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by bob33212 6y ago
I have had a couple conversations where a business guy starts off with a decent idea then he says something like "the cognitive AI module will fill out your expense report after watching you do it for a couple weeks". What the fuc
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by bob33212 6y ago
The difference is that contractors can be removed from the company without any action on part of the employeer. If an employer wants to remove contractors one option they have is to do nothing and let the contracts expire. They cannot do th
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by bob33212 6y ago
Contracts are for a specific time period, 12 months for example. FTE has no expiration date.
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There is enormous business pressure to ignore everything you just said. If upper management wants the team to work on a project that the team feels is a waste of time the only fix is to tell management to find another project for the team.
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by bob33212 6y ago
Companies: We are paying you as little as we can get away with. Sorry that is just how capitalism works. Employees: Sounds good. We will work as little as possible. Companies: Wait a minute here. We are a family and a team. You need to supp
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by bob33212 6y ago
My grandparents are in their 80s and they watch cable 5-7 hours a day. I cannot imagine that they would cancel it, even if it cost 400/month. At the same time I don't know anyone under 50 that watches a lot of cable other than spo
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by bob33212 6y ago
Did you have guarduty or VPC flow logs turned on?
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by bob33212 6y ago
It is so strange that people don't see what is happening at Tesla. They are driving billions of miles under AI control. It is totally fine to dislike Musk or to think that autopilot is unsafe today, but how can you look at billions of
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by bob33212 6y ago
Management has to be ok with reducing headcount. You would think that all managers would be incentivized to made their groups more efficient but there is a high correlation between headcount and political power within an organization and pe
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by bob33212 6y ago
Same thing happened after the 2002 tech crash. The IPO market dried up for unprofitable company.
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by bob33212 6y ago
I think this is where "Fake it until you make it" is a good idea. If you have any product at all and a decent website you can hopefully at least get people to talk to you and they will ask if your product can do X,Y,Z. Even if yo
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by bob33212 6y ago
"Thousands of people are making millions in software and they do not work for any of the tech companies you have heard about in the news" may be a better title.
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by bob33212 6y ago
It depends a lot on the company culture. You can find startups where they intentionally look for you people who are excited about joining their first startup. Generally they can pay these people less and give them equity. You can also find
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by bob33212 6y ago
Construction, tunneling, automated manufacturing, vaccine creation
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That is where the margins come from on AWS. They are charging 10x the cost of the hardware. Even the AWS well architected framework says that there are always tradeoffs between disaster recovery and cost. For your business cost is more impo
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by bob33212 6y ago
The only good options are: 1. Make much more rapid charging possible on the cars much closer to the interstate. 2. Add a electrified metal rail to the road so that the cars can charge like a subway car.
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by bob33212 6y ago
The lack of data can be interpreted into actual data. For example let's say we have no data about an increase of deaths at Las Vegas hospitals. That lack of data combined with the fact that Las Vegas has a free press gives us a data po
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by bob33212 6y ago
My 8 year old enjoys it.
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Warren Buffet's has a famous quote about time being the only valuable thing he has. Once you have enough money to cover food/housing/healthcare/transportation it seems stupid to spend a lot of your time helping an organi
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by bob33212 6y ago
In enterprises there are plenty of problems that are just not important enough to spend money on. For example there may be a yearly reporting process which takes 30 days for an accountant to complete, which could be automated by a SaaS prod
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by bob33212 6y ago
The combination of a federal mortgage payment vacation, and a 10-20 percentage drop in housing prices could make it attractive to pull out all your equity, stop maintaining the property, stop making payments and get 2 years of free rent bef
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by bob33212 6y ago
Wouldn't a refinery or storage facility in a country with lax regulations just burn their existing stockpile and take some off this oil at a negative price
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by bob33212 6y ago
If he doesn't like Elon or Tesla's board of directors, that is fine. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. But it is like buying a utility stock and then complaining that they are boring and slow to innovate. It may be valid crit
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by bob33212 6y ago
The conversation about money between Frank and Charlie in this episode highlight the different ways the two groups think about the economy https://itsalwayssunny.fandom.com/wiki/Frank%27s_Back_in_Bus...
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by bob33212 6y ago
More importantly she is doing real work. She isn't promoting a brand or developing a line of clothes. If COVID has done anything good it has reminded us what matters. Who cares if you have 10 million followers, if all you "do&quot
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by bob33212 6y ago
Yes, the technology behind zoom can be repicated in less than 2 years and for less than 100m.
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by bob33212 7y ago
If it turns out that the infection rate is higher and the death rate is lower for healthy individuals than originally estimated it would be extremely alarming that were are not taking a totally different approach to handling this pandemic
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by bob33212 7y ago
I had a situation where the CEO was bringing up complains from the PM to me about how there were so many Jira issues in the back log that I should have been hiring more people. I said that it would take me 5 minutes to go into Jira and clos
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by bob33212 7y ago
To paraphrase you are asking what should people who are not achieving their goals do? I have read that the meaning of life is love and freedom and doing what you enjoy. What that means is different for everyone, but you have to ask yourself
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by bob33212 7y ago
Another way to look at it is that 20% of people most likely to contribute to a high transmission rate already have had it, in turn flattening the curve by a considerable amount

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