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by chadash 5y ago
This, 100%. My current company moved offices and bought new chairs that the interior designer thought looked better in the new space, so ~50 perfectly good aerons found their way to one of these liquidators. Many of these liquidation compan
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by chadash 5y ago
I have an Aeron at work. It's pretty good. But I have a steelcase Leap at home and I love it. Largely it's a matter of preference though. My advice: look for something used or refurbished (although this is harder than before cov
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by chadash 5y ago
Thanks for sharing this. I hope that the person who made the mistake (or better yet, their manager) sees these types of stories and realizes how common this sort of thing is, even for good engineers. I wouldn't go so far as to say that
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by chadash 5y ago
This really depends on how you define tech... Is a static website made with SquareSpace tech? Is an excel file tech? I'd argue yes, and if so, then I'd bet that number is much higher than 80%.
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by chadash 5y ago
> How is this different from money or the financial markets? A big difference is that the sovereign requires you to pay taxes in a given currency at the threat of punishment. So long as everyone needs to pay the taxman, the currency that
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by chadash 5y ago
The quote was: "If I were a Jew I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing in defense of myself" Yes, the sentiment is (possibly) anti-israel, not anti-semetic, but the wording itself implies that Jews
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by chadash 5y ago
Point taken, but perhaps a bad example. When I buy an iPhone, I'm paying a little for materials, but mostly I'm purchasing the culmination of tens of billions of dollars of R&D that possibly surpasses any other product on Eart
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by chadash 5y ago
No, it's not. The article argues that patents are irrelevant, since the know-how of drug manufacturing is the only thing that really matters. This would definitely be news to the drug companies, who spend fortunes depending their paten
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by chadash 5y ago
I bought a used car last year for 13k after taxes and fees. 9 months later, I sold to Carvana for 16k (even with a few scratches that would have been $300 to fix, plus a $200 scheduled service coming up in a few weeks). Carvana needs to mak
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by chadash 6y ago
I’d argue that a good mobile browser was the killer app that brought the iPhone to the forefront. It differentiated it from what else was available at the time. It’s hard to pinpoint a killer app now because the ecosystem is mature, but a k
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by chadash 6y ago
You can argue that cash is also used for a lot of illegal activity and you would be correct, but that misses an important point, which is that cash has been with us since our country's founding and from a political point of view it wou
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by chadash 6y ago
This isn’t a story. I’ve installed competitors’ apps many times to see what they are like. Doesnt even mean that I use them beyond seeing what they are like. And even so, not a big deal if you occasionally use a competitor.
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by chadash 6y ago
I don’t believe this is true. Wealthy companies that do business in dangerous countries tend to pay quite a bit for security of key employees. If you are a white collar worker of MegaCorp Oil traveling to Iraq for business, you will be prov
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by chadash 6y ago
While we are arguing semantics (and I agree that improbable would be a better word for the title) there is a difference. Improbable refers to odds. Probably impossible refers to odds of some binary outcome. My winning the lottery is impro
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by chadash 6y ago
This question might as well be, why are so many software engineers founders of software companies? Well, duh. What would be notable is if there were many software engineers leading non-software companies. That does not seem to be the case.
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by chadash 6y ago
1) It depends on what your field is. For example, if you are a software engineer, moving to a company that doesn't compete is easy. If you work on software for Tesla, that doesn't mean that you can only work for car companies. So
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by chadash 6y ago
> New York (NYC), Florida, Seattle, REMOTE You should probably specify where in Florida since it's a big state.
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by chadash 6y ago
What's artificially low is the number of residency slots. In other words, it's not just that you have to clear a bar to be a surgeon. It's that there are literally X number of slots and if you don't get one of them, you&
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by chadash 6y ago
> If there were 100 qualified surgeons for every patient needing an operation, and would stampede each other for a chance to work and get paid, we'd pay them $25/hour too. The number of surgeons is artificially low because of l
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by chadash 6y ago
> scarcity and liquidity So it's valuable because it's scarce and it's liquid because it's valuable? I imagine you can see how a skeptic might view this. I would be skeptical of gold coins too, but for the fact that a
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by chadash 6y ago
> commodity It's not really a commodity. More of a currency. > you want high price for a longer period of time, but are turned off by the exact and only mechanism in which it gets there - large % and large $ amount price increase
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by chadash 6y ago
Not OP, but also a skeptic and here are my thoughts: - Market cap is sort of a misleading stat. Microsoft's market cap is ~1.75 trillion, but it's p/e ratio is 34. So if they stopped reinvesting in their business, I'd be
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by chadash 6y ago
I can't stand that schools don't like to acknowledge their role as childcare (i.e. babysitting) in addition to education. People set up their entire lives around the fact that their kids will be watched at school most days. Unless
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by chadash 6y ago
> Systematic bad moderation can be tantamount to wokeness / cancel culture Maybe, but this is a bad example of it. Flagging posts that encourage suicide isn't a left vs. right issue... it seems pretty bipartisan to me. The fa
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by chadash 6y ago
This is a non-story. Someone on twitter wrote: > There is dignity in dying. As a priest, I am privileged to witness it often. Assisted suicide, where it is practices, it not an expression of freedom or dignity, but of the failure of a s
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by chadash 6y ago
A simple thought experiment. A company in India decides to open an office in NYC. They say, it wouldn’t be fair to have different pay for different people doing the same work so let’s pay people in NYC a Bangalore wage. You’d laugh at them.
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by chadash 6y ago
Do you have numbers? How much do we spend eliminating poverty? And how much would we spend on universal income? Assuming 200 million adults get universal income, that would cost $1 trillion per $5,000 of income. But $5000 hardly gets you ou
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by chadash 6y ago
The real issue here is that federal and state governments didn't think through the logistics of distributing vaccines even though it has been many months since we've known a vaccine would be coming. Where I live, there are about 1
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by chadash 6y ago
> Also, what’s the ethical issue with pirating content that is not for sale?... (Offline-only distribution would count as “abandoned” in this regime.) Let's say I author a book and sell it as a paperback, but decide for whatever r
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by chadash 6y ago
This. How many real use cases are there where you really need to distribute trust? For currency, there's some sense in it. But when i hear things like using blockchain for contracts or for keeping track of supply chain... it always s

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