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I think the headline is incorrect. All items seem to be 2.9. 3.2 is less food and energy.

Previous discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28603398

Have you considered Wise. You get a “US” account that you could route (or wire money) into from PayPal. Wise only charges 40-50bps to convert to SEK.

Why not a Chromebook in Developer Mode running Ubuntu?

It looks like there Free Cash Flow in 2014 was about $4MM positive so they aren't really burning cash

Music companies don't see Spotify as competing with purchases, they see it as competing with "free" (aka, piracy)

The liquidation is pro-rata for the common shareholders. So once Preferred gets paid, the common splits the remaining pro-rata. With the actual docs (Shareholders rights agreement …

I can't speak to Oregon, but in California the voters also specify the things the government has to spend on. We have legislature must spend on. For instance we require that some 6…

Much has been written about the dysfunction of California's government. I would summarize it as we have a direct participation system, in the form of propositions, that has limited…

Those in CA thinking about implementing such a policy will need to be careful. IANAL, but having been CFO of two CA start ups now, you will need to give CA employees at least 1 day…

Since they are debt, they accrue interest and the note is due and payable in full at some point down the road (say 18 months). If the company successfully bootstraps, they need to …

I am not a lawyer - so don't take this as legal advice. But if I read your post correctly, you said you were never properly served. Since it sounds like you have access to all the …

This move fits with HBO's (and really every content provider's) anti-piracy strategy. Namely, content needs to be encrypted from the time it leaves their server's to the time it is…

Here's an anecdote. My first job out of collage was with a Big 6 accounting firm as a IT consultant. As part of training, we took the Myers-Briggs test (which places you on the Int…

It's unclear whether there will be any breakage. Most states have escheat laws that apply to gift certificates. Basically merchants are required to remit to the state any unused gi…

At my company we've used Jaspersoft and Pentaho and at various times paid for commercial licenses in JasperSoft's case to get support and some consulting (which we only used once) …