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by saas_sam 7y ago
As a tech co person on the business side, let me tell you it is consistently amazing to me how much resistance I witness to the idea of a company making money. There's a huge confusion going on right now about how business works, the u
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by saas_sam 7y ago
Don't downvote me here please. Honest question. If you want some of my money, and I am willing to give it to you if you pay me back with a little extra due to compensate for my worry that you'll not pay me back... what's wron
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by saas_sam 7y ago
If the worst form of suffering you had ever encountered was a splinter on your foot, you would make the same claims. "After reading many, many stories about the absolute horrors of splinters, I have such a difficult time understanding
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by saas_sam 7y ago
Pretty cruel to ignore IQ and leave millions of mentally disadvantaged people in the lurch.
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by saas_sam 7y ago
Have you been to SF or LA or Seattle? The crisis we are experiencing isn't because rents are too high. That's a separate crisis affecting a different set of people. The crisis this article is discussing, the really really bad home
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by saas_sam 7y ago
What about helping disabled people use computers? Or environments that aren't conducive to using your hands like a factory? ...If the only use you can think of for software like this is "creepy," maybe it is not the technolog
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by saas_sam 7y ago
Thank you! Very helpful.
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by saas_sam 7y ago
Does he think every written product should be free, or just software? Or is he just against paying people for their time?
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by saas_sam 7y ago
Great observations. At first glance I'd wonder if Fortnite wasn't the true culprit here. (Not really but you get what I mean.) Very shady study.
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by saas_sam 7y ago
Profits equal the difference between what customers are willing to pay for a product/service minus what it costs to provide that product/service. When you find a new way to deliver something valuable at a lower cost -- meaning les
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by saas_sam 8y ago
Yes and I am glad to live in a country that publishes about such infractions wherever they are found to occur.
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by saas_sam 8y ago
I don't understand. You either think it's legitimate to call out bad behavior (US or Chinese) or you think doing so is disingenuous pearl-clutching. Is it only pearl-clutching when it's about the far worse behavior of the Chi
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by saas_sam 8y ago
Slight difference in that the Chinese government routinely disappears political dissidents while in the U.S. we give them talk shows.
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by saas_sam 8y ago
We aren't discussing whether a given engineer would still view themselves as being smart. We're discussing how it feels to be at the very top of your field and then falling behind. Even if you are higher after the fall than you we
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by saas_sam 8y ago
Does there need to be an objective measurement? Even in sports there is wide disagreement about which athletes are better than others, score and stats only gets you so far. The point is that if you are doing very well -- at anything -- your
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by saas_sam 8y ago
I see your point, though I'd suggest to you that for those who make it to the 0.1%, dropping down to top 20% does not feel like a "solid career" anymore. It feels the same as a 20%er dropping down to 80%. Success is very rela
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by saas_sam 8y ago
If it was easy, everyone would do it. Same goes for the top 0.1% of any profession: athletics, sales, management... Is there any profession where performing at the very top does not = high pressure not conducive to most people's idea o
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by saas_sam 8y ago
A monopoly means you are the exclusive provider of something. Amazon has a ton of competition. People are CHOOSING to use Amazon because they are the best at what they do, for now. It's convenient. There is NOTHING stopping you from us
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by saas_sam 8y ago
Sounds like a ton of sugar and carbs to me with barely any protein...
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by saas_sam 8y ago
No country on Earth affords equal rights to citizens and non-citizens. If this "terrifies" you, I encourage you to reflect on your fears and whether some of them may be disproportionate to reality.
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by saas_sam 8y ago
Do you think the rate of improvements that have happened to the internet would be sustained if it were run by the government? I sure don't. Moving decision-making capabilities away from the public and into the hands of bureaucrats soun
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by saas_sam 8y ago
Makes sense but it reminds me of the argument people made against Amazon usurping clothing stores: people want to feel and try on clothes before buying them. While I think it's true that this served as a buffer for a while, it seems to
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by saas_sam 8y ago
And when those phenomena are fought, it is on the basis of the Constitution.
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by saas_sam 8y ago
>>The only time taxes are required is when people will not freely give money for a project. That is literally the only reason taxes exist. Nothing is stopping people from donating to the government. I like this point and I make it a l
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by saas_sam 8y ago
> It's not like the government is being wantonly careless. They are investigating, after all. So, if someone does something seemingly egregiously careless, but they investigate after being found out, that nullifies the carelessness,
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by saas_sam 8y ago
So you think any time something bad happens that's evidence that not enough things were done to prevent those types of bad things? Presumably the only things we are well-prepared for in society are things that never, ever occur? Guess
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by saas_sam 8y ago
1. No evidence to suggest we are not putting in adequate efforts into controlled burning. Perhaps you have some? 2. Even if we were putting satisfactory efforts into controlled burning, we would still need to know where sparks are likely to
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by saas_sam 8y ago
"Public notification requirement" = job posting you leave up and internal email you circulate to CYA in case you get audited. It's a ruse. This can't be enforced.
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by saas_sam 8y ago
I mean it's not like the money just went into a hole. These things were built by U.S. factories. Not the best use of taxpayer money by any means, and we are right to be angry, I just want to point that out.
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by saas_sam 8y ago
What if the lower class is getting simultaneously bigger and also better off? Do you think the bottom 10% is living as bad as they were in 1940? 1980? Things that used to be luxuries are now normal across all income brackets... That's

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