brwnll

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by brwnll 9y ago
I have issues with Seattle, especially the city counsil, and prefer the smaller towns that surround it, but a few of your items are outright falsehoods. >> - Tokyo offers people nice 1BR apartments for roughly $900-1000 a month, becau
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by brwnll 9y ago
Yes, since stock compensation is only granted if the market value of the company hits a threshold.
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by brwnll 9y ago
The interesting part is how this contradicts what Elon's original stated goal of the company was. I am a Musk believer, and when he started Tesla he stated his goal wasn't to be a major car manufacturer but to be a proof of concep
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by brwnll 9y ago
There was a good Odd Lots podcast covering this: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-27/odd-lots-...
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by brwnll 9y ago
With so many companies offering employees public transportation passes for commuting, I'd love to see Lyft/Uber create the ability for employers to offer free/reduced fare office commutes (within a determined range). AFAIK th
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by brwnll 10y ago
"Almost immediately, they found that they could debunk the time-worn idea that anonymity leads to abuse. Although anonymous comments are "six times more likely to be an attack," Hmm, that actually DOES seem to support the ide
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by brwnll 10y ago
Is there any sense of how corporate benefits effect the real cost of living? Meaning, companies which offer free food, transportation, even limited housing, the net effect of cost of living increases could be somewhat offset?
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by brwnll 10y ago
- Out with flat org structure based purely on meritocracy, in with supervisors and middle managers. This has ticked off many people in the old guard. - Its once famous remote-employee culture has been rolled back. Senior managers are no lon
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by brwnll 10y ago
I don't know what employers you interact with that believe a prospective employee should take a sub-market pay in exchange for the privilege to work at their company, but it's terrible. There have been many good articles on HN abo
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by brwnll 10y ago
Not sure where you're seeing that. Many prominent Republicans have endorsed Trump, but then denounce comment after comment Trump makes, without ever removing their endorsement of the candidate out of loyalty to the party.
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Stratolaunch lifts the veil on world's biggest airplane(geekwire.com)
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by brwnll 10y ago
This was my initial thought. But after consideration this would likely to just lead to companies creating holding/shell companies for groups of patents. Effectively, Big Corp would spin up "Obvious Shopping Cart Patents, LLC"
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by brwnll 10y ago
Yes, the stock price represents the last transaction. If you are looking at a stock trading platform, you will usually also see "Current Ask" and "Current Bid" representing standing sell and buy prices (respectfully) for
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by brwnll 10y ago
The specifics of charter school success isn't really the main concept of the article. I believe the grandparent is pointing out the writer attacks the "billionaire philanthropists" donations as an assault on democracy, withou
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by brwnll 10y ago
Love when people call something undemocratic just because they are against the goals of a group. Wealthy individuals and groups have power to publish advertisements and arguments for their ideas/proposals to try to change the mind of t
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by brwnll 10y ago
This is likely true, but for a less nefarious reasons. It's very unlikely they received your order and were sitting around twirling their thumbs until the last possible moment. Instead Amazon has algos that know exactly when they need
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by brwnll 10y ago
Don't most ad blockers also block third party trackers? I know uBlock Origin blocks Google Analytics for example. I don't know Alexa's fallback/tracking methods, but couldn't these be an indicator of adoption rate o
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by brwnll 10y ago
This is nonsense. A company "swooping in" to buy a company assumes the liabilities of that company. If Alphabet were to buy a struggling company, they don't get to go to it's creditors and say "We will pay you $1, w
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by brwnll 11y ago
Society is nothing more than a collection of people who agree/desire to abide by a common set of rules. Typically enumerated and enforced by some type of governing body. If the American people in general want to live in society with on
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by brwnll 11y ago
While humorous, this is nonsense, and a complete mischaracterization of what a stock market actually is. A stock market is a place where a group of businesses are able to offer ownership stakes in their company in exchange for cash. The fac
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by brwnll 11y ago
Source?
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by brwnll 11y ago
This is nonsense. Without writing an essay here, you are apparently focusing on the criminals in jail. There are plenty of very successful and intelligent criminals that have long, prosperous careers in theft. Bernie Madoff ran a very succe
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by brwnll 11y ago
This may be an over assumption, looking at the timing of the block. Article states that because of the timing the site owners were able to seize his funded account, getting a few hundred dollars for free. May have flagged him prior, but lik
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by brwnll 11y ago
"The Image Slide Show they Don't Want You to See, the Insiders secret to why Ghost Ships End up in Japan!"
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by brwnll 11y ago
Is there any indication what the sponsorship money of Let's Encrypt goes toward? Corporate sponsorship looks to be somewhere around $2m/year. Is the money needed for scaling? Hiring engineers? Broadening product line?
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by brwnll 11y ago
As a Seattle resident, I had no idea that our beloved Killer Whales were the most toxic animal on the planet. Doing a little research, I did find an article[1] from 2009 that states this is because of contaminated salmon, who appear to pick
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by brwnll 11y ago
Instead of a more efficient business model, I'd offer that it's actually the difference between being a hardware and software company. Being a year or two late in software can often mean you product never has a chance to disrupt t
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by brwnll 11y ago
Your missing something. Reading beyond the infographic, the article is really about how Apple is able to offset the need for R&D dollars (which as expanded from $4b in 2013 to $8.5b in 2015) by being an overwhelming large consumer of co
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by brwnll 11y ago
I assume you are referring to follow up rounds when you refer to a chill? Or do you expect angel/seed funding to be reduced because they are going to lower guesstimated valuations? Will be Interesting to see if this pattern has an effe
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by brwnll 11y ago
That lawsuit isn't about lowering the transaction rate, it's about collusion between credit companies to keep their rates in line with each other. First hand, I've seen a small ecommerce shop have rates lowered a 1/4 per

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