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Her Blog Post About Uber Upended Big Tech. Now She’s Written a Memoir(nytimes.com)
1 points by gdilla 7y ago|0 comments
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by gdilla 7y ago
you want a cookie? homicide exists in every city. Toronto is relatively safe compared to its American counterparts.
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by gdilla 7y ago
It really depends on many factors. New grads? Sure, who wouldn't move to Cali from Canada. Married, kids, spouse working in non tech? Well, ya, staying in Canada is a lot better if one earner can get a high paying tech salary that&#x27
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by gdilla 7y ago
That's the bonus. No state income tax of FL is your primary residence.
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by gdilla 7y ago
Is it supposed to? It's a cost benefit analysis - do they save money by investing in all the tech? Or is it cheaper to use honor system with little to no investment to do so? Given there's always bad actors all the time, there&#x2
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It Was Supposed to Be the Safest Building in the World. Then It Cracked(popularmechanics.com)
8 points by gdilla 7y ago|0 comments
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by gdilla 7y ago
It's probably used cars.
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A man is running for governor of California so he can run false Facebook ads(cnn.com)
3 points by gdilla 7y ago|2 comments
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by gdilla 7y ago
It is. They see Apple and their watch amassing lots of data and they don't want to yield all that to them (like Apple's rationale to get into maps).
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by gdilla 7y ago
You can't actually terminate that many people without a planned layoff, according to CA labor law. It's to protect workers from mass firings (at least a little) https://www.shouselaw.com/employment/warn-act.ht
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by gdilla 7y ago
one thing that is markedly different is immigration. Japan has minuscule amounts of immigration, and non japanese blood people can't be citizens. In Canada, at least, they recognize we'd all be old white people without the current
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by gdilla 7y ago
don't worry. Google's YouTube will happily send you down the right wing rabbit hole of white mail victimhood and climate change is a hoax after you watch a couple of non related videos.
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by gdilla 7y ago
Fixed price is fine if: Not only you understand the scope, but the client does too. Make sure you write down exactly what you're going to deliver in your statement of work, and ANY DEVIATION, CHANGE, or ALTERATION is a change in scope
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by gdilla 7y ago
The story we hear the most is of young CEOs. We don't hear about the 100x failures of those who try the same. PG supports youth doing it because cost of family/personal obligation is lower, which is true, but at the same time, at
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by gdilla 7y ago
Uber is valued more for its potential and growth. Uber is optimizing growth and revenue before it optimizes profit (which could take another decade). See Amazon.
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by gdilla 7y ago
Priscilla Chan, too, if indirectly.
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by gdilla 8y ago
Location: Vancouver BC Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Willing to travel to HQ if needed 1-2 weeks a month. No visas needed for US & Can (dual citizen) Technologies: Experienced product management lead, focus on analytics, UX, growth
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by gdilla 8y ago
Big Cos don't have to copy. Startup can validate and they can swallow them if they care.
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by gdilla 8y ago
LIC and Queens was more resistant to hipster techbros than say, Chelsea. Manhattan is already a playground for the rich, lower manhattan even more so. LIC was justifiably worried about tax payer subsidized gentrification.
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by gdilla 8y ago
That wouldn't be a user base though. People have N apple devices each. Could be unique appleIDs to use the appstores.
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The Resilience of Costco (2018)(minesafetydisclosures.com)
2 points by gdilla 8y ago|0 comments
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by gdilla 8y ago
But companies in CA were still hiring, as you mentioned. If the labor pool was flooded with laid off workers, then it's a buyers market. You would think the companies can just hire from that pool for whatever they wanted to pay (cuz in
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by gdilla 8y ago
Don't mean to sound harsh but anyone who can't compete with an H1B to the extent they can't find a job in the entire state of CA should take a hard look at their skills and expectations and change one or both.
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by gdilla 8y ago
Disagree. Our house here is just under $3M - not a mansion, but a big house with ocean view in a desirable neighborhood. We just finished renting it out for 4 years at $4500/month.
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by gdilla 8y ago
So easy to fix. If you believe in free market, you also need the labor pool to be free. Let H1Bs be able to change jobs like anyone else, and wages will rise. Pretty simple. Indentured servitude is anti free market.
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by gdilla 8y ago
Why would I use this over, say, Stripe, which is also very developer friendly, robust, and no fear of disappearing anytime soon.
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by gdilla 8y ago
It's not supposed to be. Your salary is a better indication of that. RPE is just a heuristic to compare companies in the same industry to see if one is more bloated or not - the thinking is if company A can do this with lower head coun
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by gdilla 8y ago
The problem is, the Corporations building sneakers, toasters, and clothing aren't going to have ANY jobs here to pay living wages for. They're gonna ship the jobs overseas cuz, you know, profit.
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by gdilla 8y ago
At the time, the labor pool wasn't truly global yet. It's one argument to pay living wages inside a closed-ish economy, it's another when low skilled jobs, especially in manufacturing, are done for pennies on the dollar acros
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by gdilla 8y ago
Lucked out. My son loves fruit since his baby days, so he doesn't like artificially sweet candy (or can self moderate pretty well). Halloween candy just piles up year after year. His school here bans candy in packed lunches too.

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