beachstartup

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by beachstartup 10y ago
it's easier to get the small provider on the phone. but i mean, this is simply what you believe to be true. in reality, it doesn't matter if it's true or not, because you believe it. that's what small companies fight a
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by beachstartup 10y ago
so how would you describe it?
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by beachstartup 10y ago
no, i think you have it backwards. the men who are 50 something right now dove headlong into family+salary+mortgage at an early age, possibly against their true desires, and many of them are feeling the negative effects of that. peter pa
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by beachstartup 10y ago
flux is awesome. i can't use it during the day though, because it puts me to sleep! it works too well.
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by beachstartup 10y ago
part of the problem is by the time you're 50, you've had 30 years of adult life to accumulate bad decisions. a lot of people are saddled with obligations they never actually wanted. :(
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by beachstartup 10y ago
i've considered the psychology of our position. the difficult part is getting someone to understand that they have been vastly overpaying -- that means they must call into question their own (past) judgment, which for some people is ea
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by beachstartup 10y ago
i run a small tech company, though not an ISP. i hear this question a lot. "how do you compete with xyz megacorp?" delivering a better/faster product for less money, is the easy part. nearly everything is overpriced from me
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by beachstartup 10y ago
if the founder(s) of the company got really rich, but the company is still owned by VCs, there is almost definitely "voodoo bullshit" going on. it's customary to take some money to alleviate the everyday financial stresses of
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by beachstartup 10y ago
you'll notice that i'm actually agreeing with you. what's fun for you may or may not be real 'work' in the vernacular sense. hiking is definitely work - even in the strict physical sense of the word. but what abo
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by beachstartup 10y ago
every hobby and social activity that's worth doing is also work. it's just not the work you get paid for. that's why it's fun; there are no expectations other than your own, and you're free to have none whatsoev
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by beachstartup 10y ago
surely there's a bus that goes straight up fairfax? edit: looks like the 217 bus goes up fairfax and into west hollywood. why not take that?
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by beachstartup 10y ago
i had mine taken out with local+nitrous (as opposed to going completely under) because the anesthesiologist wasn't in that day (apparently an oral surgeon can do the gas, but not the knockout drugs). i remember the whole thing. it wa
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by beachstartup 10y ago
> IIRC the USA doesn't really do trains the US does a lot of trains, but generally for short distances on commuter corridors, and municipal light rail. we don't do high speed passenger rail, which is probably what you're
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by beachstartup 10y ago
let's not forget that switzerland is basically just rich white people. racial tension in the US contributes a LOT to the dislike of anything even remotely resembling 'socialism'. but you make a good point. i think the ameri
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by beachstartup 10y ago
indeed. in some of today's cars it's really astounding how much more power you can make quite easily, if you're into that sort of thing. hit a few keys and turn a few knobs and all of a sudden you're making 50 horsepowe
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by beachstartup 10y ago
this is such a tired internet cliche. in reality the bank will force you into bankruptcy, seize all your assets because they're at the top of the payback list, and blacklist you from ever running a business or borrowing money again. in
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by beachstartup 10y ago
they would have done that anyways. they also take discarded cardboard boxes and other re-usables.
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by beachstartup 10y ago
> anecdotally it's very hard to find things made in the US unless it's a high end store manufacturing output is measured in dollars, not 'amount of stuff' except in very specific cases. producing fewer but more exp
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by beachstartup 10y ago
why wouldn't it be? raising sheep requires land, remember? it's livestock, grass/feed, water, veterinarians, medication, sheepdogs, abattoir, compliance, inspection, processing, packing, refrigeration, shipping. if you'
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by beachstartup 10y ago
> People don't have negative stereotypes towards Asians yes they do.
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by beachstartup 10y ago
pass-through device virtualization of various types provide this facility.
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by beachstartup 10y ago
because manufacturers still provide dos .exe's for flash updates.
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by beachstartup 10y ago
install onto a stick or disc for server firmware upgrades. "but the cloud..." someone maintains that cloud, every day.
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by beachstartup 10y ago
a few years ago an apple launch would do that. they smartly built the stores large enough to contain the crowds, though.
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by beachstartup 10y ago
serious question: do you know who made the exploding samsung batteries? can the same kind of thing happen to car or home batteries?
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by beachstartup 10y ago
my gut assumption is that most journalists have journalism or communications degrees, which seems to be corroborated by the data. https://books.google.com/books?id=KUyOAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA42&lpg=P... not that it really ma
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by beachstartup 10y ago
the nyt is always off the mark on topics i know something about, and nothing leads me to believe they are any better about topics i know nothing about.
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by beachstartup 10y ago
we manage entire projects with a simple milestone list and a constantly updated list of current tasks and who is going to do them (action items, in mba blogspeak). 'make a list and then do it' is way too simple for a lot of people
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by beachstartup 10y ago
i watch a lot of niche hobby channels (not gaming) on youtube as a primary activity. there is some very, very good content out there. many shows get made that would never pass muster at a "tv network". these people are able to m
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by beachstartup 10y ago
i swear all you trolls read from the same exact playbook. "nobody hears about the failures"? really? i hear about plenty of failures all around me. i see restaurants shutting down left and right. i see people having mental bre

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