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TheBiv

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Product Manager at Koupon Media. Previously program director at seed fund. Dallas, TX.

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stripe.com 8y ago

Retirement planning for U.S. startups

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www.nytimes.com 8y ago

Chobani, the Greek Yogurt Maker, Reclaims Control of Its Finances

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www.indiehackers.com 8y ago

Running a business is 80% marketing and only 20% product

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mobile.nytimes.com 8y ago

F.B.I.’s urgent request: reboot your router to stop Russian malware

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hackernoon.com 8y ago

Survivorship Bias in Startups

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: Designer to FrontEnd Developer Handoff Process?

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www.nyse.com 8y ago

The Entrepreneurs Roadmap [pdf]

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www.reforge.com 8y ago

Growth Marketer Hierarchy of Skills

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www.schneems.com 8y ago

I know how to code, I can code in anything

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www.businessinsider.com 9y ago

CEO texts job candidates at odd hours on the weekends

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www.businessinsider.com 9y ago

Rapper, Jay-Z, to launch a VC firm

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www.cnbc.com 9y ago

One businessman says Amazon kept his merchandise–and his money

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medium.com 9y ago

My $6,000 Welcome Gift to Donald Trump

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www.wsj.com 9y ago

GM brings IBM's Watson into it's vehicles

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www.nytimes.com 9y ago

DraftKings and FanDuel are having difficulty paying law firms

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www.wsj.com 9y ago

Google signs CBS for planned web TV service

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nytimes.com 9y ago

The Governing Cancer of Our Time

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www.wsj.com 9y ago

Airbnb Offers Landlords an Incentive

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www.wsj.com 9y ago

Amazon to Expand Grocery Business With New Convenience Stores

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www.washingtonpost.com 9y ago

Inside the deadliest day for U.S. law enforcement since 9/11

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m.signalvnoise.com 9y ago

Hunting for great names in programming

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www.wsj.com 9y ago

E*Trade to Buy OptionsHouse for $725MM

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intelligence.house.gov 10y ago

Previously classified 9/11 document released [pdf]

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www.thestreet.com 10y ago

Speculation that FitBit will be introducing 2 new devices this fall

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nytimes.com 10y ago

Obama After Dark: The Precious Hours Alone

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confluence.atlassian.com 10y ago

Atlasssian to discontinue Bamboo Cloud offering by 31 January 2017

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techcrunch.com 10y ago

Obama considers VC gig after presidency

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firstround.com 10y ago

The recursive product strategy that Elon Musk used to build an empire

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www.nytimes.com 10y ago

Supreme Court Says Police May Use Evidence Found After Illegal Stops

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medium.com 10y ago

You won't be able to sue the next Gawker

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> They said they might look at selling when the value of all the Bitcoin in circulation approaches the value of all gold in the world — some $7 trillion or $8 trillion compared with the $310 billion value of all Bitcoin on Tuesday — given that they think Bitcoin is set to replace gold as a rare commodity. But then Tyler Winklevoss questioned even that, pointing out the ways that he believes Bitcoin is better than gold.

I found this to be the most fascinating part of the article.

"Trump just fired the man leading a counterintelligence investigation into his campaign, on the same day that the Senate Intelligence commitee requested financial documents relating to Trump's business dealings from the treasury department that handles money laundering." -Comment from reddit that sums up how strange this is.

(I'm not arguing for or against, because your question is to explain the logic to you)

I believe the logic comes down to the highest constitution you bind yourself to.

By birth we are bound to our country of birth's constitution and once we become an adult we have the ability to renounce that constitution and apply to be bound by another countries constitution.

Congratulations on your weight loss!

Separately, I don't know if I understand your point. To me you are saying that because the grey matter in our brains is made of cholesterol that means we should eat more cholesterol and your recommendation for how to get more cholesterol is by using grass fed butter.

Did I correctly state your point?

I don't know if it's just me, but I feel like a majority of the HN community seems to lean towards building a sustainable business without the need to take on outside capital that adds debt to the business. I definitely agree with that sentiment, however I love a nuanced article like this which doesn't paint debt as an entirely "bad" thing that needs to be avoided at all costs.

This was an awesome article to read as it balances the risks and possible advantages that taking on debt can bring a small company.

This Q&A really hit home for me.

Q: Early leadership lessons for you?

A: I didn’t understand the role of simplicity and messaging early on. One of the things that happened at one of my start-ups was that I would get bored saying the same thing every day. So I decided to change it up a little bit. But then everybody had a different idea of what I thought because I was mixing it up.

So my big lesson was the importance of a simple message, and saying it the same way over and over. If you’re going to change it, change it in a big way, and make sure everyone knows it’s a change. Otherwise keep it static.

I'm currently watching this video and unfortunately I cannot stare at the video for more than a few seconds bc of that glowing green border around the outside of the page.

I finally had to just change the color. OP if you have anything to do with this website, please consider changing that color to almost anything else (or just remove it).

Ahhhhhh man, I apologize bc we definitely got our wires crossed.

I believe that we both wanted the same thing (accurate information) and I was willing to be simplistic in how the central dogma was presented bc it's straightforward to grasp without talking about mRNA/tRNA/nucleic acids/helicase/etc

I felt like you were initially distracting from the simplistic view that everyone who hasn't studied genetics could understand.

Solid sidebar and I apologize for my tone and thank you for talking about your side with me!!

Have a great day internet friend that loves genetics as well!!

I understand, in general what you are saying, yet the links you're citing but you have yet to talk about mRNA. All of your links are from 1960/1970 concerning scientific politics before we established scientific fact like we have now.

I do not believe that you have reviewed my second link which takes you through how DNA goes to RNA then to protein. Yes it's mRNA, but mRNA is RNA.

The inheritable material from DNA is in the nucleotides on the inside of the double helix. Please review the Nature link to understand how DNA goes to RNA and then protein.

In my lab we did exactly what you are referring to. The thing that doesn't get headlines are the many labs where they delete genes and things go completely haywire and they have no idea why.

To again use a programming analogy, it's like when you change a variable for the height of an image and then your page doesn't load. You know you did something, but your code is so tightly coupled that it's hard to discern what's going on.

That's my point. DNA is tightly coupled, so if your boss came up to you and asked you "What is the absolute minimum lines of code we can run this business on?" Then you would feel the same way that I did when reading this article!