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by rqtwteye 3y ago
During the current inflation companies have used inflation as excuse to raise their prices way above inflation. It may be the same here. Publicly state that interchange fees are the reason for the increase but raise the price by way more th
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
Comcast too. I get five dollars off per month for direct deposit. I believe it’s less about fees but more about avoiding chargebacks.
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
Last year Hertz gave me a Chevy Bolt. This was my first EV ever. I thought it’s pretty crazy to let people rent EVs without any training. It took me a long time to figure out how to charge the thing and how to find chargers. And the charger
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
It’s in the chart above.
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
It's also interesting how much higher the male suicide rate is.
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
"Not fitting in is not a mental illness. " It causes mental illness like depression and also stunts social development.
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
I always wonder when an "epidemic" gets reported if things really have changed or if we just recognize it better. When I grew up, we had a lot of kids (including myself) with problems like depression or not fitting in in other way
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
It should mean that but it doesn't. The H-1 people from Infosys or Tata are mostly not very good, just cheaper.
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
Outsourcing especially to different timezones is hard to manage. It's easier to have people in house.
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
I would say there is a lot wrong with microservices for small teams
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
* Constantly being asked for estimates while requirements are not clear. * Having 6 "highest priority" projects at the same time. * Other functions I depend on not doing their job on time but my timeline doesn't change * A VP
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
I wouldn’t blame this on Excel. Williams was just grossly mismanaged for a long time. I have read some interviews with Vowles and it seems the management simply had no clue how to run an F1 team.
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
Yeah. “Auto” was probably one of the best additions to C++ ever.
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
“ It feels much more like the Soviet Union collapsed than the US won” That’s probably true. I never understood the assertion that the US or Reagan “won” the Cold War. The US just persisted longer.
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
I am starting to believe more and more that the shareholder value movement has done enormous damage to the social fabric. It basically declares that the only stakeholders of an economy are owners. Anybody else doesn’t count. If this doesn’
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
It’s a competition or a hobby. Most hobbies are ultimately meaningless. I used to do boxing. Getting punched in the face and punching others is ultimately useless. But for some reason I enjoyed it and put an enormous effort into it. Others
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
“ I guess part of it is why care about how much money you make anymore?” They are good at making money so it’s fun for them. On an aside I think Jensen is very good at looking folksy but in the end he is another super driven high achiever.
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
“The thing that often baffles me is why these people still work. You can do almost anything you want with that kind of money.” Simple. They love the work. That’s what they want to do. To become a billionaire you usually have to put in an e
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
I lived in northern VA for a while and have met these people too. The non profit sector there is a similar insider circle.
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
Better than going into brick walls I guess
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
Talk to people who work there a little higher up in the hierarchy. It’s a super sweet gig with very good money. And while making good money you can wrap yourself in patriotism.
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
How much money has Boeing paid over the last years to their genius CEOs? I bet this guy gets another 100 million for his service.
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
Totally agree. Problem is that if you run your stuff on a single server you are at risk of being unhireable. Every interview I have been to, nobody asked about pragmatic,sp simple solutions that do the job, but they wanted to hear about mic
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
The US definitely haas a talent to make every food excessive. Same with pizza. In Italy it’s pretty light with a touch of sauce and a touch of cheese. In the US it’s probably four times the calories.
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
That tech exists already. Those immigrants don't need/can't afford supersonic travel.
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
I think Munich did well in 1972. They got a lot of public transport and most of the sports facilities are used a lot.
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
I don’t know about the legal situation here but I welcome every effort to slow down these super mega corporations. They kill a lot of innovation with their market power. I think we would be way better off if we had many smaller companies. W
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
As a country we definitely need to attack the risotto issue.
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
You seem to think that people are either good self promoters or socially total clueless. There are a lot of very good people who have normal social skills but aren't good at self promotion (or just don't want to do it). These peop
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
That’s where the real money is. Even the best technologists won’t make it very far if they don’t know how to play politics.

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