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by jtbigwoo 13y ago
>> That tells me he's doing the right thing for his company and his shareholders. Except when he does something illegal that leaves his company vulernable to a massive class-action lawsuit from his own employees. That doesn&#x27
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The most generous I've ever seen in a big company was Wells Fargo offering a 100% match on the first 6%.
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I've discovered that a commute over 30 minutes, even to an interesting job, just destroys my ambition both at work and for an hour or two after work.
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If your standard high enought to make fiat money a mirage, most of what modern people do is also a mirage (e.g. software, sales, finance, art, music, insurance). Buffet is setting his standards a bit lower than that. Bitcoin at the moment
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The guy that keeps screwing up is often the guy who then pulls an all-nighter to save the day.
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To add to your point, it's also important to match the manager's character and personality to the role. I have a friend who's a great manager for entry-level folks because he can rally everyone around his vision and he has e
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It's also often true that managers tend to get promoted/retained for advancing their own interests as opposed to advancing their subordinates. When upper management looks for junior managers to promote, they see the easy stuff fi
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by jtbigwoo 13y ago
>> The average tech CEO does not work 11.5 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. There might be a few tech CEOs who work that long, but I am guessing for most of them it isn't a sustainable workload. Articles often get to
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by jtbigwoo 13y ago
In the mainstream media, Bitcoin = Silk Road = Drugs. It's not too surprising a random cop would know about that.
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Compared to other countries, Austin is a paradise of calm, reasonable drivers. For example, it's fairly common in Asia (though not in Japan AFAIK) for a traffic light to be viewed as a suggestion rather than an absolute command. I&#x
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Perhaps it should be revised, then, to say, "If you're going to get sick, make sure it's in a place like Austin, Cleveland, Rochester, Baltimore, or New York that has a great hospital. And make sure that you get taken to the
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by jtbigwoo 13y ago
To add to that, I worked with a guy who waited at a top-flight steakhouse. They had about 200 seats and would have as many as sixty people in service (in addition to dozens of cooks and dishwashers). He usually had two to four tables and
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by jtbigwoo 13y ago
Oops, good catch, thanks.
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In straight-up primaries, Ron Paul did fairly poorly. In conventions and caucuses where his supporters could show up en masse and dominate the proceedings he tended to do better. For example, he came in fourth (~11% of the vote) in the Mi
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by jtbigwoo 13y ago
Three things hurt him with the mainstream media. First, he's not as savvy at manipulating the media with soundbytes as people like John McCain and Newt Gingrich. He always has a provocative answer to questions, though, so he's a
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by jtbigwoo 13y ago
It's insurance. We pool together a bunch of people's money (plus money the company puts in on behalf of the people in this case). We say that some of them will cost a bunch and some of them next to nothing. With enough people, t
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by jtbigwoo 13y ago
Yeah, it's funny. A friend of mine got one B in high school and ended up outside the top 5% of his class (which matters for some scholarships) because there were twelve kids with straight A's. If he had been a year younger he wo
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by jtbigwoo 13y ago
It's time for us to understand that Square is the bare-bones bottom-of-the-market provider. Just because they seem slick and high-tech doesn't mean they're Apple. They want to be the Wal-Mart of payments, driving down their
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by jtbigwoo 13y ago
The locations aren't a coincidence. -The culture in SV is very much centered on scaling quickly and taking a bunch of VC money to do it. If you're in Chicago or Atlanta, there's not that same sort of culture. -Unless a compa
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by jtbigwoo 13y ago
> "Can I see where I’ll sit?" Seriously? Again: it's a startup, things change. I actually like this question. You can tell a lot about a company by whether they're thinking about how to integrate new people. If they
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by jtbigwoo 13y ago
>> Basically, it's one of the most dangerous cities in the country. If you're worried about the violent crime rate, don't move to the south. Texas, Florida, and Louisiana are always near the top for violent crime rate.
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I can't believe they haven't fired the employees that did it and the management that allowed it.
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It's basically a game of chicken where VC's try to get in as late as possible but the investment terms get less and less attractive to both parties as they wait.
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The trouble with this is that he suggests all these things that are imitations of what big companies do. How about doing something that there's no way a company like google would do? - Close the company. Maybe your company just isn&#
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Why Marissa Mayer Hired (and Then Fired) COO Henrique De Castro(businessinsider.com)
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The numbers in this article are certainly frustrating to someone who loves computer science. However, even if a kid was certain that they wanted to major in computer science in college, I'd still tell them to take AP English before AP
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From my experience, an employer should only counter-offer if they're truly desparate. Just like this article says, the employee has already decided to leave once, it's not going to take alot to get them to decided to leave again.
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Perhaps I'm just using you as a substitute for all those kids that told me, "I don't get an allowance, I have to work for my money," and then finding out that their dads paid them $40/week to mow their lawns and cle
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>> Evolution is a theory that is almost self-evident. I wish that were the case. To give one example, housecats are so vastly different than monkeys that initial observation wouldn't necessarily point toward a single primitive m
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I really depends on the personality of the kid and their environment, too. I had a good friend whose parents paid him for chores. They paid pretty good rates (like $5 for cleaning his room or a bathroom or $10 for shoveling their driveway

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