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by megaman8 8y ago
It's impressive that they have so much bargaining power to do so. With so many people lining up to work at google, i would imagine people would be more fearful of their jobs.
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by megaman8 8y ago
It's great to see a car manufacturer taking their environmental responsibilities so seriously, especially since it's in their own interest. but, i hope electric cars will be more reliable than tesla has been. Tesla's reliabi
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by megaman8 8y ago
> However any VW dealer who convinces a customer to buy an ICE car has also sold themselves good odds of a future revenue stream maintaining that car. I don't know about you, but I never ever ever get my car serviced at a dealership
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by megaman8 8y ago
Hold on to it and don't tell anyone you have the money: not even relatives, just your wife. Be very careful when you spend it. There are 2 types of spending in life: Assets and liabilities, learn about this. You want to minimize your
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by megaman8 8y ago
It's great that they teach the idea that Diabetes (type 2) is preventable and even treatable with responsible eating habits. Too many people believe it's just something your doctor is supposed to treat with a pill. Food companies
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by megaman8 8y ago
But still, most of those things are one time costs: product development, failed products, fixing defects, certification. once you have completed those things, you can keep selling the successful product for decades right? especially now
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by megaman8 8y ago
that's exactly why I cancelled my print subscriptions to both car and driver and road and track. I can't stand those. Whoever is creating those, really needs to be fired.
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by megaman8 8y ago
yes, but the links we always see here on hackernews are for their normal wsj site.
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by megaman8 8y ago
seems like a decent deal. i'm having trouble understanding the 200$ credit: it seems to good to be true. the way i understand it: If i have an existing phone and sign up for FI then I get a 200$ credit, which means, if my monthly bil
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by megaman8 8y ago
there's a reason print media is going out of business. to this day, I still can't pay for wall street journal article with a micropayment. and no, i'm not going to pay them 100$s of dollars for a 6 month subscription to read
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by megaman8 8y ago
i don't know why this is being downvoted. the core idea is a good one. Start moving people away from expensive areas and have them populate areas like the rust belt where housing is much cheaper. Detroit is pretty cost effective as o
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by megaman8 8y ago
don't forget about property taxes and HOAs. sometimes the property taxes can be higher than the value of the house. just watch out.
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by megaman8 8y ago
I think, what these employees don't realize is: Even when a company places values over profits, it is still in an attempt to maximize profits over the long term. By placing values above profits, it increases it's goodwill with cu
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by megaman8 8y ago
Seems it's much easier to get some legislation passed than actually fix your business model. Everytime I come across an interesting news article and want to make a 10c donation, there's never an easy micropayment way to do it. F
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by megaman8 8y ago
I dont have much sympathy for companies that turn down highly qualified intelligent workers by the truckload. There are so many people with MBAs who, for years struggle to get any kind of job at all. I mean sure, paying more can help alot,
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by megaman8 8y ago
1/2 for bureacrazy? that sounds like a lot for just overhead
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by megaman8 8y ago
SF just passed 300 million/year measure that's supposed to help the homeless and that's in addition to the 240 million/year of funding that's already there. Both of those combined exceeds the budgets of most cities
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by megaman8 8y ago
Then start new cities in open areas and create incentives (just in the beginning) for business to move jobs there. There's so much open space surrounding the bay area. In the east bay, From our clogged 6 lane highways, i can see noth
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by megaman8 8y ago
That's just in the beginning. Not every regulation saves lives - some are just on the books to protect rent seeking entities and lobbyists, and some are just there because they've always been there.
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by megaman8 8y ago
To live in, In SF. your choices are a 1.5 million dollar condo or a 50$ dollar tent. Seriously people, we need to allow for more choices than that. I'm sure builders and entrepreneurs would line up around the block to build solutions
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by megaman8 8y ago
That only works if you are single, and live in 200 sq ft studio (which by the way will run you 24K per year after tax dollars). Then you can save and get ahead. If you have a family of four you will almost ALWAYS be significantly worse off
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by megaman8 8y ago
I know i'm in a minority opinion here, but to be honest I think it would be totally fair for an employer to pay everyone the same regardless of location in the US (as long as their not forcing you to move to a more expensive city - if
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by megaman8 8y ago
i completely agree. we could use a lot fewer people on this planet.
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by megaman8 8y ago
So, it sounds like that wasn't a "good job". The tricky part is defining what a "good job" is. which will be different for different people. i define it as: good work life balance, decent salary, good location, go
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by megaman8 8y ago
Rule #1 for career advice: Never, ever leave a good job unless your financially ready to retire.
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by megaman8 8y ago
But that's not advertisement. Those are ideas and agendas. And I don't see how a company can use those to make more money, seems like a stretch.
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by megaman8 8y ago
that's true of every business: they need to make money.
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by megaman8 8y ago
> Do you really think that 550 billions of dollars are spent each year on something that doesn’t work? Look at all the top advertisers on the internet, in almost every case it's all big brand advertisers that can't prove result
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by megaman8 8y ago
at a certain point, you have to accept that there's nothing left to be done: at some point all the low hanging fruit has been picked clean. If they really want to expand their revenue and move into areas it's going to be very risk
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by megaman8 8y ago
it's simply too expensive to be selling to the masses. Apple knows where and who the money is, and it's not with the masses. besides, Apple actually has plenty of low end offerings on sale alredy: the iphone 6 and iphone 5. the

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