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by chadash 3y ago
Switzerland has a similar service. For about 25 Swiss francs they’ll take your suitcase from the airport to your hotel, I think pretty much anywhere in Switzerland. I didn’t use it personally, but it’s a very nice option to have.
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by chadash 3y ago
I agree with the sentiment of the article, but I'd advocate a balanced approach. Sometimes inefficiency is perfectly fine. > Would you buy a car if it eats 100 liters per 100 kilometers? How about 1000 liters? With computers, we do
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by chadash 3y ago
> Marriage is not a magical thing that fixes economic problems, even if you want to keep turning the clock back and make certain acts outside of marriage illegal. The only thing that fixes economic problems is money. Speaking as a parent
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by chadash 3y ago
> Are you seriously suggesting that before the internet no one published or wrote about highly niche or uninteresting subjects? That you couldn't find mundane facts from history or nature written down somewhere? Yes and no. I'm
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by chadash 3y ago
Yes, but in my experience, this applies more to people than to some of the topics discussed in the article. I think you'd be hard pressed to find a city, town, village or hamlet in the US without a wikipedia page (as an example, take a
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by chadash 3y ago
It is so fantastic that we have a single resource where I can find information on an unremarkable Peruvian moth, a random small town in Iran, or a type of reading material designed for Sunday reading in Victorian England. Before the advent
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by chadash 3y ago
thanks! this is great reporting. I think that this list might be talking about unsecured claims though. I think that secured claims might be separate. So, for example, if an individual declares bankruptcy and they owe $500k on their house
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by chadash 3y ago
Because trucking is an enormous industry and $3.8b is a tiny slice. Sure, it's a tough nut to crack, but if someone does crack it they can be worth a lot more than that.
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by chadash 3y ago
Just to clarify your point about paying out employees... in what sense do you mean that? Some quick googling says that when a company goes into Chapter 7, employees become creditors for their unpaid wages, which means that they are at least
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by chadash 3y ago
I think for the therapy group there’s also an aspect of wanting people to have some skin in the game. If you give something away for free, plenty of people will take it. But as soon as you put a mild obstacle in the way, even if it’s a smal
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by chadash 3y ago
Haaretz is generally considered left wing, but also the most “serious” of Israeli newspapers. There’s no comparable newspaper on the right (like the WSJ is in the US), and it’s probably a a little further left in Israeli politics than what
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by chadash 3y ago
I wouldn't say I'm particularly afraid of heights, yet my heart pounded while watching this.
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by chadash 3y ago
4. Subscriptions can be better for aligning goals. If I charge you $20 upfront, then I just want to build whatever I need to build to make the sale. After that, I'm not really incentivized to improve things or fix bugs unless it's
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by chadash 3y ago
No one reads Origin of Species either. I’ll bet that there’s a 100 to 1 ratio of people who have heard of Darwin’s book versus those who have read it. Same goes for many important (or at least influential) books. Mein Kampf, Das Capital an
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by chadash 3y ago
Take a look at the second chat at https://jaredheyman.medium.com/on-the-176-annual-return-of-a... . The vast majority of returns for YC are for the companies at the tippy top of that chart (Airbnb, Stripe, Dropbox and a fe
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by chadash 3y ago
> They can also literally kill your company. VCs have a very specific strategy: they give some money to 1000 companies knowing that 990 of them will return 0% in the hopes that of the remaining ten, 9 of them return %X000 and one return
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by chadash 3y ago
The problem with this is that the CEO of Walmart is a much more important job than the CEO of McKinsey but under this formula they would get paid a fraction of the amount, no matter how well they did for Walmart workers. The end result of t
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by chadash 3y ago
The football coach is often the highest paid employee at the university. I wouldn’t be surprised if many rockstar doctors made more than some of their hospital CEOs.
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by chadash 3y ago
This is highly dependent on the role. I have been tasked with growing teams where my mandate is to hire X number of engineers at various levels. If I found X hires and then hire X + 1 shows up and was a great fit, the company would make an
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by chadash 3y ago
It’s not just this. I’ve seen many people get caught up in things like incorporation, or legal agreements, listening to start up podcasts or even designing business cards. I like ycombinator’s advice for early startups: if you aren’t buildi
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by chadash 3y ago
i'm trying to think of the coding equivalent of wooden wrenches? Let's say that's an app written entirely with VBA. If I perceive that it solves my problems, then for most use cases, i'd be fine with it. I guess if it&#x
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by chadash 3y ago
> Code can be the solution. Good code even more so. I think I agree with the author here. Code is a tool. This is like saying "a wrench can be the solution and a good wrench is even more valuable". I'm sure that car mechan
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by chadash 3y ago
The Sistine Chapel is lovely. I don't discount checking a box to say that you've been there. But while you are there, explore more of the vatican museum. There are countless artifacts there that would be the centerpieces of less i
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by chadash 3y ago
The link doesn’t talk about the SAAS model, which is probably the most profitable (and ubiquitous) one these days. I know people like to rail against it, but I actually like the SAAS model. It keeps incentives aligned. It used to be that I
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by chadash 3y ago
Sorry, this isn't practical for everything. Sure, a phone should be intuitive. And more importantly, you don't have to know how everything works at first pass. You can build it over time. But, for example, I recently signed up f
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by chadash 3y ago
Step 1: open free tier or trial account with new app I want to take a look at Step 2: open app, see your stupid tour, close it Step 3: click around, realize this might be what I’m looking for but more complex than I realized Step 4: look fo
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by chadash 3y ago
You say this is an American thing. Is there a country you are thinking of that has this less engrained? My experience working with foreign cultures is often that organizations are more hierarchical, not less.
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by chadash 3y ago
The second paragraph here is a bit surprising. Do you have an example you can point to?
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by chadash 3y ago
> and companies claim they are doing so to build lighter laptops A framework 13" is 15.9mm thick and weighs 2.9 lbs. A macbook air M1 is 16.1mm thick and weights 2.8 lbs. So it's pretty darn close. I'm sure that thinner
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by chadash 3y ago
AE?

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