posbehsf

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by posbehsf 7y ago
It’s not that simple. I choose to rent even though I have the savings to buy a house because I prefer putting my money in more liquid assets like stocks. People can choose to lease certain categories of assets and “own” others (e.g. public
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Ask HN: Why Is Beyond Meat ($BYND) Worth $10b?
8 points by posbehsf 7y ago|11 comments
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by posbehsf 7y ago
There’s no glory in being excited to launch a basic permissions/access panel for end users of an auth product that should’ve shipped on Day 1. Shameful.
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by posbehsf 7y ago
Similar thing just happened to freecodecamp. It’s clear Medium is facing pressure from investors to aggressively monetize and it’s rubbing some of their partners the wrong way.
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by posbehsf 7y ago
I don’t know which city is worse, SF or LA, but at least in recent weeks/months SF OK’d construction of a new shelter along the Embarcadero despite money and outcries from nearby condo owners. I still don’t know what the solution is to
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by posbehsf 7y ago
Isn’t anything you do on a company issued machine or network monitored as is? I think the question is not whether or not your activity is monitored but whether or not you work for an employer who cares that you occasionally browse Facebook,
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by posbehsf 7y ago
I sometimes wonder what it would take for “yellow vest” type protests to happen in the US. It seems like there’s a combination of shame in talking about money, in being made to feel personally responsible for being in precarious financial s
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by posbehsf 7y ago
It took me into my late 20s to realize that I had a traumatic childhood. The thing is I did not grow up in a poor or abusive household. I grew up in an upper middle class family that looked extremely normal, and for a long time believed it