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by padobson 12y ago
I doubt this would be either healthy or productive for most people. The same could be said of start-up founders, which was the point. But you can re-do the math at 40 hours a week if you like: 40 hours * 50 weeks * $200/hr = $400,000
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by padobson 12y ago
I've had similar phishing attempts on my Airbnb account. The service seems to be a target for it. A few tips: Always check the URL before you log-in to any site. Don't ever send money through unverified means (mail, western union,
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by padobson 12y ago
The more I think about it, the more I believe the startup game is the worst way to do this. If you can keep your expenses to $1,000 per week, and get your billable rate to $200 per hour, then you only need to work 5 hours a week to break ev
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by padobson 12y ago
Probably the case of an illegal eviction. Other illegal evictions include: changing the locks, shutting of the utilities, blasting music outside the apartment at 3am.
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by padobson 12y ago
This seems to be as much a problem with eviction laws as with Airbnb. In Ohio, the eviction process isn't exactly landlord friendly, but it doesn't require a lawyer either. And in most cases, deadbeat tenants aren't going to
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by padobson 12y ago
...second only to incomprehensibility Which is also here in spades.
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by padobson 12y ago
I'm a developer. I got a 1290 on my SATs in high school. 670 verbal and 620 math. I think a good balance makes a good developer. Even more than that, it makes a good software creator - designer, developer, project manager, etc.
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by padobson 12y ago
In a world that continues to develop, this makes sense to me, as a Fertility Rate Map: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_de... Has a lot of similarities to a per capita GDP map: http:/&#x2
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by padobson 12y ago
RT2 is actually my favorite of the group, I just mentioned Railroads! because I wanted to stay on topic.
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by padobson 12y ago
You can get the Railroad Tycoon collection, including Sid Meier's Railroads! on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/sub/326/ And you should!
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by padobson 12y ago
I'm not surprised at all. When I design a web app, I'll design it around AWS infrastructure so that they're the "Ops" in my "DevOps" title. They handle everything about web app development that I don'
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by padobson 12y ago
The point would be better made if it clarified military vs. civilian casualties. It'd be hard to fault Israelis or Palestinians for killing the people that are shooting at them.
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by padobson 12y ago
Another step in the master plan: Almost any new technology initially has high unit cost before it can be optimized and this is no less true for electric cars. The strategy of Tesla is to enter at the high end of the market, where customers
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by padobson 12y ago
There's a fundamental difference between gaming and movies/music/books that isn't mentioned here: star power. Movies have super star actors. Music is driven by super star musicians. A lot of times, the name of an author
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by padobson 13y ago
I don't think this changes the point. A single McDonald's franchise would pay its employees a different minimum wage than McDonald's Corporate, and Fred's burger cart would still be paying a different minimum wage to his
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by padobson 13y ago
It sure would be nice if there was a mass transit system that could get people from NY to Vermont in a few hours without requiring a month's wages to do it.
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by padobson 13y ago
That automation costs money (read: labor) to develop. It also costs money (read: labor) to maintain. Either hire unskilled people at the higher minimum wage or hire skilled people to install and service your automated stuff. Either way, you
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by padobson 13y ago
What's most interesting about this is that higher education (through student loans) and healthcare (through medicare, medicaid, social security, etc) are two of the biggest industries subsidized by the government.
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by padobson 13y ago
[SPOILER] If he was going to invoke a biblical narrative where an infinite number of immortal humans, having evolved past the need for their material bodies, merge into a single, ultra-creative consciousness, he could have at least tipped h
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by padobson 13y ago
I'm not surprised the XBox division is bleeding so much cash. Microsoft should never have gotten into the hardware business in the first place. Every time they release a new piece of hardware is cause for a face-palm. 15 years ago, whe
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by padobson 13y ago
Three cheers for you, my friend. No one knows the loneliness of being Dad like Dad, and you did an excellent job of articulating it. Doing the right thing as a parent often goes un-celebrated, un-thanked, and most certainly un-paid. This is
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by padobson 13y ago
I think this article reinforces a lot of the problems with marriage in our society in the first place, and pinpoints a lot of the reasons why a majority of marriages fail. We're trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. Marriage wa
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by padobson 13y ago
But isn't the main purpose of personal finance to influence spending decisions? An ideal solution simply just answers the question "Can I afford to X?" I've not used any software that helps solve that problem in an elega
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by padobson 13y ago
Personal finance software is probably one of the most commonly attacked problems in the development world, and yet there are still a ton of people just building custom spreadsheets. I've tried Quicken and Mint and PageOnce (now called
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by padobson 13y ago
I don't know which conclusion I had about this was more useful: 1) I don't need to buy a new PC every two years anymore 2) Someone should make a tablet with slots so it can be upgraded like a PC
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by padobson 13y ago
Campaigning and governing are too very different things. One is sexy and draws the attention of very talented people for a limited period of time. The other is boring, bureaucratic, (probably) extremely frustrating.
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by padobson 13y ago
I may have not been clear that I think the US is failing badly at handling all of those things, and it will cost us in the long run. If what I was saying was clear, and you still disagree, then by all means down-vote it.
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by padobson 13y ago
I thought there was a chance the author was being mildly ironic, but don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of the Forest City, both in its history and its current iteration of commerce, culture, and identity. I just thought it was fl
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by padobson 13y ago
What this tells me is that if you've reached a six figure salary point, it's time to branch out if you want your income to continue to grow. If you were entry level at $70k, and now you're making $140k as a senior engineer, y
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by padobson 13y ago
Net Neutrality, Copyrights, Patents, sensible immigration laws, friendliness to entrepreneurship. No. We're screwed too.

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