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by gwbrooks 4y ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one contemplating poor-but-amazing life choices...
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
I grant your point: Given imperfect information and imperfect competition, the market for top-tier CEO compensation is probably wrong by some factor. Even if we agree with that, then what? Put another way: Who has a greater right than the e
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
How is it a scam if it's a clearly stated policy? If it's a valuable option to you, you'll be more likely to seek employment with companies offering it. If you feel like you're losing value due to the lack of accrual, yo
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
::::partial overlap high-five:::: All of my stuff is public-facing and needs more reliability than I can provide via home internet, so I have a rented 1U in a datacenter. Proxmoxing my way through about 20 Wordpress sites, mail infrastructu
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
Virtually everything in my self-hosted tech stack: Web, mail, specialty apps for CRM and project management... all of it. I like the control and I like tinkering. But as I've become busier, I realize how much revenue-producing/mov
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
You don't want this thing to take over your life so: * WordPress + a theme (perhaps Astra) and/or pagebuilder plugin (perhaps Elementor). G'head and pay for the pro version of either/both if you want more options. * Pick
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
No.
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
https://sendersupport.olc.protection.outlook.com/snds/
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
I host at a couple of levels: * Mail in a Box for a bunch of low-volume domains, hosted on a major cloud provider VM. Total SMTP volume ~2k outbound emails a month. This was previously hosted on my own server in a datacenter. * Plesk/P
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
Why do we need a law telling private holders of equity how they can or can't distribute that equity as incentives? If shareholders think the C-suite and/or board are overcompensated, they can vote for a different decision. And if
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
If we take your vision at face value, what do you think should be done?
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
I'm not cheering by any means. But the average individual salary at Twitter is ~39% higher than the average household income in the U.S.; the average salary of the folks HN relates to -- the tech team, the ally team, etc. -- is conside
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
Give me a laptop with Universal Paperclips and No Man's Sky? There's not enough Diet Coke in the world to fuel the time I'd waste.
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
I'm fine with that if the public will, regulatory power and legislation is there. My point was less "This is fine," and more, "This is inconsistent." Sorry if that didn't come across.
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
Agreed. But the policy horse is already out of the barn on that dynamic. See also: Independent bookstores, small/regional general stores, farming, water and electric utilities in many markets, etc.
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
The combined firm, post-merger, would have 15% of the U.S. grocery market. Walmart has ~18%. It's OK to dislike the deal because you see a beloved brand being absorbed. It's even OK to dislike the deal because you hate private equ
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
That's reasonable. But it's also reasonable to ask what the government's responsibility is in protecting those people.
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
So: Closed-source, feature driven rather than value driven and a walled garden on all sides? Seems like they're almost there. (And I say that as someone who likes the product.)
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
Right?!? I'm not watching an hour-long YouTube video if he hook is some flavor of "Yep, right there a half step above chattel slavery, we have... writing 1,000 words a day."
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
Further: Citizens United didn't just pop into our reality, fully formed, from a vacuum. Decades of prior jurisprudence and SCOTUS rulings related to campaign speech led to it. Too many people think CU was some sort of this-changes-ever
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
They can - but that requires both parties to the contract to agree on modification. If I'm a bank holding a commercial mortgage, it's very finely honed to minimize my risk; as part of that, I contractually limit what can be done w
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
Find a community of practice -- Indiehackers, listserv, whatever -- and be useful to colleagues with advice and encouragement. Across a couple of solopreneur careers, I've found that this creates deep connections and lasting networks.
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
That's the biggest issue once you get to conversion. Before conversion? The two biggest obstacles are: * Commercial mortgages make it nearly impossible to change a property in this manner, so you're usually limited to buildings ow
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
The thing about rent control is: You cannot effectively implement it in a vacuum. By default or design, it creates an ecosystem in any large US city where it's attempted. Rent control means less development of rentals subject to its co
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
I've done both -- at-home hospice for my dad and a nursing home for my mother-in-law. Ultimately, each was the best choice in the circumstance. My dad was easily scared and cognitive decline was, for a while, outpacing the physical dec
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
I do fixed project fees against tight scopes rather than hourly rates. When things go out of scope, it's expensive enough ($250-300/hr) to create a pain point. One thing I don't more of and it surprises me: There's no re
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
Across virtually any measurable trait or collection of traits with a reasonably normal distribution, about half of the people will come out better than average. Iratewizard may or may not be better than everyone else; but he/she is alm
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
The author makes it sound like PE has taken over public pension investments. But while participation is wide (about 85% of public pension funds have some private-equity investments), it's not particularly deep (9% of public pension fun
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
Depends on the recession, right? Five percent unemployment? You've still got some leverage. Nine-and-a-half percent (the peak during the Great Recession), and a lot of folks behind you in line will happily come into the office.
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
I want to be pedantic about this, because words matter. No one is forcing anyone to buy a lottery ticket. No one's being threatened with jail time if they don't buy a lottery ticket. No one's being dragged into a legal proces

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