andrew311

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by andrew311 2y ago
> it’s difficult to look at people like Graham — people who aren’t as bright as they think they are Graham’s (alleged) arrogance about his brightness isn’t really the issue here. Let’s face it, he is bright. That’s not what is causing
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by andrew311 3y ago
Sugar Free Dark Almonds from Sees[1] has to be one of my favorite chocolate products of all time. Friends and family always gobble them up at my place so I sometimes buy them as little gifts. I normally abhor anything “sugar free” because s
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by andrew311 3y ago
To me, the real issue is that content in apps is temporal with a lack of visit history, unreproducible feeds, and a lack of deep links. This means I often lose my place when a momentary switch to another app causes a refresh on the first ap
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by andrew311 5y ago
A memory seared into my brain from the 90s: I was in the highschool computer lab, working on a website for the school IT administrator. She wanted me to include a patterned background, blinking marquees, GIFs, the whole nine yards. Another
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by andrew311 6y ago
This argument falls into the trap of comparing the average home to the stock market. If I was primarily concerned with returns, I would never buy the average home. That would be a home in the middle of nowhere. I would only buy in major m
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by andrew311 6y ago
Did anyone else read this title as “NYC Pilot (that flies planes) Tries Mental Health Responders in Place of Police” instead of “NYC Tries Mental Health Responders in Place of Police”?
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Ask HN: How does a game like Just Dance score movement?
3 points by andrew311 6y ago|1 comments
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by andrew311 7y ago
Does Atlas setup vesting for the founders?
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by andrew311 7y ago
What colo company did you use?
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by andrew311 7y ago
I should clarify that it is certainly doable for widely recognized companies, but it’s very difficult for the majority of startups that no one has heard of even if they have some success. Also, getting on these marketplaces also goes much b
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by andrew311 7y ago
Selling private shares / options on the secondary market is near impossible if the company isn’t on something like SecondMarket. Right of First Refusal, Co-sale Agreements, and the challenges of sharing information with a 3rd party mak
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Is Venture Capital Worth the Risk?(newyorker.com)
3 points by andrew311 7y ago|0 comments
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0x exchange smart contract vulnerability, explained(samczsun.com)
2 points by andrew311 7y ago|0 comments
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by andrew311 7y ago
I agree wholeheartedly. This is important and will provide balance. That said, often people have some sort of passion, their job might be a manifestation of that passion, and they want to connect with peers.
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by andrew311 7y ago
An alternative way of looking at it: whether or not face to face is important for the specifics of the job, it might be important for emotional connection between humans, fulfilling a common human desire to connect with peers and be happy o
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by andrew311 7y ago
This has been my experience as someone who started a fintech company and has friends in compliance departments at banks. Highly bureaucratic on both the bank and regulator side. Compliance reviews are mostly an expensive song and dance by t
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by andrew311 7y ago
Unfortunately, getting a no action letter can take years and there is no guarantee you wilk ever get it. So far only one has been issued among probably numerous requests within the last year or two.
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by andrew311 7y ago
100% agree on this assessment and the difficulty of applying securities law. The application of the Howey test is so open for debate that it becomes uncomfortably subjective. See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F
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by andrew311 7y ago
There is a major issue at stake here that should deeply concern anyone who cares about innovation in the US. I feel that HN is getting too caught up in the "scam" rhetoric and missing the bigger picture. Whether or not Kin is a sc
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Ask HN: What are your favorite guides to giving and receiving feedback?
2 points by andrew311 7y ago|1 comments
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by andrew311 7y ago
Share grants would be seen as income by the IRS and most states and taxed at their Fair Market Value. Options on the other hand usually qualify as Incentive Stock Options that aren’t taxed at grant time and “when exercised, it isn't ne
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SEC’s Statement on Digital Asset Securities Issuance and Trading(sec.gov)
5 points by andrew311 8y ago|1 comments
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SEC Charges EtherDelta Founder with Operating an Unregistered Exchange(sec.gov)
6 points by andrew311 8y ago|2 comments
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by andrew311 9y ago
Here is another company doing this: https://www.earplay.com/
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by andrew311 9y ago
Correct, the analysis comes with the disclaimer that I am not a lawyer, and it is not legal advice. I am active in the space and have consulted leading lawyers for my own activities, so I come with some knowledge, but obviously this is a qu
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by andrew311 9y ago
I wrote an in-depth analysis of this bulletin and its associated report on The DAO: https://medium.com/@andrew311/thoughts-on-the-secs-initial-c... In the post, I explore what constitutes a security by examining case l
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Meet the gambling kingpin funding Eve Online's biggest war(polygon.com)
7 points by andrew311 10y ago|0 comments
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by andrew311 11y ago
Good question. Here's one benefit. With Kinesis you can batch a bunch of writes to S3 that would have otherwise resulted in many small files in S3. In other words, you can make small writes to Kinesis and then read out in larger amount
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OkCupid's Analysis of Colleges by Habits(okcupid.com)
3 points by andrew311 11y ago|2 comments
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Presto for the Enterprise [video](vimeo.com)
6 points by andrew311 11y ago|0 comments

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