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by tjpd 7mo ago
Agree on getting tax advice. But because QSBS is such a gift to VCs I really don’t want to jeopardize it particularly when a bunch of startups are raising $20m on $0 revenue, so the balance sheet is basically just cash. At ~5% that’s $1M&
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by tjpd 7mo ago
Isn't the issue of products like this that they present PHC risk, jeopardize QSBS - particularly at the earliest stages where revenue is de minimis?
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by tjpd 2y ago
Surely this is the perfect opportunity to take advantage of German’s agglutinative nature and come up with your own? Handyschwelle? Or more formally: Mobiltelefonbremsschwelle?
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by tjpd 3y ago
Glass hearted is a Chinese insult meaning you are weak minded and/or easily offended. Pinkie is a term used to describe young pro-China online posters. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Pink
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by tjpd 4y ago
Respectfully, I have to disagree. I have a similar setup to the one in the article (Sony A6400 + Simga 30mm f1.4) and the difference in image quality is dramatic _even over Zoom_. It is such an improvement that, in my experience, almost e
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by tjpd 5y ago
The article states another benefit of the motor is that it doesn’t require rare earth elements, so presumably they’re trying to solve the ecological and supply problems presented by rare earth mining. https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#
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Big Sur boot volume layout(eclecticlight.co)
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by tjpd 6y ago
As an SF resident for at least as long as the author I can sympathize with a lot of the sentiment but I'm skeptical about the some kind of renaissance when the city's budget is deteriorating badly. Rather, when you add it all up:
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by tjpd 6y ago
> The floor of the wealth tax doesn't really refute the central argument, because it just means that it impacts anyone who owns a business worth over $50 million. This is a LOT of businesses in the US! We can actually look at the Fe
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by tjpd 6y ago
I'm not a fan of this proposal but I think this line of argument is pretty flimsy and pretty specious. In the Bay Area you're already subject to a form of wealth tax called property tax. And it's substantial. If you live in
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by tjpd 7y ago
I can also recommend MagicSandbox ( https://www.msb.com/ ) which provides a lot of learning content alongside a real k8s remote environment.
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by tjpd 9y ago
Isn’t this the developer’s or Go’s security issue first before it’s a GH facepalm? GH doesn’t make any representations about the provenance or the safety of the code on their site. It is the user and toolchain that’s making those potentiall
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by tjpd 9y ago
"While we were completing legal documentation related to Dave McClure's resignation from 500, funding for certain companies was delayed. Since then, we have resumed fundraising, as well as funding our investment commitments. We ha
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by tjpd 9y ago
Disney has a very, very large catalogue of content but is particularly strong on kid's content. It will be very high up on the list for the average household, and a lot of consumers
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by tjpd 9y ago
>> The company has about 230 employees, up from around 140 at the beginning of the year. Huffman would like to end 2017 with around 300 full-time staff. > That sounds odd too me as well, maybe I am not versed in startup culture. Ha
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by tjpd 9y ago
There are plenty of examples of individual companies (or groups of companies) getting too much monopolistic (or oligopolistic) power and doing just that or similar. You could look at at the Phoebus Cartel of lightbulb manufactures [1], the
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by tjpd 10y ago
No it's not, it's really not. In fact I think in a niche market then it's often even more true. If you're building in a niche then (almost by definition) you're not going to need a lot of infrastructure. There won
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by tjpd 10y ago
I disagree with this wholeheartedly and just posted why above but wanted to reiterate it here. This might just have been a throw-away comment but "bloat", lock-in & cost are red-herrings. "Bloat" here is a virtue. H
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by tjpd 10y ago
Reading a lot of these comments make me think that everyone on HN is a cynic of the Oscar Wilde/Lady Windermere variety: "A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing" [1]. IMHO you should go with Heroku a
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by tjpd 10y ago
One of the interesting things from the slide shown in the article is that they're extracting the azimuth and elevation of roof based satellite dishes from aerial imagery presumably to cross correlate with the satellite orbits and whate
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by tjpd 10y ago
Wow, those are some pretty outrageous allegations if true: > Defendant Shervin Pishevar, who was generally uninvolved in > day-to-day matters, began dating the company’s PR vendor, and > increased her salary from $15,000 t
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by tjpd 10y ago
This is really wrong thinking and a good example of misunderstanding unit economics. You're calculating the unit economics of a delivery assuming there's only one "unit". You have to look at the aggregate. That driver
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by tjpd 11y ago
This is probably wrong. IMHO what looks like has happened is there are a handful of HN-relevant companies had weak earning announcements yesterday[1] after market close, and that is coupled with a weaker US jobs report [2], [3] today. The
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by tjpd 11y ago
"Tableau Software tumbled 36% after management warned it was unlikely to realize benefits of certain tax assets. The news sent shares spiralling despite the software company's better-than-expected quarter. The company earned 33 ce
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by tjpd 11y ago
Likewise, Lenny & Scott Raney @ Redpoint have been making a ton of investments in this space. Looking forward to seeing more.
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by tjpd 12y ago
It's always hard to convey tone of voice well online. Sorry. "And if I can't pay myself and several more founders? Would that make it a "Yes, topic" ?" No, it's still a non-topic. If you can't pay yo
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by tjpd 12y ago
You really need professional employment counsel to respond to this properly & IANAL but here goes... "Not paying Founders is illegal, is it?" Most likely, yes. "Which exact part of any law demands paying active Founders?&
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by tjpd 12y ago
After a very cursory look, isn't the answer to download and use one of Citus' free, open source extensions to the free, open source postgres? (Depending on your use-case either pg-shard or cstore-fdw) http://citusdata.
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by tjpd 12y ago
This is great - having a fullly fledged, containerized device ready to go is awesome. How do you keep the underlying OS & container mgmt layers up to date?
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by tjpd 12y ago
Would you mind clarifying why? I'm not sure I understand the concern. https://www.acompli.com/security/

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