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by flukus 5y ago
This also sends a signal though, if other employees know you let the guy go because remote wasn't an option then they're going to just assume their is no negotiation and quit. Although some may see the extra leverage they now have
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by flukus 5y ago
Victims aren't always blameless, you can be your own victim. Most of the times in my career when I was burnt out and working too much it was because I was too emotionally invested in the work, management didn't care about the qual
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by flukus 5y ago
Sometimes they even improve, recently I was reading an old Stephen King where he spends a couple of paragraphs describing the rotary dialing process. When I first tried to read this book 30 years ago that was the sort of mundane detail that
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by flukus 5y ago
> However, most of those people have no problem with accepting the scientific consensus on unrelated topics. A venn diagram would show a significant overlap between these groups, there's a lot of overlap between young earth creation
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by flukus 5y ago
You identified that you need a lot of money or a lot of time, but ignored for most people it's a combination of these two. It wont be $30,000 once, it will be more like $5-10,000 per year and the money out will be a combination of the
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by flukus 5y ago
You're buying an asset, this can always be sold to cover your initial investment. You're also gaining $20 cash that can be put into other investments, so they gains are compounding. Like every thing else in the stock market you&#x
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by flukus 5y ago
The main reason for me is that it's intuitive/comprehensible (company shares profits with stock owners) and it aligns with my goals (create passive income) in a visible and flexible way. Other options are more abstract and require
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by flukus 5y ago
> Goods provide some value to the customer, and that determines what they are willing to pay for it Very often customers will pay twice as much or more for the same or equivalent good that delivers the same value, you're local groce
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by flukus 5y ago
> What this evidence shows is that is appeared already optimized. There are plenty of viruses from animals known to infect humans, viruses that have never been in humans and are not evolved to infect them, this happens alarmingly regular
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by flukus 5y ago
> It took him about 6 weeks of interviewing to get 2 different offers. And how many rejections did they get for not having $hotNewTech on their resume? That they got a job doesn't demonstrate that they had fewer opportunities, which
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by flukus 5y ago
I wish I'd paid more attention in the non-academic classes. Cooking, sewing, budgeting and everything else I learned in my home economics class are extremely valuable real world skills and I wish I'd taken more of them after the b
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by flukus 5y ago
There does seem to be some type inference going on though "auto a; a= 'hi!';", or maybe it's just defaulting to an int/pointer type? If it is type inference it would have been awful to have the variable declara
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by flukus 5y ago
> I can name three different ex-colleagues at three different companies all making well over 100k a year and they're all still writing JQuery. And when they next apply for a job the recruiters will hang up because they don't ha
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by flukus 5y ago
> AR and VR are both solutions looking for problems today. The technology is already there for a killer app but no one has figured out what it is yet. For me the killer apps would be replacing my monitor/TV/tablet/etc and
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by flukus 5y ago
I don't know about refuse, but if it did go through it would definitely raise a bunch of red flags from the anti-money laundering checks, IME these are taken very seriously. Accounts involved would probably get locked pretty quickly.
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by flukus 5y ago
That phrase originally had the opposite meaning: https://www.npr.org/2015/03/02/390245038/ben-franklins-famou... > It is a quotation that defends the authority of a legislature to govern in the intere
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by flukus 5y ago
Not all will, the ones that won't are salivating at the chance of getting a significant competitive advantage.
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by flukus 5y ago
> If they take the advice of the consulting firm, and things go sour, then it was just "bad advice", they can pick another consultant and wipe their hands clean. More commonly they just ignore the problems and pretend it's
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by flukus 5y ago
I don't understand what you mean by "go the way", most places I've worked it is the way and always has been. Keeping politics and religion out of the workplace is just called "being professional". Seems like we
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by flukus 5y ago
> Can we agree that not everyone gives an hour back to their employer? Or, to go a step further... can we agree that some WFH people give less of their time to their employer relative to their previous in-office time? Yes and Yes, but ac
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by flukus 5y ago
> I have reclaimed 2-3 hours from my time that was previously allocated to earning my paycheck, and I now redirect it towards other activities. Those activities range anywhere from 0-100% on the scale of how relevant they are to me being
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by flukus 5y ago
> No commute alone is a MASSIVE gain. This is a huge one for me and anyone more productive in the morning, I'm no longer wasting an hour of my most productive time just getting to work. Then you've got the extra 2 hours a day t
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by flukus 5y ago
Even better than recycling is reusing, and consoles tend to be about the most reused pieces of electronics. PS4s and their games will go to second hand stores to be picked up by kids and their tight budgets. At least that's how it was
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by flukus 5y ago
Classic sealioning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
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by flukus 5y ago
I hate this setup. You generally need to have anything audio/video related on the laptop anyway and these are the most CPU hungry apps. Working through remote sessions suck and are high latency even on good connections, it's reall
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by flukus 5y ago
> The easiest and simplest way is not the most secure way. No, but the next simplest (using prepared statements) is. Why do you immediately jump to something so much more complicated and full of abstractions instead of the next simplest
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by flukus 5y ago
> Unhappy user right here. I'm more pissed off that my user agent (firefox) even allows this sort of control by third parties.
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by flukus 5y ago
> An absolutely horrible idea It's not a horrible idea, it's the simplest and easiest way to solve simple problems. Bringing in rails and all it's abstractions for something you can do in a single php (or ruby BTW) file is
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by flukus 5y ago
Japan had this problem 30 years ago and had banks giving out multi-generational loans: https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990...
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by flukus 5y ago
> That does depend on how much area it can cover per day. This assumes weeding is a time sensitive task, which I find very doubtful. Realistically covering your land area in a week is probably enough, but maybe that's much higher.

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