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by kbos87 6y ago
Inept question: would it be possible to outright lie about ones’ caste, or is it easy enough for someone else to figure out? How? I don’t see an ounce of shame in doing so if it levels an unjust playing field.
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by kbos87 6y ago
I agree that some choices were made for us, but abdicating any personal responsibility In favor of anger at someone else strikes me as lazy and defeatist thinking. Many people in industrialized nations make choices every day and have full c
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by kbos87 6y ago
There’s so much attention aimed at proving climate change deniers wrong, or proving that petroleum executives know that climate change is real. These are valid pursuits, but I worry that they are also a convenient object of our anger. Reall
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by kbos87 6y ago
If you want to have your eyes opened about just how little of the material you probably think you are recycling actually gets recycled, watch the recent Frontline episode called “Plastic Wars”. The sad truth is that while recycling is worth
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by kbos87 6y ago
So, so true. But if you have conversations with a hundred people about the math behind their real estate, it’s the only thing the vast majority are considering in my experience, which is such a big miss.
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by kbos87 6y ago
Oh god, I’ve thought long and hard about this over the years and my conclusion is that there’s no good advice that applies to everyone - whether you should own or rent depends heavily on what you value, how long you plan to stay put, and wh
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by kbos87 6y ago
This feels so obvious. 30 years from now, we might very well look back at these labels we applied to people, implying something is wrong with them for responding to their negative circumstances, and feel like we were living in the dark ages
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by kbos87 6y ago
Not intending to change the subject - for what it’s worth I generally agree with you - but aren’t legacy admissions just a step above the lie that is meritocracy? Well resourced families produce children who go to good schools, have all sor
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by kbos87 6y ago
It seems very tough to draw any conclusions on this just yet. The media has clearly latched onto a storyline of a mass exodus from American cities, but the reality is probably much more complex. It seems plausible that SF already had such l
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by kbos87 6y ago
ADT’s pricing and go-to-market approach is draconian in 2020. Long term contracts, expensive equipment, and high pressure sales tactics couldn’t be any different than my experience with a Nest home security system. Will be interesting to se
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by kbos87 6y ago
So nice that they’ve decided this is what they want to go after the self-driving division of Uber for, and not the gross negligence that led to a woman’s death when their car plowed into her walking a bike across the street.
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by kbos87 6y ago
Better yet, outlaw a business like amazon and create an instant market for tens of thousands of small local businesses.
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by kbos87 6y ago
Even when you look at the disparity in cases across the United States, it’s a little bit of a head scratcher to me, but it has to ultimately be behavioral. Here in the Northeast, I’d say the majority of people (but certainly not all) are we
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by kbos87 6y ago
Or other private citizens. What’s stopping someone from creating a mesh of ring cameras and using photos scraped from social profiles to let individuals track one anothers‘ whereabouts in real time?
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by kbos87 6y ago
So much attention is always paid to accuracy when facial recognition comes up. Even if it was 100% accurate, it’s a technology that makes mass surveillance too efficient. Prohibitions need to also extend to the private sector, with the exce
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by kbos87 6y ago
Great topic, and I’d say there are already some signs you are asking the right questions. A few of my own thoughts: Use your capital constrained mindset productively, but be attuned to when to shut it off. Being able to do a lot with a litt
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by kbos87 6y ago
I went through a several years long period of pretty extreme anxiety. I went through sleepless nights, racing thoughts, near panic attacks on public transportation (for seemingly no reason!) In retrospect, it was a pretty terrible time, des
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by kbos87 6y ago
I see a lot of commentary about experiences people have had with grocery delivery services. I think this may be part of it, but it isn’t why I never have and likely never will use one. I think there’s a large number of people who don’t mind
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by kbos87 6y ago
I think you’ll find that CEOs, like anyone, usually have strengths and interests in one particular area or another - like the examples you cited, yours might be product. Having opinions on and being able to quickly dive deep into product is
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by kbos87 6y ago
So much of everything is about connections and reputation. Tech in particular holds up a guise that people are chosen and ascend because they are “good”, meaning, they are good at what they do. That’s part of it, but it’s an insufficient pa
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by kbos87 6y ago
Everyone I work with seems to always have about a million tabs open at all times, myself included. Maybe they’ve figured out a way to manage them, but for me, it’s hard to keep them from becoming anything other than a disorganized mess. I u
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by kbos87 6y ago
Yes, on the flipside, it works exactly the same way in reverse if someone is moving to a higher cost market. We benchmark against data from Radford & Comtrix (salary/pricing data providers) and adjust upwards on a regular basis too
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by kbos87 6y ago
Bingo. As a director of a team at a mid-sized tech company who had conversations with employees making decisions like this, I can tell you that it is standard practice to adjust salary for the cost of living and the availability of talent i
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by kbos87 6y ago
I guess my curiosity is why Elon Musk feels like he is entitled to defy the law when any of the other businesses mentioned here wouldn’t dare. Jailtime for him, or why should anyone obey?
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by kbos87 6y ago
Maintaining that book of past prices, who is on them, the discounts they negotiated, the feature formulation they had - its a nightmarish web of complexity even at large SaaS vendors.
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by kbos87 7y ago
The fact that Amazon can argue they don’t do this with a straight face tells me that they have no fear of regulators and feel confident they can get away with just lying about it. Any observant Whole Foods shopper can see this happening ove
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by kbos87 7y ago
Thank you. The reality is that in 2020 the people buying the ads usually (not always, but more often than not) are expected to account for the return on investment. There’s a little bit of a holier than thou attitude on HN - but if you go d
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by kbos87 7y ago
I went through this for a relative recently. It blew my mind that many very large companies seemed surprised and unprepared when I called them to say my relative was deceased and to close accounts, like this never happens and they didn’t kn
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by kbos87 7y ago
You are probably consuming remixes and don’t even know it. I’d guess that a lot more than half of the content on TikTok is a remix of something else.
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by kbos87 7y ago
They probably will. I don’t think it’s reasonable to think they are throwing caution to the wind and not taking some measures to protect the folks working at these checkpoints, who are trained professionals following orders.

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