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by _ah 9y ago
Interestingly, I read this the other way: "...all trust is burnt, or about to be burnt."
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by _ah 9y ago
You would be SHOCKED at how many promising-sounding candidates show up in an interview completely unable to write Fizz/Buzz, or Fibonacci, or strrev(). Or they can write it, but it takes 10 minutes. I've seen this so many times an
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by _ah 9y ago
Because Risk is risky. Even brilliant professional investors have deals which go bad. Passing a test does not remove the bankrupcy problem.
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by _ah 9y ago
The cost of a bad high-risk investment is an annoyance to a qualified investor. It is catastrophic to a poor person. This is also why we require car/home insurance, but wealthy folks can opt out and self-insure since a total loss won&#
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by _ah 9y ago
I pull weeds in my lawn. Sunny weather is nice, but not required.
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by _ah 9y ago
She was shocked. It's an easy trick, discovered by a mom.
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by _ah 9y ago
One nitpick: The Buyer Pays. Even though the contract states that the seller is the one responsible for RE commissions, you have a transaction where one party (the Buyer) is bringing money in, and everyone else is taking money out. Ultimate
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by _ah 10y ago
TL;DR: Do less automated work, and call it a "coaching service". ---- I think the challenge here is that the student is NOT writing the essay. Or at least that's the way it looks to me. Your thesis holds if the intent of the
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by _ah 10y ago
TMobile ONEsie https://newsroom.t-mobile.com/news-and-blogs/tmobile-onesie....
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by _ah 10y ago
Sell 90% of it. Or some other structure where you give up ownership and control, but retain some residual. You'll have to reduce your asking price quite a bit (so maybe you end up with $450k vs $600k), but I'm guessing that won&#x
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by _ah 10y ago
No. You are only being exploited if you: 1. Are "worth more" in the industry (you could get paid more for the same work) 2. Are unable to take another higher paid position for whatever reason. Both of these items must be true. If
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by _ah 10y ago
The only valid signal for willingness to pay is ACTUAL WILLINGNESS TO PAY. Ideally, you'd even collect (and discard) a credit card number. Asking people to take a survey gives inaccurate results
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by _ah 10y ago
1. For a small start-up, this seems to be the norm. I'd be very surprised to find a company if that size with "normal" working hours, unless perhaps they're already profitable and have a secure market lead. 2. You don&#x
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by _ah 10y ago
Remember when e-cards were the hot new internet thing? I was an intern working on such a system and, while debugging an issue ran the dreaded "DELETE FROM Cards" without that all-so-important WHERE. Lost the whole table, 10,000s o