Any companies that are known to not take "dirty" cash when trying to fund money?

This can be difficult because the money is often funneled through other entities (as LPs to VC and growth funds, etc.)

I've had more than one VC tell me they couldn't guarantee that there was no Saudi money in their fund, even though they didn't have any direct KSA LPs.

I would hope we (Seam) are one of them. K, granted it's extremely hard to trace all the LPs of a fund; but at the very least we don't take calls with questionable funds/individuals. Once we've shipped our first product, I'll try to write down why, and propose a framework by which founders can better assess the money they're taking. NOT all money is green.

Probably not but when you have some who travel to Saudi Arabia to fund raise and schmooze, it's a bit more direct.

No.

checkout the gearboxes that mazda makes, they consistently get good reviews.

yes they did

Cool to see Nissan on the charts there, common Nissan lets get some electric sports cars :)

These boxfan + hepa filters seem pretty affordable, but seem to have a really strange physical footprint. Do SUV cabin fans not push enough CFM to be effective? https://www.rockauto.com/en/moreinfo.php?pk=10863244&cc=1502...

This paired with a filter seems like it would do the job, and based on the enclosure you might be able to have a smaller footprint. No CFM data though.

I think box fans are used because that's what people already have around. When wildfires rendered our air here in the PNW unbreathable last September a lot of folks were scrambling for something that would work quickly. Waiting around for an SUV cabin fan to arrive and then trying to figure out an enclosure made that a non-starter.

They should, and probably stay closer to the rated cfm with a filter there. However now you need a 12 volt power supply instead of plugging into a normal outlet. Plus you need to design a housing for it.

Neither of these are hard problems for DIY, but they are not nearly as easy or quick as a cheap fan and some tape.

im already no on 22, where did you get the 2% higher profit figure from?

Not referring to Uber specifically, or a specific dollar figure, just the general tactic of "if you don't give in to our demands then we'll shut down and really screw all the people who rely on us!". Which is what Uber and Epic are doing.

They didn't go under when they had to start doing background checks in Austin. They don't go under when they have to pay benefits in Germany. This is a stunt to make another couple percent profit.

At the end of the day that's what this boils down to - they will make a little more money if they succeed, they will make a little less money if they don't, nobody is going under. They're using people's livelihoods as leverage so that they can make a couple percent more profit.

That's funny how you say here that Uber and Epic are equal while in your mind Apple totally deserve it's 30% cut.

Say what you want about Epic, but they totally forced Valve to publicly commit to decrease it's cut for every big publisher out there without directly profi ting from it.

But yeab ofc it's poor Apple being forced to screw developers a bit less. Unacceptable!

Are posts like this used to "boost" twitter accounts? seems like it is.

As other commenters pointed out, I use Twitter to share my thoughts like how others publish on their blogs.

People can follow me if they'd like, but I wouldn't know anyway because I've made tools specifically to hide followers/likes/vanity metrics on social media (https://hidelikes.com/).

Yeah the author created this post pointing to his own tweet saying thank you in relation to a different post already on HN.

Doesn’t seem like the twitter OP is selling or promoting anything? And even if he did, who cares.

How is that different than someone "boosting" their own blog posts? Twitter seems like this person's medium of delivery for their content.

dude i really want to know this, i can speak English pretty well. But have a difficult time writing grammatically correct documentation for our project. >.> I feel like I look stupid when someone returns a PR that has grammar errors.

I'm assuming English isn't your first language? Don't feel too bad - I see mistakes in native speaker's writings on a daily basis.

See: Simplified Technical English. http://www.asd-ste100.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Technical_English

Writing documentation is 100% where the smallest bugs in your english skills come out, whereas speaking allows so much more in the way of context clues to let grammar mistakes slide. It's so tough. If it's any consolation, I have corrected documentation grammar errors from native speakers too

Here in HN I sometimes end up writing several simple sentences instead of a single complex one, because I'm not sure about the grammar, but sometimes that looks awkward.

It worked for Hemingway! My English teachers always advised splitting meandering sentences in half. I have never regretted doing so.

You can drop the back seats and fit wood from the end of the dash to the back of the trunk. I put a movers cloth on the back of the seats to prevent it from getting messed up. You can use a hand towel on the dash to prevent it from getting scratched.

But you cant really fit a 4x8 sheet into the back of the car, truck rentals might work out. But honestly if you have a buddy with a truck, just ask, and if they say yeah, fill up the tank for them when your done with it.

I had a 2003 Pontiac Vibe, a hatchback, and the best feature, next to the variable valve timing, was the hatch glass lifted up apart from the hatch. All I had to do was lift the glass and slide in long lengths of lumber. Brilliant design feature that I remember from my family's obligatory station wagons from the 70s and 80s. I still love wagons...