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by jurassic 6y ago
I am a female founder, and I think most people (not just women) have better options than going down the VC path.
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by jurassic 6y ago
I feel like the moonshot or bust VC startup mindset is the problem here. The startup fantasy is that you're going to take investment to build a multi-billion dollar company. But most people don't need anything close to a billion d
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by jurassic 6y ago
Bonuses at the tech company where I work were only funded at 57% even though the financial press has been in love with the stock lately. The contrast with the recent stock performance made the shit bonus feel like a real slap in the face.
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by jurassic 6y ago
This has not been my experience. I use it daily and after the initial load screen my graph is very responsive. They’ve fixed a lot of bugs since last year as well.
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by jurassic 6y ago
Boston is still very white. But white families with children move to the suburbs with better schools. Or pay for private school.
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by jurassic 6y ago
This is the first comment I’ve seen that is in touch with the reality of Boston Public Schools. The Boston public system was destroyed by forced integration that caused people with financial means to withdraw and move to the suburbs and&#x2
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by jurassic 6y ago
Plenty of people create wealth in the second half of life. But not by going to a regular 9-5 job. Typical middle class behavior leads you to average middle class wealth (i.e. very little). People amass wealth by creating businesses that sca
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by jurassic 6y ago
> creating money is a method of redistributing wealth from the poor to the rich, since the newly created money ends up going mostly to the rich. I'm not sure it's as simple as that. Creating more money reduces the value of mon
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by jurassic 6y ago
I'm 33, been in the software game for a while now. The most recent 3 of those years at FAANG earning a hefty salary. Maybe it's just COVID-related depression or something, but I don't feel the joy I used to feel from coding.
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by jurassic 6y ago
A conspiracy involving Nancy Pelosi isn't needed to explain what is happening here. Based on what I saw in my household-name tech workplace this week, big tech companies likely all have internal employee activism campaigns happening to
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by jurassic 6y ago
Simple had some good ideas, but I eventually moved on to more "grown up" banking solutions. What caused me to leave was the inability to write paper checks, which I only needed once or twice a year but is a useful and reasonable-t
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by jurassic 6y ago
I 100% agree, B&H is my goto for anything photo or tech related.
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by jurassic 6y ago
As a Nikon shooter with pro-level gear, replacing the Nikon logo with the Apple one would be the fastest way to get me to ditch their ecosystem.
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by jurassic 6y ago
I love that you brought up the surveillance aspect; I have not seen that discussed much elsewhere. A wealth tax seems impractical on many levels, including the increased burden of trying to document the value of your items for people of mod
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by jurassic 6y ago
Cancelling standups during a "fun projects only" hackweek doesn't say a single thing about the efficacy of the standup meeting. The costs of cancelling it, will only show up over the medium to long term. Also, it makes me cri
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by jurassic 6y ago
I've definitely received counterfeit books from Amazon. I bought two volumes in a set of George Orwell essays and the difference in quality between the genuine one and the fake one was absurd. The real volume was a high quality trade p
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by jurassic 6y ago
Vulnerable people have needs that are supplied by the broader community (food, medicines, medical care, etc) so it's impossible to fully isolate vulnerable populations.
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by jurassic 6y ago
A lot of universities may never reopen if they don't bring students back this year. It's not surprising they're choosing to cash the tuition checks as long as that remains a legal option.
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by jurassic 6y ago
Here's a short list to get you started: - Homeless issues. Mentally ill people pissing and defecating on the sidewalks in every significant public space. - Vehicle vandalism is extremely common and unchecked by police. - Extremely high
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by jurassic 6y ago
Property taxes are not that relevant for the masses who can't afford to buy property.
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by jurassic 6y ago
I recently had some authentic jamon iberico de bellota from Formaggio Kitchen in Cambridge, MA. Definitely worth trying if you enjoy meat.
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by jurassic 6y ago
I was on the fence at $50 and will be cancelling as I don't care anything about these new additions. I can think of many things I would prefer to spend the $180 price hike on. Seems like they should be doing these expansions as add-ons
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by jurassic 6y ago
The main value I get from the physical bookstores I love is the curation aspect. Kepler's Books in Menlo Park is an example of a place doing this well. I suppose this could be done digitally as well, but so far Amazon seems more focuse
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by jurassic 6y ago
To me, this just shows why it's important to build communication channels that you own (e.g. podcast, mailing list, etc) if you want to have unimpeded access to your audience. Today it's a censorship thing, tomorrow it'll be
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by jurassic 6y ago
Gmail does not have this. Hey inverts the default behavior to one that is consent-based, and things can only reach your inbox if you thumbs up the first time they send something to you. This is not some minor technical point, it is at the c
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by jurassic 6y ago
> An old gmail account being noisy is probably more a function of it being old than it being a gmail account. I suspect he'd see a great improvement just starting a new email address. Hey's screener feature shows there's a
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by jurassic 6y ago
I'm just a layman, but I don't see how ThreatMatrix could possibly be seen as within the spirit of GDPR. I hope regulators throw the book here.
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by jurassic 6y ago
$4000/mo for a 1-bed in Cambridge seems high to me, but I guess I am not surprised. Kendall is mostly new developments that I would describe as "premium mediocre"; nice, but not nearly as nice as you would expect for the mone
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by jurassic 6y ago
The mega-REITS who bought all the affordable apartments in the bay area deserve what is coming to them. I rented a slummy 500 sq ft apartment (literal roaches in the kitchen) in Mountain View for $2000/month back in 2015 and just last
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by jurassic 6y ago
She was going to do it for free but they insisted on paying her.

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