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by acjacobson 4y ago
I mostly agree, though I think there are differences you'd notice rather quickly (but nothing as big as moving from 1890 to 1950) If you removed all the screens you'd probably first notice what's missing as opposed to what&#x
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by acjacobson 4y ago
They had 60 Senate seats but not 60 votes. For every vote you still need 60 votes to prevent a filibuster regardless of whether your party has the majority of seats. This is why the public option (and single payer) was killed in the ACA. Th
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by acjacobson 5y ago
My family kind of prides itself on driving manual cars even though you have to go to extra effort to buy them new in the U.S. these days. Once my Dad brought one of them into a mechanic for an oil change and the guy asked 'How do you l
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by acjacobson 5y ago
Free trials are most useful / valid in my opinion when the product or service is novel and your potential customers aren't sure yet if you'll solve their problem. It makes perfect sense for a project management SaaS because e
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by acjacobson 5y ago
Most companies shouldn't be storing CC numbers in this day and age but using tokenized cards instead. Let Stripe worry about PCI compliance, and OP can simply advertise which processor they're using so customers feel secure.
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by acjacobson 5y ago
The debate over what qualifies as 'real' art is a long and ever-evolving. When photography first emerged people said it could never be real art because it was just a snapshot of the world. Why should I care for an image captured b
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by acjacobson 5y ago
Even so the trend now is to have a few intermediaries who are native German speakers manage the near-shore team. You don't need the full engineering team to speak German - just a few key coordinating managers - and it's nearly as
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by acjacobson 5y ago
Thanks you for sharing - these are interesting ideas. At the moment we're focused on how we can tie together shared events and memories of your personal story (hence the name) into one place. Currently this is primarily from photos, bu
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by acjacobson 5y ago
While it won't yet solve all your backup needs (still early days), a few friends and I have been working on a privacy focused competitor of sorts for Google Photos, but a bit easier to share your albums with friends and family. It is f
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by acjacobson 5y ago
I would say it was too chaotic to be introspective (I realize I cited an example of my train if thought but this was not the norm). I see your point about preparation and it’s valid however hearing someone else talk about what it’s like rea
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by acjacobson 5y ago
You raise an interesting point and perhaps it is both. I think it’s possible to experience negative or awful things and still grow - silver linings and all that. Does that make it good though? A much more serious example could be someone th
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by acjacobson 5y ago
Maybe I can give an anecdotal example that is less ambiguous. I have a fair amount of experience with psychedelics. I have had both uncomfortable trips and once what I would characterize as an actual bad trip. In the case of the bad trip i
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by acjacobson 5y ago
I would be interested in learning more - this sounds completely novel to any way I have worked before.
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by acjacobson 5y ago
As others have said you could do this in many places - including countries that are generally more expensive like Germany (350-450€ for a small flat in Leipzig). In practice the main challenge might be finding a short-term rental for as low
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by acjacobson 5y ago
Depends on the country. It won't work in the Schengen because the visa waiver is 90 days within a 180 day stretch.
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by acjacobson 5y ago
It's not in Germany. I can buy it at my local Asian grocery.
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by acjacobson 5y ago
I would argue he already does. The entire point of "fuck you" money is that you are no longer beholden to someone else - it is not so much defined by the overall amount, but by the freedom it can buy you. He gets to work on what h
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by acjacobson 5y ago
I have done both and I currently work in a consulting company like the one you describe, but in product as opposed to engineering. Like all jobs it has pros and cons. The big advantages to consulting are the opportunities to work on a lot o
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by acjacobson 6y ago
It is rent control - which basically exists throughout Germany. Even in SF rent controlled apartments can increase some % per year, it is just controlled how much. In Germany this is often done by looking at the region's average price
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by acjacobson 6y ago
There are certain things that you can outright be fired for - such as stealing, I believe. I think that showing up drunk for work might also be one of them?
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by acjacobson 6y ago
I think the 20% is the fee for Shopify as a whole, not the payment processing fee. Since payment processing is a small portion of what they offer at Shopify its not an apples to apples comparison with Stripe.
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by acjacobson 6y ago
Forgive me if this is a naive question, but how is this different from Patreon, but dolled out in smaller ad hoc amounts? Is the legal distinction because with Patreon each user chooses the distribution ahead of time? Couldn't this be
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by acjacobson 6y ago
Kind of? Doesn't Flattr have you choose up front how you want to distribute your subscription? I was imagining a system where you don't have an upfront choice to make, but that as you consume content the subscription is drawn down
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by acjacobson 6y ago
The answer to this, which I am a little surprised no one has tried to implement (maybe someone has tried?), is to charge the end customer in some larger amount - say $5 or $10, and then draw down the micro transaction amount as you go. So i
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by acjacobson 6y ago
Most people that I see discussing salaries (in Germany or in the US) use gross as the default. In rare cases I hear people use net, but mostly this is those starting out / student workers. I assume the OP means 100k gross. 100k gross i
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by acjacobson 6y ago
The former, I believe. Many companies are incorporated in Delaware, but if they have offices in CA are still subject to CA employment law for jobs located there.
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by acjacobson 6y ago
Yes, in English we fully adopted the formal which is "You" for both formal / informal speech. The familiar / informal was "Thou" - which is a bit weird because now we think of "Thou" as being a bit fo
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by acjacobson 6y ago
Prices are in Canadian dollars, but I didn't know this until I looked up the restaurant. $11 felt kinda high for a döner, even a really good one. But that works out to ~7€ which is a little high for Germany, but not that much higher.
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by acjacobson 7y ago
I find also 'Excuse me / Pardon me' is extremely useful in the local language.
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by acjacobson 7y ago
I would use schwierig for difficult - but I am not a native speaker, so take it with a grain of salt. I tend to use schwer to mean hard (or heavy in other contexts)

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