steevenwee

I sense a lot of bitterness from this post. I don't think you have a full context on history of 409a valuations industry.

Considering the fact that 409a valuations pre carta would cost $10k, $2k doesnt sound like a such an unfair deal. You could always go the legacy lawyer companies route and pay way more for a single 409a valuation.

As for onboarding process - you do need a hell of a lot information to conclude said valuation.

I wonder if Facebook going to repeat that.

Something like Iceland or Sweden?

There's a good lesson to be learned. http://chernobylgallery.com/chernobyl-disaster/timeline/

I don't think it's correct to compare index to what basically is a stock.

For some, it costs 1 life.

My favorite so far: Raymond Hettinger Modern Python Dictionaries A confluence of a dozen great ideas

If you want to use less information than available for your decisions, it's your choice.

How whatsup using any protocol relevant to telegram being banned?

it is circumstantial evidence. Isn't it should be a red flag if one messenger is prohibited in a country with an authoritarian regime, and the other is not?

I mean that's enough for my social messaging. If I'd need to transfer some top secret information, I would use neither of them.

AFAIK Telegram is banned in a number of countries for the reason of being secure and not letting authorities monitor what people are messaging about.

I use a number of telegram bots, which took very little time to write. The bot api is super easy and straight forward.

I also use it for most of my communications.

Getting 504. I guess it's HN effect.

Still waiting for approval.

Lawsuit incoming!

I did, but now it's in the status 'waiting for approval.'

I remember I was really excited about cloud9 online IDE, but it took me about an hour to get back to usual development. So let's give this one a try and go back to usual ones :)

Actually using Durov's messenger app. Have created a couple of personal bots myself, which took less than an hour each. The only downside will probably be the time when Durov is out of money, and they will start monetizing the platform.

Especially copyrights laws, that are outdated (to say the list) for to be used on a digital products.

In my experience that's not specific to the UK.

Wasn't disagreeing with that, just looking at reality. This visa was meant for corporations to be able to get the talent they're unable to find in the US. Not for opening US workforce market for the entire world. Thus it is one-sided.

Don't get me wrong, I'm in the US on a work visa and would be happy to have jobs market completely open for me.

'I still maintain this - any immigrant system that allows corporations to decide who gets to come here is flawed.'

Corporations ARE the workforce market, which should indicate what kind of workforce is needed. It can only go from employer to employee, not vice versa. You can also look at that from company's perspective: You not only paid for someone's visa but also went through all the paperwork and then the person leaves in a month, just because he got a bigger offer. This should somehow work in both directions.

Because they won't be able to get domestic forces for that money. I'm not saying that it is the way to go, but there might be businesses that can only exist on h1bs. So we should definitely reform this, but be cautious. Execution should not be the same as the ban, rolled out without any kind of consideration or preparation.

Exactly the point. Let the market set the salary cut offs would be much more logical than just set salary value for the entire country.

Now, If we do set the minimum salary at that level SV will be just fine, but what about non-NYC or SV regions, who also have tech companies (believe it or not) and yet much lower income median. We will be embracing newcomers to only come to the coast, which is hardly Trump's point here.

'I would only request that it should be viewed in context of its history.' THE context of its history is that Ukraine was independent longer than the USA exists. And even despite that fact, the post-soviet era requires borders to be intact in order to reach peace. If we'll let this go, that would mean that it is 'ok' to invade countries and we would fall down back into world wars times. *And by invading countries, I mean grabbing someone's else land and declaring it your own.

ok, let me show you an example of a false question: Isn't it true that the USA is a dictatorship?

Most of your claims are false. And for argument sake if they were true, let's face it: Ukraine not only was independent since 1991, but it's territory integrity was guaranteed by Russia and USA.