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by cimmanom 8y ago
That’s an average. How many women have far fewer than that? A lot of women, especially those who are hard to fit, get by with just 1-3 everyday bras that they wear to death because it’s just so frustrating (or impossible) to find more bras
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by cimmanom 8y ago
It sounds like the plan is to eventually automate fabrication in order to achieve such economies of scale; that they're currently doing it manually in part because they didn't yet have enough information to properly automate.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Maybe you're talking about a different kind of account, but FSA dollars come out of the employee's own paycheck.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
There's a lot of focus in this thread on the bras, specifically. But the lessons learned, as described in the article, are much more generalizable, and I found them valuable. How many of us spend years perfecting products instead of l
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by cimmanom 8y ago
For women with large breasts, it's often MUCH more comfortable to wear a supportive bra than to go without. Especially if you're moving at all during the day. Even for those of us with moderate-sized breasts, the jiggling can be a
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by cimmanom 8y ago
I think GP's point is that if a venture capitalist was paying for 90% of the actual cost (as with Uber) in order to grab market share, the price would be much more within reach.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
If you're an "unusual" size (i.e. out side the 32-38 A-DD sold in Victoria's Secret), $80 is about par for the course. And that's not even taking into account comfort.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Effect on nipples?
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Chimed in in a sibling comment...
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by cimmanom 8y ago
It's a lot. But... for something that often costs $80; is generally available only in sizes that comfortably fit a small proportion of the population; and where improper fit means pain all day... worth it if you can afford it. I for
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by cimmanom 8y ago
I suggest you try recruiting on campus toward the end of each semester, and right after graduation in spring. Maybe even try to get some interns. Young grads will be hungry and trainable, and are facing the toughest hiring market of any s
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by cimmanom 8y ago
It may be that the best graduates are leaving town because of a lack of challenging or well-paying jobs. Have you interviewed any brand new grads? Surely immediately after completing a CS degree you’d be able to write a function with a simp
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by cimmanom 8y ago
GP pointed out that GP made up a (diminutive-sounding) word that isn’t even a word just to highlight the completely irrelevant fact that the article was written by a woman, and you think the problem is that English language pronouns are gen
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Does your city have an institution of higher education, and does it have a computer science department?
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Though many are non-practicing. Only about 5% of the Jewish people I know keep kosher in any sense, and maybe half of those are strict enough to ask a roommate to avoid pork in the kitchen. (Pretty sure that’s lower than the proportion of v
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Counterpoint: maybe we should be afraid of technology. Or at least, of what certain powerful players will be able to do with it.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Well, if losing / leaving your job means you also lose the roof over your head, effective immediately or on short notice, that gives the company a whole hell of a lot more leverage over employees. And if you have to live in company hou
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by cimmanom 8y ago
It’s almost as if we didn’t learn our lesson 100 years ago about the failings of the Company Town and Company Store. What’s next? Will Tesla be paying its employees in scrip?
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by cimmanom 8y ago
The answers to all of those questions are going to depend pretty much entirely on the people involved and their personalities, goals, and values.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
How about holding them accountable for something they’ve strongly suggested?
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Also, what percentage of index fund investors hold those shares only in the short term? I thought much of the point of index fund investing is that it's great for a relatively low-effort, reasonably-diversified buy-and-hold strategy o
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by cimmanom 8y ago
The legislation outlined is pretty weak. A whole lot of Amazon engineers would be exempt. The penalties are a pittance. And there’s no provision for requiring severance.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
That’s why you don’t use the threshold to trigger anything more punitive than further investigation. And sure, tune the threshold to the department. But also consider that maybe teaching is better on average in some departments than others.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
It’s also possible to reach market saturation regardless of price point. Even if a meal costs less than 1 cent and even if that’s all anyone eats, you’re going to have a really tough time getting fast food sales to exceed around 3-4 meals p
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Tying them directly indeed seems like a bad idea (like pretty much any other naive reputation score), but that doesn’t mean you have to give up on the feedback mechanism. Just set a threshold - such as “scores an average of < 4/10”.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Hypothesis: there’s a certain minimum amount of time users want to be able to use a laptop for. Say 3-5 years. Back when every 18 months new hardware would be out that was twice as powerful as what you had just bought for $2k, anything that
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Each of the categories above would be one file. Each command should have a sentence or two of context, which also helps with searching: “If the Baz starts showing symptoms of Quux, frobnicate the Foo to reset the Bar: <insert command her
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Any of the above will work as long as everything’s well organized and easy to find. Personally I find Google Docs and Confluence impossible to locate stuff in. Markdown docs within your main repository (or a central docs repository if for s
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by cimmanom 8y ago
We left the servers running unmolested and un-upgraded behind a firewall (thankfully they were super stable) until we could replace the 3 unmaintainable microservices that did something simple in the most complex manner imaginable with a 50
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Group them by topic. “Version control incantations”. “Writing and running tests.” “Debugging.” “Deploys.” “Production troubleshooting.” Etc.

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