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Yep - I found lots of the grammar on the site jarring, and little things like 10$/month - the convention is $10/month, and it looks really odd. You should get a couple of hours of …

Dunno, at least you still have a soul.

Will hopefully pick mine up this year (submitting in autumn), so 36...

Properly lol'd IRL at the Chuck palaniuk comment. Harsh but very funny.

There's no requirement to or expectation that they will be. Papers are not required to present any kind of balance, as long as what they say is broadly true (external pluralism), f…

Hahaha I had one of those yesterday. My profile lists my company I started for side projects, then my role as a specialist at my actual employer. I got an email trying to find out …

About us: Setup a business 18 months ago, and incorporated 8 months ago. I'm the back end tech lead (and business, marketing, etc), and my co-founder is front-end. I'm appalling at…

I agree- would definitely be interested in reading that!

I think that's kind of right - it's the explicit awareness of hierarchy or other structures that works. (I'd argue that actually you can have hierarchy-less (sp?) organisations, bu…

This, a thousand times this. Wealth is not a skills set.

Ricardo Semler - Maverick is a good one for non heirarchal approaches. The AES case study of holarchy is v interesting. Swombat's blog (easily findable!) is a trove of material on …

Hah, glad it's not just me. It's also the thing I hit if I'm trying to think of what I was doing/am idle for a moment... typing 'news.' just seems to flow from my fingers if they'r…

Definitely waiting till the tech is a tiny bit better before I request drones fly at my windows with hammers... ;)

This is the mechanic story all over: Guy takes his car to a garage because it keeps breaking down, and the mechanic leans in and listens to the engine for a minute. He goes and get…

Really? I mean, that represents astonishingly bad value for a bunch of reasons. The first is that that's not SEIS covered, because it vastly reduces (by 70%) the risk exposure of t…

That's what I was going to ask. VC funding is absolutely not unusual, and there are dozens of seed firms and grants available.

There's so much that doesn't quite gel about this story. He was trading penny stocks when he was 9? He went off to read high finance books as a result, and then successfully and co…

It's hard to say more without knowing what you're buying a white label of, but: Licensing/volume fees Support structures - what are they responsible for? Documentation - what have …

I'd probably go even further than that - you can have, by all accounts, a reasonably healthy lifestyle while still eating mcdonalds, the same isn't true of cigarettes. There's stil…

Cheers, that's really interesting!

That wouldn't particularly change under the system that I'm proposing, idt. (on the back of a fag packet admittedly)- legal protection and the payments mechanism aren't intrinsical…

Direct debit is the UK name for what I think are generally called Automated Bank Drafts (edit: automated clearing house/ach) in the US. (Apols if different in canada, not at all fa…

I don't think tom is advocating for DD, in this instance. Particularly since direct debit isn't really suitable for POS transactions. Credit cards are fundamentally a 1970s busines…

I've mentioned mine on here a few times, and it's picked me up a few users, although i've never done a 'Show HN' type thing. Most startups, I'd hazard, are specific enough in imple…