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gshdg
7y ago
How were the subjects for this survey selected?
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7y ago
Can you create something interactive and put it on a tablet for them to pass around and play with?
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gshdg
7y ago
Not much happened except, you know, a measles outbreak that’s killed several people. But nbd, right, Zuck?
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7y ago
"Being discriminating" is not necessarily the same thing as "discriminating".
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7y ago
The B2C business wouldn’t be nearly as lucrative to them as the B2B business in terms of ROI. They don’t bother with family plans because of the opportunity cost.
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7y ago
This. I’m on crutches right now. I’ll have to take stairs to get in and out of the subway almost anywhere, but that extra four blocks takes a ton out of you.
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No, and for most people, breaking out of poverty requires a lot more than just high-demand skills. Mindsets, networks, seed funds (to buy interview clothes and travel to interviews), safety nets, self-confidence, time, cultural assumptions,
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7y ago
How much is this about age vs generational differences?
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7y ago
US-Centric: With a CS degree: SF or Seattle or wherever I could find a FAANG/MS type highly regarded big tech company to recruit me to, since the entry level market is soft among startups and a lot of non-tech BigCos seem to be a path
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7y ago
At what age?
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Undervaluing marketing.
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I don’t see how it’s any better for the market for investments to be dominated by retail investors who have neither the time nor the information they’d need to make informed choices about how to invest their retirement funds. My grandmother
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7y ago
At the very end, just before education (the only “required” item that’s less relevant to a thoughtful hiring manager once you’re a few years into a career but that too many recruiters will screen on). I use one bullet point for each of seve
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7y ago
One advantage PDF has over many of the alternatives being suggested here is that it’s not read-only. I have yet to see a fillable form in an ePub doc for instance.
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7y ago
Do you have a board of directors? Once you’re past the immediate grief, they and your investors can be a good resource to lean on in terms of quickly finding someone to serve as an interim CEO while you look for a more permanent solution.
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7y ago
Or if that’s 4:30pm in December it could easily be that everyone’s still at work even though it’s dark out. That might not be the case here, but maybe worth considering.
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7y ago
Unless it’s 2008 and nobody can get credit. Or you bought into the peak of the market and now you’re underwater.
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7y ago
A city where no one can rent will die because young people can’t move in.
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7y ago
Per the article, only a vanishingly small fraction of these are remaining unoccupied. Even if they’re not being inhabited by the purchaser they’re being inhabited, and thus absorbing some of the local demand for housing.
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7y ago
But they’re going to be doing that (coming from out of town to take a high paying job) anyway. Without condos being built they’ll just be putting that pressure on the rental market. Also, a lot of the condos being built - at least here in N
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Hypergrowth often creates cultural dysfunction. Teams quickly outgrow the processes and communication structures that worked for them at a smaller size. Leaders find themselves leading teams much larger than they have they skill and experie
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Is it that building housing doesn’t work? Or is it that building housing doesn’t work unless you build enough of it quickly enough? Doing better than SF at building housing is a pretty low bar. I see no evidence that the high-demand citie
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7y ago
What percentage of the iPhone market can you reach by supporting only versions with >2% penetration? What percentage of the Android market?
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You make a good point. Birds, especially, tend to float in water, given that they evolved specifically to have a low density in order to fly (i.e. float in air). A bird left floating for a long time will probably die of starvation or dehy
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It’s so weird to me that more than half the answers here focus primarily on computing and programming. I mean, this is a tech-oriented community, but surely our experiences of the 90s and of the present day weren’t limited to tech.
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Back then the expectations were different. So if you didn’t want to be reachable at all times, there was less relationship management involved.
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Easier to get hold of a human at a corporation. Harder to get hold of your friends when they were out of the house.
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I am not a lawyer. But my understanding is that it does shield your personal finances to some degree.
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Are you talking about fleeing your problems or avoiding them? “Escapism” usually refers to burying oneself in distractions (especially fiction) to avoid confronting problems. Whereas running away from problems (ex: breaking up with someone
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7y ago
Note that a single-person LLC can file taxes as a pass-thru entity, which is essentially the same as a sole proprietorship. You do still need to separate your finances/accounts/etc tho.
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