iamwithnail

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by iamwithnail 9y ago
Yep - I found lots of the grammar on the site jarring, and little things like 10$/month - the convention is $10/month, and it looks really odd. You should get a couple of hours of a copywriter's time to go over it, there&#x2
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by iamwithnail 9y ago
Dunno, at least you still have a soul.
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by iamwithnail 11y ago
Will hopefully pick mine up this year (submitting in autumn), so 36...
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by iamwithnail 11y ago
Properly lol'd IRL at the Chuck palaniuk comment. Harsh but very funny.
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by iamwithnail 11y ago
There's no requirement to or expectation that they will be. Papers are not required to present any kind of balance, as long as what they say is broadly true (external pluralism), for a given value of true. The broadcast media (the fr
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by iamwithnail 11y ago
Hahaha I had one of those yesterday. My profile lists my company I started for side projects, then my role as a specialist at my actual employer. I got an email trying to find out if I was interested in more jobs like {{founded_company + sp
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Ask HN: Replacing a tech co-founder
2 points by iamwithnail 11y ago|0 comments
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by iamwithnail 11y ago
I agree- would definitely be interested in reading that!
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by iamwithnail 11y ago
I think that's kind of right - it's the explicit awareness of hierarchy or other structures that works. (I'd argue that actually you can have hierarchy-less (sp?) organisations, but they require particular consideration - bu
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by iamwithnail 11y ago
This, a thousand times this. Wealth is not a skills set.
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
Ricardo Semler - Maverick is a good one for non heirarchal approaches. The AES case study of holarchy is v interesting. Swombat's blog (easily findable!) is a trove of material on startups and moving from corporate to startup, as are
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
Hah, glad it's not just me. It's also the thing I hit if I'm trying to think of what I was doing/am idle for a moment... typing 'news.' just seems to flow from my fingers if they're unoccupied.
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
Definitely waiting till the tech is a tiny bit better before I request drones fly at my windows with hammers... ;)
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
This is the mechanic story all over: Guy takes his car to a garage because it keeps breaking down, and the mechanic leans in and listens to the engine for a minute. He goes and gets a hammer and listens to the engine again, and then raps
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
Really? I mean, that represents astonishingly bad value for a bunch of reasons. The first is that that's not SEIS covered, because it vastly reduces (by 70%) the risk exposure of the capital, and consequently the %. Especially if you&
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The Charlie Hebdo cartoons no-one is showing you(dailykos.com)
4 points by iamwithnail 12y ago|0 comments
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
That's what I was going to ask. VC funding is absolutely not unusual, and there are dozens of seed firms and grants available.
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
There's so much that doesn't quite gel about this story. He was trading penny stocks when he was 9? He went off to read high finance books as a result, and then successfully and consistently applied them? What on earth (and who)
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
It's hard to say more without knowing what you're buying a white label of, but: Licensing/volume fees Support structures - what are they responsible for? Documentation - what have they got? System specification - details! H
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
I'd probably go even further than that - you can have, by all accounts, a reasonably healthy lifestyle while still eating mcdonalds, the same isn't true of cigarettes. There's still SOME utilitarian benefit of fast food, eve
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
Cheers, that's really interesting!
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
That wouldn't particularly change under the system that I'm proposing, idt. (on the back of a fag packet admittedly)- legal protection and the payments mechanism aren't intrinsically linked - most of the consumer protection w
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
Direct debit is the UK name for what I think are generally called Automated Bank Drafts (edit: automated clearing house/ach) in the US. (Apols if different in canada, not at all familiar with that jurisdiction.) fundamental problem wi
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
I don't think tom is advocating for DD, in this instance. Particularly since direct debit isn't really suitable for POS transactions. Credit cards are fundamentally a 1970s business model, based on tech that paid off their sunk co
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
I've mentioned mine on here a few times, and it's picked me up a few users, although i've never done a 'Show HN' type thing. Most startups, I'd hazard, are specific enough in implementation, market and niche
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
Valid concern, tbh - but I guess (at least in London), you've got three/four tiers of cabs now - Black Cabs, Uber, Kabbee/TaxiCabit registered minicabs, and tiny local firms that aren't on those systems - I suspect it mi
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
Let's be realistic here. I'm in the same boat, I'm Scottish and British (identity) and have a British passport (citizenship), and live in London. It's very unlikely to be an either or, and I believe the contingency ri
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
Yeah, that's not being a slave. In fact, the argument can be made that by insisting on driving to avoid any real - or perceived - inconvenience, you're making everyone else's journey that little bit less slick (I.e. Assertin
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
There are countless examples of CCTV abuse in the UK and beyond: http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/surveillance-and-soc... (UK) http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/surveillance-
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
Quite astonishing overreach by CoL Police, who're now acting as the copyright police for most of the UK for reasons that are, at best opaque to most people. (Partly a decision that several functions split between the Met and CoL would

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