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Re:Japanese beef croquettes are so popular there's a 30-year waitlist on Monday January 09, 2023 @01:34AM (#34307481)
It would be the perfect scenario, I think people would pre-pay.
Re:Japanese beef croquettes are so popular there's a 30-year waitlist on Sunday January 08, 2023 @05:45AM (#34297941)
It’s an interesting model, you pay upfront and wait for 30 years.

So they have about 6m $$ that will always be in their account so they can kinda invest that, given that the US stock market has returned 6.8% on avg since the 1870s https://themeasureofaplan.com/us-stock-market-returns-1870s-...

They are actually making $1000+ per day at that return if they just invest their 6m, so 450$ loss is actually a 500$+ gain.

But I imagine they use the 6m to expand their business in which case the returns would be higher.

Re:My circle is 91.0% perfect, can you beat that? HTTPS://neal.fun/per... on Saturday January 07, 2023 @04:54AM (#34286714)
95.6
Re:GitHub Is Down on Thursday April 23, 2020 @09:37AM (#22955811)
in a middle of a deployment lol move to gitlab and redid my docker image to pull my charts from gitlab lol lesson learned
Re:Vugu – Modern UI Library for Go and WebAssembly on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @11:19AM (#20450883)
The wugu website doesn’t work well on iOS/chrome
Re:Is this Paypal experience customary? on Friday July 05, 2019 @08:11AM (#20361891)
Just avoid Paypal, I’ve always had issues with them from funds being blocked for no reason to my account being blocked, their support is an absolute nightmare, also my friend sold something on eBay the buyer said she didn’t get it so PayPal took the money back from my friend, she sent it and it was signed for but not at the address listed on PayPal the address that has been given by the buyer so it’s not protected. Shady shady business

Ask HN: Should I take a job at a start up?

Posted by andreimiulescu on Monday June 17, 2019 @04:58AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I got an offer from a start up with 1.5m in funding for about 30% less pay but 5% equity, the total valuation of the start up is 6.5m, should I take the job, I think the idea behind the start up is good, I would be joining as cto and I think the work would be interesting. And if it’s successful in 3.5 years I’d probably make a bit of money. What do you guys think?

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Ask HN: How do you deal with fraud, is there an easy way?

Posted by andreimiulescu on Thursday June 06, 2019 @02:38AM
from the ask-hn dept.

We're a new service and we use stripe we've had about 30 fraudulent transactions put trough and we don't know how to stop this person from putting more, Stripe only goes so far, it's fairly easy to fool.It's costing us ~ 0.7$ every time we need to refund which is sort of annoying. Also it's a waste of time.How do you guys deal with this?

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Re:China is blocking all language editions of Wikipedia on Monday May 13, 2019 @07:31AM (#19898165)
Use this vpn: https://tunnelhero.com

Ask HN: Teach kids how to code in developing nations?

Posted by andreimiulescu on Friday May 10, 2019 @01:38AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I’ve been traveling trough south east Asia and I’ve been thinking of setting up events where I teach kids how to code. My goal would be to get kids interested in programming by doing a weekend event where I give them a taste of what can they achieve with programming. What age groups would be suited for this sort of format? Is anyone doing something similar ?

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Ask HN: How do you market a new product?

Posted by andreimiulescu on Thursday May 09, 2019 @04:19AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Me and a friend have built a product and have a few customers that find it really amazing, but for the product to be viable we need a lot more than that. We are both geeks and have no experience at marketing, or a budget to get a marketing guru to advise us so I’m just wondering what can we do? We’ve been thinking of sharing our profit with affiliates

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Re:Show HN: Privacy Focus VPS WireGuard VPN on Immutable Servers on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @04:27AM (#19786067)
Fortunely I’m not an Australian citizen. Also we haven’t been asked to put any backdoors.
Re:VPN services blocked in Sri Lanka as information controls tighten on Saturday April 27, 2019 @07:36AM (#19765026)
A VPN service that cannot be blocked: https://www.tunnelhero.com been using this guys in China l, turkey and UAE works like a charm.
Re:Ask HN: What backpack are you using? on Friday March 29, 2019 @09:25AM (#19521419)
Tom Binh synapse 25
Re:My startup was acquired and I want to reward my NPM dependencies on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @05:57AM (#19366628)
Congrats, maybe start with contacting the maintainers. The publishers of npm packages will have an email
Re:Ask HN: Remote dev box, using vscode, who needs it? on Monday March 04, 2019 @11:27PM (#19308107)
https://github.com/devbox-hero/ansible-roles - so the reason I made this was:

1. Since I work a lot from 3g, and other bad connections. I wanted to have some place I can do my work easily. You try download npm on 3g

2. Why do we buy $3-4k macbook pros when we can rent servers for like 25 cents an hour that are as good.

Re:Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using? on Sunday February 24, 2019 @09:08PM (#19242208)
I have built a private VPN server on top of wireguard and IPSec, still very early days soft launch this week: https://www.tunnelhero.com early adopters and beta testers welcome, msg me for a discount code!