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by awillen 4y ago
But that sounds like it has nothing to do with splitting assets, which is what this service is about. Your problem was with administrative legal tasks, and you hired someone who wasn't competent at them. You could still make the same m
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by awillen 4y ago
Thanks for the reply - this all makes sense, though I might considering changing the way you message it a bit. If you pitch it as a tool to check whether what you've already agreed upon is fair, then you potentially cause conflict if y
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by awillen 4y ago
The issue with this seems to me to be that if you're having an amicable divorce, you don't need to spend a lot on lawyers anyway, so this doesn't really help. If you're having a contentious divorce, the other side's
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by awillen 4y ago
That seems like the point, though - the land tax makes it so that it is productive to add more density. We want people to demolish that SFH and turn it into a townhome because we need more housing, so that's a feature of the tax, not a
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by awillen 4y ago
Ever is an exceedingly long time. I would be shocked if 100 years from now, we didn't have AI-authored bestselling novels. Even then, they might not be literary masterpieces, but certainly AI will be able to write formulaic stuff that
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by awillen 4y ago
This is a pretty bananas take that conflates people caring with their technology-related behavior. Most people don't have problems with Facebook. It's useful for them, and they don't consider the bigger picture because they&#
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by awillen 4y ago
I struggle to take anyone seriously who says that "being on your phone" is some sort of enormous problem. "Being on your phone" isn't an activity - complaining about it is like saying that someone's going too m
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by awillen 4y ago
Is this why Mac and Charlie throw rocks at trains at Christmas?!
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by awillen 4y ago
That's not necessarily true - you can be honest and not give a shit. Take OP's example of buying a table - the company they worked with really spent a lot of time understanding their needs and making something custom for them. An
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by awillen 4y ago
As a PM who has often had to take developer estimates to management meetings only to have them questioned, I've found a couple of things that work: 1. If there's something unintuitive to a non-technical person, call that up out fr
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by awillen 4y ago
I don't think it was ok anywhere. Even in SF I think it was beneficial but not "ok" in a general sense of fairness. The ends justify the means, I suppose. I'm not saying that Uber overall is a particular ethical company
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by awillen 4y ago
There's no such thing as "The Arizona PD"
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by awillen 4y ago
Not true. In SF when Uber started, it only had black cars and was meaningfully more expensive than a cab. The difference was that if you called a cab, depending on where you were in the city, there was a pretty decent chance you'd be t
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by awillen 4y ago
It reads to me like the manager got the right people involved, got them collaboratively analyzing the problem to the point that they were able to identify the core issue, got them to find a solution to that issue and then got them to implem
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by awillen 4y ago
Username checks out.
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by awillen 4y ago
Is less euphemistic language somehow better? If they said, "The economy is in bad shape, so we've decided we need to be spending less money right now. One way we're going to do that is by laying people off. We're sorry,
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by awillen 4y ago
Red Mars doesn't go quite as far, but does look at a world in which multinational corporations are competitive with countries in terms of global power.
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by awillen 4y ago
Sure, but sooner or later it (or something comparable) is going to exist as a commercial tool.
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by awillen 4y ago
Naturally the first comments here are criticisms that the characters change from frame to frame, but I think that's worth putting aside, since any rational person will understand that systems like DALL-E will have the ability to mainta
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by awillen 4y ago
There must be some sort of limits to what's protected though, right? SpaceX said they were fired for sending company-wide emails badgering people to sign stuff, and I'd have to imagine there's some line when it comes to using
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by awillen 4y ago
I recommend Axios - the have a number of free, topic-specific daily newsletters. They're quick reads and well put together, and they usually link out to more detailed reporting on stuff that merits further reading.
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by awillen 4y ago
That's the real world for you. Sometimes companies end up seeing success after long diversions from real goals, because the world throws obstacles at them that require them to adapt. Seems like the alternative here is to do nothing, so
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by awillen 4y ago
I was wondering why I had a sudden bit of traffic coming from HN this morning... for anybody interested in the dog treat business I answered some questions about in the original thread ( https://coopersdogtreats.com/ ), I did
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by awillen 4y ago
I'm not assuming, I'm responding to a comment which defines a set of proposals, and that set of proposals does not include rent control. I can't really respond to your proposal of rent control, because it has no detail on how
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by awillen 4y ago
The problem with this is that not everyone has the down payment or the desire to be a homeowner. What you're describing would likely increase ownership somewhat, but it would also create an incredibly punitive tax on renters, who tend
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by awillen 4y ago
That last part is definitely overdramatic, but I do think that you're looking at the math of work in a way that I (and presumably the poster to which you're responding) don't agree with. The thing is, your 30-35 hours at a cu
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by awillen 4y ago
You're way off with that number. Nine out of ten startups may fail, but far greater than 10% of employees receiving equity ultimately see some value from it. Startups that fail tend to do so early, before they've hired a lot of pe
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by awillen 4y ago
It's a big red flag to me, because understanding compensation is an important part of a recruiter's job. The recruiter either did not understand it, which is bad, because you've got someone doing important work (negotiating w
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by awillen 4y ago
Why would I do that? I started using Uber when it came out because I lived in SF, where the dispatch companies would tell you someone was coming in 15 minutes only to have no one show up, and when you did get a cab they'd drive maniaca
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by awillen 4y ago
It's not meaningless at all. First off, if you're comparing multiple offers with similar salaries, equity considerations may be a good way to make a decision. Beyond that, understanding how companies handle equity compensation can

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