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by kleinsch 6y ago
The Netflix model makes a ton of sense, but doesn't apply to most other companies, bc Netflix is a unique case. They pay top of market, all cash. They have massive name recognition and obvious longevity. Probably most uniquely - they o
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by kleinsch 6y ago
The stock market has gone through the roof for the last six months. Where aren’t you seeing returns on capital?
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by kleinsch 6y ago
The article understates it, but for those out of the loop, getting a current-gen GPU is basically impossible unless you want to pay 3-4X MSRP on eBay to scalpers. Buying a prebuilt like this is the only way most people can get their hands o
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by kleinsch 6y ago
I'm not an accountant, but this may not be accounting debt. It may sound like debt to you, but selling accounts receivable is a one-time transaction that sells off assets. Your balance sheet no longer includes those assets (in this cas
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by kleinsch 6y ago
From the article: "the cost of housing in Sydney, Australia and sole-income was a leading factor in the dissolution of the relationship" Whatever opinions you have about divorce law aside, it's a simple fact that if housing w
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by kleinsch 6y ago
The only reason they’re selling MacBooks with Intel is bc they haven’t updated the whole line yet. They did the entry level models for MacBook, Air, and mini. They’ll do the rest when they roll out the M1X (higher end first party chip) late
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by kleinsch 6y ago
Blog spam for hammers appears here all the time. Best to ignore it. Buy a cheap screwdriver from Home Depot. If it breaks, buy another one.
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by kleinsch 6y ago
Blues is both a style of music as well as the name of a chord progression (that’s used in that style of music). You could play that chord progression in a Latin or bebop style and you’d be playing a 12-bar blues, but you wouldn’t be playing
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by kleinsch 6y ago
I think you’re fighting straw men here, but a worker whose focus is on metrics/people sounds like a good definition of a manager.
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by kleinsch 6y ago
Yea, the top comments on this thread read like a bunch of ICs who don’t understand what management does. Yes, you have more time to be productive from home but since you aren’t sitting with your team all day, your manager has to work harder
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by kleinsch 6y ago
Yea, it’s funny how a community that started based on tech startups now advocates totally burning down businesses that rely on advertising for revenue or customer growth. I don’t love the optics of this FB ad, but it is a fact that it’s goi
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by kleinsch 6y ago
Been at FB two years, joined after my wife had been there 1.5 years. There are tons of people who join bc of significant others or friends, it’s a good place to work. * $$$ - There are only a few companies at that level of total comp. FB st
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by kleinsch 6y ago
I don’t work at Google, I’m at a different big tech that’s in the news frequently. Sharing inside info on an ongoing incident is a great way to get fired. Big tech companies are way different than startups where everyone can do a bit of any
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by kleinsch 6y ago
CA will still come after you for profits on options granted while you were a CA resident, even if you exercise after leaving CA.
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by kleinsch 6y ago
And yet at 70mph on California highways, most traffic will be zooming past you...
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by kleinsch 6y ago
If you’re a new college grad, it’s definitely easier coming from those schools. It’s also almost impossible to get a FTE job after college without interning, and they recruit heavily from the top schools. If you have experience already, whe
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by kleinsch 6y ago
I consulted for six years before going back to FTE a couple years ago, I always used Harvest to track time and expenses, and invoice clients. It was good if you’re doing fixed hourly rate or project billing. If I stuck with it longer, I’d h
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by kleinsch 6y ago
It’s about time invested to find something you’ll like. If I watch a new movie every night, I have to go do the work to find a movie to watch. If I watch short films for 90 mins, I have to do that 5-6x/night. If I watch a series, I fin
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by kleinsch 6y ago
I enjoy https://www.fillmurray.com/
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by kleinsch 6y ago
> Unless your work has serious atypical externalities, just doing what you're doing doesn't itself make things worse Most of the big tech companies are all encompassing enough that they all have serious externalities. - Amazon
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by kleinsch 6y ago
I worked for companies on the east coast, then moved to SF and now work at a big tech company. The companies I worked for on the east coast were mostly B2B, so we were focused on making a good product for businesses so they’d pay us more mo
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by kleinsch 6y ago
Because most popular nonfiction could really be boiled down to a blog post or two, but it’s hard to justify $15 for a 2-3 page pamphlet.
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by kleinsch 6y ago
Culinarily, the Bay Area is #2 in the US, behind NYC. In Michelin star rankings it’s top 10 in the world. Cost of living sucks, it’s why I just moved to a better COL area but damn do I miss the restaurant scene.
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by kleinsch 6y ago
And due to the current antitrust concerns, there’s no way FB could buy TikTok.
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by kleinsch 6y ago
Company offered permanent remote work, thought through career trade offs and whether we wanted to stay in the Bay Area forever. Picked suburbs between Denver and Boulder. Good tech jobs, similar sunshine and outdoor activities as the Bay Ar
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by kleinsch 6y ago
Left my Kindle on a Southwest Airlines flight. Filled out a customer service form on the web, they sent back that they found it. I just had to pay shipping and they mailed it to my house.
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by kleinsch 6y ago
Not sure about this exact study, but studies like this usually ignore confounding factors that cause people to abstain. The headline leads people to think that they should drink a bit to achieve the result, but that’s usually never the case
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by kleinsch 6y ago
We’re moving to Boulder next month. With houses starting at $800K and larger houses going for $1.5M+, it seems like the local economy must be driven as much by the tech companies that flocked to Boulder bc of the school as by the school its
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by kleinsch 6y ago
What were the exercises you ended up doing at home spread out over the day? Given the current situation, seems like a unique time lots of us could try out that type of workout.
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by kleinsch 6y ago
If it ever gets back in stock, the Portal TV is great for this. Follows my kid around during the weekly chats with her grandparents. I know a lot of HN is pretty anti-FB, so depends on your philosophy, but it's a pretty cool device.

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