nicholas73

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by nicholas73 6y ago
I'll leaving the price for others, but it seems to me the more important number at this stage is the percentage of ownership you'd get if exercised. I mean a startup's purpose is to go from 1 to 10 or even 100, or go bust. S
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by nicholas73 6y ago
This is evil.
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by nicholas73 6y ago
"The chances of hiring folks to build an MVP and getting enough paying users off that to bring them on full time or getting enough traction to raise money are absurdly small." What about the chances if you build yourself? Any bet
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by nicholas73 6y ago
IIRC, Schellenberg requested re-trial to try to take advantage of the politics despite that a re-trial had the possibility of increasing the penalty to death penalty even without political motivation. That is, he gambled and lost.
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by nicholas73 6y ago
Assuming you can raise debt, the other reason would be that if you fail to make debt payments then you potentially lose your company. Shit does happen, and it doesn't take a once in a lifetime virus to wreck your plans.
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by nicholas73 6y ago
I've done this job. Sure you do learn some sales, but you don't really practice it. Nor does it necessarily expose you to market needs that aren't going to be covered by your bigco.
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by nicholas73 6y ago
In the end you have to play to your strengths and do what you enjoy. If you think you would like a sales role and a sales driven company, then go for it. If not, you are spinning your wheels for a chance to glean something. If it's
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by nicholas73 6y ago
Yes we should remember that stock markets pale in size compared to bond and currency markets. Money leaving another market can buoy stock markets in a way that is almost mechanical, separate from attempting to value individual stocks.
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by nicholas73 6y ago
Ok but how did they know it was her phone?
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by nicholas73 6y ago
I don't have perspective, maybe, but what is exactly holding back someone who does well in school to score higher on a test? It's not like you don't get to retake it if it was a fluke. If it's the test fee, just allow a
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by nicholas73 6y ago
I had middling grades and not much extracurricular padding in high school but 99th percentile SAT (no prep other than a practice test). If it weren't for the SAT I would have had worse college options. School felt like it provided no
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by nicholas73 6y ago
I think it's better to understand the culture rather than frame it as West vs East, democracy vs CCP, etc. China has experienced grinding poverty for over a century, and have its work ethic to thank for pulling it out. 996 is enabled
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by nicholas73 6y ago
Sometimes when I am wearing headphones, I get dissociated with the outside world and forget that my farts make sounds. So I fart without muffling it, and my neighbor thinks I'm just a jerk that toots openly. Then whenever he farts he
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by nicholas73 6y ago
Anyone know why Stripe doesn't handle this?
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by nicholas73 6y ago
Many employers attempt to verify your salary (maybe even if you didn't give one). Lying would give them a reason to withdraw an offer.
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by nicholas73 6y ago
One thing that doesn't seem to have been said is that there can be a big gap in expectations coming out of college and into the workforce. You may have imagined/been promised the world studying hard problems, and are now a cog in
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by nicholas73 6y ago
Perhaps consider that achieving financial freedom may cost you more time than you want to give up at this point. It's front loading the work. Have an easy job with a good life insurance plan, and everything will be fine...
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by nicholas73 6y ago
I quit my job a couple years out of school, and it didn't really change anything for me. The next jobs were no more satisfying and I didn't make great use of the downtime. One source of anxiety was traded for another. My career
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by nicholas73 6y ago
Yes, but the magnitude can vary widely. The world used to use 100m barrels per day (bpd), and the last oil crash in 2016 had 2m bpd of oversupply. Just 2% unbalanced in supply/demand caused wildly fluctuating prices, due to the same
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by nicholas73 6y ago
I'm in... does Pokerstars accept US players for money? Or we pool the prize outside Pokerstars?
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by nicholas73 6y ago
The point is that contango is like a slow trickle that decays your value. That doesn't mean it can't go up due to larger fluctuating factors. But over time is does go down while in that state, so it's not a buy and hold pla
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by nicholas73 6y ago
You know that USO does not hold physical oil, but futures contracts, right? Futures contracts are now in heavy contango (front month is cheaper than following month). That means every month USO has to roll over these contracts by selling
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by nicholas73 6y ago
While I agree on the money aspect, other achievements provide more points of differentiation for top candidates. MIT likely is deciding amongst students with about perfect scores anyway. I had a bout of diarrhea during my SAT 2 Math (the h
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by nicholas73 7y ago
The bare minimum we can do is quarantine for a month until warmer weather arrives. Then we can see if that has an effect.
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by nicholas73 7y ago
News report says that the first community spread case came from a woman near Travis Airforce Base, where evacuees where brought for quarantine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnCvvVS2tPQ
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Second Coronavirus Case of Unknown Origin Confirmed in Bay Area(nbcbayarea.com)
7 points by nicholas73 7y ago|1 comments
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by nicholas73 7y ago
Canada is fairly captive...
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U.S. airstrike kills top Iran general Qassim Suleimani(nbcnews.com)
69 points by nicholas73 7y ago|40 comments
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by nicholas73 7y ago
> A lot of state med schools these days will waive tuition provided you serve in a rural community of that state after your residency for a few years. You definitely will get job security and high pay. I know a lot of later in life docto
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by nicholas73 7y ago
To be fair San Jose weather is heavily biased towards sameness.

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