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throwaway1o24 | 1 year ago | on: App charges founders $2500 for VC meetings

Ah, the delightful Nikita Bier is featured as a success story using this tool. I was in a business incubator with this guy, he was the biggest scammer I have ever met. He took hundreds of thousands of money from the Knight Foundation for a business he never planned to build. Scrapped the company, then sold a bunch of addictive teen apps to Facebook

throwaway1o24 | 1 year ago | on: Satellite data show electromagnetic anomalies 19 days before Turkey earthquake

SAR interferometry has been used to measure increased strain in the Earth's crust and identify where earthquakes are more likely. There a lot of published work which is credible. I didn't read the paper here but if results can be confirmed using other approaches could be a valid approach.

throwaway1o24 | 1 year ago | on: Intercom's Eoghan McCabe Among Attendees at Trump's Silicon Valley Fundraiser

If you search for his name on Google a lot of links are removed (in Europe).

He was kicked out of intercom for sexual harrassment: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/harassment-allegatio...

and somehow made his way back in to the company

throwaway1o24 | 1 year ago | on: Why You Can't Get a Restaurant Reservation

At one level, I guess there are market efficiencies somewhere but it's depressing that this sub-industry even exists.

throwaway1o24 | 1 year ago | on: Fired Americans Say Indian Firm Gave Their Jobs to H-1B Visa Holders

You've a lot less negotiation power as your visa is tied to your job, so you get paid less. You have to leave the country after 30 days if you loose your job and don't get another one.

So if you're keen to move up the US, H1B sounds amazing but then you are in quite a vulnerable position.

throwaway1o24 | 1 year ago | on: Vultr is now claiming full perpetual commercial rights over all hosted content

They appear to be appropriately named

throwaway1o24 | 2 years ago | on: Neri Oxman reportedly plagiarized undergrad thesis of student she supervised

Neri (and one of her grad students) photographed and published some of my colleagues work and passed it off as their own when I was at MIT

My colleague (another grad student) innocently showed them their work and was very open with them.