achillesheels

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by achillesheels 8y ago
The concept of retirement was conceived of when, as you suggest, the working class could not afford savings while being destined for incapacitation from decades of hard labor. What was normally a family upkeep of tending to an elderly loved
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by achillesheels 8y ago
I don’t understand your wife’s treatment. Is it because of fear of salary requirements, underemployment, or health insurance premiums? I only see reason in my last guess.
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by achillesheels 8y ago
1) most ordinary entrepreneurs can find plenty of work handling finished goods, e.g. FBA. It’s the capital that is needed for them to start which is a problem for those who would rather buy a mortgage, vacation, etc. than build a business.
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by achillesheels 8y ago
>> I hate this attitude among Americans. Like there is some strategy you can play that will make sure you won't get screwed over in life, and that if you do get screwed over in life it's because your strategy was wrong. That
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by achillesheels 8y ago
To be fair, many vocational employers may be skittish hiring someone who appears on paper to be aiming for a white collar job. I know there’s the possibility of dropping the diploma off a resume, but then what explains those 4 years doing n
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by achillesheels 8y ago
Sure...I’m assuming you mean equipment along with the software? I need to ask the videographer the specifics.
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by achillesheels 8y ago
Not really engineering based but...launched a video production company focusing on window shopping cannabis dispensaries in tourist cities where cannabis is recreationally legal. This is our first customer: https://youtu.be/
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by achillesheels 8y ago
The practice of “conventional social filtering” of mass media is less than a century old. It’s telling that people’s expectations are to have public figures scripted more like characters than human beings.
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by achillesheels 8y ago
I really wish engineers understood that, while product is difficult to nail, it’s at most 40% of the solution. Because of their lack of professional customer-facing, engineers can’t apprehend how much friction exists in the market; mostly f
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by achillesheels 8y ago
There is a tremendous amount of faux cultural cachet attached to a “college” education in the USA. As if it is a proxy of social status. It is, don’t get me wrong, but if a more granular cultural standard for what education is meritorious -
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by achillesheels 8y ago
It’s an ugly truth that writing is a leisurely art, historically only endeavored by aristocracy. Like most aristic pursuits, it’s not intended to be a meal-ticket. Great art is timeless, with its humanistic fulfillment being priceless.
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by achillesheels 8y ago
You presuppose that individual determination is blind. How can you honestly look at an Amazon or Microsoft and say their impact on the world was essentially indeterministic chance? Amazon, especially, has had ample competition, yet the disp
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by achillesheels 8y ago
I like to analyze Apple as if I were Warren Buffet, looking at from a fundamental valuation perspective. Apple is more of a brand and high-end retailer these days (sales per sq ft rival and even exceed Nordstrom), with sticky customer reten
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by achillesheels 8y ago
A shot in the dark: it’s characteristic of a complex exponential function ergo the trigonometrical nature of waveforms in time. (Euler’s Formula and all that Jazz) I am inclined to think of both as communication signals.
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by achillesheels 8y ago
Also, by weeding out price-driven projects, you are weeding out ignoramuses who do not know the value of a good freelancer or the reality of their project’s scope. I kid you not, one of my developers told me a story of a client from Upwork
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by achillesheels 8y ago
I made a living using LinkedIn’s sales navigator premium subscription to field prospects. It required me to (a) have a large amount of connections in the first place and (b) have a solution for large enough companies to be represented on Li