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Nice one!

1,300 employees for 4300 meals a day? that couldn't be right. That's less than 4 meals delivered per employee.

Hey there, i do a lot of work with wood and material suppliers who may be interested in this as you develop further. How can i contact you?

I want to congratulate and thank the author for experimenting with how he communicates and sharing what he observed.

Which whiteboard apps have the best integrations? I've been trying to find one that can 2-way sync with fields in airtable so that i can build a dynamic org chart.

Thanks for sharing. What are examples of counter-cyclical companies?

How many machines are in the US?

Right, and that's where the negotiation begins. You'll be able to find a better outcome once you know what X, Y and Z are. Leverage in itself assumes that one party has to lose. But there are also negotatied outcomes where both parties are better off. For what it's worth, I'm an employer and although my employees have IP agreements I'd want them to feel real good if the business wanted their side project.

This advice is absurd.

OP: My employer wants IP I've created. I want to negotiate compensation for it.

Your advice: Start by sending them a resignation letter.

Negotiations are all about relationships and starting by triggering others fears of abandonment is not the way to collaborate to a mutually beneficial option.

I would suggest that the OP asks the if the employer would be open to discussing what he wants "given the additional value I'd be providing the company, I'm wondering if we could discuss my compensation and control over the project and any interests you may have?", and seek legal advice if he's not confident asking.

It's important that the as initial ask is not phrased as anything extortionary ("give me x or I will/won't do x") as that kind of talk is more likely to trigger legal concerns.

Shopify capital is similar. The APR can be high, but then you usually can't get loans on that short term. Also seems to be very popular with shopify.

A household air dehumidifier can pull 8 litres per day out of a 500 sqft home - seems possible.

https://www.directenergy.com/learning-center/energy-efficien...

I wonder if someone has found a strong correlation between infrastructure costs and legal or land costs?

Curious would anyone like to learn about Toyota production system (lean manufacturing) implementation at Zenbooth factory in Berkeley, CA? We've thought about doing tours.

This is great. Would be interested to integrate with an e-signing service. Configuring standard forms for e-signing is also a scourge.

Any competitors to this? NDA reads clean...

ask for some Zenbooths and create rule that calls must be taken in them. It makes the open office workable. www.zenbooth.net (I'm a founder there)

Here's a much more thorough article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-06/chinese-hackers-infili...

Mods may want to update link

The Australian National University has deep relations with China ranging from its numerous Asian culture and language courses, to its huge international student population. The Australian government is far more diplomatic and tactful about Chinese relations than the US government. It's unlikely that either entities would be playing propaganda games with a specific and embarrassing story like this.

Zenbooth.net | Manufacturing / Software / Mechanical Engineering | Berkeley | Part/Fulltime

We're trying to get more quiet space in every office. We've been selling phone booths thoughout the US like crazy, and we're looking for our first engineering employee to help us solve a range of problems. * Manufacturing engineering - Implementation of lean manufacturing systems and processes. You'll get mentored by ex-boeing lean coatch. * Software engineering - there are some VERY interesting software solutions we'd like to build to solve classic manufacturing challenges that don't have good solutions (ranging from inventory to efficiency monitoring to QC) * Mechanical engineering - Automation, structural calculations, etc. Fun.

Only email hiring@zenbooth.co if: - You're an engineer or similar that prefers rapid prototyping - You're interested in working for a gritty manufacturing operation rather than some cushy mobile-social-local-crypto-AI-platform startup.

Can mods update this to link to the original article? https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/11/rats-of-...

I doubt The Atlantic would have given citylab permission to republish it like this.

What would better generate visual randomness for cryptography than lava lamps? I find this solution interesting as there are patterns to other seemingly random things in nature. For example, no ocean wave is ever going to be exactly the same, but they do follow a pattern of the tides. From a crytography perspective, how would a high resolution video of something like a beach compare as a solution?

Freelancer is publicly listed on the Australian stock exhchange and they have a head office there. Hopefully the public attention this story is getting will push them to change and seek resolution with this person. But the Australian legal system would also be an option if the contract has been breached.

The facts are scattered throughout the article but here's one of the more shocking: "In San Bernardino, Calif., Nestlé has long paid the U.S. Forest Service an annual rate of $524 to extract about 30 million gallons, even during droughts".

Fta:

The FBI confiscated “an unusual amount of computer equipment” that Mr. Liu had brought with him, including the laptops and tablet and also two smartphones, a smartwatch, a computer thumb drive, two digital video cameras, several SIM cards and high-capacity storage drives, according to the affidavit.

If the guy pleads not-guilty, I wonder how he'd explain why he had that much equipment with him for a business meeting.

I wonder if Tunguz looked at B2B vs B2C trends. It seems that there's lots of B2C apps in SF that are crashing, yet many of the startups in outside SF in the valley are B2B.

Zenbooth | Fulltime | Business Analyst | Berkley, CA (Bay Area) | www.zenbooth.co

We're making phone booths, and we're one of the fastest growing manufacturing operations in the bay area. We're still running a lot of our operation of pen and paper and we're looking for an individual who can help us digitize the operation. For example, we need to build and monitor a system that tracks each part of a product moving through the line.

This is a great opportunity for someone with strong analytical skills and a hunger to build pragmatic solutions.

Contact jobs@zenbooth.co if you're interested

Yes, the US does have an employer withholding system but there are so many more layers of taxes and complexity because the taxation system is less federalised.

In Australia there is a single federal employment tax, and a single federal sales tax. States and counties typically collect property tax and fees from services.

In the US both the federal and state governments collect income tax. The tax rates and deduction complexity varies widely between the 52 states. Then the states AND counties (districts) have different sales tax rates. California alone has over 1790 districts each with sales taxes set at a local level.

Not to mention capital gains, Medicare tax etc...

Then the comparatively high lobbying, wealth inequality and inefficiencies in the US political systems makes tax change very slow or regressive.

*I'm an Australian living in the US

If you need a high limit but don't have strong credit I'd recommend the Amex gold charge card. I was getting $3-5k limits on other cards but got a 50k limit straight away with this card. It had the 3x rewards on certain categories like online advertising mentioned above, but the balance must be paid in full monthly.

What is it like raising kids in east bay? does anyone have experiences to share?

Zenbooth | San Francisco | On-site part time or full time | Business development and Woodworkers.

Zenbooth is the first company in the US that makes privacy phone booths for open offices. (See a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuxHTm_p2FI)

There's so much demand from startups for our product we get customers from job ads like this! We've profitable, and this is a great opportunity to switch from software to physical products.

We're making our first two hires:

1. Business development / ops - building processes and organizing for the whole customer lifecycle - from lead capture to post-delivery.

2. Phone booth carpentry / "engineering" ;). You’ll be building these phone booths and helping improve the production process and tooling. Previous enthusiasm for woodworking and the ability to lift 80lb+ is required for this role.

We've just moved into a large workshop in SF that you'll work from.

If you're interested, email jobs@zenbooth.net

Steve - how do you feel about people taking photos or video of you?