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by dcole2929 8y ago
The problem is that is an infinitely arbitrarily moving goalpost. The issue isn't even clear with in the specifics of Rubin's situation. If someone directly reports to you then the answer is obviously no. But from the article it s
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by dcole2929 8y ago
You spend 40 hours a week just at work, not to mention commute and lunch. If you're getting a full night's sleep that means you spend more time with the people you work with than you do probably anyone else in the world. I agree y
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by dcole2929 8y ago
This is such a thorny ugly issue to which there are really no right answers. It should be very clear that using a position of authority to coerce someone into a relationship of any kind is wrong. But at the same time it's pretty much i
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by dcole2929 8y ago
Yeah this is 100% not the case when it comes to athletic wear. You are far more likely to get a comfortable well fitting shoe made by Nike, Addidas, etc than you are from one of the high end fashion designers. And it's pretty obvious w
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by dcole2929 8y ago
My biggest problem with Amazon at this point is Prime. The free 2 day shipping use to justify the cost of Prime by itself, but at this point more often than not I don't get my stuff within the 3-5 day period, so I don't even know
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by dcole2929 8y ago
This is absolutely great and needs to happen in many more places. One of the worst parts about the draconian mandatory sentencing laws so many places have is that prison turns otherwise good people into criminals. It's almost like the
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by dcole2929 8y ago
I don't see your point here. 1,789,000 is the total number of US troops serving in the Theatre during the Korean War. There were 74 million males living in the US ~50 million of which were over the age of 18. Even if every single soldi
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by dcole2929 8y ago
The somehow is the access to contraceptives being severely curtailed. Outside of condoms pretty much every form of contraceptive is much more expensive and harder to get than it once was. Free/Cheap birth control was an excellent way t
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by dcole2929 8y ago
I don't know if I'd really characterize that as a problem though. I did a lot of research for this a while back and a lot of research has been done that shows demonstratively, one of the best way to dramatically improve educationa
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It doesn't appear to be binding so there really isn't any downside I can see.
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by dcole2929 8y ago
Thank you. I've thought about making this exact thing multiple times. Word docs and dropbox just weren't cutting it for my organizing needs. Combined with the scrapple product oh man. The only thing they are missing is a wiki feat
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by dcole2929 8y ago
The problem is that we have not legally mandated that the wage that companies in America pay employees must be enough to obtain that minimum standard of living and so companies don't pay it. It's not a special tax on companies tha
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by dcole2929 8y ago
Very interesting idea on the service, that will never pass. Anyone with a vested interest in a large company, (e.g. almost everyone in congress) will have every incentive to see this thing die as quickly as possible. Also I'm not even
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by dcole2929 8y ago
One of the things I really like about this article is the story of Tuft & Needle. One of the biggest reasons (imo) why there are relatively few minority founders is because of the lack of access to inter-generational wealth. If you are
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by dcole2929 8y ago
Agreed, but the question is if that is how he sold the company to investors and to employees? Employees at this point all know, or should know that stock grants are lottery tickets. But that said there is a very clear distinction between wo
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by dcole2929 8y ago
The problem is from all the evidence we have (granted it's all anecdotal) that wasn't the case. Every interview, every story from this period times reinforces the fact that Network execs thought they were getting a great deal from
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by dcole2929 8y ago
I'm sure economics played a role but I don't overall find that to be a compelling reason to not shoot for longer deals. They are any number of ways to generate the money necessary and contractually they could have structured thing
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by dcole2929 8y ago
I mean this is such a straw man argument. It's simply impossible to maintain HBO level quality putting out the amount of content they do. And to make it clear they have no choice but to greenlight that amount of content. Autoplay thoug
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by dcole2929 8y ago
I think the "outsmarted" part is absolutely correct to an extent. They definitely saw an opportunity that an entire industry didn't. They have absolutely changed the direction of television in pretty much all respects, from r
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by dcole2929 8y ago
Read this story in December when it happened and was absolutely shocked but it makes so much sense. https://www.eater.com/2017/12/27/16821648/chef-returns-miche...
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by dcole2929 8y ago
Again, I'm not disagreeing that the current state of affairs might be good enough for people to work in this field with some degree of confidence they won't suddenly be facing crippling consequences for work that everyone generall
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by dcole2929 8y ago
Companies giving researchers permission to do something is inherently different from it being legal to do something. In one case you are able to operate only at the whims of the companies you're researching. The companies can for any r
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by dcole2929 8y ago
Stuff like this is why I have exactly zero faith in the US ever building the type of high speed rail systems that other countries have and we clearly need. These projects are simply to expensive for private entities to undertake alone and f
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by dcole2929 8y ago
Sure we respect coaches, but we also still in every sport pay them significantly less than the pros they ostensibly lead. I personally value both coaches and teachers but it's very clear that we as a people have decided that ability to
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Most people who go to college don't upend their life. By the numbers ~60% of students go to schools 100 miles or less from home. Obviously the numbers are far different for graduate school but I think the point still stands that subsid
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by dcole2929 8y ago
Yeah I couldn't recall whether he specifically called out the drive technology used to accelerate and decelerate from the collapsars or not. From the description and mechanics it sounded pretty similar.
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by dcole2929 8y ago
It's interesting to see this topic brought up without a reference to Haldeman's seminal Forever War. I can't recall whether he specifically outlines the means of interstellar travel in his universe as Ramjets but the story he
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by dcole2929 8y ago
What I'm wonder is if Netflix has explored entering the ISP game. Google experimented with this a bit but has apparently bowed out, but I could see it maybe being a valid direction for someone like Netflix. ISPs are going to keep squee
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I mean that's good for you and I tend to agree. But it's incredibly naive to think that any significant percentage of the working population is using that criteria to determine where and on what they should work. We tend to think
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by dcole2929 9y ago
My best advice on where to find work is look for smaller companies or for remote work with foreign companies. Small startups and the like often don't have the ability or the time to run background checks. It's not worth it for the

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