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by rfrey 10y ago
Is it possible the difference is Ivy League (with larger more discretionary budgets) vs. public university? Do the same rules even apply to the private institutions?
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by rfrey 10y ago
These emails were pitching the product to media outlets, and trying to create connections for business partnerships. How would you propose businesses reach out to other businesses and to the media?
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by rfrey 10y ago
"consider also supporting anti-trans legislation in your municipality" Not necessary to distract the company with politics. In this case you should be able to tease out gender with some exploratory locker-room talk.
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by rfrey 10y ago
For sure, that covers the "career as a lawyer" part. It's the "as a gainfully employed person" that is troubling.
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by rfrey 10y ago
It's quite accessible if you don't look at too many woodworking magazines. You can do everything to a very high standard with chisels, planes and a few saws. You're not in it for speed or economy, so why not? In many cases, f
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by rfrey 10y ago
To be fair, engineering students in any discipline not knowing what engineers actually do is not uncommon, and might even be the majority case.
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by rfrey 10y ago
And if that's not good enough... they have a LITE VERSION. http://lite.excite.com/
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by rfrey 10y ago
Tracking pixels on emails aren't always an indication of a form letter. Marketing folks use lots of services that add tracking to all their outgoing email. (Whether that's OK or not for you is a different matter, I'm just poi
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by rfrey 10y ago
Don't take it across a border.
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by rfrey 10y ago
From (way down in) the article: "In April, after New Hampshire’s banking department cited TransferWise for operating in the state for a year without meeting money-transmitter regulations, the company agreed to pay a penalty equivalent
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by rfrey 10y ago
Can you back that up with some data?
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by rfrey 10y ago
I can't imagine being happy without a garage, but I find it weird that people put cars in them. Where do they keep their tablesaw?
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by rfrey 10y ago
That works out to 37.5% tax. I paid considerably more than that working in California when you include health insurance.
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by rfrey 10y ago
As long as they give that indentured labor at least 10% of the company...
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by rfrey 10y ago
My perception is that the Green party went from lunatic fringe to "why aren't they in the official debates" in three election cycles.
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by rfrey 10y ago
"Not everyone should vote. If your views are substantially outside the mainstream there is no point in voting." Voting outside the mainstream over time (for some definition of "substantially outside") can normalize and l
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by rfrey 10y ago
I feel like appointing Tim Cook CEO was Steve Jobs' last, master stroke to secure Steve Jobs' legend.
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by rfrey 10y ago
There a few rational reasons. * Building a personal brand - everyone loves to read about business adventures, and the more details the better. Financial details are great for drawing audiences. If you feel your brand could be worth more tha
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by rfrey 10y ago
"Is there anything in math-driven jobs that inhibits approaching topics without trying to mathematize them?" A hangover from logical positivism - in a nutshell, the dogma that any statement that is not falsifiable through observat
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by rfrey 10y ago
"It was never survival of the fittest- it is survival of the most adapted to a situation" Isn't that exactly what "fittest" means? First definition from Oxford: "of a suitable quality, standard, or type to mee
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by rfrey 10y ago
I devour indiehacker's interviews and I love the transparency - thanks to both sides of the table. According to the numbers here, 42% of the 17,000 monthly revenues are spent on 6 people. That's $1190 per person per month if every
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by rfrey 10y ago
"Most trades can be taught to anyone" This makes me suspect you haven't had much exposure to trades. Getting good... really good... at welding, or cabinetry, or stairbuilding, takes at least as much dedication and skill as ge
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by rfrey 10y ago
from Latin fundamentum "a foundation, ground-work; support; beginning." Whether these subjects are fundamental is totally detached from whether they are useful in a certain percentage of industry jobs. I agree that knowing fundame
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by rfrey 10y ago
Your point is good, parent or not. That said, sometimes it's... hard. My 10-year-old son recently decided he was going to REALLY learn how to program, so he started a 2-hour a day deep dive, and got REALLY good. At Windows Batch files
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by rfrey 10y ago
In Toronto where I live, you'd better pack a lunch if you have any left turns on your route. Probably supper, too.
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by rfrey 10y ago
Is that typical writing in the book? That is incredibly clear while still being reasonably dense.
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by rfrey 10y ago
It's not clear to me where somebody draws the border on that line of thinking. I own a Honda Minivan. I could probably feed ten starving families for a year, for what that van cost me. Is there anything you own, that you could do witho
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by rfrey 10y ago
These moments only happen a couple times a year on HN, but they're worth the wait.
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by rfrey 10y ago
If Google wants to charge Apple iPhone prices, they can't continue with Google level service.
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by rfrey 10y ago
Your comment reads (to me) as more attacks sandwiched between slices of insincere apologies. You likely did not mean it to read that way, but it does.

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