Readit Newsjwn commented on SpaceX Is Raising $500M at a $30.5B Valuation wsj.com/articles/elon-mus... · Posted by u/dcgudeman
> I wouldn't want to be his friend, date him, marry him, or have him as a family member.
There are people great for depending on, and there are people great for following. Even if from far away. They are still great. Just in a different way.
That's an interesting perspective, one I had never thought about yet rings absolutely true.
jwn commented on Ask HN: How much did you, as an employee, make when your startup exited? · Posted by u/saaswarrior
Pretty standard acquisition story. Shareholders with preferred shares (VCs) got paid first. By the time they were paid there was nothing left. It just means the company was sold for too little for the employees to benefit.
This happened to a company I co-founded. My common stock was bought at about 1/3 of the lowest price given to early employees for options. (I had RSUs, not options).
I got $130k, and their options were worthless.
Luckily the acquirer offered retention bonuses that helped dull the pain, but of course those are taxed at regular income and not long term capital gains.
Oh, and like a previous comment mentioned: the VCs have preferred stock so they get their investment back 100% before any common stock sees a penny. If employees had the same stock as VCs, I estimate I would have walked away with about $400k.
jwn commented on Oldest domains in the .com, .net, and .org TLDs cambus.net/oldest-domains... · Posted by u/fcambus
I got: ca.com > Creation Date: 1996-02-09T05:00:00Z
Well that's strange. The company was founded in 1976, so it was certainly plausible that they would be an early domain registration, but 1996 wouldn't qualify as that!
I wonder why you got a different date back?
jwn commented on Oldest domains in the .com, .net, and .org TLDs cambus.net/oldest-domains... · Posted by u/fcambus
This must be missing entries. For example, look up ca.com:
created: 1985-01-01
Making it 2 months older than the earliest dot com on the list.
jwn commented on Chatbots were the next big thing: what happened? blog.growthbot.org/chatbo... · Posted by u/cjauvin
The audio interfaces are so bad I resort to one-word answers to every question, to get me to a human as fast as possible.
"Hi, in a few words, what can I help you with today?"
> "billing"
"It sounds like you have a question about your bill. I can help you with that! If you can give a few words to describe the reason you are calling, I can help you with your bill."
> "billing"
"OK, let me get you to a representative who can help!"
... instead of spending 10 minutes wrangling with the vapid AI, I can actually move on with my day after speaking to a human. Was this the future we envisioned in the 90s? I think not. Some systems let you spam 0 (zero) and it transfers to a human, but more and more are requiring you to interface with the system in some way, even if disabled or impaired.
I find cursing at the bot gets me to a human right away. It's also therapeutic.
Why do many companies look for some one who is outside the organization when the people that helped you grow probably won't get that job. You are probably have to spend some excessive amount of money and the results aren't going to be that much better. Look at yahoo for example.
Because the CEO skillsets to grow a company from 1-10 employees is massively different than the skills required to take it to 100 employees.
I'm a Whole Foods employee, having one of those rare (for me) moments where I can reasonably be considered very well-informed on the subject of a news article, and it's a little bit disturbing just how misinformed and one-sided the article is.
The author seems to have talked with 10-20 disgruntled employees at a few stores nationwide, and a few customers on top of that. Maybe she should have reached out to Whole Foods corporate and asked for comments?
About the only thing she did get right was that Amazon isn't behind this. They haven't really messed with our supply chains much yet.
Can you offer any more insights? What's the reality behind OTS?
I don't know if any Fastmail employees read over this, but thanks for finally adding TOTP to the list of 2FA methods! I had been (uneasily) using SMS and wishing you guys would up your game, and I'm glad to see that you did.
Why? It is not like there is serious privacy violation in telling that altimeter broke, and this makes the data much less reliable. Not saying the data is fake for sure, but I have came across enough haters of 5g, and I am pretty sure someone could post fake entries just to scare people.
The goal is data collection to assess and prevent incidents. NASA's intake on the reports are not anonymous, but their public reports are. NASA functions as the filter between pilots and the FAA/NTSB.