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by gist 7y ago
Where are you getting this overly broad statement from? Don't imply your own particular experience is what even comes close to being the case in other situations. People are different. What floats your boat or my boat is not universal
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Older guy with advice here. Spend as much time as you can preparing financially for the future. Your kids when they get older will care more about what you have done and what you can do for them and forget the fact that you missed spending
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by gist 7y ago
A bit of survivorship bias going on with what Paul has written. He gives the example of having kids when I believe he was already financially secure and in a different place in his life than many people are when they have kids. That is not
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by gist 7y ago
Hmm. Well perhaps the price could have to do with the liquor license and the fact that that license could be used in another location? I don't know that is the case here but that thought comes to mind. Could be geographic restrictions
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by gist 7y ago
> In 1998, after years of legendary coach travel Part of this was also setting an example so the company would not have to pay for first class travel (or private) for other executives and/or employees. So the cost is much higher th
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by gist 7y ago
Side point is that it's hard to believe that there isn't a group of women who got promoted or advanced because the men they worked under found them appealing or nice to be around (in a non sexual relationship way).
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by gist 7y ago
Desktop file folders and text files. Actually a single text file that essentially has a date and then is updated with comments as far as any new things that are going on or that need to be followed up. They had something which created text
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Ask HN: Best SaaS for a Consultant?
1 points by gist 7y ago|3 comments
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by gist 7y ago
Exactly. I am amazed by how many people think that is the right thing to do. In most cases that will immediately get you 'turfed' (old 'House of God' expression I think) to the legal department. The people who you are de
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by gist 7y ago
> Is anyone else getting bored with this kind of People who write don't earn a great deal of money. Nor (typically) do they have the potential to do so. Other professions can at least dream that they will hit it big or earn a good
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by gist 7y ago
> But for nearly every invention and idea, history shows that multiple people were working on it at the same time. Agree and not to mention we don't have any data on people who loved and were obsessive and that did not lead to anyth
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by gist 7y ago
> Coke has been around for 150 years and is essentially just sugar water. Coke is still around (primarily) because of tremendous money spent on marketing and tremendous money spent on owning the channel of distribution of their products
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by gist 7y ago
Why is it necessary to precede a question with 'serious question'? (Meaning why do people reading comments assume a negative (snarky) unless otherwise pointed out the question is 'serious'. Likewise why when mentioning s
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> Mr. Smith is chairman and CEO of FedEx Corp. You should have that at the start or somehow make it obvious what you have done in quoting the article.
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by gist 7y ago
This is a typical cherry picked business leader article where you can find examples to make any point that you want (or don't want). This is the reason that I stopped years ago even reading business magazines (you know the ones with th
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by gist 7y ago
Facebook somewhat like linkedin is also used for socially acceptable bragging and puffery. So for example it's ok to post things that others would be jealous of (or think you are bragging) if done another way. That is definitely some o
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by gist 7y ago
> We've moved our entire web presence to GitHub to become even more transparent. Here, you can see how things have changed over time, propose improvements, or even take our ideas and make them your own.. Sorry but to me this is scr
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by gist 7y ago
I agree and think that the drippy accolades are actually counter productive. Why? Because it can become discouraging (as opposed to encouraging) to most (what I would consider) 'normal' smart people. It's the equivalent of wa
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The Making of a Harvard Feeder School (2013)(thecrimson.com)
1 points by gist 7y ago|0 comments
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by gist 7y ago
Will point out that it is cloning after a short sample and with an unknown speaker. So this is great for that type of comparison and in particular when the person listening does not know much or have great experience with the person speakin
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by gist 7y ago
> A border officer searched plaintiff Zainab Merchant’s phone, despite her informing the officer that it contained privileged attorney-client communications. (The following (what I say) does not mean to imply that I don't agree with
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by gist 7y ago
Typical nonsense which is very broad and not only lacking specifics but does not take into account the unintended consequences of such an abrupt change in behavior. Not only can't I find anything but an attention grabbing headline abou
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by gist 7y ago
> The practice, while not new, can be problematic, and not merely because of the income inequality issues it raises How is this income inequality any more than the fact that someone who has more income can do many things that someone wit
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Rich Californians are hiring private firefighters to protect their homes(nypost.com)
5 points by gist 7y ago|2 comments
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by gist 7y ago
> Once you've hired a hitman, the outcome is basically out of your control. And what happens if you hire a hitman and by accident he kills 20 people instead of 1 person? [1] [1] Say some poison or even he just goes berzerk with the
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by gist 7y ago
> As a result lots of big companies have competing “pulls” — eg fiefdoms. Exactly. Why? Because they suck plain and simple. My wife (a highly paid and educated professional) just wasted 3 hours today trying to get a simple new cable box
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by gist 7y ago
> Bill was doing a fantastic job here Fantastic job of what? Building a company that has a typical type of organization, employees and incentives that this can happen at? It's like the CEO of Comcast (Brian Roberts) going into a Com
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by gist 7y ago
That page looks impressive but there is no way to casually verify that what they are talking about actually happens (on a quick check). There is simply so much info there you'd have to spend considerable time trying to track down what
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by gist 7y ago
I don't flag articles but this is one that I would flag. Why? It's typical HN 'red meat'. Well presented and (seemingly) well written and thoughtful. But the writer not only has no expertise (he did research?) but offers
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by gist 7y ago
> I feel really bad for Hurd and his family His family yes. Hurd though is not around anymore. > Why work that hard? It's not hard if you enjoy it. I work just about every day. I enjoy what I do and being at the office. Not every

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