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I used to watch Shark Tank a lot, and they talk about this with patented products. That a big company will buy out a better solution just to shelf it because the current solution is more profitable. As a person that just spent $10k on oral care the past year this makes me incredibly sad and angry. Gov't is already so cheap that we (US) have fluoride in our water, that was planned to be cheap dental care =(.

I understand the need for IP to make the investment worthwhile. But when buying it out like this, it should be a use it or lose it situation with the patent. Depriving people of a better solution to make a profit ain't right.

Not as bad as I was expecting. Period of about a month, fixed bug, refunded the difference to customers. Bad that it's during the shopping season, but thought this was going to be for a much longer period of time.

This too. No doubt they accumulated much hate for different reasons. Guess it would be better said if it's gonna be a boom or bust. I've been feeling like an IPO isn't going to happen for Uber for about a year now. There's a passage in Ben Horowitz's book that went "we drove so fast off that cliff we didn't leave treadmarks", paraphrasing. That's how I feel about Uber once news came out about how they were doing in China, then the new about spending near $1B in 6 months. People argue with me that institutions are dying to get into deals like Uber, but I don't know many institutions able to burn billions a year into a single investment. They get investors, they get loans. It's all good until no one is willing to put up more money and then it just fades away (or acquired like someone else said, but at what valuation? look at twitter from $70B to $11B now).

Making it top front page: Uber and AirBnB are likely the two startups that most people are waiting to see IPO (Dropbox like a year or two ago). Any of these companies is bound to garner attention when something big happens.

Uber is also aggressively recruiting. Many people on this board probably have been contacted by them or have been made offers by them. For what their comp promises, this would be very important for them, especially if they didn't do their due diligence on the company's financials and how their stock awards were set up.

I agree that very few people know how their stock works. To the valley's credit, a lot of places do RSUs which is a simple matter. But I definitely spoken with folks that didn't realize their exercise rights had expired.

Agree with this. Revenue is deceptive when you're undercutting the competition, especially when there's no profit to show for it.

And pay incentives for drivers are not only the surge charges but how many completed rides. That's likely to make sure there's enough supply on the road.

Someone needs to train that hiring manager. They gave you no heads up about the process. There might even be a chance the hiring manager didn't know you would have to interview afterwards if the company was small enough. Did you contact the manager afterwards? If the company doesn't have a defined process the manager might have been able to talk to HR to directly give you the offer.

somewhat understandable why people have this view of him and his show. he let's his guests go on about what they think. it's usually a 3hr show. this gives people the perception that he believes in whatever they're saying because he doesn't interrupt his guests all the time.

imo Joe is very open minded, an avg Joe (had to) that is willing to hear people out and is fair handed in contrasting opinions. listening to the one with him, hannibal burris, and sam harris shows that he tries to take emotion out of argument and see where each person is coming from. but other times he'll just repeat things what he has heard other guests has said. for instance drugs that clogs up the blood for bicyclists when he had lance armstrong on.

i wouldn't say his show is scientifically dense though. that really depends on the guest. so when you have a person like rhonda on, yea her field is science and it's going to be dense in that subject matter.

Would look into Montessori school systems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori_education

It's a problem being so far ahead of your peers. Average people seem dumb, and that's because comparatively they are (relative word anyway).

> I just want her to be able to hang out with kids like herself and do what kids do.

These are two separate things. Kids like herself I think you mean kids her own age, but she's not like them. More accurately kids like herself would also be on par with people 2x+ her age.

Do what kids do... which means dumbing her down, or at least in her perspective what babies do. Imagine someone wanted you, an adult, to play and act like a 5 year old for years on end.

I'm not a parent, and don't ever plan on being one. I do not claim to understand your worries and struggles. Raising a child is challenging, the results from same actions can vary greatly. You have less to draw from since your experience is going to be greatly different from the norm. Maybe talk to your parents to see how they would have wanted things to be if resources wasn't an issue. Find online groups for this (and likely stay away from people that think they're child is the greatest).

Best of luck.

This resembles more of farmer markets here. You build up more of a one on one relationship/bond. My sister even has a cheese and oils guy in one of San Diego's farmer markets. She got an ingredient taken out of her product cause of allergies, they call her when it's ready. This doesn't happen at big box stores unless there's an issue with a product in general.

This is a good point. One year the military healthcare company was hacked 2-3 times. Imagine all the information the govt makes you fill out to do something simple, how easy it would be to hack an email account knowing all the info you need for medical services.

Comes up for "debate game" search. Likely it comes up sponsored because of that term.

How many people actually search presidential debate game?

I just went there last week for a conference. Man there's tons of development going on. Road construction, looks like a new building being built every 3-4 blocks.

I usually hit all the food joints when I visit a place. Thought all there was going to be was grade A bbq. Was I mistaken, food scene is amazing, would rate near same caliber as SF (and as expensive).

Hotel rates are crazy, spoke with some locals and they said it's cause of all the conferences. Averaged ~300 a night (fri-thurs).

I've read Yelp reviews on a previous 2/2 in San Mateo. $2600 at that point, one review had a price listed a few years back (~2011), ended up being near 20% increase year over year.

Also heard of the U-Haul stories of where there was none left in the bay because everyone moved out. Don't think that's going to happen this time around. Think that start ups, or at least their employees will be acquired into bigger/more stable companies. Did that happen last time around? For example, did Yahoo, AOL, PayPal go on a buying spree?

that's cheap if it's a decent place in a nice neighborhood. i was doing 1500 (utilities included) on nob hill with 3 other roommates and 1 bathroom a year ago. and that was the cheapest i could find in a decent location, and that's including many of my emails that went unanswered.

>Soooooo to give you an argument ad absurdum

Don't know why it is absurd. Monarchies and dictatorships are forms of governments that either have been tried / still in power.

Longer terms is a possible solution. Think of house vs senate (2 vs 6 years). The house basically spends 50% of their time campaigning, because election year is every other year.

>Maybe donors should be more humble, and be okay with an aid-to-the-legislator calling them for money?

The largest donors aren't just humble, they're aggressively donating/investing their money into parties/people. Your suggestion to this is meant for people like Sanders who gains his donations from "normal" people instead of the rich.

There isn't a solution I can think of. To the first point, when we talk about gov't and politics, we talk about power. The pull that power has on people, the wealth that can be attained, and human greed. There are pros and cons to different types of gov'ts. Single decision makers can change directions quickly, get things done faster, but fail faster too. Democracies are made to be slow with checks and balances, but sometimes it's too slow, can't adapt quick enough, and just because there are more people doesn't make it immune to corruption.

>I do like the idea of always running opposition candidates though, to force the other person to raise & spend campaign funds.

Needing to raise campaign funds is a big issue. Some congressman feel that it's almost a full time job calling donors. I rather not have that scenario and have them actually reading and considering legislation.

There was a comment that just got deleted wondering about if people are just roaming around for liberals to hate on. The answer to that is yes. This just posted on my feed [1]. Driving around Wellesley (also where Clinton graduated from) taunting people.

[1] https://m.facebook.com/?_rdr#!/story.php?story_fbid=10210780...

If you're in the US the most common time for that info to be collected is at the offer acceptance stage. This is usually a form you fill out for their HR system.

This might be different depending on the country. I've seen CVs that have SSN/DOB/Marriage/Picture/Driver License because where they are located that's normal info to have on there.

The entire org?? Why? I recruited for a company that started a few innovation centers around the country. Part me now wonders why they needed all those devs. This was around 3 new centers that hired about 70-100+ each in mostly non tech hubs. The way tech advanced in the last 3 years I'm sure most of their work is or fastly becoming obselete.

I know a person that built a company for acquisition like you mention. Don't think they were ever successful. To be an acquisition target is one thing. But to be acquired by companies like Google most people would have to meet their hiring bar (aka passing their interviews) and have the right composition for the team (mostly engineers they would have a hard time hiring away). Of course there are exceptions, like they're solely purchasing for the technology, but that means the tech they built was pretty good and couldn't easily be cloned (of course this excludes if they're buying for market share of users if the product is super popular). My opinion is incredibly risky building for acquisition. Anyone have examples that it isn't?

i don't think it would get that far. we're living the intersecting of type of cars and ownership of cars. if it's a play on status i see Uber and such services dominating this marketing space. why rent and drive yourself, only the poor drive themselves.

>you drive your non EV

that's assuming people have more than one car. a person can get a rental car, this is added mental task that you're asking a person to do. if you're requiring the user to think/work you're going to lose a lot of users.

that's if there is one open. argument made is that people that have rent controlled apartments don't leave for economic reasons. this would mean it lessens the supply of rent controlled apartment in the area.

the competition for a place is high in the bay area, so even if they find and apply for an apartment doesn't mean they'll get it. my personal situation is worse due to me finding rooms instead of entire apartments. lived in 4-5 different places in last 4 years. I would get a response rate of ~5% from craiglist when looking in SF, percentage better in the peninsula. Usually competing against 10+ people viable applicants each time.

They were specific to the situation you mentioned.

>because people in rent control places will not leave.

What kind of details are you looking for here? That they don't leave because it's likely the lowest possible they would be able to find, and that the tenants would be increasing their cost otherwise.

Yes. Think about the 911 bill. Taking a decade to help cover medical costs of first responders and those that helped dig out dead bodies and hoping to find survivors. It was so sad to see Jon Stewart talk about this years later with only one person from the original panel because two were too ill now to show up and one died.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3350433/John-Stewart...

Parent poster needs to be very careful of this. One my friends mom had this done to take out car loans/cellular contracts because her credit was crap. Ended up defaulting and ruining his credit, and had his car repossessed. It takes years to rebuild credit and he got stuck with crazy rates for his next car loan (will likely pay 2x-3x worth of car). He refuses to have his mother arrested/report it as fraud to settle any of the previous debt, cause family.

If it's an H1B they would have to apply, submit on Apr 1st next year, see if he gets the VISA through our lottery system, and start around October if he gets it. It might be faster if the company has an international office and he can work from there.

Think this is more accurate. Maybe they can't exist post growth because in the social media space we have obvious reference to companies like MySpace and Friendster. Where the slow down of growth happened due to competitors that will chip away users/market share until the product becomes largely irrelevant compared to what it once was. In this situation investors are looking to get out for as good as price as possible.

Company is small currently (LinkedIn shows 20 employees). Some of the things won't scale. Most things mentioned should be standard process (clear job description, interviews with relevant interviewers, relevant questions for the role, etc).

> We won’t pick times for phone calls and interviews, we’d rather let our candidates pick from available slots in our calendars.

This relies on people keeping an updated calendar. Eventually teams will need coordinators where the responsibility of scheduling and rescheduling can be optimized. If a meeting suddenly conflicts with an interview and the interview needs to be rescheduled, it's a worse candidate experience to make them do the rescheduling themselves. Have them provide a few time slots so you have backups in case the original one have conflicts, and always send confirmation emails.

> We don’t usually set a deadline for technical challenges, our candidates pick a convenient deadline for them.

Anyone have drop off rates for this (as in never finishes project)? I think projects/challenges are best after an initial interview with someone on the team (not the recruiter). This way the candidate know more about the role, and the team believes they will be able to complete the project.

Also think that the company has to be very appealing compared to rest of market for a candidate to put in this much extra effort compared to standard on-site interviews.

Company is in Egypt, likely not their first language.