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It will surely be appealed. The 'feel good' story aside, this seems problematic. The brother owns 40% of the company and as such he can contest that the price (wages) that the majority shareholder is paying is greater than what the market commands.

RIP. For many many engineering students his work was the first introduction to something amazing that they could implement and understand.

Hate to use a poker analogy but: Cameron forgot the cardinal rule of gambling. Always leave yourself 'outs'. He raised the stakes when he had little to gain (shut up some dissidents in his party?) and everything to lose. No one forced him to do that.

Outsmarted himself and fucked up royally. Time to go.

This is a LOT of debt to put on the balance sheet of what is (still) a young company facing new entrants into the luxury-electric vehicle market segment.

What are they complaining about. Under the new 'sharing' economy, you don't need to rent one place anymore. You can simply hop week to week from one AirBnB rental to another without being tied down. And you can also hop between jobs as you like without being tied down. This is all in your benefit. Isn't the new 'sharing economy' great?

Shouldn't there be a lower cost way to figure out WTP, CAC, churn rate, customer purchase journey map, etc. etc. before starting a company and having a large-ish sales/marketing team?

Great Radiolab episode on this subject: http://www.radiolab.org/story/91951-an-update-on-hookworms/

Thanks for sharing. I wish someone had given me this advice years and years ago before I sank my 20s into a soul-less corporation for no benefit.

I'm on Zoloft now as well (who isn't). But its done wonders for me even with the side effects. I suffered from actual psychosomatic dizziness and vertigo which was making life hell and it totally got rid of it.

I think it varies from patient to patient. In my case, 2 separate courses of 6 treatments resulted in almost no short term memory loss.

"The Offer" - brought to you by the LeBron James school of self-marketing and endearing yourself to people.

I wish there was a good program advocating the effectiveness of Electroconvulsive therapy (and maybe some studies around harmful effects on long term usage). I've taken basically every drug on the spectrum (benzos, SSRIs, et.al.) for most of my life since I was a teenager and nothing helped as much as ECT.

The size of the award is insane. Wrongful death suits are awarded far lower amounts.

Ha! I opened HN after Slack went down. I guess I should get back to work.

So stupid. People would literally rather drink toilet water than accept the truth? The Indian police routinely doesn't do anything to protect people that are being attacked (physically or otherwise) by large groups because politicians pressure them to do nothing (to not lose votes).

This is like the Mickey Mouse version of the 'The Firm'.

Careful dude, Michael Bay might hear you.

This is just a publicity stunt. The country is simply too large and public spending on law enforcement and emergency services too small for anything like this to be effective. They could start by increasing the penalties for sex crimes and spending more money on effective prosecutions.

Adaptive Filter Theory by Simon Haykin is the single best engineering book I used. http://www.amazon.com/Adaptive-Filter-Theory-Simon-Haykin/dp... Covers Kalman filters in great detail. Did anyone else us it?

They probably have this in petty cash. What use is a fine of this amount? It is like fining a football player 1500 for an illegal hit.

Deeply moving. People fighting the death penalty in Texas deserve our respect no matter where we fall on the issue. They are willing to invest their soul in an uphill battle where the odds are heavily against them.

I got a job offer at Uber ATC that was exactly that. Working on logistics for self driving cars. They have an enormous amount of money and they are throwing some of it at the problem. What use is an economy if so many people live in poverty?

I'm so addicted to the sound of her voice that she could read the damn Yellow Pages and I'd listen.

This stinks. I was just getting used to Mailbox. Why buy these smaller companies unless you have a long term plan on how its going to be NPV +ve?

A dumb question: Shouldn't they be able to setup drainage into the ocean?

My mother is stuck with some neighbors on the second floor of my house. First floor is 3/4 flooded. They are OK for now but food and water is going to become a problem if the rains don't let up :-(

My aunt had to be evacuated by boat from her place. I haven't lived in Chennai over 15 years but it is surreal to see the pictures.

Very frustrating that the government spent money on laying fiber and setting up a subway system over the past few years without doing anything to improve the drainage system. The city faces cyclones every year. This was just waiting to happen.

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History has a great segment that talks about this event.

I've actually seen a group of monkeys killing one of their own. It was a bloodbath and deeply disturbing.

Prolonging someone's suffering? Giving their family false hope? Illegally test a technique/method or drug just to see if it works for someone else benefit?

If the patient's best interests are no longer the primary concern all kinds of shady things become possible.