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by billy99k 2y ago
The review looks to be real in this case, but I believe I was victim to fake reviewers about a decade ago that destroyed my Amazon business. I had all positive reviews up until this point (about 2 years in business, 150 reviews). A single
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by billy99k 2y ago
This is a mostly terrible 19-year old list. Here is an example: "Your software and systems should be secure by design and should have been designed with flaw-handling in mind" Translation: If we lived in a perfect world, everythin
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by billy99k 2y ago
"The only power the EU has over us is the same they have over any external coubtry who wants to trade with them' My point still stands. As soon as the UK left, they were threatened with horrible trade deals if they ever came back
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by billy99k 2y ago
When I was in high school, I always had major anxiety issues. I realized later in life that it was my excessive amount of caffeine I was ingesting on a daily basis. I mostly cut all forms of caffeine completely out of my diet since January
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by billy99k 2y ago
Only $4,000 to relocate? That doesn't seem even close to the amount it would cost me. Breaking leases, selling your house, moving belongings. Much more than $4,000.
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by billy99k 2y ago
The result of this will be: In the short term: 1) Less people getting rides as the cost will now be more expensive 2) Less available driving jobs because Uber and Lyft aren't going to allow everyone to drive at this rate In the long t
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by billy99k 2y ago
Amway is a very religious organization. They have prayer rooms in their main HQ, which is probably why you have many people on the right attracted to it. "Another friend was a leader in the College Republicans" All of these peopl
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by billy99k 2y ago
I stated my own consulting company a few years ago. Right now, it's just me. But I plan on hiring employees at some point. Consulting has prevented me from burnout. I almost never have to deal with bullshit corporate politics and i
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by billy99k 2y ago
Isn't this what Ycombinator is all about? If you want fulfillment, start your own company and create the job that you are passionate about.
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by billy99k 2y ago
These are both good points. I sold my company a year or two after this and got into a new venture shortly after. I was looking for something different and could have made time to maintain the current company and even get new clients.
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by billy99k 2y ago
This is exactly right. After that first offer, I was just going to walk away. The sad part is that the business would have done very will during covid. It could have reached a new level of profitability. She was able to take all of the m
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by billy99k 2y ago
My brother died almost 10 years ago and he ran his own software company. He had no plan, because he thought he could beat cancer. His wife had to get his passwords while he was on his deathbed. The day of his funeral, his wife begged me t
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by billy99k 2y ago
You're splitting hairs intentionally to make it seem like the OP is wrong. Many people that were part of the freedom truckers movement had their bank accounts seized and the Canadian government used an act against them, classifying th
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by billy99k 2y ago
As long as I could use AI to perform the job, yes.
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by billy99k 2y ago
When I was younger, I worked for multiple startups and received stock in each one. How much is that stock worth now? $0. I no longer will put that much time and effort into something, unless I am the founder.
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by billy99k 2y ago
Pascal or Visual basic
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by billy99k 2y ago
The lesson here is that building your entire business on someone else's platform (like the IOS store) is too risky. They have full control over your business and can make one decision to ruin it in a single day. Amazon ruined my busin
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by billy99k 2y ago
I know people like this. They go on vacation to basically watch tv and/or go online with different scenery.
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by billy99k 2y ago
I have found it mostly accurate and much better than the old method of just banning misinformation outright.
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by billy99k 2y ago
If it's a 'myth', then why have I met so many lazy stoners in my life.
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by billy99k 2y ago
It was a joke. Lighten up.
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by billy99k 2y ago
I was working on bug bounty work a few years ago for a large company with lots of subdomains in different parts of the world. I found .git/config on a server and I was able to partially reconstruct the entire git repository. This led
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by billy99k 2y ago
Yes, but this will cost money and resources. Large companies can take this as a loss. Small companies will go out of business
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by billy99k 2y ago
This type of thinking allows evil people to continue to inflict irreversible damage. It also sends out the signal that terrorism works.
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by billy99k 2y ago
These sorts of laws are there to hide the fact that the government adds lots of taxes onto everyday goods. When it's 'baked into the price' there is no way to tell if the increase is because of the business owner or the gove
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by billy99k 2y ago
Companies will also never remember your hard work when it comes to layoffs. My cousin worked until 1am almost every day from September 2023-January 2024 to complete a poorly managed project. He only had Christmas off because the director
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by billy99k 2y ago
I'm conflicted about this. On one hand, it can help with the grieving process. On the other hand, you are creating fake memories of someone you loved. Part of the the grieving process is closure and if you can continue to talk to you
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by billy99k 2y ago
Great, even more ways for me to be distracted during the day :-)
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by billy99k 2y ago
This is the case in the beginning, for most things. The people that master it usually know exactly what they are doing. "Nobody knows that they are doing" It's an easy way to discount the people that put the hard work over a
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by billy99k 2y ago
I total agree with you here. I was going to post almost the same thing. "The problem with software development is that most people just take that 95% for granted, get complacent and think that the 95% of trivial work is the job and th

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