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That's an interesting perspective, one I had never thought about yet rings absolutely true.

This happened to a company I co-founded. My common stock was bought at about 1/3 of the lowest price given to early employees for options. (I had RSUs, not options).

I got $130k, and their options were worthless.

Luckily the acquirer offered retention bonuses that helped dull the pain, but of course those are taxed at regular income and not long term capital gains.

Oh, and like a previous comment mentioned: the VCs have preferred stock so they get their investment back 100% before any common stock sees a penny. If employees had the same stock as VCs, I estimate I would have walked away with about $400k.

Well that's strange. The company was founded in 1976, so it was certainly plausible that they would be an early domain registration, but 1996 wouldn't qualify as that!

I wonder why you got a different date back?

This must be missing entries. For example, look up ca.com:

created: 1985-01-01

Making it 2 months older than the earliest dot com on the list.

I find cursing at the bot gets me to a human right away. It's also therapeutic.

Because the CEO skillsets to grow a company from 1-10 employees is massively different than the skills required to take it to 100 employees.

Can you offer any more insights? What's the reality behind OTS?

I don't know if any Fastmail employees read over this, but thanks for finally adding TOTP to the list of 2FA methods! I had been (uneasily) using SMS and wishing you guys would up your game, and I'm glad to see that you did.

Top Secret/Sensitive Information

Can someone explain what the use cases for this are?

Unlike the Juicero, bottled water provides added value in that I can have access to suitable drinking water when I otherwise would be forced to drink tap water.

Before someone replies that tap water is perfectly suitable for drinking: Sure it's safe, but I have never had municipal water that didn't taste bad. Never. Maybe I'm just spoiled because I have a well that provides tasteless water.

Anyone care to explain why SystemD is so contentious to the point it's worth forking Debian?

Maybe you can elaborate as to why this is the correct course of action? I've never heard of this office.