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by hopler 8y ago
At a software job, work from home with sleeping sick kid seems the likely option
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by hopler 8y ago
How does trading one person's career for the other improve family income? If the woman has higher earning potential, the man can stay home thanks to her earnings. If they can't afford that, then they can't afford kids and eco
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by hopler 8y ago
Headline doesn't match article. the article explains how it's easy to fake residency for tax purposes, buy putting a few cheap props I the low tax state. Judges don't understand that things that are precious to low wealth in
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by hopler 8y ago
The economy-wrecking regressive mortgage tax deduction was preserved though, which shows that the tax reform was mainly a cheap abuse of the government to attack blue states for voting Democrat.
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by hopler 8y ago
You're right. As an upper middle class East coast American can attest, these NYT thinkpieces are written by young rich parent-supported kids living in New York City, who write their articles by asking their FB friends for quotes. Not m
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by hopler 8y ago
thirtysomething aired during the 1980s "Me generation", and portrayed that generation's fantasy. The main characters worked at an ad agency. By that standard, millennials are living the dream en masse -- between adtech and
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by hopler 8y ago
The eradication of the family was the dream of Stalin and Mao and they took large strides toward it. It's problematic, to say the least.
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by hopler 8y ago
> savings might not be as strong because of that, Is incredibly tone deaf way to describe people living paycheck to paycheck.
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by hopler 8y ago
The gender pay gap is large in restaurants -- women servers get bigger tips.
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by hopler 8y ago
If you know any employees of the big boys, you'll know that management is not supportive of diversity until they face worker revolts. Your model makes no sense. If powerful forces wanted diversity out of self interest all along, we wo
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by hopler 8y ago
The article disagrees with your understanding. "Facebook’s default setting allows everyone — with or without an account — to look up a user profile based off the same phone number " For the vast majority of people who aren't
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by hopler 8y ago
European brands: www.ccep.com/pages/brands And anyway Europe isn't the whole commercial universe.
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by hopler 8y ago
0. You are cherry picking one stock from a portfolio. That's not how investing works. 1. Buffett said that Kraft may not be the same, in the quote you cited. 2. Kraft today is not the same company as Kraft in 2008. The company split,
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by hopler 8y ago
That seems a bit suspect to be the single explanation, because the poorest people most at risk of becoming criminals wouldn't have easy access to abortion even if legal. Even today, access to and effective use of birth control is chal
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by hopler 8y ago
The periodic table strongly hints at a lithium salt connection. But what made you suspect lithium deficiency? Pork, beef, and salted potatoes sounds like a standard American diet. It's the core of the McDonald's menu :-)
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by hopler 8y ago
Deleting one's account does appear to be a mitigation
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by hopler 8y ago
Oh but it's not "mandatory" if they restrict privileges for everyone and then offer them back for labor. Or jack up prices for monopoly goods and services and then offer jobs, which is illegal in "compared towns" ou
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by hopler 8y ago
The article is about something else -- whether people admit racism to a survey. Americans know that racism is "politically incorrect". How many countries had millions of slaves (15% of the population) to free? Also interesting tha
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by hopler 8y ago
It is for the world as envisioned by SV product managers, as seen in their marketing slide decks.
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by hopler 8y ago
Before today, I'd only heard the S3X was the plan.
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by hopler 8y ago
I don't know why Tesla fans ignore that Chevy and Nissan are already big in the pure EV market at mass market prices, and almost every manufacturer had a plug-in hybrid offering for in-town electric-only and gas for long trips.
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by hopler 8y ago
Think about whether you need to get an MBA, or hire one. Bill Gates and Paul Allen hired one* (Steve Ballmer) * Ballmer dropped out of business school before he finished
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by hopler 8y ago
A Master of Business Administration does for the business what the System Administrator does for IT systems. MBA is a fine discipline. The problem is when MBA gets equated with SVP/CEO.
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by hopler 8y ago
Maybe thoughtful kids aren't supposed to leave church after all.. maybe they just need to find a good church.
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by hopler 8y ago
The vast majority of people are dumb, so doing things that smart people hate is necessary for business success
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by hopler 8y ago
We shouldn't setting up interviews that are biased toward to hiring people who will make the company even more toxic and counterproductive.
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by hopler 8y ago
I've easily spent more time at whiteboar in interviews than at a white hard in all my time on the actual job, over many years. A good design discussion is written up and discussed. Ad hoc scribbles on a board don't add much anythi
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by hopler 8y ago
That's a Fermi problem, not a brain teaser. Brain teasers are problem with one solution that you solve by a spark of insight (or memory) with no solving process.
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by hopler 8y ago
With all respect, people over age 50 are not the target demographic for general purpose mass market products. Even simple things like supporting large fonts or color contrast for weaker eyes is beyond the capability of tech giants (in large
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by hopler 8y ago
Round rects are better. Apple established that 30 years ago. Sharp corners are a fad that Microsoft(!) started with Windows Phone/10 just to be different from Apple (their chronic problem of trying to compete by doing randomly differen

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