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lazythrowawayon Ask HN: 2 weeks to save the business you spent 4 years on

Lenders like OnDeck can loan a business roughly 10-15% of your annual revenue in a day or two.

lazythrowawayon Max Levchin’s Affirm Raises $275M to Make Loans

There is plenty of disruption in the small business loan space, including billion dollar valuations (one went public in December). They're just not from SV.

lazythrowawayon Los Angeles' Booming Creative Class Lures New Yorkers

I am extremely dubious of this claim. $1500 in midtown? Maybe way uptown (Harlem, etc.)

lazythrowawayon Websites Prep for Google’s ‘Mobilegeddon’

I pretty much only read HN on mobile...

lazythrowawayon U.S. Legalization of Marijuana Has Hit Mexican Cartels’ Cross-Border Trade

If its anything like Alcohol, the top 10% of buyers spend $3500 per year.

lazythrowawayon A Life Apart: The Toll of Obesity

You don't get to 600 lbs without some sort of mental illness or deep unwellness. Do you look at people who commit suicide with contempt? Its similar.

lazythrowawayon With no trademark, Sriracha name is showing up everywhere

Sriracha is one of the few generics that Trader Joes is terrible at.

lazythrowawayon Banking Startups Adopt New Tools for Lending

Kind of weird to have an article about alternative lending and big data, and not mention Lending Club? The are the biggest player in the space by far and IPOed only last month...

lazythrowawayon Pets Allowed: Why are so many animals now in places where they shouldn’t be?

Dogs breed themselves just fine - ever been to a shelter?

lazythrowawayon How long is your commute?

Hour and a half bus ride each way, NYC.

lazythrowawayon How a Kids’ Cartoon Created a Racoon Invasion in Japan (2013)

Every stray cat has the toxoplasma virus.

lazythrowawayon The Future of Meat Is Plant-Based Burgers

You need to step outside your own shoes for something like this - most people think burgers can easily be tastier than vegetables.

lazythrowawayon Snapchat CEO predicts Facebook will implode like Yahoo

All I know about Facebook as a direct marketer - we went from spending $3000 a month in June to $400,000 this month alone for one client because the CPA is there (not LTV, just first purchase).

lazythrowawayon Soda May Age You as Much as Smoking

America definitely drinks more soda than anyone else: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/map_of_the_.... 3x as much as most central European countries.

lazythrowawayon Voice Hero: The Inventor of Karaoke Speaks

Great article - worth reading.

lazythrowawayon Millions of Americans Get Wages Garnished Over Credit Card Debt

When I was in college, and my wife and I were in hard times, we had a $10,000 credit line that we ran up to full and I've been slowly paying down. I currently pay around $70 a month in interest on it - and it was so worth it. It's so cheap now that I don't even register it as an expense today, but the value of the money was 100x to me then when I was struggling so much.

lazythrowawayon Ask HN: High paid job with low accountability?

Employed!

lazythrowawayon Ask HN: High paid job with low accountability?

Wow! I know this is said sarcastically but I will keep WF as an example of a Big Corp where it might be possible.

lazythrowawayon Ask HN: High paid job with low accountability?

Seems like step 1 is to become a thought leader in a field respected by all, and then parley that respect into a cushy job at a big company. Sounds ideal once one gets there!

Probably the best way is to look a list of sinecure's (thanks for the word, by the way!) and work backwards from their work history.

lazythrowawayon Ask HN: High paid job with low accountability?

This does sound the best so far :)