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Kudos to the family owned business.

Amazon is taking a page out of Walmarts playbook. Both are juggernauts and won't fail overall. My hope is they help create new markets in the areas where they do fail.

Just as a slight clarification, if you set yourself up to rent part of the house, you could convert ownership of the house to an llc, or soon legal entity, and then that organization collects rent from you and tenant, which pays the mortgage, property taxes, utilities, etc. Do this only if you intend to rent portions out, as it can reduce liability. Ymmv and ianaa

Would something like Media Goblin [1] work for you? It's easy to host, you can share the media how you see fit, and you control copyright, and they're are many ways to deploy to keep costs down.

I'm not saying this is easier than yt, but there are some trade offs worth making if you want to really have that level of control.

[1] https://mediagoblin.org/

Beautifully stated.

We've had 6 children. It's hectic, loud, chaotic, frenetic, and exhausting. But I'm having the time of my life and super happy to have such a wonderful cacophony trailing around all the time.

Children are special, but not for everyone.

This is a great start!

How do you account for duplicates? i.e. Seveneves

The idea (posted elsewhere in this forum) of linking them to smile.amazon.com might be a great suggestion.

Unfortunately i have had the opposite experience and the card company sided with the merchant.

Not sure, but i still have awesomeness!

2.0 will be called "Star Ninja".

Don’t call it a trick. It isn’t a trick. It is a marketing ploy.

If I were a retailer, I’d be extremely leery of the largest e-tailer asking me to process my payments. My customers know what they are buying from me. And would the payment processor. And if the payment processor can subvert my shop for their online store, then why would my client come back to me? I know customer service, humaning, and all sorts of other anecdotes are supposed to help, but in the end, folks just want the best quality for the cheapest price. Barring that, if a vendor offers a cheaper replacement that can be delivered to the client’s door, why would they come back to my shop?

And this doesn’t even mention the itemized list of all stock that I might be selling that this larger retailer now knows about me….

This sounds like Neil Stephenson's Seven Eves scenario.

I run relatively regularly these days. My journey of running started with a marathon. I went from nothing to marathon in 6 months, with lots of training, weight loss (healthily because I still love to eat), and stamina increases. But after the marathon, it took over a week to walk normally again. Long runs sucked, and I really began to hate running. Running shoes were killing me, and I hated the idea that the shoe was there to help cushion the foot fall.

Then a friend encouraged me to try vibrams. And suddenly I fell in love with running again. I have huge calves, and these helped tone them a lot more, but now my strike is mid-front, and it’s comfortable to go 4-6 miles (though I struggle keeping pace with my dog).

We have a wonderful suspension system built into our bodies, but it only works correctly when applied correctly. We do not strike the ground the same when running as when walking. And Vibrams taught me quickly to strike differently (especially if I wanted to avoid really sore heels). The springiness of running on our feet transfers to our ankels to our knees to our hips to our back. I’m not an expert, and I know others can run with a rear strike, but for my body shape and what I’ve learned to run with, the front strike was important and I have Vibram FF to thank for it!

I have no clue what terms the UK has, but in Chicago, you can find places all across the spectrum. I've used shared spaces on month-to-month, and I think they can be quite valuable. But once we reached a certain size, we needed to have our own space. Plus, we work in healthcare, so we have other (read:HIPAA) concerns that need to be dealt with as well.

Again, there can be value, and places like WeWork, 1871, Blue1647, et al, serve specific needs. Like I said before, a lawyer and a willingness to hunt for the right space make all the difference. And right now, there's more empty spaces than filled, so it's easier to negotiate something that could even be just yearly...

Automates workflows in health care provider offices.

Easily my favorite quote: "I’m getting myself involved in a land war in Asia."

I live here, and am not surprised that design took precedence over functionality. Not planning to visit the store anytime soon, but people say it’s neat.

I think this is more prevelant. VC/Angel/Series funding doesn’t get a great rep.

For serial entrepreneurs who just want to build, grow, and get out, leveraging someone else’s money to do so makes sense.

For first-time, or even veteran entrepreneurs, who want to maintain control and velocity of their business, taking outside capital might not yield the results you want.

If you can scrape funds together from yourself, family, and (contractually) from friends, do that. Then check with your city, state, and even federal resources for Small Business Administration loans. Then go to a bank and get a loan. Then, and only when all other avenues of funding have been exhausted, should you then consider getting those other funds. But YMMV, and if you just want to grow as quickly as possible, maybe you have a vetted business plan, maybe you just have an idea, if you need capital, seed funding will get you there, but caveat emptor.

> “Karajan” Karajan is a conductor. Will conductors get looped in as well? Or will they be considered “Performers” as well?

Honestly, I just tell those relatives, “Thanks for the thought and lovely gift. In case you weren’t aware, we don’t allow battery operated toys in the house, so we’ll gladly let you keep [CHILD_NAME]’s toy at your house and when we come visit, they’ll be happy to play with it there.”

It might not be exactly this, but we have spent over a decade training our relatives, and after 6 children, we only get clothes (win!), wooden toys (win!), and board-games/puzzles (win!).

Otherwise, start asking for gift receipts or find out where they shopped so you can, “find something similar”...

I emailed Jeannie and she sent me the paper. I'm an idiot about finding a place to post it or host it (or find it), but the title of the paper is: "Highly active catalyst derived from a 3D foam of Fe(PO3)2/Ni2P for extremely efficient water oxidation"

Searched for that and got this: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/05/10/1701562114.abst...

Thank you for sharing this. We (I) founded a company to help with several niche aspects of healthcare and the bureaucratic issues faced by administrations. We are finding success with data transactions, and while there are some companies out there who work really hard to make transaction engines, it's not very efficient, very expensive, and doesn't benefit the consumer at all.

My past experience as a software developer was, "Give me all the datum, and tell me what you need, then I'll make it work." I even worked for a very large EMR (probably the biggest on the planet), and getting a patient record out of their system is a nightmare, even though the foundation of their application is the patient record.

I'd love to converse more about what you're building, as we capture many unstructured documents and are now using ML to grab details out of these and match to criteria.

Runnable on a Drobo?