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VC are middlemen. Their job is to funnel money from their upstream investors e.g. hedge funds, superannuation etc into startups that they believe will make money. The timeframe for this process is basically a decade. So a startup has a decade to take money, do something and then return the money. It's why startups are being held to the T2D3 growth benchmark. They need things wrapped up pretty quick.

So if you are a startup wanting to build a long term business then the VC track probably isn't for you unless you are willing to either (a) get acquired or (b) IPO.

There really does need to be more revenue sharing VC options as this is the only way to support the type of long term, sustainable businesses we really need.
That’s why you get a roommate. Case closed.
I am going to miss this a lot, too.

I don't think the "next big thing" here will be HTML5, though. Unity is _ridiculously_ easy and has led to large swaths of indie games on Steam - people don't quite understand just how easy it is to make games in Unity these days. You can pass without understanding coding at all to a large extent, and reminds me a _lot_ of working in Flash.

If you don't believe me, look up Sam Hogan on YouTube - or search YouTube for "unity game in 24h". I'm not saying these are all good - but it reminds me a _lot_ of how Flash enabled rapid development of game ideas.
Who uses this for algo trading?
Uber, Lyft, HopSkipDrive and Zum jointly filed legal challenge today against CA
If you squint your...ears it almost sounds like "sushi.org". Not bad.
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Is this really smuggling a helicopter or a helicopter smuggles itself together with you?
1st i've heard of this as well (though i'm not in the loop on these kinds of things)

that said, you might enjoy the topic of 'narco subs' which are illicit submarines manufactured to smuggle drugs (mostly from latin america to the US as I understand it)
If I'm not mistaken, it was Edward Snowden who said this.
BMW wants to sell you subscriptions to your car’s features
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On my last remote job hunt I have tried to find a job through the listings on different remote-first job boards but as many have already pointed out the number of applications is just too high and you might be turned down because you are asking for too much money compared to other devs.

Here's what I did instead -> Go on Linkedin, hit the search, filter to "Content" and use phrases like: "Looking for software developer", "Looking for your domain of expertise person", you get the idea. You will be able to find a dozen of fresh listings every other day from recruiters, hiring managers or even CTO's. The goal is to get to the job offer before it gets posted.

The technique worked very well for me as I've approached a hiring manager this way and got a job offer days later.

The limitation to this is the size of your Linkedin network since it searches just up to the 3rd degree connection deep.

A good alternative is Twitter where you could use the same approach but I haven't tried it much myself.

Best of luck!
Hermit Thrush is an amazing brewery, and I stock up every time I’m in the area. I strongly agree with your comment, if you look outside of IPAs there are lots of really creative breweries in New England doing great things.
$10/hr is not "okay".

$20/hr is where things start to get "okay" for a young single American living with roommates. As in, not constantly stressing about trying to make ends meet and your future. Being able to pay off student loans or slowly build savings.
And even then the advice would be worth little compared to more experienced people
I thought their main revenues were ads and cams?
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I'm looking for opportunities only in Australia to join my family there. I'm currently working full-time in Frankfurt, Germany.
Yes. Of all the people considering buying new cars, there are some at the margin of buying or not buying.
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There's some quality (?) bootleg stuff out there today. The other big one I've heard of is narco subs, not semi-submersible, but fully submersible: https://www.chron.com/news/nation-world/article/Ecuadoran-su...

It's rather fascinating what the human mind can do with money + necessity. It's a reminder that great engineers can come from anywhere (and hopefully brought to work on nice-people things).
This extra boost of power is also known as "War Emergency Power", and goes back to World War II planes. In the P51 Mustang, WEP increased the horsepower by 61%. But after using WEP, the engines needed to be inspected before flying again, so it was only used when necessary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_emergency_power

Related is the "Battle short" switch on Navy computers, which shorts the fuses with copper bars and disables over-temperature faults, so you can keep the computer running during a battle even if things are going bad.
Something else I've heard is that IPAs take less time to create, so new breweries with limited capacity start out with them to try to keep income steady
The thing is; there is actually a big market for nailing two pieces of wood together; there is just no market for someone whose only skill is nailing two pieces of wood together [0]. Consider a chair where one of the cross supports got unattached. You could by a new chair, or hire a carpenter to fix it. In most cases, unless you already have a maintenance staff, you would probably just fix it yourself.

Similar with programming. If you core product is software, you should probably have an expert. However, if the software is just ancillary; you can often get by with just the basic skills.

[0] Maybe assembly lines; but with modern manufacturing technology, I doubt that is the case anymore.
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The future of network technology LoRa allows us to secure anything
What is the point of having any unemployment insurance system if no consideration is made for what job a person had previously or is qualified to do versus what is currently available? Someone is always hiring. Should no one receive any benefits as long as there is an open job somewhere that they could potentially fill?
Yeah, they seem decent.

My partner is always losing cables and ordering the cheapest ones on Amazon, and the thing I hate most about them is that they always make the whole room smell like I dunked my head in a bucket of kerosene. She ordered a chair that had the same issue (Wirecutter approved!) and a jump rope, and who knows what else. Am I just imagining it? I seriously miss the days when I could expect the products I buy to not smell like you'll get cancer just from looking at them wrong.
So to put the below in context: my first job (at the tail end of the last recession) paid around $12-13 an hour, and was enough to survive with more than double that rent figure. Granted, I had a couple factors on my side (namely: my grandparents in the next town over, who would insist on stocking my fridge and cupboards with the essentials), but even if I hadn't it was workable, even if not comfortable. I also didn't pay for health insurance at the time (I wasn't eligible for work-provided insurance until shortly before I switched jobs), since I think this was right before the ACA's individual mandate made it "mandatory".

That all being to say: $10/hr full time does not in the slightest bit seem unreasonable to me, even if I do strongly believe that workers deserve better than that.

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> Add 200 for gas and 50 for car insurance since you're gonna be living in a rural place.

Or a bike, which is a thing, that people ride to and from work, even in "rural" areas. No gas and no insurance, even for an electric one (and those have come down quite a bit in price, to the point where the only cheaper cars are absolute beaters).

Even "rural" cities/towns often have buses, too. They don't always have the most exhaustive coverage, but bikes can make up for that for the "last mile" of each way's commute (especially if the bus has a bike rack on it, which is becoming increasingly common for exactly this reason and because it's relatively cheap compared to the cost of the bus itself).

> $350 for everything else. Entertainment. A gym membership. Your medical deductible. Your sanity.

You don't need a gym membership to work out (as I'm sure most of us trying to get even basic fitness in can attest over the last couple months, what with all those gyms being shut down). Jogging, hiking, bicycling, pushups, planks, jumping jacks, shovelgloving¹... all dirt cheap to do (if you don't go overboard and splurge on fancy bikes or backpacks or whatever; the basics will work fine). If you happen to live in a snowy area, snow shoveling is a good workout, too, and helps out your neighbors (you might even get paid for it).

All of those things can double for entertainment and "sanity", too, so that just leaves the medical deductible. That $350 would give you enough savings to cover that deductible in a bit over a year (even faster if you throw in the aforementioned $250 you'd be saving without a car). Anything past that is pure savings, enough to eventually buy a used car for the occasional out-of-town trip, or to eat out every once in awhile, or what have you.

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¹: http://shovelglove.com/
This theory doesn't hold up against the test of time.

We used to have tyrant monarchs - Genghis Khan would roam the steppe and cutting people's heads off and that would be normal every day life.

There are still bad things today, but more people have more rights and a higher quality of life.
People said Flash wouldn't be missed. People said WebGL and canvas would bring us a much better experience. It's been nearly a decade since Steve Jobs declared war on Flash.

Where has the entire browser gaming ecosystem gone to? Kongregate had some of the most original games I've ever played. Kongregate shutting down doesn't just sadden me, it infuriates me: all vendors had to do was to sandbox Flash (which Chrome did!) and not autoplay it. Instead everyone followed the lead of an arrogant jerk who obviously knew everything better than everyone.

Communities like Kongregate, Armorgames, Newgrounds will never exist again. There will never be another War of the Web.
I guess I’ll have to eat every chicken in this room.
And I doubt there'd be an issue with racism making people reluctant to discuss the issue if they were the majority of the cases.
Yup, I suspect many of those live in SF want to be in a city rather than suburbs, but they're not tied to SF specifically. They just choose SF because that's where the jobs are, and would just as happy in a different urban area.
Not necessarily (although you are kind of right to a good extent).

There are other types of investors that will happily take the 10-year old investment and ride with it for another number of years. Usually they do it by discounting the value, and thus making money that way. (not good for founders, employees, or early investors other than VCs with good clauses in their investment contracts).
Just curious - which two roasters in Seattle do you like?
I'm not sure if you are being sarcastic. The landlord is not giving you just "land". He is giving you a house that he bought with money or mortgage.
>I clearly outline how “a feature the user can disable” is the same as “a gdpr/cookie/telemetry/etc prompt the user can reject”

You're clearly wrong then. iOS already does something similar with location and doesn't suffer from this problem.

>It doesn’t take a VC to make an app, I made some starting in HS (with push, yes), and you can too. Be the change you wish to see.

That's actually kind of upsetting. On my other machines I do fix problems. The cost of volunteering to deal with apple's shitty phone is an overpriced machine where even the old used desktops are more expensive than the modern one I just built, the time it takes to learn a new language and an (IMO pretty crap) environment (GUI toolkit not withstanding,) the time it takes to maintain an app for a platform with constant API churn, and $100 a year for a developer license (nope, you can't use push notifications without paying this.)

Here's the change I want to see: people abandoning an abusive company. I'm buying a pinephone so that the next time I have a problem I can deal with it without having to buy the beater car equivalent of a computer (and spending as much.)
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/apbcLXz5zB7PXfgg2/an-intuiti...
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You gotta spend money to earn money. That's how it is and for a lot of people that amount of rent is still worth it.
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> It's okay for them to do them parked, after fiddling with a bunch of other stuff.

Point noted. Commercial airplanes also have that in the form a FMS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_management_system

A menu system just like cars except no touchscreens, although I heard that's changing.
Pity. It was a cute little app for learning "Countries of Africa" or "Russian numbers from 1 to 20" or "Greek Gods" or "European Capitals" and such, sort of Anki-light.
in terms of legal basis yes it sounds like

the realpolitik in this particular case probably goes deeper

"Most of the people suspected of being involved in the production and assembly process, including the organisers and heads of the illegal operation, are residents of Moldova’s breakaway Transnistrian region."
Can you cancel the billing as soon as you notice?

More importantly, can you get a refund? assuming your mother was tricked and didn't understand she was being charged and for what (this voids the contract in some jurisdictions).
My experience is with the MTK platform but Apple may be similar; in which case the battery display is done by neither "firmware" nor the full OS, but an intermediate component:

http://www.lieberbiber.de/2015/07/05/mediatek-details-little...
>Because the state stamped out every regional language during the creation of the Republic, and that was that.

They had signs on the walls in Breton schools telling that "it's forbidden to spit on the ground, or speak Breton".
I like that.

It raises the important point: of course you don't care about privacy now while you have nothing to hide. You should care about it because one day you might.

It might be a stalker, a corrupt government official or policeman, someone at work who is competitive with you, you might be a whistleblower or learn a family secret that would damage your reputation (lets say, your father is a pedophile) .... all these things happen to completely "regular" people who until that point had "nothing to hide" and they end up needing or wishing to hide them in at least some circumstances.
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Anyone else a 'robotic automation takeover of all jobs' skeptic?

There are obviously places where it makes sense, but a $15/hr human is preeeetty cheap compared to the price, programming, and maintenance of a robot.

Seeing the quote from Yukihiko, I feel it reads like PR or a soothing word to stockholders who hate to hear about employees and wages
or colluded with the wrong state's operators.. backstory on this one I'm sure could be an interesting movie or 3 ..

"Most of the people suspected of being involved in the production and assembly process, including the organisers and heads of the illegal operation, are residents of Moldova’s breakaway Transnistrian region."
So which are the two downtown that you like? :)

I'm not in Seattle -- I'm in Silicon Valley, with a fairly high chance of ending up in Sacramento this time next year -- but I'm always curious.
Crazy revenue model, killing your customers that is.
You get what you pay for.

Class A diesel RVs are designed for retired couples to drive around the country and live quite well. They plummet in price the first few years and if you're past 10 years old (usually harder to get a loan), the price drops more, often to 25% or less of the new price.

They have pretty beefy systems, with 7kw diesel generators quite common. The engine and chassis will be designed to flat tow a car (or a huge trailer).

And some have pretty interesting features, like tile floors, two bathrooms, in-floor heating, two bathrooms and washer/dryers.

but yeah, choose a good brand.
It really is unfortunate that you were not able to make any traction on this. Pinterest really is among the scurge of the internet.
Can you give it away? What about when you die and one of your kids inherits it?
You can build and sell experimental aircraft. Here’s a marketplace of them:

https://www.barnstormers.com/category-18671-Experimental.htm...

However, there are many commercial uses which experimental aircraft are not approved for. This mostly limits their practical utility to personal use (aka “fun”).
Flash was absolutely atrocious from a technical standpoint.

It had to go. We had to adapt to better things.

It's not that webgl isn't capable. It's that the market for in browser flash like games has diminished when you can now play AAA games in the browser.

The market has changed. And sadly that doesn't mean every single person doesn't want them anymore. Just that the majority don't.
I don't necessarily disagree with any of that. In general, a "centrist", in common usage, is a person who broadly supports existing social structures. So yes, they're going to support law enforcement over privacy, the media industry over public access concerns, etc... So to anyone who cares deeply about some issue of social change, a centrist is going to look "just as bad as" the "other side".

But calling them (sigh) "authoritarian" isn't helping your case when they come back at you to persecute a (sigh) "revolutionary" or "extremist". Work with people. Centrists aren't idiots. Their constituency is real, and has concerns too.
Are you saying that the people working on the engine and the ones working on Pocket are the same? Hint: Probably not.
Yeah a lot of them are very clearly failed projects and businesses and it’s fascinating reading through them.
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You can tell what possessions are part of a person's identity by how they maintain them.

I'm always confused when I see cars with a bunch of expensive non-functional aftermarket accessories on their car. Like, why would you spend money on that? Then I remember that for me, my car isn't really part of my "self", but for others it is.
What's fake about them?
I do all those things. From past discussions I gather the trick is using the phone while charging causes the problem. I tend not to and haven't had issues.
I agree with your sentiment, the new f-150 looks amazing, here's another article which details some of the more camping/overlanding possibilities with it:
https://www.outsideonline.com/2415243/2021-ford-f-150-previe...

I wonder if you could use it to power your house during an outage, given pg&e was trigger happy with turning off northern California's power last year this could be a great use case.
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It doesn't. Thus not VC-backable. But it should exist.
And person a getting a used car might make person b who was going to get a used car not get a car at all (or get a lower quality used car making person c...).

Also it might make some families go "all right I won't get a 2nd (or nth) car".
I am not sure if someone else already posted this in the comments here or not, but the EFF has a form letter available, as well as a way of finding your representatives/senators:

https://act.eff.org/action/stop-the-earn-it-bill-before-it-b...

Just enter an address in the box on the right and it will find your representatives/senators for you, select the right options for contacting them and then present you an editable form letter for sending to them.

Note that your senators and representatives may abuse your email address and phone number if you provide it: after having sent letters to Diane Feinstein and Kamala Harris' offices this way, I've received a lot more political spam calls and emails.
I think you'll find that there are essentially no jurisdictions where voicing your displeasure about someone's actions is a crime.

In most US jurisdictions, Harassment requires the (credible) threat of violence. Otherwise it's just speech, and protected like any other speech. My understanding is that this is true in most international jurisdictions as well.

Do you consider yourself a supporter of "free speech"?

This concept is so fraught: if I say that I believe someone did a bad thing, that's acceptable. But if a bunch of other people agree with me, suddenly I've committed a crime.
might be worth pointing out that this happened in Transnistria (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistria) a part of Moldova that has stronger political ties to Russia than to Moldova. It's complicated.
Venture Capital has a sweet spot where they focus on Capital-intense (obvious) products, preferably software. (Check out this video: https://youtu.be/vErPgQF3N38)

Many National Defense projects won't work for VC for a variety of reasons. Some can, but security clearance and regulations usually scare VCs away.

Many service based companies... not because they can't (strictly speaking) but VC has a system in place that doesn't gel well with service based approaches.

Anything that would take a long time to grow won't attract VC funds either.
Am I missing something? Is this easy to do? Doesn't manufacturing a helicopter require very expensive and sophisticated equipment and supply chains? I'd think that would leave fingerprints all over.

On the other hand, when I watch videos of boat building, it seems like it can be done by small shops with a few people. So maybe there is some equivalent tier of manufacturing for aircraft?
The landlord adds the value of a home to the world.

Surely you know this?