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Highly recommended! Watched it on Netflix a few years ago and teared up several times.

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The scare quotes around "invest" in the parent imply (correctly, in my view) that buying anything with this kind of volatility / lack of intrinsic value is not an investment, rathe…

Does anybody subscribe to this magazine (1843)? I subscribe to the parent magazine The Economist, and this sounds appealing, but $50 for 6 issues seems steep (and no online subscri…

> If you're using AdBlocker, fair play, I don't blame you. But please consider chucking me a couple of quid: https://monzo.me/ewanvalentine Am I missing something? It's a nice set …

Moises Naim, who wrote this article, is a notable Venezuelan dissident (and was a finance minister before Hugo Chavez took over). I'm just about to start his most recent book, "The…

Plus daily $5 lunch specials, which basically sustained me through a startup and grad school...

I don't have any such anecdote, but I can't even think up a hypothetical, either. If said bootstrapped company was both "well-executed" and didn't fail because it "didn't have the …

Instead of going through contortions trying to break bad Slack habits and worrying about the API getting shut off, maybe it's worth checking out something made for the purpose. In …

Small point, but the handoff was in early 2014, not 2012.

Came here to recommend Hemingway. Even if you keep these values in mind, with a linter it's much easier to do. I haven't yet found a Chrome extension which does Hemingway-esque lin…

Even taking your skepticism about Chinese investment at face value, having LP involvement is tremendously different from operational involvement or investment committee involvement…

Ceres = goddess of the harvest (grain, bread) Bacchus = god of the vine (wine) Apollo = god of light (enlightenment / knowledge)

Everybody who reads HN should pay Ben Thompson $10/mo for his Daily Update (this is the once-a-week public version). The man's writing has unequivocally had a major impact on my ab…

I actually can't say I really mind the "privacy-invading" here because financial systems are already about the most heavily resold data there is, with the people who are currently …

Really like this. Even the cheapest robo-advisors like Betterment charge 0.1-0.3% on top of the fund fees, which sounds small but eats into gains over time. However, I think the ta…

The only place I regularly use it is at Whole Foods, where it actually works quite well and is a bit faster than a card. And given the glares one gets in the WF line, I would defin…

This is an awesome attempt at a big problem. My financial data seems one of the most monetizable aspects of my life and I'm particularly reticent to give it to Intuit et al., but n…

Amazing how broadly applicable Little's Law is. (I suppose that's why it's a big-L law.) We were just recently using it in business school to look at cycle times in assembly line o…

This is a really honest, refreshing post to read. So nice to read a "postmortem" that isn't just posturing. I bet a lot of us hit this moment, over and over again: "We didn’t obses…

This is a huge factor. They started with Yodlee (basically a paid bank-scraper service with fees that might crush a small startup) and now Intuit has built something in-house. I'd …

I think actually the basic problem with Mint isn't those mentioned in the article (UI is meh, miscategorized transactions, data import customization). It's actually as mentioned in…

The key consideration for me here is "they communicate well." As someone who's just recently started to consider full-time hires beyond our founding team, it's ridiculous how impor…

Love the art here. The giant crashed robot looks like an homage to "Iron Giant" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iron_Giant ), one of my favorite movies as a kid.