rkk3

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by rkk3 4y ago
And just like school shootings, that German pilot studied MH370. The MH370 pilot likely did the same thing. He was separated from his wife & at his house they found he practiced the crash route on Microsoft Flight simulator.
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by rkk3 4y ago
Surprised it's even that high, I tried to switch to Firefox the other month for privacy but gave up because it crashed on me it-least once a day. Edit: thanks for the downvotes, I would have preferred if it worked but it didn't. I
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by rkk3 4y ago
> Work with 3 incredible guys that I trust Do you actually trust them? It sounds like they haven't lived up to what you feel was promised in terms of helping with the GTM and getting the business off the ground. You gave up control
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by rkk3 4y ago
> I think that depends where you land. "dystopia: an imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice" That doesn't preclude rich people. In fact having rich people help with the contrast, like in t
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by rkk3 4y ago
> The best way to describe San Francisco is that it feels like living in a cyberpunk utopia. Utopia? More like a Cyberpunk Dystopia... > Look at the actual numbers though and, at least officially, it’s not that bad. A city of ~800,000
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by rkk3 4y ago
And with outdoor restaurants it's possible to combine the thrill of potentially being randomly assaulted with the pleasure of fine dining!
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by rkk3 4y ago
Sort of ignores that during this period they were fighting the US. federal government and their product development gotten taken over by lawyers
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by rkk3 4y ago
Well then the information you shared strains credulity, facts seems inconsistent & extremely odd- Why is a 17MM financing even worth mentioning if its worth 70B? And there are only a handful of companies even in that ballpark https:&#x
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by rkk3 4y ago
> if it goes for a piddling $500M your friend gets ~$11K over 3 years They would get 0, you aren't accounting for seniority.
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by rkk3 4y ago
Could be but with 607.5MM shares outstanding, that 10k full vest would have a FMV of of a few hundred dollars - they wouldn't even need to give options
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by rkk3 4y ago
> at a valuation of $70B. > it is a very early stage startup. One of these does not fit.
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by rkk3 4y ago
The strategy is to focus on the 600 enterprise companies that are responsible for 75% of their ARR & to cut marketing expense and R&D. Seems reasonable.
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by rkk3 4y ago
I wanted to switch to Firefox, but gave up because it kept hanging on me with only a couple of tabs open.
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by rkk3 4y ago
Try boardgamearena for Through the Ages & Dominion.games for dominion
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by rkk3 4y ago
Not people I'd want to work with but surprised how tame the alleged mis-behavior is, wasn't worth reading.
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by rkk3 4y ago
Probably because of 'Romance of the Condor Heroes', the series defined the Wuxia genre & the sinkhole is a major plot point. In the west similarly a lot tropes of get lifted from LOTR
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by rkk3 4y ago
Should really just start selling "Illegal Drugs" in standardized doses like alcohol and pharmaceuticals so people don't get surprised. Drug users may be rational but individual testing puts a huge burden on the consumer that
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by rkk3 4y ago
> Well, to anecdotally back you up, in Massachusetts with the #1 public schools in the country Maybe they have the "best overall public school systems" but looking at individual public high schools Massachusetts doesn't ev
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by rkk3 4y ago
For college graduates in the US, high school is typically not something included on your resume. The only time it'd makes sense to include is if it's a flex, like if you went to Philips Academy or somewhere "special".
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by rkk3 4y ago
> or that employers in the future will note that they graduated later in life and thus pass them over for a different candidate? How would a potential employer know they were graduating college at 24 vs 22, and without knowing the reason
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by rkk3 4y ago
The Splendid and the Vile
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by rkk3 4y ago
Realistically engineering and product impacts just play out over a much longer period of time & the outcomes were already baked in for the next few quarters of 2020, even at a small startup. Engineering Layoffs in March aren't why
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by rkk3 4y ago
> Funny thing is I’ve seen this exact advice destroy a company. In March 2020 they did deep layoffs and cited the need to be “default alive.” Then their main market surprisingly quickly grew in the rest of 2020 , they wanted to capitaliz
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by rkk3 4y ago
> I'm surprised it was worth shipping I was as well. I don't know what the "Chinese Fedex" rate's were but maybe it's because most of the volume they move is from China -> US and the return trips are empt
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by rkk3 4y ago
> The fed raising interest rates so far has done nothing to level home prices. They've barely raised rates! 0-1% federal funds rate is not a normal range, especially when inflation is ~10%
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by rkk3 4y ago
Until Covid hit I had a friend who would go stores in the USA, Buy baby formula at retail price and re-sell it on WeChat to wealthier people in China who she'd mail it to. She actually made a decent margin, because they really don&#x27
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by rkk3 4y ago
Probably because 1) I received multiple ranges from different people, the minimum got lower and the maximum didn't change. 2) Being told "we value transparency" and then told your salary can vary by over 100% for the same lev
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by rkk3 4y ago
Have you found it helpful? Having a recruiter at a "transparent" company give me a base salary range band where the Max was more than 2x the Min actually kinda left a bad taste in my mouth
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by rkk3 4y ago
> YC recently published an updated Top Companies list including 271 companies with a combined official valuation of over $600B (we now estimate it closer to ~$900B). Much can change in a year! 900B! Is this time travel or cognitive disso
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by rkk3 4y ago
> my Latin teacher told me that America was declining and falling just like Rome, and that was back in 1995 > No, America is not collapsing A collapse is different than a protracted decline and fall. Historians could make a lot of sim

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