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by 40acres 8y ago
This is my go to defense for "social justice reform" when pulling at the heartstrings doesn't work. There are a couple of truisms when it comes to the global economy for the next 100 years (barring major catastrophe): 1. The
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I assume this has something to do with the massive amount of debt that fuels Netflix original programming. That being said, our entire tax system is regressive, for both businesses and individuals, when it comes to dealing with it's co
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I haven't read the book but based on the summary it seems like the author does not have a firm grasp on the fact that advanced economies are transitioning to being service based.
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- The Dave Ramsey Show: Dave is not for everyone, for one he is an absolutist and is very religious and politically conservative, but his advice is very simple when it comes to personal finance and provided a solid base for me to learn mor
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I'm not measuring by impact but by service, whether or not Amazon.com is impactful for the history of the world is not the question here. The question is under a jurisprudence of "consumer welfare", how can you go after a com
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As talked about in this article, I think the main catalyst to increased anti-trust scrunity will be a mind shift away from the "consumer welfare" view of anti-trust. For the most part, big tech companies provide amazing service. I
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I never said we spend more on the military than anything else, and the budget you provided just helps to make my point clear. The main hitters of the budget are all social services that are politically impossible to cut. The top non service
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There's the phrase: "show me your budget and I'll tell you what your priorities are", look at the federal budget and you'll see that the US "priorities" are really focused on two things. Maintaining our mi
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The current Huawei situation and earlier sanctions (quickly revoked) vs. ZTE really highlight how powerful the US still is on the world economic stage. There has been lots of ink spilled regarding the US backing away from global affairs and
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I wonder if this is simply tied to history, due to the nature of American expansion the Atlantic and Midwestern cities have a longer history of corporations and have more history of tackling large controversial industry (railroads, banks, e
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by 40acres 8y ago
Zero to One is my favorite "startup" book, Thiel has a lot of interesting insights and I wish he was a bit more public with his thoughts. Trying to search for Thiel talks online that don't take place during his book tour has
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by 40acres 8y ago
I keep going back and forth regarding whether Onvaro is just "opposition research" or a sign that while Facebook is still as powerful as ever, that they are running out of product ideas. Of course it could be both, but the use of
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The interesting thing about Netflix is that they are very upfront about their hiring culture: no internships and no hiring of developers without at least five years experience. They are upfront in the fact that they are liberal when it come
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by 40acres 8y ago
Really disgusting behavior, honestly I think the "gig economy" has the right idea of where we are headed, we are moving to a service / high skill (technology) economy. Gig economy tools combine the best of both worlds, but th
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by 40acres 8y ago
I've had this site bookmarked for at least a year and have really enjoyed watching the curriculum grow. Now only if I could start on it...
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by 40acres 8y ago
I filed my taxes with Turbo Tax the other day and they compared my salary to other people my age (27) in my state (Oregon), I didn't double check the numbers but Turbo Tax reported that I made about 5 times the average 27 year old in O
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by 40acres 8y ago
If you look closely enough you can see a clear trend regarding Netflix's content strategy. They will continue to make movies like Bird Box, B-style movies and "cult classics" that they can draw big numbers to via their reach
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For most casual consumers piracy is an inefficient way of getting content, even in the hay-day of piracy I'd bet that most consumers were getting their content via normal channels. A slight uptick in piracy may occur for the technicall
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by 40acres 8y ago
A lot of observers, especially on HN, worry about the balkanization of video streaming content and see it as hindering Netflix's growth. In my opinion, I don't really see it. When the dust settles I think we'll see Netflix an
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by 40acres 8y ago
This is great and all for the environment but as someone who lives in downtown Portland the effectiveness of this program has actually reduced "quality of life" downtown. Homelessness has been an issue here for a while, but by mak
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by 40acres 8y ago
I assume they just ask, outside of the H1B database, I have not seen a 100% credible representation of salary data for tech workers. Even then, the H1B database is anonymous and you'd have to do a lot of work to try to pin someone to a
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by 40acres 8y ago
I signed up for an HDHP and HSA when I got my first job because I wanted didn't want a premium deducted from my paycheck (young and short-sighted), turns out it was one of the best decisions I've made financially. I'm healthy
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by 40acres 8y ago
Discrimination is like compound interest, it builds upon itself. If you're a underrepresented minority, its more likely that at each stage of your career you've been low balled compensation wise, if a potential employer is going t
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by 40acres 8y ago
...but did they fix the coil wine? I was very interested in an XPS in 2017, my main criteria for a new laptop was a Linux machine, and yet during all my research quality concerns continued to rise up regarding to XPS, either it was coil win
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by 40acres 8y ago
Why do you need to start a company in the Valley when two mega-corps (Amazon, Microsoft) have already shown that you can succeed outside of the valley? The huge companies are already starting to branch out (Amazon in NYC/DC, Apple in A
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The bar for "low-skilled" is rising not only due to globalization but automation. In a way, this seems correct -- in a growing economy you shouldn't really be able to carve out a middle class lifestyle pushing a lever for 50+
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by 40acres 8y ago
Facebook and Google's facial recognition software is so advanced that they have no real use for photos of people explicitly tagged 10 years apart. Google Photos has been able to track my goddaughter from literally her first photo (when
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Hardware lends itself to a vertical business model, Apple has clearly been the best example but even video game console manufacturers write their own games. With AI assistants seemingly the 'next big thing', which lends itself to
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You're taking a much narrower view than what I was going for in my comment. I never mentioned companies selling data and I never mentioned ad revenue either. Data on its own is not that valuable, but it's a crucial commodity that
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Agreed, this criteria and execution of the layoffs were widely criticized throughout the company, points #2 and #3 were a major source of tension between workers and management in the following months. If anything I assume that due to the s

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