saas_sam

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by saas_sam 6y ago
FedEx & UPS are whole different beast vs. gov't run USPS, way out of my depth on that comparison. But in general, history is chock FULL of once-dominant, massively scaled businesses that decline sharply in the face of new competito
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by saas_sam 6y ago
This is a true mind-blowing fact. The ratio of the distances between Earth-Sun and Earth-Moon is close to the ratio of the sizes between Sun & Moon. So the Moon & Sun look to be the same apparent size from the perspective of Earthli
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by saas_sam 6y ago
You pay a lot to acquire customers up front but as long as your churn is net negative (ie., customers end up spending more year over year) you end up coming out way ahead. Sales reps only get paid on a contract one time, based on the value
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by saas_sam 6y ago
Do you have a similar "love it or leave it" attitude when people complain about America? Not very Californian of you.
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by saas_sam 6y ago
The belief that consenting adults who voluntarily apply and work for a company as they choose are being "exploited" speaks volumes about your beliefs of the average person's intelligence and capabilities. Perhaps it is the cl
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by saas_sam 6y ago
Can you locate for the audience where the poster you are responding to said anything to the effect of "employees can be prosecuted/sued for accepting sub-minimum wage"? I read his/her post a few times and do not see wher
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by saas_sam 6y ago
Don't strain your back moving those goal posts. ;)
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by saas_sam 6y ago
Food, material goods, and services are cheaper and more plentiful than they have ever been in human history. Add to that: jobs are easier to discover, self-teach, and contact than they have ever been in human history. For the poor as well a
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by saas_sam 6y ago
Semi-related but check out the research on creatine supplementation too. It's nigh impossible to get the full amount of creatine in your diet daily -- your body does a good job creating what it needs via methylation. You can free up me
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by saas_sam 6y ago
Good post. Lots of realness here about the nature of employees and the employed... Also confirms some of my negative beliefs about the government so I love it for validating my biases!
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by saas_sam 6y ago
I see where you are coming from. From my perspective, your view of poor people as being without agency such that their voluntary decisions in perhaps the most well-off country on earth, in the most well-off time in earth's history, the
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by saas_sam 6y ago
Most every advanced material good and service that is cheap today was once rare and expensive. Prices fell as the methods for producing those goods and services became more efficient. If the rich are paying for something as exotic as YouthB
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by saas_sam 6y ago
Oh I love spotting motte and bailey fallacies. Didn't intend that here. The comment I replied to only pointed at the sample size.
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by saas_sam 6y ago
Sample size isn't as big of a deal-breaker as the layperson may think. If the mechanism of action is well understood and the potency of the effect is strong, you don't need a big sample size. For an extreme but apt example of this
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by saas_sam 6y ago
My parents did while my house was being broken into one night by multiple men. Semi-rural area. Thankfully they left before anything happened. I have close friends with darker stories.
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by saas_sam 6y ago
For those of us who grew up around guns, your abject horror at an object is as puzzling as someone being terrified of knives or slingshots. Would be nice if cops were all good and could teleport to your location in time of need. Drive an ho
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by saas_sam 6y ago
What do you think is more reasonable, that your emotional commitments to this subject are distorting your read of the article, or that the American Psychological Association knows less than you do?
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by saas_sam 6y ago
A subset of these messages could be leaked to produce very different optics. Say, only leak the wildest messages sent to certain celebrities or politicians in order to create the perception that their fanbase is purely of that kind, while h
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by saas_sam 6y ago
I haven't had that joy, thankfully. But I do routinely have the joy of working with execs to reallocate spend for my products/services. The era of carefully planning out purchases 12 mos in advance is long past. Unplanned, 6-figur
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by saas_sam 6y ago
Yes, and the employees that remain should thank them for their hard work and help them find new jobs. If LinkedIn could easily employ an extra 1,000 people without risking the 10,000 that remain, they would've hired an extra 1,000 a ye
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by saas_sam 6y ago
Businesses earn money by providing goods & services better than alternatives. Charities earn money by begging. I'd rather work for a business.
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by saas_sam 6y ago
Literally everything your company pays for is out of individual departmental budgets? You can't do internal chargebacks, shared services, or move budget around if needed? I've never worked anywhere w/ the kinda crystal ball r
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by saas_sam 6y ago
Do you feel that way about every differential advantage, such as money and family support in childhood, or is there something unique about beauty that causes people to compensate better?
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by saas_sam 6y ago
Government biases may feel great when they produce the outcome you want, but by codifying the mechanisms of bias in the first place you are paving the way for it to swing the other direction as soon as someone new takes the reins of power.
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by saas_sam 6y ago
Having flashbacks to my brief stint in F250 land. How do these companies successfully deliver products and services? It is amazing.
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by saas_sam 6y ago
The book Extreme Ownership would not condone psychopathic behavior like making people sleep in office for weeks at a time. Nor would any ex-military leader I've ever encountered. Military skills are not purely "for war" any m
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by saas_sam 6y ago
This has been a popular fringe scientific theory for many years under the title Electric Universe Theory. Fringe for sure, but its lead proponents tend to be real scientists referencing real, peer-reviewed literature.
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by saas_sam 6y ago
The US generates $65k per capita vs. Russia's $11k. That we spend more on heating probably has more to do with having more money to spend on heating. I doubt very much that Russia's buildings' insulation is much better.
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by saas_sam 6y ago
Case in point: The reality that it's unpopular doesn't save you from the downvotes you're currently getting from those who wish it were otherwise.
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by saas_sam 6y ago
It wouldn't have to do any of that if it was simply keeping an activity:non-activity ratio that resulted in 2 primes. I'm not sure to what degree of precision this flashing is happening but if it's very precise then there you

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