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by GFischer 8y ago
As someone who paid for a non-top MBA and regrets it, I agree with the grandparent - don't take a (non-top) MBA unless your employer is paying (and don't take the top one unless you know what you'll do with it, though connect
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by GFischer 8y ago
I've worked in insurance for almost a decade (P&C), and I believe what the U.S. calls "health insurance" is a travesty. "Insurance is a means of protection from financial loss. It is a form of risk management, prima
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by GFischer 8y ago
I got a job at an U.S. company and so I now have a T-Mobile phone as well as my Uruguayan phone. I've never gotten a robocall on my Uruguayan phone and half the world must have it on their database (Spammy SMS, on the other hand, are a
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by GFischer 8y ago
Heck, president-elect Bolsonaro got stabbed campaigning in Brazil. I'm not sure if current presidents use bulletproof clothing.
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by GFischer 8y ago
Not the OP, but this is a Big Thing for me too (and I'm from Uruguay). I am aware of a lot of other differences, but I don't see that many other things that I'd care about. And I've been to middle-of-nowhere, USA and hav
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by GFischer 8y ago
iTunes used to be extremely crappy and noxious on Windows, I wonder if it's changed. I'm STILL using mainly Winamp. I've tried some alternatives but for my old MP3 collection it's unbeatable.
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by GFischer 8y ago
I've worked with tremendously good Indian engineers as well. But in most cases they were already in the U.S. on some kind of visa, permanent residents or citizens. I have had good experiences with outsourcing in India itself as well, t
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by GFischer 8y ago
Here in Uruguay if you wish to call yourself an "engineer" you need to have an accredited engineering degree. There is a career called C.S. Engineer and it has an huge amount of math and physics (equivalent to an undergrad + maste
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by GFischer 8y ago
I remember my mind being blown when I saw a newspaper dispensing machine in Canada for the first time... That would absolutely not work in South America. You can clearly see which tourists are from our part of the world in Europe where payi
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by GFischer 8y ago
Don't get into debt. Manage your finances carefully. Exercise more and eat healthier. Learn to cook. I can't stress the part about debt and finances enough.
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by GFischer 8y ago
I'm also having similar issues. I was recommended Cognitive behavioral therapy. I'm also going to have a doctor's visit. They always recommend exercise, so I agree with DoreenMichele's advice. I'm overweight and hav
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by GFischer 8y ago
Indeed, the reason I don't consider moving to Canada is that the areas where I'd like to live are too expensive and salaries too low for the high cost of living, mostly housing (I already can't purchase a house where I live b
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by GFischer 8y ago
Rust evangelism strike force strikes again :) I thought of Erlang initially, and so did others in the thread.
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by GFischer 8y ago
Hacker News is written in Arc, a dialect of Scheme, so kind of Lisp, yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language) some calling it simply an extension to Lisp or Scheme and not a programming language i
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by GFischer 8y ago
Well, the New York times itself made the point about private museums. About the valuation, as I mentioned elsewhere, my mother used to work on collectibles auctions, and it is a VERY opaque world, with several ways to inflate price - using
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by GFischer 8y ago
Not always true. Some companies will rather destroy product rather than undercut themselves (it's a conscious strategy, especially for luxury items). https://theoutline.com/post/2602/clothing-companies-are-tra
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by GFischer 8y ago
Some companies do try, they end up building higher level languages / code generation tools that still require programmers. One such tool is very popular here in South America: https://www.genexus.com/en/global&#x2F
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by GFischer 8y ago
But it's very hard to prove such fraud. If you artificially pump the value of an artist by a few well placed public auctions - the art might have been bought by a front man for the owner, then the IRS doesn't have a leg to stand o
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by GFischer 8y ago
Very hard to prove fraud for the IRS, I guess. Nobody's saying these rich people are behaving ethically.
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by GFischer 8y ago
You answered the point yourself: some of those "charities" are just tax loopholes. Especially those related to art: there's a loophole where the deduction is exponentially higher than the value of the donated art (on the arti
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by GFischer 8y ago
One example off the top of my head are the billions of lines of Cobol code that are certainly not on GitHub :) . I'm not sure if Cobol programmers use StackExchange (I guess they do).
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by GFischer 8y ago
Seconded, I've used Camtasia in the past and it's very user-friendly. Not sure if it's what the pros use though. Maybe check on bloggers and streamers to see what they're using now.
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by GFischer 8y ago
Check https://www.thelayoff.com
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by GFischer 8y ago
It can get worse. The company I work for acquires other companies regularly, so we have every dashboard and analytics imaginable. Just switching everyone to one billing account per system is a huge savings (I think they had like 20 differen
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by GFischer 8y ago
However, you chose to book Expedia over other companies with better software and inventory management (I believe the one I work for handles this kind of thing better than Expedia for example). So, all things being equal, price beats good so
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by GFischer 8y ago
Not all apps can be monetized that way. Maybe some kind of freemium model, or some kind of partnership with the correct target for the audience would make more sense.
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by GFischer 8y ago
Xiaomi makes nice watches but it probably has the same issues you're wanting to avoid, and you're very much buying into their system. https://www.androidcentral.com/amazfit-verge-new-smartwatch-...
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by GFischer 8y ago
I want an Oasis, comments like yours make me want it more :)
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by GFischer 8y ago
Nice! My team was actually looking for a solution like this.
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by GFischer 8y ago
they can gleefully treat you as a bank with really low interest on short-term loans Exactly. On MBA finance courses (and I guess CPAs too) you're taught about working capital - and one half of that is basically stretching supplier pa

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