bsbechtel

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by bsbechtel 9y ago
There are a lot of service industry workers workers who would disagree with you, and view your comment as smug elitism.
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by bsbechtel 9y ago
For many, in particular among those who aren't self-motivated, having a job provides much more than just a paycheck. For one's mental health, knowing you are contributing something back to society provides an enormous boost to you
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by bsbechtel 9y ago
Random HN poll: How many people here are actually considering buying Magic Leap's product when it becomes available?
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by bsbechtel 9y ago
Then how do you confirm Facebook is complying, and how do you confirm that the regulation they need to follow is sufficient, and if it's not, how do you really create any change to make it sufficient?
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by bsbechtel 9y ago
A good way to think about regulation and Facebook might be, would you rather continue using Facebook, knowing the government is supposedly regulating them, but you can never know for sure, or would you rather move on to a new and more inter
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by bsbechtel 9y ago
California is one of the most agriculturally diverse and productive regions in the world. I'm not sure what your point is, but implying agriculture struggles in California is just plain wrong.
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by bsbechtel 9y ago
Like paying $1 for today's print paper at your local news stand?
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by bsbechtel 9y ago
Employment is only a result of an individual wanting someone else to do something for them, because they don't have the time or skill to do it themselves. In exchange for someone doing this thing for them, they compensate them with som
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by bsbechtel 9y ago
Brendan Eich, James Damore?
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by bsbechtel 9y ago
Haven't these been around for years?
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by bsbechtel 9y ago
Your argument is reasonable, until a better way to market to individuals comes along. It's not about the size of Facebook's user base or their reach on the web, it's how cheaply and effectively brands can sell their product b
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by bsbechtel 9y ago
In the long view of your career, many people you meet will be bosses at one point, colleagues at another, and subordinates at another, possibly within the same group of people. Yes, power structures exist, but meaningful human relationships
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by bsbechtel 9y ago
That $51,000 to the accountant covers payroll for at least a couple accountants and a secretary, the taxes and rent those individuals pay personally, the rent the business pays locally, food spent at local restaurants and grocery stores, an
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by bsbechtel 9y ago
That's a very broad generalization without any evidence to back it up as being anything more than an assumption. Considering one of the top ways the vast majority of the population avoids taxes is by writing off charitable donations, I
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by bsbechtel 9y ago
51k going to an accountant in your community is probably a more moral way to spend your money than 50k going to fund a war. If one is going to judge a client's morality by his eagerness to spend more money than his tax bill in order to
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by bsbechtel 9y ago
If it were profitable to do so, I think most people would.
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by bsbechtel 9y ago
Not caring about money doesn't necessarily mean you are willing to pay more taxes than you are legally required to, especially a subjective amount that others deem 'reasonable'.
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by bsbechtel 9y ago
Stocks do the same thing, and after the split, the stock's price is determined by the market based on how much the new shares diluted the market. Seems like something very similar will happen here, with the difference being each fork w
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by bsbechtel 9y ago
My original point was that that money entered the system via large investment banks, whom use it to invest in publicly traded securities. Most of that money doesn't make it to circulation, it just inflates the price of those assets ins
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by bsbechtel 9y ago
Printing money for the past decade and giving it to large banks will have that effect. It's the same as giving $100 to every person at the market and then wondering why an Apple costs $100.50. The large investment banks are consumers o
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by bsbechtel 9y ago
Social time with the freedom to choose how you spend it allows individuals to congregate into their own tribes and pursue interests pertinent to them. Forced social interactions that are the byproduct of other necessary transactions are how
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by bsbechtel 9y ago
If individuals aren't free to make these financial decisions for themselves, then insurance companies or the government will. My mom had a severe infection while on chemo because the insurance company didn't want to pay for an inj
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by bsbechtel 9y ago
Net income adjusted for cost of living for software developers in Indianapolis is one of the highest in the country. Infosys and Salesforce are planning on adding thousands of jobs here over the next few years too, so it's likely those
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by bsbechtel 9y ago
I had something similar happen, and LinkedIn was willing to offer a refund after contacting them.
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by bsbechtel 9y ago
You can't even (and probably don't want) do that with a real human. Why do we think it'll one day become a possibility/desirable with a computer?
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by bsbechtel 9y ago
All of these points are the exact same concerns I've had with serverless. The higher cost per CPU cycle, plus additional engineering cost managing all the functions and build processes seem better spent deploying on a dedicated server.
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by bsbechtel 9y ago
How did those actions affect sales of the game, the short term stock price, and long term prospects of the company?
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by bsbechtel 9y ago
It was more of an off-handed comment, but I suppose you could rig some sort of carbon sensor that measures X amount of carbon pulled from the atmosphere. Of course any sort of sensor to the physical world can be rigged to produce a false si
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by bsbechtel 9y ago
Like carbon sequestration?
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by bsbechtel 9y ago
The same mindset exists in many small businesses that require regular asset purchases, especially manufacturing. I'm not sure farming is special in this regard.

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