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I would avoid this guide. I don't even see mentions about dilution and cap tables, let alone preference and a bunch of other risks.

If you need a solid guide, I usually point at the Holloway Guide To Equity Compensation but I'm annoyed that it looks like they started charging for it (probably still worth both the time and money). The preview is worth checking out. That being said, I think there are a bunch of other aspects that aren't captured.

I was under the impression that founders/management generally don't give any company specific guidance in order to not be on the hook for anything that may be construed as guidance or promises.

Is there already a suitable supply chain for that to happen?

With the compensation deferral setup (like Ohtani in MLB), I'm curious if the influence of the caps will be eroded.

For some I suspect that it's not the primary goal, but when some investors pull up with an offer in that range it seems irrational not to take it.

Still, seeing as how I don't look at these kinds of images all day it's really hard for me to gauge if the sea floor is littered with false positive images that may seem to be a good match. I could also imagine a true match to also have some other confounding blob attached to it. It'd be nice to have some kind of score to summarize that aspect.

I'm a fan of this mentality. (Though I'd be happier if the government gets a copy of all designs that are mass produced.) I recently had a 10 year old TV die on me and I was 90% sure that I just needed to swap the power supply. If I'd had some more info I could have tested things on my benchtop before trying to track down an identical replacement board. (Though those options were a bit dubious as well.)

These days it's about finding the labor and the project time. All those extra runs of wire add up to a lot of expensive time. If you're doing a remodel it's also a lot of wall that doesn't need to get ripped up.

I'd imagine that if an assistant was really implemented well, it would bypass all those search ads...

At this point, I'm coming around to accepting that something has to be disturbed since it seems (simplified) to be a choice between either planned, somewhat bounded, localized invasiveness or unplanned, weakly bounded, global disturbances/invasiveness...

I'm a big fan of that practice but I get the impression that rebasing scares a lot of devs that either didn't take the time to learn git or are still recovering from that one time that their change got too far away from mainline. That latter reason is why I prefer the practice actually...

I started doing this a year ago and it's been super solid and low maintenance.

I'm curious if Amazon's charger setup will be different than your normal charging setup. Presumably, you want to charge while the vehicle is being loaded so you want the chargers spaced out around the loading bays. (This nice tour video suggests that things may not be as efficient as I thought: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6lO2_2tyfY)

Those $500 chargers are the at home chargers. I suspect that Amazon would want a more expensive charger that handles higher power to get more energy on-board during a short loading period. As someone else mentioned, the distribution infra is also quite a bit of money.

It felt more natural after I renamed it the "inept" or "a*hole" caterer's sequence.

I wonder how much of this is due to a cultural sense of fairness and what proper pie cutting looks like.

A friend mentioned being at a party once where the guest of honor cut the first slice for themself and they chose to make a glancing slice that maximized their surface frosting to volume ratio.

I don't understand why people just don't call out mortgages for what they are - leveraged loans that let you get ~4-5x the return on housing gains. (Assuming a simplified 20% down scenario and you refi on a regular basis.)

I suspect that most housing demand stems from just people wanting in on this (subsidized) investment. From what I can tell, this is the retirement plan foundation for many Americans.

I guess this works until you come up on a generation that can't afford the last generation's houses? Or you need to be a company to afford the house and it gets "permanently" removed from the individual market.

I'm wondering if lowering the maximum fixed mortgage length by one year every 2-3 years until we get down to 10 years would help moderate some of this due to there being a bit more risk to consider.

I think the point was that people with mortgages will opt into lower interest rates but will clearly not opt into higher rates. (Assuming the interest savings is greater than the refinance cost.)

I'm not sure why you bring up the amortization schedule since since you definitely save on the overall interest side of the mortgage. Put another way, if you get the lower interest rate and keep paying the same monthly payment you were paying before, you'll pay everything off faster.

I was under the impression that Australia doesn't have the 30-year fixed-rate mortgages that the US has. I assume this leads to having less of a locked-in real estate base?

Pet projects often get replaced with new pet projects...

With reasonable sensitivity, you should mention this story and ask.

Not fully parameterized like what you're talking about but Seattle has some standardized pre-approved plans for DADUs (detached accessory dwelling units) available. It would be nice to see design libraries for various regions with equivalent building codes/standards.

A long time ago I had this question so I looked through some Android code for this. To me, the most expensive part is doing the search through the image given that you don't know where the qr code is or its orientation.

The key is in the finder patterns (mentioned in the article). If you imagine a line cutting through the center area of one and the series of pixel values you get along the line you'll notice that you get a simple symmetric (mostly)White(mostly)BlackWBBBWBW series. These sequences are easy to search for to get a list of finder pattern candidate locations. Rejecting the false positives is a relatively straightforward and local operation, as is refining exactly where the pattern is centered.

With the cleaned up (hopefully short) list of candidate corners you can propose an orientation/scale (technically a homography) to do the necessary sampling to get the rest of the bits. If none of these work out, you ask the user to try take another picture.

To me, this seems a little odd to complain about given that all those factors were true about the equity compensation when people signed on. The company didn't fundamentally do a bait and switch or change the rules.

Layoffs suck but I found the extended exercise windows and other benefits to be rather pleasantly responsible given the situation.

... or you accept that the widow argument was a bogus special interest ploy to begin with and have people who genuinely need a prop 13 style exemption apply for an exception - rather than have it apply to everyone. From what I understand, Seattle does it this way.

This looks like a more nuanced pullback than back in 2008 when it seemed like they stopped hiring almost completely. Back then it was more out of fear than logic.

Due to the literal hoard of cash sitting around, any meaningful then existential threat would have required a large rapid change of the world economic order and demanded a large scale reorg and mass firings anyway - so they may as well have assumed the world wasn't ending and just kept hiring. That decision then really ended up mucking things up internally.

Is the entrepreneurial equity tax picture the same? In the US, it's all about the capital gains rate. Australia appears to have a similar setup where gains from an asset held for more than a year are taxed at half the rate. That would bring it in line with the US rate.

Even for the raw income tax rate you cite, any place paying the really high salaries, historically, has been at a similar rate.

At risk of compromising your relief slightly, from what I understand the lead measurements may change depending on the water chemistry flowing through the pipes (i.e. the lead may stay put wherever it is in the system but leech if the right water chemistry (which may still be within regulations) flows through).

House pipes being changed is probably 90% of the worry anyway. If it was recently enough, you might be able to pull the original permits and get a better idea of what was replaced.

Now I just need to figure out how to donate brain fluid...

Tangential. The claim about the $0.15 / MB delivery fee on Kindle ebooks makes AWS egress charges look cheap.

The charge could scale with audience size. For audiences of < 10K (or 100K), the fee could be zero to keep community groups from being charged. In some sense, this could be a proxy for compensating wasted aggregate human time -- or a tax on social media for (social) environmental damage remediation.

(Of course, it's not "your" social media account causing damage...)

My suspicion is that a long cool-down timer (e.g. every post takes XX minutes to launch) may be better. Something would probably have to be carved out for following breaking news (e.g. perhaps you get to punt the timer for 12 hours once a month).

Random historical context (IIRC), in the early 2000s (around when the chip discussed was made) chip designers were dealing with the transition from gate/switch delays being a dominant factor to signal wire propagation delays becoming very significant. This was a side effect of the improving processes making smaller chip features.

While not the same as the full mechanism for reproduction. The cultivation section of the relevant Wikipedia article claims that there was significant large scale cultivation of the truffle in France at the end of the 19th century -- and that many of the techniques were later lost.