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by rfrank 10y ago
Have some stats that aren't from mrmoneymoustache.com? You may want to give this a read in the meantime: http://killermartinis.kinja.com/why-i-make-terrible-decision...
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by rfrank 10y ago
> Rent to own furniture, a leased lexus, dinner and drinks out multiple times per week etc. You really think that's how most Americans live?
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by rfrank 10y ago
lol, definitely not.
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by rfrank 10y ago
> What is not seen is the vast sea of English majors not going down that path, but rather ending up in a career that is far less challenging. It's almost like they went to school for something completely different ;) I don't se
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by rfrank 10y ago
Those cameras write a hell of a script.
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by rfrank 10y ago
These discussions are always so stupid. I was a lit major, have worked as a PCB designer, taught myself some coding and all that jazz, and now put around on the internet doing digital marketing stuff. College major is a terrible indicator o
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by rfrank 10y ago
> This response came out unexpectedly negative. Because for most people whether or not they drink isn't a moral decision, and comparing it to a drug from Brave New World is a wee bit of a stretch.
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by rfrank 10y ago
Sure. Think it'll maintain that pace for more than a couple years? Especially given the strange interest in chat bots that people seem to also have.
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by rfrank 10y ago
Slack isn't even close to email. "Worldwide email use continues to grow at a healthy pace. In 2015, the number of worldwide email users will be nearly 2.6 billion. By the end of 2019, the number of worldwide email users will incr
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by rfrank 10y ago
I truly don't understand the hype around Slack. I work at an EMS provider, and we got a couple of our business facing teams to use it last fall. Maybe 2 people are actively using it now, the rest moved back to only email or never actua
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by rfrank 10y ago
From my understanding it was a suicide (buddy works at a news station in SF). Edit: he just echoed the potential suspect involvement just like the linked article.
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by rfrank 10y ago
Careful, not everyone agrees that the ends justify the means
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by rfrank 11y ago
Everything about your site projects it, which sends the same message. You don't understand that?
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by rfrank 11y ago
From those same charts, unemployed part-time not by choice is rising since Oct '15. U6 is constant in that period as well.
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by rfrank 11y ago
Combo of all of those, really. Particularly the exclusivity bit, songs that get pressed like that generally aren't things people are trying to share. For instance, dubplates use acetate and not vinyl, and are really only good for about
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by rfrank 11y ago
White labels and dubplates in general hearken back to the sound system culture that originated in Jamaica [1]. Mostly a means of getting the newest songs fastest; record something in the morning, press your dubplate that afternoon, play it
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by rfrank 11y ago
> Why is an "album" worth more than a graphics engine... Why is a Picasso worth more than paint?
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by rfrank 11y ago
The leak contains large amounts of personal information on people who aren't necessarily guilty of anything illegal, correct? If that's the case, releasing the full leak comes with some very real ethical concerns.
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by rfrank 11y ago
The number of hn users replying solely to tone and not content is pretty disappointing.
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by rfrank 11y ago
> One hope of mine, an actual capitalist solution to this problem of capitalism, is that companies start investing in their service employees more as an asset, not as a disposable automaton (eg, using higher quality service as a differen
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by rfrank 11y ago
> The morality in America has slipped precipitously since our heyday as a nation in the 1950s. oh man
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by rfrank 11y ago
For real. What companies do people even refer to when they say "service industry that only exists to serve tech workers"? DoorDash and TaskRabbit and the other outsource your chores apps? The service industry and its workers will
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by rfrank 11y ago
Is there some sort of "industry standard" for clawback length? I understand the incentive it's putting in place, but after a point the sales team is pretty disassociated from the customer. For instance, what if you're a
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by rfrank 11y ago
For sure, I've never done the commission thing so I'm unfamiliar with how the specifics work. 12 months feels like a large window for a clawback.
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by rfrank 11y ago
> Even if they hit their quota, some reps discovered that their commissions would be clawed back if a customer dropped Zenefits within 12 months of a deal closing. It’s difficult to estimate how often this happened, but several former re
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by rfrank 11y ago
I honestly think another world war is more likely than that scenario.
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by rfrank 11y ago
And unlike skipping a class, the people negatively impacted by the cheating aren't the student. That in itself is a vary significant difference, without considering the fact that they sell health insurance.
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by rfrank 11y ago
It's how vague the word "community" is in context. What community? Y-Combinator founders/alumni? The startup community? The tech community at large? The Bay Area? America? The global community?
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by rfrank 11y ago
> If you are operating under the presumption that the government is always a bad-faith actor, then we have much, much bigger problems. Given what we know about government surveillance programs, why would one assume the government is a go
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by rfrank 11y ago
Blurring the lines between hacker and hack.

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