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by bwb 5y ago
Anyone moving to Portugal under NHR is by definition wealthy :)
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by bwb 5y ago
Question, how much of this is American culture of working people 50+ hours with no life balance? I wonder if everyone had 4 weeks paid vacation and strict 40 hour weeks how much of this would be occurring. That doesn't fix bad bosses o
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by bwb 5y ago
Ya just to mention, the last company I worked for had a policy of not working with any company that doesn't clearly disclose pricing publicly. I've adopted that one too.
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by bwb 5y ago
I am about to roll out search on Shepherd.com and looking at using Algolia. I've been impressed with Algolia on Hacker News... Is anyone else using them? What are your impressions so far? Much appreciated
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by bwb 5y ago
It is also a very good point in this situation. Just look at how many informers there were under the Stasi…
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by bwb 5y ago
I love email, ya it takes some control and if your organization is out of control it can suck. But I love the entire concept. I can email anyone in the world, that is mind blowing. I've gotten amazing responses from authors whose books
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by bwb 5y ago
These might help you: Marty Neumeier is a big branding guru and recommended the Best Books On Brand Strategy here: https://shepherd.com/best-books/brand-strategy And, DAvid Airey is a really amazing graphics designer w
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by bwb 5y ago
>Answering this to the fullest extent may or may not get this account banned. I think you will find that you have a lot more in common with people globally than you think. It is a trap to focus on the differences and our mind tries to bu
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by bwb 5y ago
How do they think differently than you?Where are you based? My guess is you want to live in an unpolluted environment where the land/water doesn't make you sick, eat food that doesn't kill you, if you want/have kids to k
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by bwb 5y ago
Would people be happier if they never faced any loss or conflict? I think the answer to that question is clearly no. Forget about the deeper question of what is real "happiness" and is that a meaningful goal in life... We are resi
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by bwb 5y ago
Ya agreed, it is going to take some time but a good place to aim for :) I'd like to see a shared believe that we are all human beings who are not that different in the grand scheme of things. And that everyone is worth a base level of
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by bwb 5y ago
It wouldn't erase culture in anyway... just help us remember we are all earthlings. You can still be french, french-basque, etc etc. Abolishing nations is totally feasible, what it is replaced with is just democracy on a local to globa
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by bwb 5y ago
Agreed, it is going to take time to change this cultural response to what is different/new. We are not purely slaves to our DNA, but it will be an upward battle. Government and business can improve this and have. As does time :)
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by bwb 5y ago
I trust my reps to be human, and I trust anyone else to be human as that is what they all are :) It might take a hundred or a thousand years, but that is where I'd like to see us go. And, it seems like that is where we are going given
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by bwb 5y ago
I am always amazed by the assumptions people make :) What do you disagree with? I have family living in China, and I live in Portugal. Why do you like nationalism so much and feel so threatened by the loss of your nation as an identity? Why
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by bwb 5y ago
Eh? What a weird response and I can't tell if you are a troll given the age of your account... Globalism is one of the best things to happen to our planet. I look forward to the next 1,000 years and hopefully reaching a point where eve
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by bwb 5y ago
It requires people to become more than what they are now, the same as when we didn't have nationalism and people made that leap "up"... People need to think beyond these tribes and up it a level. A random person from Bulgaria
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by bwb 5y ago
It takes time, good systems move slow :)
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by bwb 5y ago
I always am amazed by how many people value their nation over larger groups of human beings who are just like them... isn't it time to up our game as humans and start thinking bigger? Why not abolish nations within the EU and just beco
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by bwb 5y ago
Might try https://shepherd.com too :), self plug but trying to do something bigger in scope and just launched 2 months ago. I am working to add topic pages, search, and a much improved homepage now.
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by bwb 5y ago
Science is the arbiters of truth, it's a process not a destination. FB needs to stop giving people a loudspeaker, they can say it, but it doesn't get amplified.I'd love to see FB ban all conversations around politics. We shou
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by bwb 5y ago
I don't believe in censorship, but that doesn't mean you give people a bullhorn to spout false information. This platforms have a responsibility to not give a bullhorn out in these cases. This isn't censorship, it is not allo
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by bwb 5y ago
ya, I think it is a combo of salary + behaviours that build wealth, combined with having some idea about what you want from your brief time on this planet.
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by bwb 5y ago
ya, compound interest, long term returns of the stock market, 401k fees, etc
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by bwb 5y ago
Credit cards are also easy to get... I had around 22k to 30k in credit card debt by the end of my senior year. Part of that was building a business, but part was bootstrapping a business while living minimally... I learned a lot from that e
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by bwb 5y ago
Cloudflare, we had a server costing 500 a month and crashing… moved to cf workers and we can scale to infinity at 1/20th the cost
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by bwb 5y ago
You might like this list Joanne McNeil did on "The Best Books On The Origins Of The Tech Industry" https://shepherd.com/best-books/the-origins-of-the-tech-indu... She wrote a book called "Lurking: How a
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by bwb 5y ago
That gets down to culture. I was raised in the USA and I was raised that showing one's wealth is in bad taste. In fact I think most of the midwest feels similar. I still do. The point of money isn't to show it off, it is to put it
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by bwb 5y ago
It is easy to confuse a large splashy salary with what a real "life changing" job is for the majority of people. A salary that pays for a good life, real health care that actually covers you when you get sick, a real safety net th
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by bwb 5y ago
That is not true based on the data. Everyone in the world tries to move up through hard work, connections, and whatever advantages they are able to press. "Recent studies suggest that there is less economic mobility in the United State

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