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by hash872 7y ago
Do you know or have you ever in your professional career worked for a company that employed salespeople? Do you understand that they mostly do cold outreach to generate revenue? If all the salespeople were to disappear overnight from that p
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What is the end goal for the thieves? Seeing as you obviously can't sell stolen artwork on the open market- how many insanely wealthy private collectors can there be out there, who are willing to risk substantial prison time to own a s
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by hash872 7y ago
Somehow in between the actual cable companies and the UFC is a distributor called Joe Hand Promotions. They employ freelance private investigators to go to any bar they find advertising UFC fights, sit in the bar and witness that the fight
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This. My father also has a farm, and I did a ton of manual labor until my mid-20s. It has zero romantic appeal to me, and I'm always amused by office workers that idealize rural living. For one thing, manual labor is incredibly mindles
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Ask HN: Any way to aggregate recruiter jobs in a feed?
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by hash872 7y ago
I basically agree with this, and would even go further and say that I'm a nationalist and explicitly for one country. With that being said, there's an added dimension that you left out- that this aiming technology then gets adopte
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by hash872 7y ago
But if you're losing (undefined amount of money) on 49.25% of the trades....
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by hash872 7y ago
>Robert Mercer, the former co–chief executive of Renaissance Technologies, allegedly told a friend that Medallion was right 50.75 percent of the time when it came to its millions of trades — adding that “you can make billions that way.”
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by hash872 7y ago
What you've written sounds good, but how do I square this with the commonly repeated assertion that medicine has a replication crisis and many or even most treatments don't have a solid empirical basis? I'm not asking critica
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They're a blue collar guy trying to feed their family on a low-wage job with variable income, they have like zero incentive to do so man. They're also gambling that they can potentially intimidate a rider who says they won't
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I mean to be fair, the argument is that the expenses (basically, wear & tear on the vehicle) are significant. The IRS I guess has a whole schedule for vehicle depreciation, they have this down to a science. So $23ish an hour but large v
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by hash872 7y ago
I don't have an issue with Uber/Lyft/any gig companies being required to pay workers effectively whatever the minimum wage is wherever they are (which is obviously much lower in other states). And maybe a regulator can sample
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>Lower prices at the cost of turning a group of people into a serf class, is not a good tradeoff imo All of the estimates I've seen range from $10-20 an hour after all of their expenses are factored in. Let's be really conserva
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>HR is there to protect the company. It is probably tempting to just remove the disruptor instead of being fair Not only is this 100% true, but it's good career advice for everyone- men & women, people at every level of experien
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by hash872 7y ago
1. Changing how campaign contributions/PACs function seems like a more reasonable way to change this than simply pursing a quasi-communist means of dragging wealthy people down, in the hopes that with less money they'll have less
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by hash872 7y ago
>As those growth rates slowed it started flailing around trying to kickstart them in other ways >unicorns can't slow down gracefully Their revenue keeps growing 20% every single year, which is absurdly impressive. Google is one o
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by hash872 7y ago
Doesn't facial recognition counteract all of these techniques though? (Plus DNA sampling, if foreign intel gets close enough to grab a sample). There's only one 'true' face or DNA for each person, no matter how complex a
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by hash872 7y ago
So wait, is throwaway2048 correct that this type of analysis misses companies who dropped out? Or are the gross return numbers including selling the shares of 'leaving the index' companies at a loss? I would imagine the latter and
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by hash872 7y ago
>drop is almost entirely due to the 16-24 age group. Participation for people 25+ is stable since 1998 This is simply not true at all. FRED specifically tracks prime-age labor participation rate. Gallons of ink/pixels have been writ
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by hash872 7y ago
FRED seems to have some different results https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART . These are huge numbers in a country the size of the US. Anyways, 'projected' is meaningless. It's pretty widely ackno
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by hash872 7y ago
It's fascinating to me that even august publications like the Wall Street Journal continue to use 'unemployment rate' as any kind of reliable metric, and says stuff like 'the unemployment rate is at a 50 year low now&#x2
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by hash872 7y ago
Athleticism is absolutely an inborn talent. It certainly can be developed, but just look at any sport where all of the participants started at the same age in life and all received roughly the same number of repetitions/practices- ther
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by hash872 7y ago
I think proprioception is also part of the secret to 'athleticism', which is kind of a vague hand-wavey concept but also a very real one (speaking as someone with no natural athleticism myself). Being able to intuitively understan
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Famously, neither of his companies are even remotely profitable, and he has one of the most prominent reputations in the world to help him raise endless investor funds- either from private investors or retail ones. Both of his companies hav
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by hash872 7y ago
> If you open a new bank account and deposit a lot of money, say over $10,000, then they almost certainly will freeze your account I have done this multiple times with zero issues whatsoever. With larger sums than $10k, and with global-s
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The thesis of the book is that mass media acts or editorializes on behalf of the powerful in society- not just that their 'incentives are aligned'. The book is about the specific actions that media companies supposedly take. So, p
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by hash872 7y ago
But in practice, we don't observe that these organizations blindly support 'those at the top'. Empirical observation over abstract philosophizing, please. Society is much more complex & interesting than Chomsky imagines,
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It's been about 15 years since I read Manufacturing Consent, but- the weak version of his thesis is fine, sure. An NBCUniversal media property, say, is probably not going to report critically on something that NBCUniversal has a financ
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I'd love to hear from folks experienced in the telecom/networking sector. From what I gathered as a total outsider: Telco equipment is not always profitable for big companies, but China initiated a big state-sponsored push to domi
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One senior government official said: “We gave up our superiority in making telecoms equipment decades ago, and now we are realising that this might not have been the best choice for national security reasons. Almost every department and age

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