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by povertyworld 7y ago
Google's notorious whiteboard hazing gives off a toxic smell. I'm sure it only gets stronger once you're in.
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by povertyworld 7y ago
Is it possible some corporations just have MBA requirements for advancement? Then it doesn't matter where you got the degree from just that you have it. I know this is the case in education, and has lead to the proliferation of online
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by povertyworld 7y ago
I find this the worst insult of being poor: to be assumed stupid. But I mean, hey, if they did better on a flashcard game, then an unequal caste system is justified after all!
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by povertyworld 7y ago
If you're interested in the business aspects of the hip-hop industry, check out The Big Payback by Dan Charnas. If you grew up with hip-hop, it can be interesting to have the entrepreneurial backstory of this stuff unveiled. Can be bot
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by povertyworld 7y ago
I didn't see any sales books. Are there any good sales books? Especially on details like how to generate leads? Every sales book is like "go into the office during your key hours for selling and start making calls, then when you&#
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by povertyworld 7y ago
To be fair, it says these are books that helped or influenced the careers of the founders not everything they read. If they like to read Thomas Mann in their downtime, that's nice, but maybe not related to being a founder.
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by povertyworld 7y ago
Shared kitchen and bathroom. It's not ideal, but it's also not worth paying twice as much in rent for exclusive use of those two rooms that I only need for an hour a day or less.
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by povertyworld 7y ago
Softbank going all in on ARM at this late stage of the game seemed a little on the goofy side. I didn't know they were into real estate. Isn't it kind of a bad idea to buy real estate, but not be structured like a REIT since you&#
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by povertyworld 7y ago
Roommates. No car. No kids.
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by povertyworld 7y ago
I make less than 20k a year. Somehow I am able to eat healthy food while living in one of the more expensive metro areas. I have no debt, and even have a little extra at the end of the year to speculate with sometimes. Luck I suppose. It wo
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by povertyworld 7y ago
I don't have a problem with buybacks either. There was a time when Buffet argued to people that holding cash was worth some multiple greater than returning the cash, and he was probably right. I'm just saying that is more indicati
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by povertyworld 7y ago
Yeah, it was so less goofy they had to unload it on Softbank, the goofy investment kings.
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by povertyworld 7y ago
Right. Wouldn't it be great if Google would start paying a dividend instead of throwing away money on goofy acquisitions like Boston Dynamics? How the hell is a robot dog that does flips or whatever supposed to improve their advertisin
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by povertyworld 7y ago
If a company is swimming in cash, shouldn't that be going to investors in the form of dividends? This ideology of hoarding cash pushed by guys like Buffet is a sign of a warped economy.
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by povertyworld 7y ago
Getting discouraging to see facial recognition and machine learning getting conflated in every article's comments.
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by povertyworld 7y ago
Who decides what face unlocks your iPhone? When you buy a million dollar condo, you decide whose faces you want to unlock it. That way it's not up to some security guard to decide whether to detain your kid in the lobby because he&#x27
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by povertyworld 7y ago
The problem with an "it's racist" strawman is that all the people selling this stuff have to do is frame it so NOT using it is racist. I don't think it would be hard to argue that a face scan is going to have less implic
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by povertyworld 7y ago
The most frustrating thing is when the docs have that "this document is no longer maintained. Please see /documentation/whatever for the latest version" but when you go the link it ends up just linked back to the place y
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by povertyworld 7y ago
When I first got interested in tech it was called "being a geek". Now with the broification of tech, and the influx of people from cultures that optimize solely for income and prestige rather than passion, it seems to be forgotten
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by povertyworld 7y ago
I like his body language. When he can't or doesn't want to answer a question he stares right into the person's eyes and nods affirmatively as if he's telling them something really certain while non-answering. I'm de
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by povertyworld 7y ago
Weird interview. He starts out angry that someone insulted risk takers who lose money. Then by the end of the interview he says people should just get jobs and make super conservative investments like gold and short term bonds. Waste of 20
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by povertyworld 7y ago
Isn't moving the demand curve by burning capital still a matter of supply and demand?
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by povertyworld 7y ago
I think it depends on how you define "left-wing". Some consider the "woke capitalism" of corporate media and SV to be "left", others consider only an explicitly anti-capitalist and pro-labor stance to be left.
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by povertyworld 7y ago
This seems like another case of the left being shortsighted like when the left cheers as bigtech purges conservatives never imagining that left voices can and will be next if they ever became a threat. In this case, they seem only focused o
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by povertyworld 7y ago
Indeed. Lucky for us flint hand-axes weren't enough for our ancestors.
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by povertyworld 7y ago
Edit: Off-topic, not ADHD related. Carry on.
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by povertyworld 7y ago
You think there aren't tons of people who do CS degrees that lack curiosity? I've helped students with their CS homework who, when I asked why they were majoring in CS when they obviously did not like it, literally said their pare
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by povertyworld 7y ago
There was a time when it was possible to sit for the bar exam without having to pay rent to a law school, but naturally the law schools lobbied to change this.
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by povertyworld 7y ago
It's only for retail space. Actually, I just went looking for a source explaining exactly how this works, and it seems to have been a little overblown. I think it might have been stories like this that are bit light on details that got
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by povertyworld 7y ago
Maybe there is a tax incentive to leave it empty? For a while people in Manhattan were puzzled by empty store fronts in popular neighborhoods. Then it hit the news that if you crank the rent up sky high on retail space so that no one can af

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