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repomies69

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    Comment #40655213

    > Accepting a below market salary and then doing a great job is a huge risk. By doing bad quality work on purpose will not make you learn anything. Better idea is to leave your und…

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    Comment #40655124

    It is about aligning risk preferences. Being "all-in" is not likely a good thing for a founder. The founder prefers to take less risk which results to mediocre exit for the investo…

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    Comment #40425242

    He should just have asked for all-cash transaction. I think it is fair. If they don't want to sell the company stock and buy the company with cash, or at least make an offer, then …

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    Comment #40220207

    Bitcoin has worked for me all right for 10+ years. What is exactly wrong with it? At times fees have been a bit higher, but overall I would see the protocol as "good enough". For s…

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    Comment #40220170

    US is likely the only jurisdiction that can actually enforce it. Other countries can't just call US government to send them back if they suspect they owe some tax.

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    Comment #40195641

    Ah that's why they're complaining about the student loans. In The European countries I have been living in, the concept of personal bankcrupty doesn't exist in the same way, at lea…

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    Comment #40020965

    Yeah, as an employer I made much more money. It was also very stressful, as managing people can be quite a hassle. I much prefer being self-employed without employees.

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    Comment #39801502

    Maybe start corporate-friendly fork

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    Comment #38316978

    I used it in the beginning, but now I am back to google... I don't think the results were better with ChatGPT.

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    Comment #38230939

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    Comment #37808436

    > My company can fire me tomorrow, they will forget my name in 5 days. To "fire" my company, I need to find another job, maybe in another city, working with colleagues I don't know…

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    Comment #37493415

    They can freeze it, but on the blockchain. As far as I understand, people can observe how much freezing happens overall, from the blockchain. This is superior feature IMO. There ar…

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    Comment #35392347

    They are only ceasing to operate in US, they will continue to serve rest of the world (95.75% of world population).

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    Comment #35359638

    Also, the tendency to do so depends on your financial status. Poor people will happily sell thei ethics, those who are more well off don't have to.

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    Comment #35264704

    It is the software compability. Things working out of the box, without hassle. Almost nothing beats that. Almost everything is secondary.

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    Comment #35165663

    Because Hetzner is so cheap, if I end up with a faulty server I just order a new one. However that rarely happens, and mostly with the newer products. For me 98% of the servers hav…

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    Comment #35165651

    > Hetzner feels like a hard discount cloud provider. I still prefer them over AWS or Azure for non critical workloads that have a little budget. They are a discount provider. In my…

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    Comment #35093219

    If Silvergate had kept their reserves in Tether instead of those 10-year goverment bonds, they would still be chugging along nicely.

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    Comment #34770776

    Weird that in other countries it tends to work as described. My experience is from European countries is that most information is automatically filled in, then you fill the correct…

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    Comment #34753676

    AML/KYC laws apply to cryptocurrencies as well, in fact more so because they are by default more suspicious. Try depositing big amount of BTC to an exchange, you will get questions…

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    Comment #34312777

    But do you give the loans out only in monero

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    Comment #34218586

    > The difference between Bitcoin and TradFi shrinks every day. Bitcoin is a protocol, I assume TradFi means traditional finance companies. The companies that deal with Bitcoin shou…

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    Comment #33820691

    I guess that people in US and other big countries with strong currencies don't really understand that there are smaller fiat currencies and these are actually used. I wonder how of…

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    Comment #33820634

    can you share more details pls

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    Comment #33611482

    I'm not from US, but in my experience the tax office is a different agency compared to many others. They are happy if you are "honest taxpayer" so to say. Other agencies have diffe…