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by apercu 1y ago
I feel like someone who has been employed in tech for 15 or more years should simply be able to test out of a lot of these requirements anyway.
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by apercu 1y ago
The time sink is real, but (at least for me personally), there is a sense of accomplishment when I get a a credential that is rarely felt when completing a "project". (I control how I learn and absent a professor being a dick and
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by apercu 1y ago
>One thing I've wondered about for awhile: How do you find a business co-founder you can trust? You can only look at past actions. Even the self-proclaimed "most ethical" people change the moment there is money on the tabl
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by apercu 1y ago
I don't know that I understand this, typically I structure the shareholder agreement (when I can) to be such that I have clout because I own or control a significant percentage of the shares, not because of my "title".
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by apercu 1y ago
I have no idea what they teach in MBA programs these days - I'm many years removed from the age that most people get theirs. My dad got his MBA in 1959. When I was younger and considering one (I moved out of day to day tech work a long
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by apercu 1y ago
My first and second "start ups" (90s) were peopled by very technical people and no "professional class" (e.g., HR, BizDev/Sales, etc.) beyond finance. I joined a third as an executive and it, too was missing HR and
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by apercu 1y ago
We all know that the powers that be ($$) will not allow allow for any meaningful change, and that the right is simply obstructionist when they don't have the White House, so it shouldn't matter who the Democrats ran. The fact that
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by apercu 1y ago
> that patients mostly didn't take care of themselves or care for their own health, and then approached the doctor to "fix them up". The American health care system has failed people. Capitalism wants people to consume unh
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by apercu 1y ago
Experienced people see through b.s. and push back. Less experienced people are simply easier to exploit. And whether or not the current job market allows us proper perspective, a large part of our working population is exploited. That’s ho
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by apercu 1y ago
Naw. He’s a small little bitter angry man with daddy issues and low self esteem. No matter what he said I would never buy it. He’s a clown.
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by apercu 1y ago
I’m a dual citizen. Either we will never have elections again because America is a theocratic dictatorship, or diplomatic and economic relations will be restored. It is only through gerrymandering and propaganda that the current clownshow i
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by apercu 1y ago
I’ve never done that - I have flown a lot in my life, much of it internationally and the flight times / fewest number of layovers trumps cost.
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by apercu 1y ago
I absolutely pay more for local goods. In the grocery store I try to purchase things from my state, or at least adjacent states. If it’s something that will last for decades or something I will use constantly I will absolutely pay more for
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by apercu 1y ago
I have a love/hate relationship with tech, but it would take many paragraphs to explain it :)
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by apercu 1y ago
A (plant) nursery, a library, elections are all stuff that I've considered. Thanks for reinforcing the library thing (I live in a somewhat rural area so maybe different issues there). I've also thought about machine operating in l
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by apercu 1y ago
lol - fair.
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by apercu 1y ago
For one, where is Starship and when did it last launch? For another, this hypothetical spacecraft (which does not yet exist) would not be wherever it is in terms of completion had NASA not existed.
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by apercu 1y ago
>so when they do it, a lot more people pay attention. It makes sense, media glamorizes these people and amplifies their actions, and some of the insecure folks crave attention. Look at that one guy who somehow works harder than all of us
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by apercu 1y ago
"Oh well, I'm not going to be Andres Segovia, so I guess I will never pick up a guitar." I think that attitude comes from people who are deeply unhappy. They need therapy.
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by apercu 1y ago
> I suspect talent and hard work are pretty well correlated with becoming wealthy (say >$10m) Statistically, no.
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by apercu 1y ago
I think you can certainly make some of your own luck via hard work, but there is a difference between actually making on your own, and starting on 3rd base.
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by apercu 1y ago
> Why does this seem to be a recurring pattern among the modern ultrawealthy? Who says it's limited to the ultra wealthy? My network has a lot of people who have net worths of under $5-6 million USD and a lot of them are highly inse
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by apercu 1y ago
I would like to have some meaningful part-time work when I retire. Sure, I garden, landscape, play with my tractor, spend more time playing guitar than any other hobby and go to the gym 3 times a week, but I would still want some sort of ad
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by apercu 1y ago
Oh yea, the billionaire and shareholder class can totally be incentivized to be good global citizens. /s
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by apercu 1y ago
I would argue that the vast majority of challenges I have had in my (very long) tech career were not technical challenges anyway, rather they were "people" problems (e.g., extracting the actual requirements and maintaining scope s
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by apercu 1y ago
If they used an algorithm to come up with a cool melody and then did something with it, why look down on it? Look at popular music for the last 400 years. How is that any different than simply copying the previous generations stuff and putt
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by apercu 1y ago
I've always distilled this down to people who like the "craft" and those who like the "result". Of course, everything is on a scale so it's not either/or. But, like you, how I get there matters to me, not
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by apercu 1y ago
There are two layers of shingles underneath and that added $600. I have a separate outbuilding (2 car garage but it's a simple hip roof on the house). The lowest estimate we got was $14,500, but it was an outlier.
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by apercu 1y ago
That'll teach me to comment quickly on something on my phone when in the middle of something else. lol.
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by apercu 1y ago
>Learn how to drink properly ~10% of the population simply cannot. I'd argue it's a lot higher of a percentage in places like here in Wisconsin.

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