HeyZuess

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by HeyZuess 5y ago
I guess the joke is on them, having one of the lowest homicide rates by firearm in the world, even knife homicides which London is famous for are lower than many major US cities.
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by HeyZuess 5y ago
Does FB exist in China? Yes iMessage can be decrypted by the Chinese government. But China is a much different arena than the rest of the world, it is an almost totalitarian state by default.
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by HeyZuess 5y ago
Do they need to dominate the space, or does Apple just need to dominate their own space? I would suggest that the high usage of iMessage is also a driver for new customers to come on board with iOS and remain there.
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by HeyZuess 5y ago
I would say that a lot of this is about domination of the chat space. FB has the most used messenger app, and iMessage is a predominant feature of Apple. FB is also an easy target at the moment, so Apple can use them to sell the "priva
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by HeyZuess 5y ago
Singular level for me. This could be helpful though for my `anti-regret` list, as a pre-mortem.
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by HeyZuess 5y ago
> I’ve thought of creating a “worrybook” There are a few major parts to my system, the major ones being - Daily check in - Reflection of the previous day - Morning journal - Daily planner - Don't do and Anti-regret lists - Review of
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by HeyZuess 5y ago
> Which do you have more of on your anti-regret list? 遺憾 yí hàn type items, my `don't do` list would be a better area for 後悔 hòu huǐ item. The anti-regret list is forward looking, as in if I did not do these things I will/may r
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by HeyZuess 5y ago
I have a `don't do` list and a `anti-regret` list. The `don't do` list works well, not all the time but I am constantly reminded not to drink coke, down from many liters a day. My `anti-regret` list takes priority over my to do li
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by HeyZuess 5y ago
> Nihilism includes moral nihilism, the claim that there are no morally good or bad actions. If people believed and acted on that, we’d have the nihilist apocalypse. I think this is true, morally good or bad has been a moving target for
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by HeyZuess 5y ago
> if BTC is negative, then you’d be paying negative taxes on it Nouriel Roubini implies that carbon tax could mean a negative value. Contrary to income tax, a carbon tax wouldn't be a "negative" tax.
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by HeyZuess 5y ago
> But like other commodities can it go to negative 0? If it went to near 0 it could be out paced by inflation. I guess also if fees outpaced it's extrinsic value could mean an overall negative valuation. But a actual value below 0 w
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by HeyZuess 5y ago
Thanks, looks good.
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by HeyZuess 5y ago
Email is the lowest friction for me, I can send something from pretty much any device and it is easy to access for them in future. There have been a few comments on the long term accessibility of the account, like you mention. So I think it
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by HeyZuess 5y ago
Thanks, good tip. I am using gmail and occasionally log into the accounts to ensure the emails are being received, and there are not problems with the account.
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by HeyZuess 5y ago
I do something similar to this for my kids, they each have an email address which I send some pictures and/or message to every day. On my passing they will get the details to access the accounts. I thought it was important to leave the
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by HeyZuess 5y ago
> If you decide to go with a external package and pay a recurring licensing cost -- which is pretty common in the software industry, then you'd be paying maybe 10% of whatever you save per year. One software package we were looking
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by HeyZuess 5y ago
> The opposite is also often true. I think it is very admirable for a company to pay profit sharing, and at the very least pay bonuses for good work. But that is because I am an employee :) I just don't think profit sharing is reali
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by HeyZuess 5y ago
> Recurring costs and savings of the same are very real things, and there is a ton of money to be saved by streamlining this for many businesses that have grown without pruning and/or streamlining their internal systems. Yes, stream
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by HeyZuess 5y ago
> The two together have brought the company $3M in worth, minus $130k that they cost. Exactly how much esch contributed to the $2.8M is harder to say, but certainly each only contributed a portion of the $2.8M - even though the salespers
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by HeyZuess 5y ago
> Plus it costs a lot more than salary to employ an engineer. Yes, the operational costs can be substantial.
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by HeyZuess 5y ago
> If I provide 1M of value to the company, why would it not be ridiculously bad to get 10% of that value for myself? If you generate 1m of profit, I don't think 10% is that bad. If you generate 1m of revenue then 10% is pretty good
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by HeyZuess 5y ago
> I know I saved companies millions of dollars but only got $100k/yr doing it. Let's use an arbitrary 1m saving. If you saved a company (me) a million dollars, you just made 10% (aka 100K). That's a pretty good commission.
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by HeyZuess 5y ago
I actually wonder how many people might be employed by FAANG companies on high salaries just to deny their competitor from getting access to that person's skills. If I am Google, it is in my best interest to hire as many skilled people
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by HeyZuess 5y ago
No, and the inverse can also be true that a low-revenue generating skill might be in high demand. There are many factors which impact on this. Also there is a difference between revenue generating and cost reduction.
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by HeyZuess 5y ago
This is like suggesting that Christmas holiday sales coerce people into being religious. Society on mass is generally promoting the concept of vaccination. Good on companies like Uber and such supporting a widely accepted social agreement (
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by HeyZuess 5y ago
> If you call the cops saying that you are being taken hostage by someone with a gun who is threatening to kill your family, I don't think it is unreasonable for the cops to bust down your door. All of these situations are very diff
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by HeyZuess 5y ago
What would be a reasonable ("Harsher") punishment in this case?
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by HeyZuess 5y ago
> The governing principle is "at will." Thanks, I understand now. Those types of conditions seem pretty bad.
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by HeyZuess 5y ago
The different treatment of an executive is kind of expect to those of the rank and file. However the following should be very much disallowed: > The move, however, came with a 15% salary cut, she said. Then in late March, the team was to
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by HeyZuess 5y ago
> If we follow that premise, then advertising or giving alcohol to minors should be illegal too.. and it is! Alcohol and Tobacco etc are generally regulated substances. They cannot be obtained even by Adults in all circumstances, for exa

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