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I should really fix my submission!

Again, that's why it's in quotes. Everyone agrees with you. Here, have an upvote.

That's why it's in quotes.

It's not even a fact - she can exercise the options more slowly than she is given them and still exercise all of them.

You can walk bookshelves if you tilt to one side and rotate, then tilt to the other side and rotate. Just in case you ever lose those muscles... hey, it happens!

I recommend hiring an independent financial advisor, they probably cost $100-200 per hour in your area. (Banks will do it for free but they will also recommend that you buy garbage.) Ask them about options up front and see what they say. And also get an accountant to do your taxes. The cost is peanuts compared to the amount of capital you're dealing with. Just because you can learn how to do something doesn't mean it's worth it.

It's the grams of sugar in Coke that makes it unhealthy. Organic cane sugar isn't much of an improvement on HFCS.

Nobody would ask questions like, "Can you read?" before, and the guy above that wouldn't be downvoted for asking about profile information.

I think that startups becoming trendy made HN trendy, and trendy anything is bad. I've been here for a long time too (I ditch my accounts) and it really does seem there's been a gradual increase of nasty children and a corresponding departure of nice adults. Whenever I go away and come back it seems worse. The worsening also seems to be marked by big events like the Reddit fiasco, that women-in-tech stuff, Steve Jobs dying, Snowden, etc. I think when pg left that was it. I just want to have conversations with intelligent people but that doesn't seem to be the point anymore.

Reality is somewhere between the two positions being argued.

Where I live you're allowed to stick things on the ceiling as long as you take them off again when you leave.