flachsechs

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by flachsechs 9y ago
> They'd gain control over the market what you described is a loss of control. business is hard.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
the problem is brain drain. asia does "send their best" because the US only accepts the best from asia. having oceans between you allows you to be picky.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
> I'll literally flip a coin or use a random generator. this is also a good trick to find out what you actually want, which reveals itself when a choice is made for you.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
a good small business/early startup is basically #1 and #3, and none of #2. unfortunately, it is a _whole_ lot more work and a _whole_ lot more stress, and is thus the road less traveled.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
i doubt it. i think america is just huge, and that they can't responsibly expand too fast. remember, ikea is expanding globally. on my last vacation, i saw an ikea identical to the one by my house in california, in southern germany.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
a bunch of stranger-animals in a room together can be hilarious fun though.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
serious q: isn't transmission unregulated during emergency situations?
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by flachsechs 9y ago
so is your apprehension because of sql server on linux, or because of docker, or because of the combination of the two? this post is snarky but lacks real information.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
i'll provide the alternative point of view here. i know broke people who just surf or hang out all day and they sure seem happy. i also know rich people on a mission in life, and they are very unhappy, or will constantly find something
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by flachsechs 9y ago
i knew plenty of non-alpha types in frats. lots of fairly nerdy guys, in fact. it's more about coming from a wealthy family that recognizes the value in such things. very few people played a college-level sport and were in frats, f
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by flachsechs 9y ago
there are plenty of rich, workaholic, yuppie addicts. professional drive is oftentimes counterbalanced with substance abuse. makes me wonder what kind of crazy bubble you grew up in. what a strange belief to have.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
take the money and run.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
i agree with this. as i've gotten older i've become a morning person, usually starting around 6, but sometimes earlier. you can easily belt out 4-5 hours of real work before lunch time, and then take a leisurely lunch/walk&
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by flachsechs 9y ago
well sure, you can falsify my statement by simply not classifying anything as racism. i think the gleeful enthusiasm shown by people relentlessly china-bashing is telling, especially since they seem to do it all the time, as if they'v
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by flachsechs 9y ago
i don't know about the 'real' journalists either. after having done marketing for my own company, i just expect that anything that makes it onto a screen and into my attention span has an agenda and special interest behind it
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by flachsechs 9y ago
> China is playing a long game the majority of people in the west, the US especially, thinks all china does is make cheap walmart crap. it's perfectly fine to say horrible, racist things about the chinese. nobody seems to care.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
> If Coke ... had research 50 years ago that showed the link between their products and diabetes and then funded misinformation and contradictory research for the following decades do you honestly believe this isn't the case? w
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by flachsechs 9y ago
> board for beginners professionals alike. might want to notify your customer they have a typo in the first paragraph of their website
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by flachsechs 9y ago
> Acrivastine doesn't really have any sedative effect at all no, but benadryl does. which is exactly what the op said, and op doesn't live in your country. in fact, most people don't live in your country.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
this isn't a question of being less literal, it's a question of building a search taxonomy and synonym database and tuning it for relevance, in this case, in the restaurants vertical. this is something a lot of people don't r
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by flachsechs 9y ago
i agree. hover a geo map and have an easy 'hide this' button to hit that will remove the entry and take you back to the timemap. choosing where to go for lunch will be a flash.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
judging by the uptake of new CS grads, they are willing to put in the time and money to train people who are already proven to be in the upper 10% of intelligence . the problem is, aptitude for technical skills is, to say the least, not un
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by flachsechs 9y ago
In the US, yes, it is. people from the ivy league run the US, so it's prestigious in the US. people from oxford and cambridge run the UK, so it's prestigious in the commonwealth. it's really not any more complicated than th
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by flachsechs 9y ago
they're already doing it, so this isn't much of a 'what if'. the problem is that money is kept offshore and never spent, because it's at risk of getting taxed immediately upon repatriation.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
for what it's worth, OSH seems to be the happy medium for me.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
> they've found another way to achieve it there are literally thousands of technology companies you have never, ever, ever heard of, in the < $100 million revenue range. those are run by smart technical people who do not play
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by flachsechs 9y ago
you're being pretty unreasonable. he took a look at the body of evidence, including statements from the company itself, did some follow-up (i doubt the specifics actually matter), and got a really bad feeling about it. the technical
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by flachsechs 9y ago
i agree that the dependencies are probably unavoidable and probably a net good but... well... just don't forget the system and network security best practices while you quickly put together that project, especially if it's in a pu
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by flachsechs 9y ago
well i would have mentioned all the german cuisine in the south but we wouldn't want to remind everyone of that pesky nazi situation, would we?
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by flachsechs 9y ago
it's tough seeing your country analyzed by an outsider. here, i'll do the same thing with my home country, america. americans primarily eat cheap feedlot-produced beef and chicken, often in the form of fast food such as mcdonalds

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