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by saas_sam 6y ago
To prop up a competing medication.
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by saas_sam 6y ago
Bold claims. Do you have any references that support any of them? Inquiring minds want to know.
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by saas_sam 6y ago
"We looked at the data, and what we found shocked us. When the disparate disciplines of Cheese and Operations are unified on one platform, developer velocity and subcutaneous fat increase dramatically."
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by saas_sam 7y ago
Yes, better article for sure, thank you.
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by saas_sam 7y ago
Not sure about the first part, but to answer your question about the Pelosi example: The idea was that she and her husband accepted preferential access to Visa shares during IPO in exchange for delaying a bill that was set to pass by 2 year
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by saas_sam 7y ago
There are many examples of sketchy investment behavior in the Federal government. I remember this one, courtesy of Nancy Pelosi and Visa. I thought I remembered her offloading $MMs of FB call options too just prior to railing against them,
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by saas_sam 7y ago
Wow tough crowd!
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by saas_sam 7y ago
There are loads of shady poor people. Those of us in cities see them daily. Makes sense that there would be shady rich people, too.
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by saas_sam 7y ago
OK you got me, but my point is that's ALL the other guy had. ;-)
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by saas_sam 7y ago
Do you think that might be hard to do given the content of the article you commented on?
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by saas_sam 7y ago
They are probably bound by the local market to adhere to certain standards on these things or parents will get up in arms about it. Just a guess. But to your point, I also wondered if they'd see more success raising the rates and offer
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by saas_sam 7y ago
You just described the reason most b2b SaaS vendors exist. Whirlpool will buy (and is buying) that which they cannot do in house and integrating it with their apps.
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by saas_sam 7y ago
Agreed. I appreciate the help of others and am considered by most to be a generous giver of help myself. I think the idea that self-reliant people don't care about others or don't genuinely appreciate giving & receiving help i
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by saas_sam 7y ago
This is going to sound terrible to some but as someone who believes strongly in self-reliance, I get a little giddy when I see anti-self-reliance commentary get promoted in the media. It's the same feeling when I see advocates pushing
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by saas_sam 7y ago
Usually the highest paid executives (w/ cash) are the ones at low performing companies because executives don't want to work at low performing companies. From the outside it looks like they're being rewarded for the company p
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by saas_sam 7y ago
I didn't know that! Thank you.
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by saas_sam 7y ago
Hmm perhaps. If my experience is any indication, companies tend to pay everyone as little as they can get away with, execs or no. Execs leave for more money all the time, just as the rest of us do. Their pay is set by their board of directo
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by saas_sam 7y ago
Hehe, maybe! Or perhaps people would avoid working at places with such laws, as they tend to do currently with other economies that have strict laws that make it hard to do business.
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by saas_sam 7y ago
Honest question: If rank-and-file employees are expected to work for market rates, should executives be expected to work for market rates also? Or do we think they should work for less than market rates? If so, wouldn't Mozilla be at r
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by saas_sam 7y ago
Do you use a bidet?
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by saas_sam 7y ago
Is it just me or does the interviewer come across as weirdly adversarial in this piece?
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by saas_sam 7y ago
> Successfully meeting a sales deadline looks the same as signing the same contract after the deadline (other than the deadline) This is so far from the truth. I encourage you to spend more time with your sales team and even your stakeho
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by saas_sam 7y ago
Reading HN comments makes it sound like engineers think they're the only ones in a company who have to deal with deadlines. It's kind of hilarious. Go ask your sales team how they cope with hard deadlines of closing a specific dol
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by saas_sam 7y ago
The content and tone of the comments replying to you are making your point so hard right now. To me it really demonstrates how trigger-happy people are with certain concepts. If any opportunity presents itself, however tenuous it may be, to
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by saas_sam 7y ago
Trump signed an exec order* (thx for correction folks!) requiring hospitals to dramatically improve price transparency for patients. A huge win. But of course you'll never hear much about it for obvious reasons.
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by saas_sam 7y ago
As with every role, you pay the minimum you must pay in order to attract and retain the people with the experience you need.
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by saas_sam 7y ago
Plus a large proportion of the top <whatever>% of rich people are only in that category for the one year due to some kind of event like selling a house or business or cashing out a lifetime of investments.
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by saas_sam 7y ago
Therayes
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by saas_sam 7y ago
It's 100% a SV thing. It is assumed that everyone working for a SV company is on the left and hates anything on the right. Voice dissent at your own peril.
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by saas_sam 7y ago
I believe your comment is fairly representative of mainstream political ignorance so I appreciate your writing it out.

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