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by kareemm 8y ago
Hah. Just made the Vancouver to Halifax move for exactly the reasons you cite. It’s a great place to be for young families. Affordable, welcoming, walkable, lots of nature close by. No roots here but did the math and took the path that 20 o
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by kareemm 8y ago
I was struck by this when I went to visit Shanghai in 2002. I was sitting beside a recent MBA grad who was originally from China. We got to talking. At one point in the conversation he asked me a hypothetical question about how I would desi
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by kareemm 8y ago
How could it be good? At best it’s probably neutral. But given our ancestors didn’t eat microplastics and our digestive systems evolved from them, I have a hard time imagining we’re able to digest microplastics well.
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by kareemm 8y ago
I'm not sure it's self-dealing. Self dealing constitutes a breach of the fiduciary relationship they have on behalf of another party[1]. If they're the donor, direct the DAFs funds, and are the principal in the hedge fund or
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by kareemm 8y ago
> As for the DAF, he can never retrieve that money, nor spend it on anything that's not for the public benefit. That's that flaw. The money can be allocated to a charity that the donor controls. Or invested in a private e.g.
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by kareemm 8y ago
>> taxpayers are subsidizing tax breaks for the rich > I commented about this elsewhere in the thread. This is a ridiculous point of view because there is no net tax break for the individual. How is there no net tax break? In one
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by kareemm 8y ago
That's a fairly simplistic way of looking at it. Here's another way of looking at it: taxpayers are subsidizing tax breaks for the rich. Guy puts $1M in stock or some other non-cash asset that can change in value into a DAF. Get
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by kareemm 8y ago
Superhuman. It’s hands down the best os x email client I’ve used. Don’t think they have an iOS app yet but it’s coming. Or maybe they do, I don’t do email on my phone.
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Adobe buys Marketo for $4.75B(techcrunch.com)
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The company behind Canada’s biggest phone scam(cbc.ca)
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Ticketmaster knowingly lets scalpers violate its terms of service(thestar.com)
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Ah gotcha. Thanks.
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Can I ask how you got started, and why? Thinking about picking up knife making as a hobby and curious about your experience. Feel free to email me - address in profile.
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I do this when I consult. I call it a roadmapping session. It's massively successful. The customer pays a little bit of $$ relative to the total spend to get what they want built. In exchange they get: 1. A doc outlining what they wan
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How I acquired my first 10 customers(blog.cronhub.io)
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by kareemm 8y ago
Anecdotally lots of tabs open (30+) in Firefox uses more RAM than Chrome and brings my 2017 MBP to its knees.
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by kareemm 8y ago
I trust Mozilla and have zero trust in Google. But I just switched back to Chrome after an experiment with Firefox. It’s just too much of a resource hog vs Chrome. Hopefully they sort that out soon.
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Homeowners do pay property tax in Vancouver: https://vancouver.ca/home-property-development/property-tax....
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by kareemm 8y ago
> We’re also exploring new shelf-life extension technologies (such as HPP) What is HPP?
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The Man Who Captures Criminals for the D.E.A. By Playing Them(newyorker.com)
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New Zealand to ban foreigners from buying homes(smh.com.au)
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by kareemm 8y ago
Peopleware is an absolute classic. I stumbled across it when I found Joel Spolsky's Book Reviews page back in 2002: http://new.joelonsoftware.com/navLinks/fog0000000262.html If you want to be a good programmer, yo
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by kareemm 8y ago
Maybe it’s the environment in which I give my kids sugar that causes them to be wired. But regardless, the crash is horrible to behold.
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by kareemm 8y ago
I’d rather not give my kids a glass of juice OR soda but to each his/her own.
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I love the strange looks we get when we tell extended family that our 1.5y old and 4y old kids don't drink juice. I had this exact conversation with a cousin of mine last week. She checked in with me before giving my child juice. When
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by kareemm 8y ago
Basecamp was built 14 years ago. There was less competition and 37S a massive marketing channel. No disrespect to them but it was a different world.
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by kareemm 8y ago
Isn’t Google the obvious counter to this? IIRC Larry and Sergei were equal and possibly co-CEOs until Eric Schmidt was brought in. One of the biggest companies in history is a major counterexample to Gil’s argument and deserves more than a
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by kareemm 8y ago
> Planning well, finding out what to do, is harder than the actual programming. Again and again, in all projects, I find that the >90% part is finding out what to do. There So you've advocating an approach where you... don't
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by kareemm 8y ago
In my experience talking to hundreds of software engineering managers, running a software project management business, and being involved on software dev teams for 20+ years, there are two reasons why teams don’t ship or ship poor software.
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Why some cybersecurity experts keep their car keys in a metal coffee can(thestar.com)
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