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by T2_t2 8y ago
I think the implication is that they achieved the goal they had, to grow a company. Note that goal doesn't mention code at all. It depends what you think software engineering is - a means to an end, e.g. to grow a company, or as a craf
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by T2_t2 8y ago
Do you mean does make people happier, or doesn't?
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by T2_t2 8y ago
What is your comparison point? Things get better all the time, but it really depends on what apples you compare which oranges to, and which flavour you prefer, how the comparison is viewed. So, is the comparison point Roman London? During t
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by T2_t2 8y ago
No it won't. One case in either direction means anything. The game is that VCs will adjust, then founders. Then VCs. Then founders ad nauseam forever. This is just one small piece of a giant play being performed by many in different wa
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by T2_t2 8y ago
This is just a weird concept. Sure, not growing is risky in the existential, everything is risky sense. Profitability makes that far less scary. The biggest cost for most SAAS business is salaries. If times get tough, letting people go is a
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by T2_t2 8y ago
Has that continued post reunification? A big problem with interventions like this is that they are so specific to the zeitgeist. By that I mean when everyone struggles, gender differences diminish, and when everyone is doing well, or at lea
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by T2_t2 8y ago
Nothing has changed, and ironically, this whole part of the question - is it better to burn people out and rehire - is a capitalist question, and answered with capitalist goals.
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by T2_t2 8y ago
How did smaller banks fare during the crisis? I think that's the issue at the heart of whether encouraging them or not. I think the problem with using money lending as a tool for social justice and equality was laid bare during the cri
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by T2_t2 8y ago
> could well be Do you have any evidence of that - the discrimination part? Is there evidence that lending institutions choose to lend based on criteria other than ability to repay? Also, do/did smaller lenders fare as well or bette
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by T2_t2 8y ago
So the majority of the people trusted with the money went to two of the best schools in the world? And this is surprising how? And news how? And wrong how? Come on, its HARVARD! HARVARD!!!! Seems like the system os working pretty well to me
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by T2_t2 8y ago
Why is this bad? Your comment seems to assume that, and I really wonder why. I'm assuming there is some concerns with firing, but I'm not sure what the big deal is?
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by T2_t2 8y ago
Yes in part, but the mechanism is important, and what is being solved more so. The USA is like the EU, where the various states vary as much if not more than the countries in the EU. The USA is far more racially varied than individual EU co
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by T2_t2 8y ago
Maybe. It's your life - and you only get one. A lot of this is what you see yourself doing day in, day out. There are lots of jobs that are coding adjacent. Technical SEO is an example. A mate of mine does installations of software inh
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by T2_t2 8y ago
> Given the damage that agriculture has done to the environment Has it? I thought that the worst thing for the environment was subsistence farming.
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by T2_t2 8y ago
Name ANYWHERE like Berlin. Surely that's the question? You can't swap Berlin for anywhere, surely? It is majorly disingenuous to choose Berlin, or Rome, or London, Or Paris, or Tokyo and ask for a similar place. There is NOWHERE l
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by T2_t2 8y ago
Housing size. A 2 bedroom house in The New World is nothing like a 2 bedroom place in Europe. I bet the Berlin housing is a LOT smaller than a US place. Even in SF, the housing is a lot larger than almost all of Europe. London is a disaste
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by T2_t2 8y ago
The US is so varied, it is like saying Europe. I can't imagine anyone not being able to find a part of the US they find appealing. Like pretension? Portland calling here. Like Theatre? NYC calling. Like the cold? Alaska on the line. Li
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by T2_t2 8y ago
I wonder when people say this sort of thing how much time they spend on tax compliance. I have a company in the UK and one in Australia, and man, it is a MINEFIELD. Very little of what one knows translates very well, as each country has its
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by T2_t2 8y ago
Why not centralise it? Imagine a single account# that employees were paid to, where everything was taken care of? Lets say one earns $120K, an employer pays $10K a month to that number, and everything is taken care of, and the employee is r
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by T2_t2 8y ago
America has it rough there. Australia (with a MUCH lower population) has only federal income tax, and a clear delineation of what taxes each level of government can charge.
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by T2_t2 8y ago
Got a link to that? Sounds amazing.
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by T2_t2 8y ago
What does Seattle currently spend on the homeless? Genuinely curious if you know any of the numbers.
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by T2_t2 8y ago
> we need to both move to a carbon-free economy and remove carbon We need to move to a net negative carbon economy (not carbon free, net negative), or find ways to reduce input heat (reflecting sunlight basically).
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by T2_t2 8y ago
That's a terrible article. Just awful. > or instance, in 2015, research funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Social Security Administration revealed that, since 1990, among the bottom quarter of Americans with the lea
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by T2_t2 8y ago
I think your reply is interesting, as it exactly the sort of thing that Effective Altruism talks about. The example you gave is endemic of the way we think of charity precisely because it deals with both emotion and things we can individual
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by T2_t2 8y ago
Absolutely, but in the complete opposite direction, don't give up looking for answers. The quality of people you see, and their willingness to look for answers, will vary DRAMATICALLY. There is joke, what do you call the person who fin
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by T2_t2 8y ago
In Australia, that is the law. You pay employees and contractors differently, and they have different benefits.
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by T2_t2 8y ago
From whose perspective is this written? The employee? The employer? Current employees? Future employees? I'm not really sure. On all four of those options, there are arguments to be made in either direction, and I think the idea it is
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by T2_t2 8y ago
> for most companies most of the time I know you didn't intend to, but you've nailed the problem: the ambiguity and doubt. Most (<100%) * most (<100%) is a fraction times a fraction, never a good equation if the upside is
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by T2_t2 8y ago
Isn't the answer far simpler? In a global economy, companies that operate at global scale - Amazon, Toyota, Samsung - will see outsized profits when compared to local only businesses. The vast majority of such companies are located&#x2

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