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by Blackstone4 4y ago
One of my friends was a PhD student and the supervisor bullied them. Ended up having a panic attack and eventually quitting their PhD 3 years in… Had to change supervisor… who do you complain to..would you be believed?!
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by Blackstone4 4y ago
View it as an opportunity for your promising team members to step and develop. It will give them space to flourish. Sell it that way as a win-win. When you come back, you will hopefully have a stronger team and can build on it as you grow.
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by Blackstone4 4y ago
are you saying iphone users should use an adblocking DNS?
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by Blackstone4 4y ago
Not on iPhone…where Firefox is based on the iOS browsers and will not work with extensions..
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by Blackstone4 4y ago
I feel like this is more of a lifestyle thing that would need to start organically within a community. If you did this solo with a street sign, it would be dead. Even if successful, you probably won’t much money from it. Best that it be a p
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by Blackstone4 4y ago
From speaking to older family members, rent and home ownership used to be a much lower proportion of spend relative to food, clothes, furniture etc. Now many of those items are mass produced and are cheaper. There has been an inversion.
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by Blackstone4 4y ago
It can be comforting to reduce a multi-factor system change to one variable to explain away a time period… it’s probably all the factors mentioned in the blog and more. When it comes to human psychology, we, as market investors, have the te
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by Blackstone4 4y ago
Yes, I agree. Remote working appears to be more prominent within software. In part, driven by preference of the work force, and strong negotiating power given demand for engineers. Rest of the work force appears to be back in office 3+ days
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by Blackstone4 4y ago
The subtext, from the statement above, is socialist government decision making is irrational while capitalist governments are rational. Having traveled across many countries in Europe, I have seen governments with socialist traits make rati
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by Blackstone4 4y ago
You raise an interesting point regarding fungibility…I wonder that with growing insitutional involvement, whether housing may move down the spectrum and may become more fungible… probably not by much tho
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by Blackstone4 4y ago
Quite reductionist… Having one element of a nation state being characterised as socialist doesn’t not equate to socialism… the world is not black and white..
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by Blackstone4 4y ago
The response, above, lists pros but no rebuttal to why government-guaranteed mortgages are not socialist. In a free, capitalist market, private providers would price and provide mortgages. This is not happening here.. For some Americans thi
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by Blackstone4 4y ago
The US housing market is regulated and subsidised…the American dream of owning a home is socialist…US mortgages are guaranteed by federal government.. this doesn’t happen in most other countries..
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Disney+ charge extra for no ads(arstechnica.com)
2 points by Blackstone4 4y ago|0 comments
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by Blackstone4 4y ago
Proving a negative can be extremely impractical. Maybe a better way would be to introduce a mechanism to have products removed quickly.
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by Blackstone4 4y ago
Come on did no one get the joke?!
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by Blackstone4 4y ago
You'd hope that a passenger could establish the train was on track...before they got on!!
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by Blackstone4 4y ago
Broad generalisation of an entire generation…not helpful
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by Blackstone4 4y ago
There is a structural element to consider since PE has raised huge amounts of dry powder and will continue to do so....which means there is huge demand from committed capital that has to be invested...not sure it will go away any time soon
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by Blackstone4 4y ago
Yes I think we f*** up which is the problem...all the things you say make sense and we should have done as you say. I think the best case scenario is that we try to negotiate on a commercial level outside of the contract to get a reduction
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Ask HN: How to manage poor service and quality at software provider? Rebates?
8 points by Blackstone4 4y ago|6 comments
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by Blackstone4 4y ago
But but but...they have a gap in their resume/CV....can't possibly hire them...bad...bad
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by Blackstone4 4y ago
In the UK protitution is legal as along as you do not advertise which means it is discrete and you do not know it's there really. I was naive and aware of of its existance for many years.
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by Blackstone4 4y ago
Risk of a negative spiral if this continues and energy prices remain high…
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by Blackstone4 4y ago
Not true really...having worked in both countries...Americans do not work harder than the Brits yet many Americans earn way more for same qualifications and abilities...reflective of the market position many US companies have and the grip t
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by Blackstone4 4y ago
Yes the newsfeed can look like that which is why I unfollow almost everyone... I use it to stay connected with professional connects many whom are friends and then I message them on the platform. It works well for this i.e. mantaining one&#
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by Blackstone4 4y ago
I feel like the Scotts only push hard for independence when the price of oil is high....because it balances the budget and makes independence look more attractive..
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by Blackstone4 4y ago
Not really tho....most companies or high net worth people have most of their wealth in assets i.e. stocks, private companies, bonds...they will often just stay invested and watch the value of their assets go up. Only taking small profits he
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by Blackstone4 4y ago
Most people are familiar with the internet dialogue as you described and don’t want to get into arguments with highly opinionated people…
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by Blackstone4 4y ago
I think they are saying official inflation figures can be manipulated to be below real inflation

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