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by GFischer 8y ago
Many would see that as another plus :) . (I've just received a call from "Scam Likely")
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by GFischer 8y ago
Not sure about Europeans or Americans, but here in Latin America they have butlers, "ama de llaves" (best translation I can find is housekeeper) or groundskeepers living 24/7 at the property (not in the house proper, usually
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by GFischer 8y ago
Well, it's kind of a signal, see Steve Blank's essay: https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear... Sometimes financial decisions that are seemingly rational on their face can pre
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by GFischer 8y ago
That's only true for some companies (to be fair, most of them). If you're on companies that are actually creating value, in a position where you're creating value, this is not that stark. You can be more charitable and use st
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by GFischer 8y ago
I live in Uruguay. Not trying to take away from the fact that he does truly live a very ascetic lifestyle and he definitely didn't go into politics for economical gains, what most people don't know is that Mujica's wife is a
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by GFischer 8y ago
It's the local state company. So no "sufficient competition" there (there are 2 other companies, but neither gives significant advantages, and you can't keep your phone number, which is a huge disadvantage). Even if I we
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by GFischer 8y ago
Not to get into debt unless you REALLY, REALLY need to. Taking a lot more care of money.
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by GFischer 8y ago
I definitely don't agree with "learn legacy systems". There are high-paying jobs for those, but not remote (I've worked in a language that's in very high demand on the defense community but you need US citizenship A
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by GFischer 8y ago
I have a Xiaomi phone. It costs less than 200 dollars after taxes in my country, and it's great. My cell phone company basically gives them for free in exchange for the 2 year contract, so after my 2 years are up, I'm definitely s
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by GFischer 8y ago
There are millions of companies waiting for WhatsApp to have a B2C API to spam users. Every company I've worked for wanted this.
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by GFischer 8y ago
To make switching more enticing, it should have a killer feature that users care about. Feature parity isn't enough.
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by GFischer 8y ago
Video and voice calling are peer-to-peer. The only cost is the signalling server. I have a similar service, and it scales pretty well.
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by GFischer 8y ago
They do. I used to work on that, and while I don't have access to the list right now, I remember there were differences (not that big though).
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by GFischer 8y ago
You're mixing up two claims, I mostly agree with one and strongly disagree with the other. Claim I agree is there are no (financially) large and successful software companies have been fully distributed from the ground up. Which is v
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by GFischer 8y ago
From personal experience, I disagree. You're assuming we cannot carry out non-well scoped work just because we're remote? The project I'm currently leading definitely gives lie to your assumption, and I'm a member of an
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by GFischer 8y ago
Well, he was definitely guilty of trademark infringement.
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by GFischer 8y ago
Not sure about data, but medical costs are for the most part inelastic, and concentrated on a small number of patients with expensive conditions. What I DO know from working in insurance is that lifetime medical costs are concentrated in th
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by GFischer 8y ago
As many mentioned elsewhere, there's a halfway point that are remote offices - or coworking spaces or whatnot. It is a source of friction, sure, but it also has a lot of positives. I'm pretty sure there's an equilibrium point
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by GFischer 8y ago
Fortunately not every company is that close-minded. I work in a remote office, and I collaborate every day with my team in Dallas (and most company members are distributed mostly all through the U.S. but also Canada, the UK and India). Ther
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by GFischer 8y ago
Yeah. That would be my employers then, and they're definitely making more than that :)
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by GFischer 8y ago
So I can do 800 credit card transactions a second I should get a 100x raise? I knew I was underpaid, but not that much ! :P
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by GFischer 8y ago
Absolutely, I'm pretty sure YC companies have a way easier time raising money.
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by GFischer 8y ago
I agree. They're so swamped with applications they don't even look at demos sometimes - they didn't look at mine, which hurt, but I understand why they rejected us (no growth even though we have a LOT of positive feedback, bu
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by GFischer 9y ago
Interesting question. I'd assume that it's not and that the Warren Buffets, pension funds and value investors outnumber significantly the day traders (which are trying to profit off the former) and speculators.
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by GFischer 9y ago
Universal Hint System was great, I used it for some adventure games waay back :) . Glad to see it's still alive!
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by GFischer 9y ago
Well... " It turned out that from those 8-9 developers we hired, at the end of the project only 3 of them were actually committing code." I guess that's what went wrong :( . I wonder why they do this, because they can?
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by GFischer 9y ago
I work with incredibly talented Indian engineers. The secret is that they're being paid like talented engineers. I agree, you get what you pay for.
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by GFischer 9y ago
Well, we do have state grown and sold Marijuana in Uruguay, who knows what a more forward country might do :)
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by GFischer 9y ago
Game theory suggests that at least one company would defect and offer a reasonable price (with high margins). So it's not infinitely elastic.
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by GFischer 9y ago
I'm not even sure a cleaning company is needed, why not a cleaning Uber? (well, sounds like Homejoy actually, but for businesses)

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