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by drumdance 10y ago
The difference is scale. These days it's orders of magnitude cheaper to do that, so now we get orders of magnitude more offers. I get tons of "personal" emails from sales reps trying to set up a short meeting with me to discu
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by drumdance 10y ago
You're not going to find anything near as beautiful in the US for a decent cost of living. I would move to Wellington in a heartbeat if I could. Imagine San Francisco without all the traffic and homelessness.
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by drumdance 10y ago
Just curious, what's your rate in Prague? Is it a comparable bargain for US companies to hire you?
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by drumdance 10y ago
Obama is also a neoliberal. While it was a mistake for her not to visit Wisconsin, in terms of actual issues she's not that different from Obama.
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by drumdance 10y ago
To me that's less of an issue than a statement like "if Trump is elected Jesus will return."
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by drumdance 10y ago
Rates near zero is part of the reason the stock market has been on a tear the last few years. It also was a driver of the housing bubble. It didn't cause the hyperinflation that a lot of people thought would come, but the Great Depress
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by drumdance 10y ago
The polls were not that far off. If 1 in 100 Trump voters had gone for Clinton instead she would have won. I think polling is pretty broken though. A lot has changed from 20 years ago when everyone had a landline phone.
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by drumdance 10y ago
I personally prefer Flowdock's UI, but they're slipping behind.
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by drumdance 10y ago
There are many, many ways to maximize shareholder value. Or at least try to. No path is without risk. He could focus on privacy and discover that for most people it's not a big deal. Or some kind of WikiLeaks/NSA scandal could hap
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by drumdance 10y ago
Not to mention that Sanders was not a Democrat until he became a candidate for president. Politics is about building coalitions. Maybe if Bernie had nurtured closer relations with the DNC he would have gotten more favorable treatment. And i
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by drumdance 10y ago
> LEAKED I've not heard anywhere that they were leaked, which suggests a disgruntled insider. The US government claims that they were hacked, and apparently that information was communicate to both Trump and Clinton in their nationa
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by drumdance 10y ago
I've seen similar numbers. I'd be curious to see how becoming an entrepreneur affects this. Practically every entrepreneur I know over the age of 40 has divorced.
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by drumdance 10y ago
It would collapse if not for trade with other market economies i.e. everyone who doesn't work for Wal-Mart. That's what destroyed the Soviet Union. It largely only traded with other command economies like Cuba, China, North Korea
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by drumdance 10y ago
Back in the day Google completely changed the game by giving out an enormous amount of perks. Now they've become the norm in SV.
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by drumdance 10y ago
For the last year I've been working on a project that has a complex toolchain, such that every time I hit cmd-s I have to wait 2-5 seconds before I can reload the browser to see the changes. It's remarkable how easily I can get di
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by drumdance 10y ago
My reading is that since notes are labeled A to G, one might intuitively assume the "natural" order is A to G.
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by drumdance 10y ago
"Different cultures have different reactions to other humans that are outside of the group." Compare speaking rudimentary French in France to speaking rudimentary Spanish in Colombia.
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by drumdance 10y ago
Being "proud to be white" is meaningless. Being proud to be Irish or Italian or German is not.
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by drumdance 10y ago
But ultimately it's also a novelty to her. She can go back to the US and not feel out of place. An African American cannot unless he stays in majority-black districts. Relatedly, a friend of mine worked in Switzerland for eight years,
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by drumdance 10y ago
It may be 12% overall, but it's obvious to anyone that downtown Seattle looks nothing like downtown Atlanta. My high school (small town in Georgia) was ~30% black. Which of course was fine with me. I had lots of black classmates from f
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by drumdance 10y ago
"people just staring at me, everywhere" That happened to me (a white guy) in China. Not in Beijing or Shanghai, but in the "smaller" interior city of Zhengzhou (Zhengzhou has a population of 2.5 million). It was very unn
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by drumdance 10y ago
I moved from Boulder to Denver late last year. I'd say the tech scene in Denver is very solid. The only difference is it's a bit more spread out, so you don't have quite the same serendipity that you have in Boulder (i.e. bum
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by drumdance 10y ago
I visited Boston in April for a conference in Copley Square. I looked into AirBnB and was surprised to see that the prices were virtually the same as the hotel. I decided to stay in the hotel since it would be more convenient for the confer
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by drumdance 10y ago
In the St. Paul case he fired 5 rounds from just outside the window of the car. Literally just a couple feet away from the guy, not 10 yards. In the Baton Rouge case the guy was on the ground with the cops on top of him. In the UK they mana
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by drumdance 10y ago
Google is growing their Boulder office from ~400 to 2,000 over the next few years.
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by drumdance 10y ago
Tesla is important but will never sell anywhere near like an iPhone. Best case, in 10-20 years it's the self-driving fleet of choice and huge chunks of people ditch their cars for on-demand transportation. But even then in rural ares I
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by drumdance 10y ago
Consider Colorado. A strong tech scene and world class in those activities.
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by drumdance 10y ago
This is a frustration I had in my most recent project. Management did a good job of coming up with interesting features in the abstract, but a terrible one of communicating those features and working them into the app in a way that was intu
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by drumdance 10y ago
I don't understand why, when they do shoot, it's often five or more times. Why not just once or twice, then get out of the way?
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by drumdance 10y ago
Back in the nineties Excite did a similar deal with Netscape. Not a billion dollars but it was something like $70 million when Excite only had a fraction of that in the bank. It worked for them in the short term. The traffic enabled them to

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