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by dpeck 6y ago
I appreciate the recommendations. Thanks!
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by dpeck 6y ago
No op, but I’m curious. I’ve often been interested in economic thinking from a systems perspective. Ive read several books about behavioral economics and it seems fascinating but the books seem more pop-sci than textbook style and I don’t f
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by dpeck 6y ago
The only thing worse than mm-dd-yyyy is dd-mm-yyyy. Long live yyyy-mm-dd
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by dpeck 6y ago
Don’t forget that ancient stoics most definitely had a concept of gods and the divine, even if modern stoics do not. I don’t feel like stoic concepts and theism have to operate independently. I’d imagine that stoicism lines up rather well a
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by dpeck 6y ago
2%? There is no way unless you were specifically setup for that by advertising exceptionally low pay and willingness to sponsor visas, and even then that seems off by 10x or more from my experience.
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by dpeck 6y ago
I’ve been in similar situations. Unpleasant reality below. It will not better, your boss has told you as much. The reality is that they either value the abuser more than you, or they don’t believe that you’ll leave. I would not bother going
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by dpeck 6y ago
Michael Pollan has some good history and a lot of fun anecdotes about early coffee house cultures in his recent book Caffeine. It was interesting how each coffee house had a certain business/class associated with it. The book itself is
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by dpeck 6y ago
The mental image most people have for a poodle isn’t the standard poodle, that are large, fast, and as a general rule very smart. They’re thinking of a miniature poodle that is associated with small, fluffy, and high maintenance.
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by dpeck 6y ago
you misspelled hire
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by dpeck 6y ago
I suspect much of it has to do with the number of unexpected scenarios that widely deployed free software encounters. It doesn’t cost anything and any random person within an organization can figure out how to get it running and try it out
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by dpeck 6y ago
Plenty of other things too as the product catalog is quite large, but yes. To each their own, I find using my skills to help make/sell food that gives people some simple joy and a bit of sustenance satisfying.
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by dpeck 6y ago
Related shill: PepsiCo setup an eCommerce business unit about 3 years ago that is forward thinking on technology and rapidly growing. During the pandemic we launched snacks.com and pantryshop.com. Our group’s leadership has some very experi
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by dpeck 6y ago
Glassdoor == Yelp == “top places to work” == every other business that revolves around curating a group of people to promote and extort in equal measures.
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by dpeck 6y ago
gp poster, I’d love to see it.
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by dpeck 6y ago
To get the best and the brightest from other lands to further enrich the US society which is much better primed to be a fully heterogeneous one than most anywhere else on the planet, and that’s just from an economic advancement point of vie
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by dpeck 6y ago
| They do, my local politician robo-calls all his constituents with info, and T-Mobile always flags his calls as spam. That’s a feature, not a bug.
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by dpeck 6y ago
Same in US, 26in bikes were (are?) very hard to find since they fit so many people. On one of our crazier COVID adventures we drove from Atlanta to a suburb of Chattanooga to pickup a bike there that would fit my kid and was of the quality
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by dpeck 6y ago
Interesting. Do people who research and speculate on such things feel the same about peaches and other large stone fruit?
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by dpeck 6y ago
That was before a good developer who can pass interviews and get a promotion or two could make 3x (easily) to 10x (if a few things went their way) as a teacher. There are some people who love teaching enough to make that trade off, and it’s
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by dpeck 6y ago
If you value having exposure to how business works, making real-time decisions, and being impactful at > $100k a year you’re a much better employee/coworker than I’ve ever been. The reality of the situations is working at a startup
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by dpeck 6y ago
That sounds really nice. Which latitude? Most of my time in Europe has been UK/Ireland/Netherlands/Belgium/Austria and in the summers I wouldn’t say I’m often “hot” but it does often feel stuffy. Especially in bedrooms,
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by dpeck 6y ago
As much as A/C is amazing, it’s the lack of moving air that makes me the most uncomfortable. I’ve always been surprised at how much of Europe seems to have no interest in fans, ceiling or otherwise.
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by dpeck 6y ago
I think it is a perfectly natural and very human reaction. But that doesn’t make it any less in the realm of superstition.
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by dpeck 6y ago
This feels more like practical magic/cargo culting than reality. I’ve heard that if you say “bezos bezos bezos” while spinning around counter clockwise in front of an amazon locker your delivery tips will go up 5%
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by dpeck 6y ago
One of my favorite places to eat growing up, and a favorite of my dads until the virus started, was a place like that that started as a halfway house. Shared tables, food keeps being brought out in family sized bowls, serve yourself as much
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by dpeck 6y ago
It’s not dead, but it requires the developers to know what they’re building before it’s being built. “Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen”
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by dpeck 6y ago
This is playing out at a massive scale with virtual learning. Large amounts of kids in the gifted program and generally “smart” kids have been pulled a week in. there is little value in keeping them together with kids below their academic l
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by dpeck 6y ago
The first part I’d say is even less likely than a big payout. That is only going to be true if it’s at a very well known consumer brand or just within a very specific niche
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by dpeck 6y ago
It’s a grant. You’re given $x value of stock (say $100k). It vests, meaning you can do with what you want, usually at 25% per year, often with a cliff at 1 year and then quarterly/monthly after that. You may have restrictions on when y
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by dpeck 6y ago
Freeze cup of water with some red food coloring in it. Turn upside down. If you ever come back to a freezer that looks like it’s covered in frozen blood you’ll know.

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