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"Seeking investment" is a valid reason to enter the US from visa waiver countries. My (German) co-founder used that when entering for YC and had no problems. It's also a perfectly reasonable simplification of what happens at YC.
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10% is my gut feeling. I'd imagine that the plan of attack would be figuring out the top 10 or so most important cities and working out the details for them (airport transportation, transit, car rental, taxi rates) and going from there.
As to loumf's concern, once I trusted the site (say, after getting one booking commission free), I'd have no problem with the details not being revealed to me as to flight numbers / lines, details of public transit, etc. until I'd purchased. But I'm not sure you'd need that if the commissions are reasonable; I'm willing to pay to have my planning simplified. |
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What I've always wanted is travel booking, not flight booking. I want to know how long, how much and what my options are for getting from $x to $y at $z time.
This still drives me nuts. If I'm at home in Berlin and have a meeting in in central London, I don't want to have to figure out that if I fly from one of the two airports in Berlin to one of the four airports around London that I'll have to use these kinds of busses and trains or taxis or rent a car and have to sort all of that out myself. I want to know how to get there door to door, and I'll pay a decent premium to have it all put in front of me where I can buy my tickets all in one go. I hate travel booking because it seems to be without fail a minimum 2 hour exercise sorting out the options and picking one. Back in the day I had a go-to travel agent for such. Unfortunately finding a good travel agent often requires checking out 10-15 of them and I've been too lazy for that as well since recent moves. Blog post on this a while back: http://scotchi.net/2009/09/what-i-hate-about-booking-travel-... |
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Definitely worth seeing:
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Amazon has typically refused to acquire any company that would expose it to nationwide (or even Californian) sales tax.
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There's an interesting point hiding in the virulence of this post:
Canonical engineers work on Ubuntu. Red Hat and SUSE have historically hired swaths of "upstream" developers, often just to work on their own projects and propel Linux along. When I visited an Ubuntu Developer Sprint a few years ago, as a former KDE developer, I was surprised at how few people I knew. It wasn't that they weren't engineers; it was simply that they were working on Canonical projects: Ubuntu, Launchpad, Rosetta, etc., not j-random-OSS-project. The interesting thing is that they've been trying to hire more upstream folks. Most core OSS developers don't have a problem finding a job. They've also been at this a relatively short period relative to Red Hat (and SUSE), so there's would be no surprise, even if the hiring practices were similar, that the total commit count would be far smaller. |
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Blog spam, the original is here: http://www.recombinantrecords.net/docs/2009-05-Amusing-Ourse... And the original discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=627476 Edit: (article link was changed by moderator) |
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These are not new shares being issued, so, correct me if I'm wrong, but any liquidation preferences that are attached to this purchase would be at the original valuation, not the new one.
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Tangentially related, The Souls of Black Folk, by W.E.B. Du Bois, the first black American to have gotten a PhD. from Harvard, is not only a great window into the struggles of black Americans in the generation after the Civil War, but also some of the finest writing in the English language:
I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. Across the color line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men and welcoming women glide in gilded halls. From out the caves of evening that swing between the strong- limbed earth and the tracery of the stars, I summon Aristotle and Aurelius and what soul I will, and they come all graciously with no scorn nor condescension. So, wed with Truth, I dwell above the Veil. Is this the life you grudge us, O knightly America? Is this the life you long to change into the dull red hideousness of Georgia? Are you so afraid lest peering from this high Pisgah, between Philistine and Amalekite, we sight the Promised Land? |
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To be clear, it wasn't that my parents discouraged music from the get-go; they discouraged me from taking music seriously. In high school I taught myself to play four instruments, went into a studio and recorded a single for an indy compilation CD with my band and spent most of my free money and time on music stuff.
The contrast was that while I was buying new instruments with money I made from mowing lawns and working at a burger joint, my parents still complained about me wasting the money on them. When my sister began taking music seriously they bought her nice instruments and never pushed her to get a job so that she could focus on music. Ironically, by the end of college, while studying computer science, I was paying my bills with music. |