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by morgante 9y ago
> One of the problems with Tinder is its nebulous ethos. Is it a dating app or is it a hookup app? That's a feature, not a bug. For many/most people, there's not a strict binary division. Dates can turn into hookup and hoo
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by morgante 9y ago
The vast majority of packages don't need extreme security. Personally I don't care about security of my packages at all—they just sit outside my door for me. If one is lost/stolen, Amazon will happily replace it.
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by morgante 9y ago
This is really cool, but it seems very overly optimistic when it comes to routes with connections based on a few pairs I tried.
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by morgante 9y ago
I totally agree with this, and I think housing expenses is a really clear example of the impact government policy has on economics: LA and SF have more expensive housing than NYC, despite having worse incomes because they discourage dense d
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by morgante 9y ago
Seriously, shame on Priceonomics for publishing this blog at all. This is textbook selection bias: of course people who need online personal loans are going to have different financial profiles from the average.
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by morgante 9y ago
Then move somewhere else with their millions in appreciated value. There are plenty of places in the country where you could buy a beautiful home with gardens, space, easy parking, low traffic, and kids playing in the street for 1/5 th
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by morgante 9y ago
My mom has moved plenty of times in her life. It's not like moving is a crazy abnormality—tons of people move when they retire.
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by morgante 9y ago
> There's a hyperbole to express on both sides, but I can understand why people who are worth $1-5 million and are past their 50s might feel threatened by this sort of development. They can sell their house and live a life of luxury
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by morgante 9y ago
This has been a long time coming. Etsy always struck me as a company which was fundamentally a small business. They were never going to be an e-commerce giant and should have focused on keeping headcount manageable from the start. Instead I
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by morgante 9y ago
All those companies still recognize that they are businesses. They just recognize that having a positive image and treating employees well can be good business.
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by morgante 9y ago
Yes, I live in NYC.
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by morgante 9y ago
Ageism flows both ways. I recently had a landlord demand that I get a guarantor for signing a lease even though I make well over 40x the rent (the typical requirement). It's clearly because he (an elderly man) considers me (a young guy
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by morgante 9y ago
Because they don't like the company. Most of them have switched to Lyft.
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by morgante 9y ago
I don't know. I've received a lot of flak for even using Uber from non-tech friends/dates recently. I think the continual tide of negative publicity is definitely having a material effect on their brand image.
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by morgante 9y ago
Even though automated renewals are absolutely superior, as encouraged by LE, they do require some work to adopt. For a lot of businesses, it's easier to have someone manually renew every year or two than to do the migration work of set
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by morgante 9y ago
In what way does having an entrance exam make a school non-public? Are state universities not actually public because they have admissions standards?
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by morgante 9y ago
> Those productive world-competitive people more than likely did not go through the public school system in the US. That is highly unlikely. Even at elite Ivy universities, a majority of students attended public high schools. Public educ
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by morgante 9y ago
That's not strictly true. Depending on the company, it's very possible for mere engineers to have access to material non-public information. There's a reason many companies impose broad blackout dates on trading.
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by morgante 9y ago
You'd be amazed how many people willingly keep large portions of their net worth invested in their employer.
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by morgante 9y ago
> A common theme I hear when talking to end users or key opinion leaders is that they don't want to divulge their ideas at risk of it being poached. That's definitely not my experience. "End users" and people without
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by morgante 9y ago
> However it will be difficult for non programmers. I work with non-programmers every day who know what APIs and queries are. There are millions of people who are technical enough to manipulate Excel sheets, talk intelligently about API
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by morgante 9y ago
Right, but for later-stage startups I can certainly imagine average employees hitting the exercise cap.
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by morgante 9y ago
This metaphor is really stretched thin and doesn't help much with explaining anti-tech sentiments. I really don't see why complicated wizardry is required for something to be magical. That seems to be an assumption coming from the
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by morgante 9y ago
Why do you assume average employees won't hit the cap? $100k isn't exactly a massive sum in tech.
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Google didn't ask about my degree until I already had interviewed and passed the hiring committee. It's far from a requirement.
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by morgante 9y ago
> I haven’t seen a serious investment in education from Bay Area companies, probably because attrition is higher and it’s not seen as a safe investment. Google provides partial tuition reimbursement: https://www.quora.com&#x2F
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by morgante 9y ago
I've tried tons of diets over the years and keto is by far the only one I've had success with maintaining long term. Even when I take a cheat day, carbs just don't taste that good any more so I end up feeling bloated and go r
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by morgante 9y ago
That's a ridiculous statement to make. I live with a roommate and love it even though I could afford to live by myself. We have a really nice central apartment and get more social interaction. People making different choices than you a
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by morgante 9y ago
> Throw in bills and other expenses and you're looking at ~40% of your monthly income, assuming a salary of 130k. That's not a very good assumption. $130k is on the low end for anyone with enough experience to be looking at a h
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by morgante 9y ago
Those are separate concerns and entangling them is counterproductive. As an employee and shareholder of a fast-growing company, I might very well think that the best thing for the company is to eschew profits and invest in growth. Yet I c

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