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Rd6n6 commented on How much do founders pay themselves? A European data set   sifted.eu/articles/startu... · Posted by u/vinnyglennon
onebot · 4 years ago
Having done this 5x times now. My advice is the same I got from one of my first VCs @FirstRound...

Pay yourself as much as you need to not be distracted by anything that would slow you down. It is different for different founders and for whatever stage they are at in life. But if you are a founder with a family, that is gonna be different from a founder fresh out of college.

Obviously you want to spend as little as possible, but not to the detriment of you lacking focus and dedication because you can't pay your rent.

Rd6n6 · 4 years ago
I would say that setting aside a tiny bit on top of “pay your rent” for savings is necessary. It doesn’t have to be a ton but you shouldn’t be in trouble if the company doesn’t work out. Startups can take years to play out and you need a safety cushion afterwards, some basic level of financial security
Rd6n6 commented on Ericsson workers were kidnapped when telco sent them to negotiate with ISIS   datacenterdynamics.com/en... · Posted by u/titoCA321
cbg0 · 4 years ago
> One told German public broadcaster NDR that he was sent to Mosul with a letter on behalf of Ericsson seeking permission from the terror group for them to continue working there.

Some people have zero self preservation. I wouldn't go deliver something to a terrorist group for any amount of money.

Rd6n6 · 4 years ago
> Some people have zero self preservation. I wouldn't go deliver something to a terrorist group for any amount of money.

Is this victim blaming, or am I misreading it?

Rd6n6 commented on Russian central bank confirms block on foreign bids to sell Russian securities   reuters.com/business/fina... · Posted by u/BbzzbB
seanw444 · 4 years ago
I'm beginning to wonder if financially crippling the entire nation (and all of its innocent civilians) was the correct alternative to fighting. Possibly just as bad. Gonna have a lot of people starving, homeless, and in poor health. Putin will re-align the remaining pieces of the economy to focus on the war effort, and the Russian elites.
Rd6n6 · 4 years ago
Fighting might have meant nuclear war. How is that preferable?
Rd6n6 commented on Tell HN: YouTube is banning accounts that support Ukraine    · Posted by u/foxfluff
gzer0 · 4 years ago
I stand corrected. My apologies.
Rd6n6 · 4 years ago
Rd6n6 commented on What I learned reviewing 35k reviews from Steam    · Posted by u/AdamJMarsh
magicalhippo · 4 years ago
I don't know much about PUBG, but I did play a lot of other online shooters. Based on those experiences it seems there's a fairly large number of players who thinks that anyone substantially better than them are cheating.

They played with poor sound setup so didn't realize I knew exactly where they were thanks to a good headset and could blast them in the face as they rounded that corner.

Or they didn't know about drag/flick shooting[1] so they thought the snap that landed the headshot was a cheat rather than a deliberate, physical mouse movement.

Or just they just significantly overestimated their own abilities, thinking anyone being that much better must be cheating.

[1]: https://themeta.com/aiming-essentials-3-flick-shot-technique...

Rd6n6 · 4 years ago
I played occasionally on a counter strike source server years ago and despite being a scrub would often get 10+ players spectating me to figure out if I was cheating. I wasn’t even playing well (and never have played cs well), it was just a really casual server.

Baseless accusations are thrown around non stop

I found quake live didn’t have cheating accusations back in the day, everyone had more understanding about how much worse we all were than the pros we watched in tournaments. A half blind snap shot or tripwire shot exploiting an angle in the map is just par for the course, if you can’t make those you would have a 0% win rate in duel (my duel win rate was still under 10%)

Rd6n6 commented on Suddenly increased Gamma radiation in Ukraine?   saveecobot.com/en/radiati... · Posted by u/okl
CommieBobDole · 4 years ago
Each of the detectors has a detail graph of radiation over time if you click on it - a lot of them show a many-fold increase in radiation in the last few hours.

Particularly concerning are some near the reactor building itself that went to a fairly high reading very quickly (65500 nSv/h in one case, which is likely offscale high) and then stopped reporting at 21:50 local time (it's currently 03:30).

65500 nSv/h is definitely not 'you're going to die right now' radiation levels, but it's definitely getting into the territory of stuff you don't want stand around in for too long. If I've done the math right, I think that's about three times the allowed annual exposure for radiation workers every hour.

Edit: I think I didn't do the math right and am off by 1000x. 65500 nSv/h is like three chest x-rays an hour. Which is still not good, but would take quite a bit longer to get really dangerous.

Rd6n6 · 4 years ago
Very helpful, thanks!
Rd6n6 commented on Suddenly increased Gamma radiation in Ukraine?   saveecobot.com/en/radiati... · Posted by u/okl
Rd6n6 · 4 years ago
I don’t know how to read that chart. How do we know the levels increased? What did they used to be? who operates that site? What are safe levels?
Rd6n6 commented on Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces   reuters.com/world/europe/... · Posted by u/tosh
Aeolun · 4 years ago
I think the only thing you can do when faced with MAD is to completely ignore it and conduct your war as if it didn't exist.

Anything else would put you at a severe disadvantage.

Rd6n6 · 4 years ago
The world would have ended by now had people followed that advice 50 years ago
Rd6n6 commented on Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack   reuters.com/world/europe/... · Posted by u/eis
VoodooJuJu · 4 years ago
What is the endgame here?

Russia is outclassed by NATO both economically and militarily.

If NATO intervenes economically, Russia will lose much.

If NATO intervenes militarily, Russia will lose much (but at great cost to NATO).

The risk of NATO intervention is high, right? Russia understood this before invading, right? So it seems Russia is accepting a high risk of loss.

But it doesn't make sense that a nation as sophisticated as Russia would accept such a high risk of loss. Which means that they might actually believe the risk of NATO intervention is low.

How could the risk be low without some kind of collusion or hidden knowledge (hidden from us common folk)? Are "they" ("the global elite", "the military industrial complex") all "in it" (profiting) together? Is Russia just suicidal? If (when?) Russia loses out, how do they react?

Rd6n6 · 4 years ago
Russia has predicted that the wests sanctions will be mild because they depend on Russia for oil and wheat. Everyone is more afraid of a recession than of future wars. Are they right? Would you be willing to risk your retirement investments from your faang jobs to sanction Russia? Or do you think it’s worth the cost to help discourage future military actions? Honestly curious what individuals think here

u/Rd6n6

KarmaCake day795March 25, 2019View Original