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by lsc 8y ago
>You can buy a car (or truck) for $3000 that will last several years without requiring any huge mechanic bills or exotic maintenance - heck, I’ve done it. I've done it, too. The thing is, even if the car is perfect, a car 10-20 yea
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by lsc 8y ago
Hah. I think that's a pretty good example in other ways, too. Uber is losing money hand over fist- if you really want to be driven to work everyday, they are by far the cheapest way to get that done, presumably because they are will
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by lsc 8y ago
I would argue that "You can do the same" means the author is in sales, or at least practicing sales techniques. Now, the author might be doing this for the usual reasons, to sell their program, or the author might be doing this
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by lsc 8y ago
>It is strange reading this - 330 generations ago, the entire world was communist. This began fading away, whereas nowadays only a few people live like this, deep in the Amazon and in other out of the way places. We could argue about thi
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by lsc 8y ago
The big thing is the ability to pay bond repayments with inflated currency. The vast majority of government debt is fixed rate
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by lsc 8y ago
>Yeah, but what would an anarchist think of the design of Signal? so, uh https://www.wired.com/2016/07/meet-moxie-marlinspike-anarchi...
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by lsc 8y ago
"If Hitler invaded hell, I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the house of commons." Hitler was as involved in the Spanish civil war as Stalin. During the following great war, the allies decided that Stalin
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by lsc 8y ago
>If you're a pro auto shop, you can probably get your hands on all of the exactly right tools. If you're an individual, it's another story... Meh, I'm mostly talking about getting the right socket for the job... I mea
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by lsc 8y ago
>Honestly, writing the manuscript is the easy part. Building an audience, marketing it, keeping the book up-to-date is just as hard as the original manuscript. But it can really pay off. That is a big part of the value proposition of goi
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by lsc 8y ago
I find this to be really weird... Anyone who has worked on vehicles knows the importance of getting the exact right tool to unfasten a fastener (and the... consequences of using something that "almost works" - usually meaning you
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by lsc 8y ago
pozidrive is pretty easy to distinguish because it's got the little star point deals. Like this: https://www.belmetric.com/images/MSOVAL5X50SS%20Machine%20Sc... They are becoming more common; my latest ikea thing
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by lsc 8y ago
This is a very old debate (I mean, the 'If we are intolerant of intolerance, is does that make us intolerant ourselves?' thing) - and I'm not saying I have the answers, (and my perception is that at least before Trump, Repu
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by lsc 8y ago
by the same percentage as, perhaps? Both are intensely local, and while local tech industry wages have been increasing pretty dramatically over the last decade, I think that service industry wages have stagnated, as have prices. I think
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by lsc 8y ago
>It is, in general, a career limiting move to tell anyone above you that what they're asking you to do is stupid. My experience? unless you have like a bottom quintile boss, you can tell him/her almost anything, if you do it v
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by lsc 8y ago
it's something I need very much. but part of needing it is that I'm not... particularly qualified to evaluate your ability to give it to me, which makes things difficult. Really, that's the hard part about hiring help in gen
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by lsc 8y ago
>For at least 8 hours of your day, you are at work, interacting with people in an environment toxic for creating trusting friendships (You're competing for the same roles, titles, bonuses, etc.) I... man, I hate working at places li
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by lsc 8y ago
>My guess is that it's mostly advertising in franchise lifestyle places (like magazines) combined with the fact that it's selling a relatively low-cost service and works more by appointment than an open storefront. Sort of a ch
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by lsc 8y ago
What I was trying to say is that most people have pretty strong preferences for the bay are or for texas. And you can induce some to switch using higher wages/lower CoL... but those preferences remain pretty strong, and for some are a
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by lsc 8y ago
It's not so much a guarantee we (the potential users) want, as something showing that the company could credibly provide that access.
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by lsc 8y ago
If they can make connections better than I can on my own... if they can, say, evaluate and help negotiate a partnership with a business person better than I could and/or provide good ongoing advice and connections... or if they provid
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by lsc 8y ago
>I don't assume that for one minute. I work in a job where there is literally nobody else in the company with my expertise. So, I've been there, and... the thing that makes me chuckle is that a few years later, in part because
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by lsc 8y ago
see, I think there is a big cultural difference. Like, I always had that attitude as an employee, but I think that as an employee, it holds me back. I think the key is that as an employee, you are expected to act in the interest of the com
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by lsc 8y ago
Sounds shocking... but having worked as a contractor for a goodly portion of my career, I'd argue that something is seriously wrong if you can't get at least one employee to vouch for you. Really, every place I've worked, you
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by lsc 8y ago
well, just sitting on a patent and waiting for an infringement isn't going to help fix the internet. That would be the other thing. Seems to me like a patent is a good start, a good nucleus around which you could build some venture ca
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by lsc 8y ago
>Many folks that work in CA are from out of state and do it for career/financial reasons, not for political/social reasons. The fact that most folks in CA are from out of state doesn't imply that they would be just as happ
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by lsc 8y ago
See, that's what I like about Silicon Valley. There are a lot of crazy conservative folk here, a bunch of the people I hung around as a younger person were right-libertarian almost to the point of being anarcho-capitalist, and I still
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by lsc 8y ago
>There's no good reason why one tech company should be five minutes away from their competitor I disagree strongly. I think the most valuable thing about silicon valley is that I can walk to tens of small employers, from my house,
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by lsc 8y ago
This is how California works; privilege old residents over the new. I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but it is very clearly what California voters want. The idea is that we have these massive boom/bust cycles (that seem
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by lsc 8y ago
>Because of this, more people will decide to live in Texas instead of California, where they'll run their air conditioners 10 months out of the year in their huge, inefficient houses which draw power from coal plants. I think the pa
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by lsc 8y ago
It sounds like the sort of thing that would be amenable to a greasemonkey type script? hm. sounds like an interesting project.

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