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by drawkbox 6y ago
Policy should have sent the money directly to companies from the SBA/IRS, customers then would choose the banks to service that guaranteed government grant/loan essentially. Much like the FAFSA system for student loans, you get yo
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by drawkbox 6y ago
Anytime needed stimulus goes through banks, don't be surprised if it never makes it out of said bank or to the intended locations as they are self-preservation first as expected. Banks should help the river and get access to the flow,
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by drawkbox 6y ago
Maybe it needs to be framed in the way that it is an additional bailout for their own companies and interests. Most of that money makes it back into banks, larger companies, wealth, top end etc. If consumers have purchasing power and small
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by drawkbox 6y ago
Anytime needed stimulus goes through banks, don't be surprised if it never makes it out of said bank or to the intended locations as they are self-preservation first as expected. Banks should help the river and get access to the flow,
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by drawkbox 7y ago
> Stop scapegoating landlords If rent collection at the very top, above the landlord, above the management company, if they have to take the hit from this the most, there will be many less recessions. If the bank, credit cards and mortga
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by drawkbox 7y ago
Chinese style factories in the US are not going to work. See American Factory on Netflix. Factory work should be safe and no more than 8 hours as well established, maybe even less so there can be more jobs. If anything Chinese style manag
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by drawkbox 7y ago
> I'm curious what the justification for this is. It seems like the kneejerk reaction toward any big/powerful entity (eg. "break up the tech companies!"). Well we do need more Teddy Roosevelts that threaten anti-tru
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by drawkbox 7y ago
> I see a lot of simplistic "landlords must suck it up" comments in this thread. Your answer is for the rent payer, with no economy, to "suck it up". If the top felt the pain of recessions more than the bottom, you ca
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by drawkbox 7y ago
If rent collection at the very top, above the landlord, above the management company, if they have to take the hit from this the most, there will be many less recessions. If the bank, credit cards and mortgage owners have payments suspended
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by drawkbox 7y ago
> I have noticed a certain phenomenon where people who are bad at something read books about it to compensate, and then having read books on the subjects start considering themselves experts on it and preach to others, closing the loop
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by drawkbox 7y ago
Trampolines were great fun for sleep overs definitely. Easy to go on late night adventures without the parents knowing. The next day you can wake up and have sleeping bag trampoline wars. Then later you can put the sprinkler under it, jumpi
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by drawkbox 7y ago
> I guess my question is: why do we allow companies to manage retirement funds? Additionally, why do we let employers be involved in choosing our healthcare companies and plans at all? Employer managed retirement accounts and healthcar
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by drawkbox 7y ago
Great read with the logical analysis and openness lends well to success and navigating this adventure. Doing your own products is definitely the way to go for sustainability. Just one big one or a few have to work. Focusing on products is n
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by drawkbox 7y ago
> It identifies the unit and quantity fair enough, and it's right when it says "Risotto rice" is the product. But then it says "Arborio or Carnaroli" is a preparation method. I can totally see WHY it says that.
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by drawkbox 7y ago
Not ready for Monty Python crew to kick off, what legends that changed everything, for the better. Some Terry Jones quotes: > "Some people are passionate about aisles, others about window seats." > "The funny thing a
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by drawkbox 7y ago
Not sure I agree but if you are right, the software engineering job (which you can get a degree for which would be a certification or even a software cert like MCSD or similar) would mostly depend on the job at hand. If it was for any compa
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by drawkbox 7y ago
"Professional Services" and "Professionals" are exempt which includes engineers/software development. See here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21811997 ), engineers are AB5 exempt by law. Also,
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by drawkbox 7y ago
Looks like this really won't affect software freelancing for engineering and creative services. AB5 wouldn't affect services like these under the "Professionals" or "Professional Services" label. [1][2] Softwar
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by drawkbox 7y ago
AB5 wouldn't affect you under the "Professionals" or "Professional Services" label. [1][2] Software contracting is largely excluded especially freelance. The employer would just have to follow the AB test which is b
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by drawkbox 7y ago
Correct me if I am wrong but freelancing sites like Upwork, Fiverr, Toptal, and YC's own Gigster won't be affected. The sites only setup contractors with businesses on a project by project basis and meant to be temporary from the
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by drawkbox 7y ago
Oops corrected, I did assume because of sports. Should have looked at the byline.
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by drawkbox 7y ago
> No it won't. Who exactly will it help? Converting someone to an employee doesn't magically change their income. Contractors will be helped in many fields and industries. Outside of writing and development/technology, m
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by drawkbox 7y ago
California does not recognize non-competes [1][2]. California is also a nebula of innovation and great companies because of it, with creator/developer freedom. California will do things for labor other states won't, like not allo
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by drawkbox 7y ago
Or it is being underestimated. It is probably wise with power grabs, whether corporate/oligarchy or authoritarian, to overestimate rather than underestimate. Overestimating preserves ground gained, rights and freedoms and is an offensi
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by drawkbox 7y ago
Agreed, these types of authoritarian / corporate oligopoly moves on the internet are bad in any direction. China is already gone. Hopefully everyone else can get along but it isn't looking good. In the real world this would be the
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by drawkbox 7y ago
Once Is Chance, Twice is Coincidence, Third Time Is A Pattern Looks like this may be a policy either at the oligopoly/oligarch, corporate or authoritarian state level. I'd argue that twice is already a pattern.
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by drawkbox 7y ago
I don't approve of extorting all of Twitch for one companies corporate copyrights including blocking Twitch across an entire country . This is a scorched earth corporate authoritarian/oligopoly approach. Not a fan of these types
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by drawkbox 7y ago
This particular case is mostly corporate but also authoritarian. It presses and seeds the point that Russia wants their own internet and there be these type of deals having to be made to access it. [1] China already does this type of &quot
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> According to the information of the newspaper Kommersant, Rambler Group demands through the court to “stop the spread of pirated broadcasts” and to recover a record 180 billion rubles. (about $ 2.9 billion) from the world's large
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by drawkbox 7y ago
Agreed. Couple that with knowing machine learning is probabilistic and not so much deterministic in the decision processes. As "correctness" gets close to 100% but never fully 100%, somewhere along the line that might be lost, ev

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