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by librish 4y ago
Yes that's the idea? They get to live out the rest of their years, and then their heirs pay the deferred taxes, selling the house if needed.
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by librish 4y ago
SF is probably hit the hardest by WFH. If you lived and worked in the city you probably had a pretty good commute, so you're not getting the biggest benefit. And while I know it's a less common preference on HN, a lot of people en
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by librish 4y ago
The anti-gun rebuttal is that having that many guns around makes breaking the existing laws. I don't care how you do it (buybacks + making it much more cumbersome to get one seem like a good start), the end result that I'm after i
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by librish 4y ago
It's time we start legislating based on empirical evidence instead of lofty ideals. Yes, if everyone was responsible perhaps it would be OK for all of us to own firearms. But so many people are utterly irresponsible, and guns make that
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by librish 4y ago
The founder pushing employees to take such a reckless financial decision while presumably their only insight into many key business metrics is the leaderships rosy portrayal of them is unethically irresponsible.
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by librish 4y ago
I think you've interpreted the post incorrectly. It's not saying "don't do side projects for fun". It's saying "don't do side projects as a means to get hired" which I agree with.
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by librish 4y ago
I think you might be interpreting this wrong. The "let's do this again" after the date is meaningless, that's just a social nicety no matter how the date went. When you ask them out and they give an excuse and no alterna
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by librish 4y ago
I find the discussion of ghosting interesting. If I've gone on a bad date or two I don't specifically tell the other person I don't want to see them again unless they ask me. This allows for a lot more saving face if I run in
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by librish 4y ago
I get a battery notification when the power is running low. That means I usually have a couple of days of usage before it's completely out. So then I charge it while I go to lunch or overnight.
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by librish 4y ago
I don't think I agree with most of these. The professional way to say "I told you so" is to not say it. If there are specific action items you can bring them up in a post mortem without pointing fingers. If you feel like you
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by librish 4y ago
I think this highlights how not black-and-white this is. Some of the focus on design are clearly what made Apple so popular and tech people can be dismissive of that. The magic mouse is so much better than any other mouse I've used (be
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by librish 4y ago
Can you give an example statement showing the difference?
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by librish 4y ago
This is super cool and I'm glad someone's trying it. The digital nomad lifestyle is really fun and worth trying for a lot of people, at least for a few years. I'm skeptical this will work out for Airbnb though. My personal ex
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by librish 5y ago
I'm not sure how responsibility plays in. Being bluntly honest lowers your chance of making friends, in my experience.
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by librish 5y ago
Yes but empirically the chance of someone rescheduling is low.
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by librish 5y ago
The problem is that this is what people say even when it does have something to do with you.
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by librish 5y ago
The post frames being avoidant as always being about not hurting someone else's feelings and I think that's almost never the case. It's usually juggling: - As a rule I usually end up happy I went to things in hindsight, even
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by librish 5y ago
If I'm not misunderstanding you you're saying there could be value, which I've never argued against. I'm asking if you have any evidence that there's currently any significant value created.
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by librish 5y ago
Those applications are not negative sum. My impression is that the total revenue for services like that is minuscule, I would be very interested if you have data showing something else.
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by librish 5y ago
The activity on Ethereum has the potential to be economically meaningful (there's a separate discussion on whether or not it's the best way to do it) but I don't think it currently is. What is people extracting from the Ether
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by librish 5y ago
Until someone has built a crypto product that creates values (for the purpose of this discussion it can be a good or a service would be willing to spend USD on even if it wasn't a crypto) crypto is a negative-sum game. Any USD taken ou
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by librish 5y ago
Presumably that they'll see the difference in price.
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by librish 5y ago
It was a fine argument that you completely avoided responding to.
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by librish 5y ago
Velocity vs correctness is a trade-off. Stringent review, testing, and ownership requirements can easily slow down developers by an order of magnitude. Which is often the right call, but not always.
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by librish 5y ago
To the people who are worried about woke-ism going too far: what's your best specific example? What opinion was uttered and what consequence followed?
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by librish 5y ago
The only thing I said was that I preferred to work remote. I want to work at a company where self selects into being on site.
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by librish 5y ago
At all the companies I've been at it's be kosher to ignore IMs for several hours if you're working on something.
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by librish 5y ago
Yes, I _personally_ believe distributed teams are less effective. As for your other point, that research is similar to the research on working from home. It measures a controlled thing, but certainly nothing I would use to extrapolate that
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by librish 5y ago
Yes, if I'm not colocated with my team then most of the advantages go away.
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by librish 5y ago
I think anyone who's claiming that remote work has been "proven" to be better or worse is wrong. There are some studies but they use estimations and proxies, carrying the same flaws as doing performance reviews based on lines

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