kareemsabri

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by kareemsabri 4y ago
I didn't propose to reform Uber, and actually didn't make any policy recommendations at all. I engaged on the narrow question of whether some gig workers are being "taken advantage of", which GP claimed was essentially i
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
Nobody, but that doesn't change anything about whether they're being taken advantage of. In order to be taken advantage of, desperation is a helpful precondition.
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
The question isn't whether he's worse off or not. I don't know why you're moving the goalposts. It seems obvious that if you are presented with only two choices, one between $3 an hour and one between $0 and hour, that $
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
You should review your contract carefully. Typically the IP is things created "in the context of your work" and that are related to the company's business or with knowledge gained through your work for the company, using comp
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
Most Americans don't know what Ontario is, I bet.
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
I meant it's false in that it implies there are no other possible solutions that could alleviate this problem. But if it's not false, and it truly is their least bad option they are choosing over destitution, I would think that&#x
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
You're correct that blaming the delivery apps is looking in the wrong place. If the government doesn't want people in precarious employment they should provide a social safety net. Then if the gig jobs were so bad, they would have
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
> This is true across all income classes, because the classes are a distribution. While I agree that those in "precarious" positions may be concentrated in the gig economy for the reasons you suggested, this argument is an insu
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
I don't think the GP does deserve a good rebuttal tbh, it's a pretty weak argument that I have a hard time believing someone could really think. The argument is, because these people "willingly" took the job, they cannot
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
According to this[1] when you dig into these deals the "savior of crypto" thing is mostly spin. This submission seems like a PR piece for SBF / FTX. 1. https://protos.com/heres-why-sam-bankman-fried-is-not-the
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
The private company versus individual has nothing to do with it. The private company / individual is acting on behalf of the state, and the state provides itself the authority to take your property without your consent.
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
IANAL and haven't read the laws of Philly but it seems pretty obvious that moving your property off a public street is not considered theft.
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
Insane is a strong word. But your description ("efficiently price a scarce resource") is economics textbook language and irrelevant to the end consumer. What's "insane" about a currency where on any given day the ef
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
I don't think it's reactionary to oppose choosing who to fire based on their race.
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
I think that's fair. But I would say the article is about activity (shipping features fast) and so as a measure of activity commits per day is a decent proxy. Obviously the devil is in the details. I would not judge an individual dev
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
Obviously I think it does. Why do you think it doesn't?
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
CI/CD takes like 3 hours to set up and saves you hundreds of hours in deployment time. It delivers new features to your customers faster, lets you ship more frequently because you know you can roll forward quickly or revert when you me
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
I agree with most of these, and vehemently disagree with a couple. I think we move pretty damn fast, we average 5 commits per dev per day. I very much agree with break features into many small pull requests. We merge constantly even (espe
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
I think that's fair, and the author choose a bad example (doing cocaine might have been better, or watching Netflix). But I think the difference between the other examples is they involve some sort of a mission. It's difficult (im
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
I have a cofounder now, but didn't for a long time. I go to a nice co-working space every day. I pay for it out of pocket, but it's well worth it to me.
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
The problem with your theory is that there's actually no argument to it. It's just piggybacking on the utility of the internet to cast crypto in a more favorable light. It might be that crypto will take a long time to become usefu
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
It seems like a distinction without a difference. The investing outcome is identical, so why does it matter that your job pays you out over the entire year.
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
That's good feedback, we can do that pretty easily.
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
I consider DCA to be equal notional amount purchases of an asset at a fixed period (weekly, monthly, annually etc.). That's it really. Wherever the money comes from.
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
Nice work. Shill away :)
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
The benefit of DCA (in my mind) is avoiding market timing risk. Sure, as another commenter pointed out, if a stock is only going up you better just get in and ride it up. But who knows? If you buy at the peak of a bubble, like in January 20
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
I'm not sure I follow how the investing timeline relates to the exposure to companies "in trouble". Isn't that just about what you choose to invest in? If you pick a bad investment, or get unlucky, or anything else, you&
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
No you can invest weekly in most apps.
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
Sure, I mean you can DCA into SPY if that's what you like. Some people do want a bit more higher-risk or sector specific approaches. I personally have 50% going into SPY DCA then a bunch of other bets. Some of them have outperformed SP
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
I agree with all that. I still think Microsoft has lots of consumer customers though.

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