pitt1980

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by pitt1980 12y ago
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I sort of get where you're coming from, I remember being younger and feeling annoyance at parents acting like their time away from work was more important than everyone else's That's said, seems silly to bring a person into t
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what was the real crime here? making off color jokes? or not realizing exactly how publically he was making them? edit - I find it interesting to contrast this thread with this one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=848431
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"How many people are qualified to be Secretary of State? The pool of people who have been around enough countries and political leaders to operate at that level is small." That's actually an interesting question, what sort of
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I'd be interesting in putting heads together email me at pwzst1@yahoo.com
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this is the real question we should be asking what sort of quality of life improvements everyone could have if we all got off our high horse
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You almost certainly know more about this than I do, I remember reading something you wrote a while back about tying the pricing of your appointment software to the costs of one missed appointment a month I don't have experience freela
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by pitt1980 12y ago
Soon most athletic training will be virtual, the number of virtual reps someone can take far outpaces the number on can physically take, moreover you don't overtrain or get injured http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04&#x
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by pitt1980 12y ago
how much of this is capitalizing on cashflow miseries of of other ie small business owners going through divorces, small business owners who die unexpectedly and the heirs don't know what to do with the business, etc etc?
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http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/ces/resources/search_funds.html http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/05/05/308352614/seeking-... http://www.hbs.edu/entrepr
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is this somehow different than just buying a business?
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I think he might be on to something not be people with crap social skills are better than people with good social skill but rather, people with crap social skills are easier for your competors to miss good tech skill + good social skill = g
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kids are like everyone else, they respond to their feedback the question of whether they want to learn is roughly irrelevant here the question is more, should their learning mirror every other kids learning? the basic stuff, (reading, writi
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I feel like you do your kid a real diservice by worrying about what they 'need' to know, and then dictating that their time is spent learning that time is finite, time wasted on learning what all the other 4 year olds know is time
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great link I'd love to see more non-foreign language SRS applications seems like every college textbook/class (or really any textbook/class) should have a SRS application to go with it wouldn't it be nice if all those fr
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by pitt1980 12y ago
that's fine, but that's evidence that you're probably not a profitable customer to chase (which again, is fine) if you're not taking out your wallet, you're a waste of the salesmans time, the earlier they can figure
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by pitt1980 12y ago
yeah this public opinion is plastic, especially when faced with real world pain
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by pitt1980 12y ago
You're dodging the question, By saying you're going to vote, all a politician has to do to earn you vote is to be the lesser of two evils By not making your participation automatic, you've raised the standard you hold politic
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little time, and even less impact
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did they act in your interest? you threw out the CIA torture thing above let make a not-necessarily-called-for leap, lets say you voted for Obama did telling Obama that he did enough to earn your vote help or hurt those affected by CIA tort
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by pitt1980 12y ago
but I can't make one person in every other family talk to their in laws about CIA torture I can only affect my small corner of the universe how would the world be different if 1 person in every family told their in laws that they appre
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by pitt1980 12y ago
there are many many uses of my time that can affect changes to make the world a better place if nothing else I can spend that time being a better parent and spouse voting ranks extremely low on the active uses of my time to make the world a
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by pitt1980 12y ago
how do my in-laws being grumpy help foreign nationals tortured by the CIA? how has that made the world a better place? other than now I feel vaguely superior to my in-laws "who just don't get it"
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by pitt1980 12y ago
here's what bothers me about this as a voter I such a microscopically small degree of contol of any of those questions (functionally 0), that they don't seem productive to even care about if I care about them, then I have to get u
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by pitt1980 12y ago
why can't a burger place invent a 'crazy new thing'? seems like new food inventions drive alot of the marketing behind their competetors trying out new menu items is just 1 thing that pops to mind, and I'm probably compl
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Yeah I found that curious too
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I'm not sure I agree with you physical sports sometimes come with sustainable competive advantages until he gets old, LeBron is always going exceptionally big, and athletic in contrast, checkers exists on a much more fragile competive
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I Could Have Been Elliot Rodger(slate.com)
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I'm just going to link this becuase it seems relevant to me: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/23/ssc-gives-a-graduation-... relevant excerpt: “Is this a vision of what shall be, or of what might be onl

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