GFischer

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by GFischer 9y ago
I'd say that Zillow and Redfin are better on average than traditional appraisers. Traditional appraisers might be better in certain markets or conditions though (probably Zillow and Redfin are more generic). I've worked on homeown
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by GFischer 9y ago
The real economic question is whether they can keep charging 6% commissions as the internet evolves That's the point. In pre-internet ages, there was a huge information imbalance that kind of validated that 6% (also, there wasn'
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by GFischer 9y ago
""I'm still waiting for someone to completely eliminate the need for a software engineer and charge a reasonable flat fee to bolt together some libraries and handle all the related details." That can be done (and is done
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by GFischer 9y ago
There are conventions in Vegas too, I was unpleasantly surprised by resort fees and other lowhanded tactics when I went there last week :(
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by GFischer 9y ago
Well, my cat did install Windows 10 on my laptop. I guess he can upgrade Ubuntu too :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12308232
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by GFischer 9y ago
Yep, you did quit too early. That's a thing in the game.
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by GFischer 9y ago
L-1 Visa, but you have to work at a foreign branch for at least 1 year. It's the path some family members and coworkers have taken. Some of the larger top companies in the U.S. will accomodate that and set you in the Irish or Canadian
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by GFischer 9y ago
I don't know about billions, but I've personally witnessed an Excel spreadsheet for millions of dollars that was manually updated. It was sent over an encrypted Symantec thingie (where it was processed on my side), but errors were
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by GFischer 9y ago
I can believe the 180% number related to importing an U.S. car, but why would anyone do that? :)
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by GFischer 9y ago
Most rail systems do lose money, but this one sounds pretty bad planning. The population of the cities being connected is extremely low, and prices are ridiculously cheap too (2 to 10 dollars?). 100 million was wildly optimistic, French-sty
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by GFischer 9y ago
Yes, the U.S. should start taking ideas from China. And cars in Belgium aren't 180% of the price in the U.S. (not to mention they're part of the EU so they don't have to import German or French cars). The main difference is t
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by GFischer 9y ago
I don't know why you're being downvoted. The anti-immigration stance is a well known problem in Japan, relaxing it in a sane way would definitely solve some of their social services problems.
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by GFischer 9y ago
Hopefully they'll relax immigration requirements? Maybe from Southeast Asia and the Phillipines? They're very used to working in the hospitality industry, a lot of cruise staff are Filipinos for example.
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by GFischer 9y ago
Uruguay here in South America has free healthcare and a fairly generous immigration policy - probably among the most generous in the world, ridiculously easy compared to any first world country, and no background health checks that I know o
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by GFischer 9y ago
Have you thought about getting some counseling or therapy? CBT Therapists are pretty good at working on the kind of mental exhaustion and feelings you mention. There probably are some wherever you are. My S.O. felt she was a failure and the
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by GFischer 9y ago
I suspect it's geographic. That happened to Ruby in the past, these languages get traction first in Silicon Valley (highest paid area for software) and then spread out. It's also not very mainstream. Stuff like Java or C# has mill
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by GFischer 9y ago
I think that 97% number is misleading. Sure, maybe 97% fail, but most have already failed before taking on an employee on equity. A more appropriate number would be the number of startups that fail after that milestone. For instance, I calc
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by GFischer 9y ago
I'd say that if you're employee 3.000, the company has already made it, although, as a counterexample, Uber has 6.700 employees and I don't know if it will bust or not.
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by GFischer 9y ago
Opus seems to be in: "Safari supports modern audio codecs such as Opus" https://webkit.org/blog/7726/announcing-webrtc-and-media-cap...
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by GFischer 9y ago
You're behind the times. .NET Core makes true cross-platform apps (at least Windows, Macs and Linux). Though the only way to create cross-platform desktop apps with .NET Core is Electron, so yes, not good.
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by GFischer 9y ago
That should be a last resort, though. Any kind of business networking event will help you uncover people with problems, which might translate into customers.
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by GFischer 9y ago
Good idea, but it would be very confusing. Also my father has the same name as I do, and his e-mail is first@lastname.tld !!!. Good thing I'm not a lawyer too, or it would be too confusing.
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by GFischer 9y ago
I actually believe that the optimal amount of hours depends on the work being performed. For coding and hard sustained mental work, I believe 8 hours is way too much. That doesn't mean they don't have to think about the work after
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by GFischer 9y ago
Why wouldn't they have more than 4 GB of RAM? Current Android flagships are shipping with 6 GB of RAM, and 8 GB phones have been announced. I'm not sure about the laptop-class performance requirement, you mean for light browsing a
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by GFischer 9y ago
I'm not the OP, but I wanted to mention that using Zoho Mail for personal use with your own domain is free, and they're pretty good overall.
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by GFischer 9y ago
I have the exact same combination (firstname@firstnamelastname.com) . The one problem I've found it's that it's seriously long to type and my surname is very prone to typos from people used to the American spelling instead of
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by GFischer 9y ago
I disagree about the amount of money needed to bootstrap (for the kind of ideas VCs invest on, not for niche products or lifestyle businesses I mean). Patents aren't worth the paper they're printed on unless you have money to defe
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by GFischer 9y ago
I saw a pretty cool documentary on how reintroducing wolves to Yellowstone changed the ecosystem for the better. Not the one I saw but very similar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysa5OBhXz-Q More serious article: http:&#
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by GFischer 9y ago
I'm pretty sure other parts of the world have chronic pain, I've seen it a lot here in South America. What we don't have is the drug culture, people look for alternative ways to mitigate the pain. A quick googling gave me thi
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by GFischer 9y ago
Do you believe ML is adding value there (instead of a standard prediction/forecasting model)?

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