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by chadash 7y ago
I tend to agree with this (but I admit that I haven't given it much thought). For the most part, population growth is far higher in developing countries. As some of the other commenters here point out, population growth tends to slow d
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by chadash 7y ago
> Unlike getting a product on store shelves which requires passing through a rigorous, sometimes corrupt, but difficult-to-fake process, getting a product on Amazon or Walmart Marketplace is as easy as uploading a spreadsheet or filling
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by chadash 7y ago
Does anyone know if Walmart has consigned, third party merchandise like Amazon does (e.g. sold by X, but shipped prime)? And if so, does it get commingled with the Walmart supply chain inventory? My issue with Amazon is that I'm afraid
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by chadash 7y ago
> Under US law the answer cannot be both. Do you have a source for this? Reading the decision here it seems like both the developers and the consumers have standing to sue, although for slightly different reasons [0]. [0] from the deci
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by chadash 7y ago
Or reimbursement for mileage. Businesses can take this as a tax write-off (i.e. no payroll taxes) from the IRS [0]. My father used to get reimbursed for mileage from his work at the IRS rate, which accounts for things such as reduced car va
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by chadash 7y ago
1) Respect for my role from upper management. This one is huge for me. I have a friend working as an engineer in a company where engineers aren't considered impact players (i.e. aren't perceived as revenue generating, even if the
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by chadash 7y ago
In my city, for onsite service, I have two options within 30 miles: one is an office depot, and the other is a computer repair store. Both seem to contract with Lenovo. I'm sure that there are some repair centers that provide excellent
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by chadash 7y ago
I live near an Apple store and frequent it every few months when I need to fix a phone or laptop, or buy a dongle, etc. The store near me gets lots of foot traffic, but the experience is just fine. There are usually at least 2-3 employees w
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by chadash 7y ago
The headline says ride share drivers, not taxi drivers.
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by chadash 7y ago
In theory, I think it's true that healthcare costs are high because most people aren't paying them, their insurance companies are. And then the insurance companies just turn around and charge more, so they aren't really (enou
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by chadash 7y ago
Some of the more surprising ones (to me): 1) Don't use timestamp (without time zone) 2) Don't use varchar(n) by default - just use varchar or text without any length specified 3) Don't use money - The money data type isn&
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by chadash 7y ago
Wow, I never realized the complexity of this. Looking at https://www.bankrate.com/finance/money-guides/home-office-ca... , this gets pretty complicated.
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by chadash 7y ago
> It probably takes only a weekend for me to do this and I'll be happy to do it if there is significant interest from my fellow HNers. I think you are underestimating by a long shot. Let's say that you forgo any UI and just m
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by chadash 7y ago
I didn't downvote the parent, but I think that doing so is justified because the comment doesn't add much to the conversation, whether you agree with it or not. To be a substantive comment, it should explain _why_ typed languages
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by chadash 7y ago
I was surprised that this article didn't mention the Orphan Drug Act of 1983, which was passed by congress to facilitate the development of drugs for rare diseases (many other countries have similar legislation). This act gives tax inc
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by chadash 7y ago
Their economic model can be clear and simple even if it isn't profitable. At it's core, the model is: a) buy or rent commercial real estate b) rent that same real estate out to people who want office space As long as the money com
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by chadash 7y ago
Yes, if you want what you had before, then streaming isn't going to save you money. However, with the current system, I can pay $50/month for cable and then get whatever else I actually want when I want it. I get YouTube TV but on
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by chadash 8y ago
Totally agree. I won't but stuff on Amazon for ME to eat. Much more so anything that's going into a baby's body.
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by chadash 8y ago
Is it hard to get tickets? How much do they cost?
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by chadash 8y ago
> Make the culture of your company so awesome that people will want to stay, even if you can't pay the most. Make mentoring/growth a central strategy at every level so people will see a path to grow. I think this only goes so
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by chadash 8y ago
I totally agree with you. If you are re-doing a road, that's the best time to build a bike lane. But I'm personally not convinced that it's necessary on every new road. I lived on a side street in Cambridge that saw maybe o
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by chadash 8y ago
> "Local law now requires the city to erect vertical barriers between cyclists and cars on any roadway that’s rebuilt, expanded, or reconfigured" I'm all for better bike lanes, but it seems kind of extreme to require thi
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by chadash 8y ago
A founder takes far more risk than an employee. It's easy to look at extremely successful outliers and say in retrospect that they are unfairly wealthy, but for every Sergey Brin or Elon Musk, there are many many people who slave away
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by chadash 8y ago
Parent started with "It's bad for most people, but when it's good it's really good.". So yes, roulette is similarly bad for those who don't win and good for the few who do.
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by chadash 8y ago
The problem is that these two interact. You get a deduction on your federal return for your state taxes. There are those who want to eliminate this (and the 2018 changes significantly reduced this deduction), but doing so is--IMHO--unfair t
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by chadash 8y ago
The problem is that the system requires constant maintenance every time some tax law changes in any state, and great maintenance is something that only the most well funded OSS projects get. And you need participation from lawyers and accou
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by chadash 8y ago
Tl;dr: The author went to Miami and spoke to real estate agents, whose job it is to sell property, whether they thought climate change is going to make real estate a bad purchase. Surprisingly, the real estate agents, whose livelihood depen
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by chadash 8y ago
> As of 2016, Stack Exchange served 200 million requests per day, backed by just four SQL servers: a primary for Stack Overflow, a primary for everything else, and two replicas. This was the most enlightening piece of the article for m
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by chadash 8y ago
this is just how titles in finance work: analyst < associate < VP < executive VP < managing director* < C-level executive The lowest level managing directors typically have several additional managing directors between them a
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by chadash 8y ago
Much smaller. Their revenues are in the range of $115 billion/year (compared to ~265 billion for Apple), but they are in a range of much lower margin businesses. Meanwhile, Apple sells a line of extremely high margin items. It's e

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