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by meetingthrower 2y ago
Really interesting read as an outsider. A lot of inside baseball, but my impression is that a ton of the indirect costs do fund the institution building that has happened at universities. This creates a cycle of more = more as indirect cost
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by meetingthrower 2y ago
I mean, the ONE thing I want is when I am writing an email to coordinate a meeting and it says "how about tomorrow at 1:00" in the email body, that I can reply with a meeting and the time is set for tomorrow at 1:00 automatically?
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by meetingthrower 2y ago
Lol. My public school sent 10% of its senior class to ivy league schools last year. I'll take it. Not all of them are inner city hell holes.
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by meetingthrower 2y ago
100%. And can be wonderfully done by efficient heatpumps that cover the warmer months too. Also nice correlation between hot and sunny areas which means solar can get you to net zero pretty quick. (Says man looking at his solar panels right
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by meetingthrower 2y ago
This is the way. Submitting an application is useless. We've reverted back to networking for jobs. You have to connect with actual humans, as nobody is going to wade through 5k resumes and pick yours out no matter how good it is...
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by meetingthrower 2y ago
seconded. I love forums that use this. Easy to spin up as well.
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by meetingthrower 2y ago
On #2, you surely aren't familiar with a lot of locations in US! I live in New England. <$1M home. $18K property taxes. I don't live on coast or in hurricane area, so insurance is relatively cheap at $3k or so....
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by meetingthrower 2y ago
Yes but the algorithm also is that they take 5% of your assets each year. So if you've saved $1M (not much for a $200K a year couple in their 50s), that's $50K a year out the door.
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by meetingthrower 2y ago
Ok what city??
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by meetingthrower 2y ago
Lol. Tell that to insurance companies, which are regulated by the states. they LOVE it, as they have the scale to deal with a 50 state bureaucracy. Small government favors huge business.
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by meetingthrower 2y ago
The DSNY budget is $1.9B. How much should you invest to make the right decision, when you are radically changing the operations of the organization and the daily fabric of city life for millions of people?
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by meetingthrower 2y ago
Do you live in the country in a town with no zoning? You might be surprised...
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by meetingthrower 2y ago
Exactly!!! This is an interviewer issue. You should be guiding them. Get the answers for each scenario out of both sets of interviewees and see if they are facile enough to roll with it. Doing a one shot "quiz" is not that reveali
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by meetingthrower 2y ago
Love to see this - a miracle! We used it to partially homeschool a kid in math, then he graduated to SAT prep for himself, etc. Totally free. What a gift to the world.
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by meetingthrower 2y ago
Again, 100% false on ACA. (I would agree that medicaid is a PIA, but it's free!) The ACA plans are run by the same carriers as employer plans in my state. Blue Cross, Harvard Pilgrim, etc. Networks are exactly the same. Price is equiva
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by meetingthrower 2y ago
Totally false. I've been on ACA silver plans and all expense paid corporate plans. At the end of the day the true costs are pretty equivalent - $20K for a family of 4 per year in cash going to insurance/healthcare. With ACA, that
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by meetingthrower 3y ago
Beautiful reply. #3 can be pushed by aggressive negotiators, but requires "like for like" schools to make a mistake. Then you can leverage one school to ask for more money from another.
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by meetingthrower 3y ago
100%. There are revenue management consulting firms that boast of increasing price realization by 15%+ by managing admission rates, communication patterns, and "scholarship grants" to optimize bottomline price. When the marginal c
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by meetingthrower 3y ago
Yes
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by meetingthrower 3y ago
Exactly. I've come to the belief that we need to attack the regulatory environment to allow this to happen. Those oldsters driving golf karts all over the Florida retirement communities have it right! But it is basically illegal everyw
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by meetingthrower 3y ago
Awesome. I had gpt make me a few workout plans. It took a bit to get the prompts right, but it seems to be a great use case with some structure to the prompts. Next step is to offer daily / weekly check ins via the ai "agent&quot
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by meetingthrower 3y ago
Well in tech you can actually be an expert IC with in demand skills that match the comp. This is vs some "strategy" head or "chief of staff" which are glorified admins that are often created when execs are empire buildin
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by meetingthrower 3y ago
1. Nobody is safe. But as a general rule: make the product or sell it, don't count it. 2. Loss centers are too simplistic. I mean, hr is a loss center but you still need it. But the question you should ask yourself every day is "a
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by meetingthrower 3y ago
So I've been a consultant and helped companies do huge layoffs, starting from the top down. The lesson is you are NEVER safe unless you are the owner of the company. I've put many a 20 year veteran who was an SVP of etc etc on the
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by meetingthrower 3y ago
It's not so bad. Used to be a jumpmaster in the 82nd Airborne, where part of the job was to stick your head out of the side of the open door of a C141 while in flight to check for issues, towed jumpers, etc. It's loud, but surviva
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by meetingthrower 3y ago
This. You can't have your cake and eat it.
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by meetingthrower 3y ago
Do you have an invite - I'm on beeper mini but on the waitlist for the desktop!
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by meetingthrower 3y ago
I live / have lived in both states. Insane pricing where school systems are good. ($600k tear downs in my town.) But it is beautiful! Also, if you manage to buy, getting labor to work on anything requires a year lead time and a good at
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Ask HN: Resources for monetizing email lists around community?
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by meetingthrower 3y ago
Awesome - I'm a dabbler, but any thoughts on best engines for PDF tables? I've got tons of PDFs with similar tables embedded deep in them, but all formatted slightly differently. Seems like it should be easy....but nope!

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