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by meric 9y ago
And,or: they hire the people most likely to feel unfairly paid, and it’s when we feel we are unfairly paid we are more motivated to negotiate higher salaries, and the more a company’s employees ask for higher salaries the more likely they a
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by meric 9y ago
I have an idea and a prototype - there’s interesting capital gain tax discount laws in UK and Australia and for investors who buy and sell shares there is always a way to minimise their gains but it’s not straightforward for accountants to
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by meric 9y ago
Have a chat and see if you can get a commmon understanding or gentlemen’s agreement. You are right the incentives do look like once the company is up and running it doesn’t make sense to keep a high salary CTO, perhaps you can raise this co
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by meric 9y ago
Fifty cents on the dollar versus negative fifty cents on the dollar. With the first approach, you lose 50 cents but you still have 50 cents.
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by meric 9y ago
I don’t know, an Ivory Tower? More seriously a lot of hackers choose to go to a country like Thailand where it’s cheap to live and eat and do a stint of tech there.
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by meric 9y ago
The word ‘liberal’ these days have two purposes, the latter of which is to say you are a man of virtue.
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by meric 9y ago
From your description it does look like some sort of hazing ritual - you aren’t junior in technical competence but your are junior in political and social experience in this company and they are “teaching” you what is socially acceptable in
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by meric 9y ago
I believed the universe was full of planets before our scientists validated it. My belief was based on the emotions I felt looking into the night sky full of the stars. It’d be a dull life if I could not entertain thoughts and feelings unle
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by meric 9y ago
The pressures of business lies on the fact that most consumers prefer more choice of which software to run than being able to run more software at the same time. This must have been true from the beginning when at first hardly anything was
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by meric 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15486707
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by meric 9y ago
My point is insane geniuses become famous and have a good chance of passing down their genes, and their insanity and genius maybe separate genes, so some descendants may receive only the insane ones. Apologies for not expressing myself in p
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by meric 9y ago
It does for individual societies like ant colonies.
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by meric 9y ago
I think that's why evolution selects for a small proportion of insanity in humans - so that some of our geniuses are insane enough to ignore social pressure and make breakthroughs that would be recognised.
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by meric 9y ago
Don’t compare ... imagine if you had the option to swap “souls” with those other persons - your job, your work, your family, your face, your friends, your spouse, and the other person won’t even notice, would you take it?!
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by meric 9y ago
But go open source only if it’s fun for you! If you’re more into closed source development, e.g. algorithmic trading, and competing against traders on the open market, go for it IMO! No need to force yourself to be more cooperative or compe
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by meric 9y ago
I’m going to mention it if you list it as a requirement and ask me about it.
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by meric 9y ago
I was working on a program to calculate minimised Australian capital gains tax return for buying and selling shares. The core part is written as a set of custom PostgreSQL views and window functions. It is hosted by Django. I’ve built a min
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by meric 9y ago
Do you have LinkedIn?
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by meric 9y ago
You are comparing increase in total population to increase in foreign born population. If you convert both to use the same terms, one number is more than 6 times bigger than the other.
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by meric 9y ago
When my bank calls me, they ask for my birthday, name, account number to verify my ID. I always ask them back, "how do I know you are my bank?". The caller always gets the idea. "Oh yeah, right!?!" I then tell them thank
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by meric 9y ago
More than that, the gradient of good and evil exists in everyone, across activities, across time. Many of the most evil people have done good deeds in their lives, and many of the best people have done bad deeds also. A bad cop or bad judge
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by meric 9y ago
Typescript, react?
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by meric 9y ago
Start an intranet between you and your family and neighbors?
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by meric 9y ago
If I build a paintbrush and then it paints a painting when I throw it at the canvas?
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by meric 9y ago
Pretty similar stuff - in "mindfulness" I think it's about focusing on the perception of your senses, how the chair feels behind your back, what sounds you're hearing and while you're doing that, you're not thi
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by meric 9y ago
> If I was a beginner archaeologist who dreams of big discoveries then I'd look at the Black Sea in the first place. While being careful to avoid adding to the collection, of course.
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by meric 9y ago
Not directly relevant: http://www.smh.com.au/national/jyls-journey-to-aged-care-i-f... I just read an article on aged care this morning.
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by meric 9y ago
It might be you remind her of her failure to listen to your advice - it's about her and not you.
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by meric 9y ago
No but your mum might pick your phone off your pocket to remind you to be careful when it's hanging out while you two are travelling in a country overseas in a danger area.
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by meric 9y ago
Currency isn't wealth - wealth is real estate, stock, furniture, computers. Deflation makes it easier for wage earner savers to increase their tangible wealth. The economic data matches this - economy was a lot more equal on the gold s

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