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by saas_sam 9y ago
If drivers were the entire reason, why do they need Uber at all?
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by saas_sam 9y ago
Where do you see that the value of driving for Uber has gone up? I'll grant you that Uber customers are valuing the services more, but how much of that "value" should be going to the drivers vs. the programmers and support st
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by saas_sam 9y ago
How would you determine whether or not there is a "concerted push to deal with sexual harassment and/or sexism in tech"? Perhaps if many tech companies announced such a push? Or maybe if all major tech publications were consi
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by saas_sam 9y ago
Maybe the problem is trying to centrally control vast and varied resources to reach some kind of "fair" outcome. Wait, Silicon Valley techies wouldn't be in favor of anything like that, would they? Ohhh....
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by saas_sam 9y ago
I think the question to answer is this: What does Small Town, U.S.A. have to offer the world that people are willing to pay for? My sense is that until very recently, the answer was "stuff the locals want plus a few large operations th
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by saas_sam 9y ago
You misunderstand, I was referring to WHY these sorts of articles have value, which seemed to me to be the topic of our exchange. Google would not have released a statement on this topic without this article. Likewise, if others have additi
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by saas_sam 9y ago
It's totally provable though. Whether or not it will be proved is another matter. Other witnesses were presumably around so they might chime in. Certainly Google can step in and tell their side. The thing about these sorts of situation
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by saas_sam 9y ago
I totally get it, I would like to see more evidence also, so this story shouldn't be taken as gospel truth. However, it should also not be discounted as false. Google needs to respond to these accusations and make it clear what their s
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by saas_sam 9y ago
Hearsay is a legal term to prevent court cases from proceeding on information gleaned from witnesses who are not present. So, if you refuse to go to court as a witness, your coworker who overheard you talk about the case cannot sit in your
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by saas_sam 9y ago
In 2 Texas cities, sure, but in every U.S. city? There are going to be several that end up getting a few 500-year floods... and several others that don't flood as expected in several 1000 years.
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by saas_sam 9y ago
T. gondii also being the parasite that can cause toxoplasmosis in rare cases where the infected individual suffers an immune system issue (like HIV). This is the condition treated by Daraprim, aka the drug bought by Martin Shkreli's ol
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by saas_sam 9y ago
I've not seen a standard position for such fields. Different software produces different layouts of printed information. I suppose it's possible that MOST software will produce a standard layout, but in my short time in the indust
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by saas_sam 9y ago
Yes we do have standard paper and envelope sizes in the US that are similar to Europe. What probably happened here is they printed the info in a dumb layout that was too close to the address field and/or whoever was running the folder-
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by saas_sam 9y ago
I read a lot of anti-capitalism jibberish on HN & Reddit but I think this one takes the cake. Then again, I DO recall when my CEO gave speeches about "fostering less teamwork" and that other time he flipped the table at the co
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by saas_sam 9y ago
I haven't seen anyone arguing that health care in the U.S. is in anything resembling a free market... Have you actually ever seen that, or did your fingers/heart get ahead of your brain there? ;-)
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by saas_sam 9y ago
Feds provide force sometimes, but other times it's just a matter of time. When you produce a new product or service, you have a 'monopoly' on it until other people move in. Thus, margins start high and quickly lower even in a
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by saas_sam 9y ago
It's shocking how confident people are in their understanding of economics when they clearly have never read a book on the subject or taken a 101 course on it. People have some kind of instinct for how much money is "too much&quot
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by saas_sam 9y ago
It's interesting to me how this article frames crony capitalism as a use or abuse of government by corporations, almost as if the government is a victim. But it's the government that has all of the power in this context. There&#x2
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by saas_sam 10y ago
Sounds like most of the issues were due to not paying for the product. Which is fair given Slack's freemium model but I wonder if they were throttling free users after a certain point, causing performance issues. If I was this guy I wo
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by saas_sam 10y ago
They should go full throttle and just label things "Truffle Blasted!"