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by jpdoctor 14y ago
It's actually not pejorative. (The term "wenching", however, is. Go English language! :) I've linked elsewhere: First defn from first hit on google: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wench
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Yep. Must be. I didn't think people should lose their jobs over "dongle", but apparently there's a lot of trigger finger around.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> "Wench" is a word which is completely archaic in the modern world and almost never used in any context other than some reference to pirates / medieval times. Let's not whitewash, that's only half right: http://www.urbandictionary.c
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Perhaps you've missed the sexist issue postings. Wench = OK, get funded. Dongle = Problem, lose job.
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> As is the team’s “Food Wench” :facepalm: don’t get all up in arms Excellent. It's just marketing by using words that would otherwise be pejorative.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> By definition, Yahoo's directors know how to spend Yahoo's cash reserves best. This is absolutely incorrect. There are many instances in which there is a personal financial connection between a board member and an acquired company.
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> when I'm already living off a student's budget. So you don't have assets? And they're suing you for sport? If so, he's made a big mistake. You'll just declare bankruptcy if you lose, but some lawyer might well take your case for t
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> It's easy to think that consumer oriented web startups are what's hot, but this data proves otherwise. I think what it proves: Crunchbase serves the PR segment of consumer oriented web companies, and fails to serve other segments w
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Crunchbase is pretty incomplete before 2004 it seems. Several of the comm companies I checked were missing. Edit: Upon further testing, it seems that many of the communications wipeouts ($40+M) from that era are missing. It's almost as if
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
My understanding of labor litigation: This post will cost the company at least $150K. IANAL, would be curious to hear the readout from someone who is in the field.
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Marc Andreessen and others almost voted off HP Board of Directors(marketwatch.com)
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20 years of experience and he's only now figuring out that you don't join a startup for the money and benefits? :sheesh:
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> Ranging from someone that's managed to be on it for over a year and a half That was possible only during the recent financial meltdown. Benefits in normal times are 6mo (US will likely return to that in the next year.
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> So what happens when you switch jobs? In general, your future employer will lure you out of your position with money or prestige, offering a 15% or more increase in salary. This works until it doesn't.
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:) My wife (also a PhD) accuses me of being able to formulate a theory for any data.
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> My wife wanted a ruby ring, not diamond, for our engagement. I consider this an amazing social signal: She is verifying that you have a proper amount of resources to burn, but does not want her girlfriends to easily calibrate how m
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> But in all seriousness this would have ended in the 70s when feminist protests started. I started dating in the 70s: I thought it was a period of bizarre contrasts. But then as time went by, I realized dating has been bizarre since
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> So this becomes a social competition to see who can waste the most resources? Slightly more subtle than that: Waste the resources without incurring financial hardship. That last part is important. > It sounds like it has barb
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
The carbon is a proxy (which is missed in the article, among other things.) It's social signaling. Or to put it another way: How many $$ can your man throw away without incurring pauperhood?
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> Doesn't sound remotely cult like. Well, from the HN cult anyway.
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Using the assumption that there is never just one cockroach, what is a good multiplier to arrive at total-fraudulent dollars-per-month?
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> with newly created money. No. This is exactly the problem: The echoes of the German hyperinflation of the 1930s are still being heard, so Merkel and crowd have repeatedly stood against printing. As for the ECB purchases, those wer
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> What exactly is your point? The euro is up 16% because there are more dollars in circulation chasing the same number of euros. Same for the pound. A deflationary environment in Europe (what are prices doing in Greece? What is the
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> But why is the Euro up 16% against the USD and 23.3% against the UK pound over the last 10 years? You think it is something other than supply and demand? The Fed and BoE can print; The ECB cannot. The result (which is related to
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
bjornsing's blog post is a good read, and gets it right imho. http://conscienceofanentrepreneur.blogspot.se/2013/03/whats-...
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> Depositor insurance is not about legal seniority in debt It absolutely is. When a bank fails, the regulating institution steps in and performs the capital restructuring. The statement of depositor insurance is that they are to be
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> which are senior to depositors. Not for any definition of "depositor insurance" that I'm familiar with. The whole point was that the investors of the bank would lose their money first, then a gov't agency would make good on the dep
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> this is not a terrible deal. Nonsense. The EU just made the depositors junior to the bondholders of the bank! On what planet does that not have permanent implications for trust in the banking system? Every EU depositor (esp in
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> The number is more like 1/4 than 1/2. Great. So the number of people that have been profitteered into bankruptcy is only 1/2 of what I mentioned. It doesn't change the basic fact: Profiting handsomely from the sick and dying used
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
One example: One of Elizabeth Warren's crusades before the banking crisis exposed that 46% of all bankruptcies circa 2007 were medically induced. http://www.pnhp.org/new_bankruptcy_study/Bankruptcy-2009.pdf It isn't exactly news that the

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