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one presumes this is the US sending a message about its demands on Bagram via the Pakistanis who owe one to the US

hilariously, this will happen on or about when dictation is Wispr quality or better and you won't need your keyboard as much. I do second the Select All item, it's beyond frustrati…

if we are not going to export dollars, and we are going to make countries spend more of thier own money, then thier cost of borrowing will go up, they will need to rotate out of do…

Are employees at google not being paid for what they're risking? An investor risks their post tax capital, and then when it works like google gets the upside and when it fails they…

Calendar, large plain text notes file, VA helping with things, travel agent

I have no knowledge of the deal and am not involved in anyway; this sounds like the 409A for the common stock came down not the preferred valuation. Valuations can't be moved witho…

- Cars don't have eyes which means that can't see you and can hit you. - Feelings, names of them and distinctions, all are ok, what is and isn't an ok action to take because of fee…

I love the Apple Pay / fingerprint reader button. Beyond that, I do my level best to avoid touching it. The volume and brightness features are nice but it would be better to not ha…

This article is an entertaining read on that considers some of the issues discussed in this thread: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-02/bitcoin-e...

There's logic in these arguments; however, they ignore securities laws. If BTC is a security, which the regulators probably think it is, then yes—you have to have a mechanism to br…

I try to routine-ize as many of them as possible so it's on autopilot. Sunday afternoons get time scheduled in the calendar to take care of one off items.

Thanks, @pier25 @jdhawk!

ASK HN: what's the service you use, ideally over the web, where you send a high-quality picture file and they return beautifully printed, large format, frameable prints? Just contr…

It's really lovely. Thanks for doing this. I contributed and look forward to hanging it up once I figure out printing. How long did it take?

Thank you, you've made my day!

Silicon Shore? of I recall what people were saying a few years ago..

Bob Lucky, who was one of the directors of research at Bell wrote a number of books and this one is a fun read. https://www.amazon.com/Lucky-Strikes-Again-Foibles-Engineers...

thanks for the correction. Long night last night :/

Even as Silicon Valley was still in its infancy, a group of organizations including Bell, MCI, GM, and others hired Fred Terman from Stanford to make NJ more like what Silicon Vall…

There is no logic that justifies attempting to be "not another public company" if you are a public company. Laws. Culture. Press. These things stand in the way of trying to be publ…

The Right To The Best Available Deal: To have all applicable financial / tax regulations applied to you automatically. This way you don't have to discover tax breaks/credits/deduct…

The Right To The Best Available Deal: To have all applicable financial / tax regulations applied to you automatically. This way you don't have to discover tax breaks/credits/deduct…

Everyone who has options is likely still locked up.

First, Congrats! Second, as you likely know by now, your child is basically a meat computer. It runs pretty well other than it needs routine debugging. It will feel a lot like work…

An interesting solve here is structuring research grants for outcome replicability. The article implies a real % of grant money is wasted on results that cannot be replicated. Coul…