IanDrake

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by IanDrake 9y ago
He's pretty polorizing. I don't think I could vote for him. How about a well know centrist? That's what our country needs.
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That's true. I still like playa grande.
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Been to any point breaks in C.R. in the last 5-6 years? The locals have gone from "what's surfing?" to "go home gringo!" in about 20 years. I've never had a problem in SoCal, but then I've only been to a f
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Decries "unsupported claims" then goes on the make a whole bunch of unsupported claims. Not very compelling, which is too bad because I was hoping to read something a lot more succinct.
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Do you know anyone who is a cop? Let me tell you about my buddy's first week on the job as a police officer in what most would consider a small town with low crime. Keep in mind that prior to this he was a school teacher. On his second
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Data? Is that how you think the average human mind works? It's fine for policy, but that's not how we think of risk.
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I already had a house in the remote area. In my experience, very few people have a similar life style to mine, which is to say, complicated. And when explained, most people don't understand how or why I would live like that.
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So you're just as annoyed for men with traditionally feminine traits as you are for women? Good for you. That's a consistent philosophy. Something to be discussed and debated. But this guy just got fired for this discussion, whic
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Yeah, because we've been doing nothing so far. We should start a war on drugs or something.
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Haha. In my particular case I was at the boundary of two departments. To make things worse, turnover was high. Hmm, I wonder why?
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I get what you're saying. So let me add context... At the time I was making around 200k consulting and those were 40hr weeks. To take a job at a "startup" that was mature enough to pay me 120k salary but too mature to give me
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Basically. My vested shares / shares outstanding * sales price. Full vesting on sale. They were surprisingly open and honest about the raw numbers and then somewhat stunned when I did the math right then and said "That's not
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Totally depends on the deal. I was once offered a job with a good, but not great, salary in a geographic region that was lite on IT jobs to which I would have to move. The plan was for them to sell to a larger company in 2 years at which po
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Oh boy, two desks facing each other with low walls. Here's what that's like: You're looking at your monitor and in your peripheral vision, just above your monitor, is someone looking at their monitor. You're basically l
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Nailed it! Thank you.
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You're kidding right? It's full of mischaracterizations. >suggesting women are less suited to certain roles in tech and leadership Not true. Saying women are less suited is saying all women are less suited. What he said is th
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He said "women generally having..." You said "women may be more..." What he said is fine, what you said is sexist. He is talking about a distribution curve, you are talking about an entire gender.
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Can you quote the specific part of his memo he should apologize for?
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On average. He makes it clear at the beginning that individuals must be judged as individuals separate from their race or gender. But, when talking about groups of people, the only way to do it is to use averages. Girls like to play with do
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Don't hold your breath. It's easier to regurgitate what you read somewhere else. Which seems like more than half the commenters are doing here. At just about every opportunity he used words and phrases like "average" an
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>the value of which is then inevitably measured in… US dollars, which says something. Which says a lot. These are crypto commodities at best. The real currency is the US dollar. I really wanted crypto currencies to work, instead they&#x2
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From a single renter's point of view, you have a big pool of places. You'll find one that doesn't mind your new profile. I get that. From a single host's point of view, you have 0% chance of renting with me or the hosts
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Seriously? On one hand everyone is pissed that people are buying properties just to rent on airbnb (and home away, flipkey, vbro, etc...) and on the other hand we need to protect these same people from themselves? You can't protect the
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And you responded to a comment that wasn't originally about Iceland. This is a general conversation about airbnb, not airbnb in Iceland, which was my point. So again, you replied to a general conversation with a specific in Iceland. Do
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As I said elsewhere, I wouldn't hesitate. I screen visitors well and I get 5 star reviews. Any one star reviews can be explained away easily. I've never had to do it as a host, but I've stayed at places with some one star re
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I can only speak for myself and the 5-6 people I know who rent their properties on these platforms; we don't rent to new profiles. Clearly some people do rent to new profiles. There are fools everywhere, but they won't be fools fo
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No, they have a public rating to maintain on airbnb. Evictions are actually easy to hide, just move to a different state or keep looking for the next sucker on CL that is a newbie landlord.
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>The rate of loud and obnoxious long term renters is lower, due to the risk of people going to your landlord and forcing your eviction. I agree that the rate is higher, but not the reason. Most bad renters know it's almost impossibl
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Evicted being the key word. That is a very long process.
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>The difference that remains is just a different allocation along several zero-sum trade-offs. I have to disagree with that. Perhaps that is likely the case in cities, but more broadly you're wrong. The pie has gotten much, much bi

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