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by bob33212 7y ago
They can also do this without worrying about profit in the short term. The essentials may have lower margins but higher benefit to society. Amazon can take that financial hit over the next couple months and not go bankrupt
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by bob33212 7y ago
Also it gives us some time to think clearly about next steps and to have some control over the situation at an individual and organization level. Maybe someday we will also decided that herd immunity is the way to go but we may also decided
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by bob33212 7y ago
The delivery guy I talked said his route was easier on Friday because of all the Work from home. What increases in logistics costs are you referring to?
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by bob33212 7y ago
No it was not a crisis. There were plenty of bugs in legacy systems that needed to be fixed, but legacy systems have bugs all the time, for example when the dates for daylight savings time changed. The general public was not well informed a
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by bob33212 7y ago
It is an interesting story and I can relate. I don't think anyone should feel sorry for the author or me though. In the grand scheme of things it is a good job, just a shitty company. I find Warren Buffet's commentary to be intere
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by bob33212 7y ago
Not all patients who enter a hospital are admitted for 3+ days.
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by bob33212 7y ago
And a breakdown into specific medical factors. Diabetes, Smoker, AIDS, cancer, flu.
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by bob33212 7y ago
Around .5%
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by bob33212 7y ago
A decent percentage of people put food on the table and a roof over their head by doing a job we could classify as needless
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by bob33212 7y ago
The book Sapiens has a similar message. The children of farmers who move to textile manufacturing were worse off than their parents in the 1800s. But the great great grandchildren of those people have material wealth greater than upperclass
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by bob33212 7y ago
The 80/week people I have seen are "too busy" to stop and ask themselves if they are spending their time efficiently. They are focused on the short term tasks right in front of them. It is like someone saying they are too bus
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by bob33212 7y ago
How can you be "almost certain" of the future based on numbers from 1 article you didn't even read?
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by bob33212 7y ago
If the death rate was 10% across the board we would know how far it has spread. But this cold may have a 0.001% hospitalization or death rate for people in great health. There could already be 100,000 people infected in the states. We may b
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by bob33212 7y ago
I have been in a position where I have said no. I was able to stop the feature factory for a few months. But after that we were right back to cranking on features because several end users "validated our roadmap".
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by bob33212 7y ago
Sure. Someone is installing blinkers at the BMW factory which may never be used. There are plenty of jobs where you could say that the work being done isn't fulfilling because it is a waste of time. The problem is that at the BMW facto
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by bob33212 7y ago
In my experience people are afraid to ask that question. The answer to that question may lead to questions around total addressable market which could cause uppermanagement to question the viability of the product or at least the cost &#x2F
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by bob33212 7y ago
Facebook doesn't care about enjoyment. They want to maximize eyes on the screen time and sell that for maximum ad revenue. If you are someone who would like to spend 5 minutes a week on Facebook catching up with friends they do not car
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by bob33212 7y ago
Is this because you get a lot of bogus pitches from strangers or that you don't believe in the validity of the Business Model Canvas and corresponding metrics or something else?
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by bob33212 7y ago
If you had a really clear plan on how the creditor could take over your top traunch of revenue in the event of default it could work. But even in that case you should still be in good shape to negotiate acceptable equity arrangements with V
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by bob33212 7y ago
People are using it in the context of "should I take a job that I like more which pays X or should I take a job I like less that pays 2X" If X is 10k you should go with the 2X job. If X is 150k you should go with the 1x job
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by bob33212 7y ago
Super rich Hollywood people can't understand how you are happy without hanging out with models and celebrities at your Oceanview house.
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by bob33212 7y ago
It needs to be direct engagement at that price point. No one is going to pay Rachel Ray 1000/year for blog access. Someone may pay her 1000/year for access to Skype cooking lessons. High end prostitutes are a nontech example of wh
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by bob33212 7y ago
It goes both ways. I have had a couple of interviews go south and have no interest in continuing the conversation even in a constructive way. Best to say thank you for your time and move on.
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by bob33212 7y ago
Having been around DHS procurement a bit, I can only imagine what their App testing looks like. It probably only can test on certified Windows CE and Zune devices.
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by bob33212 7y ago
But with a different goal
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by bob33212 7y ago
autonomous driving is a great example here. It will never be "correct" because there will always be accidents. So the author is right about that. But it is very possible that those cars may be 10x safer than the average human driv
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by bob33212 7y ago
Similar to "unfilled jobs" and "not enough engineers". The market price is just higher than what they would like to pay for those employees.
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by bob33212 7y ago
As a teenager I frequently saw the way someone did something and assumed that person was stupid, now as an adult I understand how that person's domain of expertise may be very different from mine and I'm less likely to judge.
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by bob33212 7y ago
I could never take VC money. VCs and reasonable founders have very different definitions of success. A reasonable founder may say that 15 employees and revenue of 5M and profit of 1M is a huge success. A VC may say that 1M profit is bullshi
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by bob33212 7y ago
You cannot get full validation until you have a product and have real people giving you real money for that product. But you can get some data points which have some correlation with future product market fit.

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