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by achenatx 7y ago
The problem with explicit leadership positions is that people have no downward mobility. If you are bad, then the organization loses a great resource. I like the model of dept head in academia. Professors really want to be doing research, b
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by achenatx 7y ago
and dont keep it in mount gox...
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which vaccines? meningitis? anthrax? syphilis? tuberculosis? HPV? hepatitis? flu? We will never have absolute safety in life. I prefer to have freedom to make the choice because the government will always end up abusing any power we give it
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by achenatx 7y ago
As another person posted, cannabis with more than .3% THC is marijuana which has not been descheduled. However, pure THC has been descheduled (regardless where it has been derived from?).
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copper pipes with a screw on fitting at the end that is removable.
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This article was incredibly interesting as I probably have this. My wife has said that Im a bit odd and probably on the spectrum. I make eye contact (though my wife says I often dont). If I stare into someones eyes it makes me feel like Im
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by achenatx 7y ago
One thing that we always joked about but have never done, is giving nasty people's names to a bunch of recruiters to help them to find a job someplace else. More practical is making sure you have account management with relationships a
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by achenatx 7y ago
When the touchbar macbooks were announced,I immediately went out and bought a used 2015 macbook. The great thing about them is that they are good for quite a long time because macs dont tend to get bogged down over time I love the unix line
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by achenatx 7y ago
the best negative feedback loop is a depression. Kill the global economy for 20 years and CO2 production will crash. Ironically trumps tariffs are likely to do more to slow climate change than any other policies.
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our fault for living in a sterile suburb. All yards were fenced off so they got used to playing in a cul de sac close to the house. One of the reasons we moved was to give them more direct access to nature.
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by achenatx 7y ago
My kids (11,6, 3) are so lame they are scared to play outside by themselves. I bought 100 acres with a creek so we would have a place to hike, camp, explore, build forts, shoot guns etc. My kids have been so coddled, they cant even play in
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by achenatx 7y ago
There are so many specialized areas that are useful, like common design patterns, basic data structures, various algorithms, transactions, multithreading, parallel processing, etc. Too many things to list, but I agree with a poster below th
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by achenatx 7y ago
You can claim a lot of business expenses as deductions that you wouldnt be able to as an employee The IRS now has a 20% deduction for passthrough entities up to 450K or so You can put approximately 40K or 25% of income (whichever is less) i
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by achenatx 7y ago
fixed bids are the only way to make in excess of $500/hour. You need to learn how to do fixed bids and then have processes to support it.
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by achenatx 7y ago
I took the "easy" way and started a services company. My plan was to do that for a few years make a few million and then start a product company. 19 years later and Im still running a services company, though we finally are at ar
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by achenatx 7y ago
For books with an ISBN. Some of these can scan the cover https://www.collectorz.com/book/isbn_database.php https://bookriot.com/2016/01/14/8-reasons-catalog-books/ https:/&#x2
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by achenatx 7y ago
The people getting banned are famous, this is exactly the moment when another platform can allow those people their speech and make a dent in facebook's monopoly.
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by achenatx 7y ago
I have clicked on multiple ads 1) toys for kids during the christmas season. Dot/dash, marble runs, tinker crate, etc 2) Bought some bike stuff when it was onsale, solo bonfire and a few other interesting gadgets. Facebook ads are a li
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by achenatx 7y ago
My biochemistry education is 20 years old.. As you say DNA encodes the sequence of amino acids. Protein folding is a thermodynamic problem as parts of the protein stick to other parts and bonds try to achieve a low energy shape. There are e
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by achenatx 7y ago
subchapter S (and other pass through) corporations pay no corporate income tax at all. this is the majority of small businesses. Corporations ultimately distribute their profits to actual people. Those people will pay tax on that income. It
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by achenatx 7y ago
I dont need access to every book. I want to know what the best books are. Amazon initially did great at this. But now there is so much crap it is becoming difficult to tell what is good. If a store can actually develop expertise in its inve
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by achenatx 7y ago
this is what we do, we help our employees start their own businesses as the top of the career path. We will help them with marketing, HR, recruiting, finance, etc. Also they can run losses while getting started. We havent had anyone get pro
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by achenatx 7y ago
We are contractors that identify the most valuable features for the least amount of money. We have worked with two state agencies and learned that entire philosophy is moot in a government agency because they dont care about the value of fe
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by achenatx 7y ago
to put it in quantitative context, you put her life at risk every time you put her in a car. Measles killed roughly 500/kids a year before vaccinations. Car accidents kill about .5/1000 kids. The probability of your child getting
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by achenatx 7y ago
I own a contracting company and we regularly tell clients they should cut the project we are working on because it doesnt provide enough value. We do software requirements, identifying the minimum necessary features to maximize the value.
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by achenatx 8y ago
one of the easiest ways is to avoid using most adjectives. Not taking a point of view, not speculating, not predicting the future. Limit the use of verbs with strong negative or positive connotations. Stick to what people did, what they sai
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by achenatx 8y ago
all social media (or any system) where you dont trust the entities that are holding your data are candidates for blockchain. With blockchain based databases you can have entities that store massive amounts of data encrypted, but they cant r
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by achenatx 8y ago
Funny article. Like a lot of people I also collect domain names, some day hoping to make a business out of them. :) My current business and startup take too much time, but some day..
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by achenatx 8y ago
zoning rights are not as real as property rights, in fact they are the opposite. Zoning rights are your ability to limit what the actual owners of a property can do.
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by achenatx 8y ago
The huge advantage of housing is that the government essentially supports infrastructure to get massive leverage. With 1:5 or 1:10 leverage, 10% appreciation with 1:10 leverage means you double your money. The downside is that with a 10% de

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