly correlate
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by SkyAtWork 13y ago
> Anarchism without pacifism is a contradiction Please expound on this - that statement sounds unintuitive and generally the opposite of what I'd expect
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by SkyAtWork 13y ago
One of those degrees is definitely "sure, that sounds like a turnon." There is certainly legitimate exploitation, but it's not like Paris Hilton did it to make rent.
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by SkyAtWork 13y ago
The Florida highway through the Keys dates to the 1930s and the NYC Catskill aqueduct to roughly 1916 - those are certainly great projects but aren't the last fifty. Largely agree with the rest of your comment though :)
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by SkyAtWork 13y ago
When the show is initially airing, HBO would rather you subscribe to the cable channel, since the cable company pays them much more than Netflix or Hulu would. When the season ends, HBO would rather you buy the DVD / Bluray, since the sale
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by SkyAtWork 14y ago
We talk a lot about disrupting businesses here; there's a reasonable number of folks in the audience who want to do this to health care. Likely no deeper than that, but understanding the entrenched solutions in a market can be valuable if t
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by SkyAtWork 14y ago
I'm sure there's an audience for which that's true, but it would seem like that's an edge case of people who prefer to overpay for nostalgia purposes if they could get the same product cheaper and more conveniently. Wine is often a luxury g
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by SkyAtWork 14y ago
This is one of those stories that only looks good in the distant rear view mirror. Trying this is pure shareholder lawsuit bait and invitation to corporate-veil piercing. (Still makes a good story.)
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by SkyAtWork 14y ago
Generally true but definitely survivorship bias
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by SkyAtWork 14y ago
This seems (to me) more a 1st amendment issue - freedom of speech/press/petition?
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by SkyAtWork 14y ago
Doesn't seem too kooky, there's $163 billion spent every year to do just that: http://www.the-dma.org/cgi/dispannouncements?article=1590
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by SkyAtWork 14y ago
(I ran engineering for a DRM firm for several years about the same time as Peter put this out.) It was pretty stunningly apparent at the time that the Internet was very good for information sharing, that crushing Napster hadn't exactly stop
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by SkyAtWork 16y ago
It's reasonable to have SOME amount of the purchase value vest, but 100% is not reasonable. Common enough to get half or two thirds of it down and the other as earnout milestones.
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by SkyAtWork 16y ago
I have reasonably good background in this with a number of successful exits to various publicly traded firms. Drop me a line per my contact info and let me know what your industry is, as long as it isn't directly competitive with anything I
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by SkyAtWork 16y ago
Seriously, I'm doing my best to raise angel funding or project financing in Seattle and I can't get the time of day from folks despite having a sizable contract to execute against with the target raise. I have heard explicitly that angel, p