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by seem_2211 7y ago
I went to University that had a similar deadline system (sometimes midnight, sometimes midday, sometimes 3pm - all depended on the lecturer/tutor). If you had a truly extenuating circumstance, you could always speak to the lecturer via
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by seem_2211 7y ago
I think the equity situation is bad, and only going to get worse. FAANG stocks have been on an absolute tear and VC firms have got more money to deploy than ever before. If I were to bet on it, I think we'll see the tech industry move
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by seem_2211 7y ago
I think you've hit the nail on the head as to what's causing this. 1: FAANG companies have had a great decade in terms of stock prices which means employee options are enormous in terms of dollar value (even if salaries aren'
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by seem_2211 7y ago
A relatively recent example of rapid infrastructure building (in California no less!) can be found with C.C Meyers. "Proclaimed a “Local Hero,” Clinton “C.C.” Myers was lauded on the cover of the July 1995 issue of Comstock’s magazine
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by seem_2211 7y ago
I think both things can be true at the same time. San Francisco is an amazing place to work in technology (in my view, nowhere else comes close). But the municipal government is also a complete cesspool of inefficiency & corruption.
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by seem_2211 7y ago
I'd make the argument that something like Calpers is quite different to a college or hospital endowment. Calpers has a huge deficit, whereas Harvard has far more than they're likely to ever spend (especially considering the fact t
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by seem_2211 7y ago
But do they? Some of these LPs (especially college endowments) are so large that they are the tail that wags the dog.
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by seem_2211 7y ago
I don't agree. Users are hostile to their own comfort, with the vast majority of travelers focused exclusively on price. Air travel has never been cheaper, and a less comfortable seat is a big part of that tradeoff.
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by seem_2211 7y ago
Wack that a hospital doesn't insure health insurance... bet it's a non profit at that. Criminal.
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by seem_2211 7y ago
> And it required me to effectively make the best possible decision at all times. One thing I find interesting about your question is the implication that fallibility in someone's decision making process means they deserve poverty,
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by seem_2211 7y ago
100%. One of the things you that happens when you have an emergency fund is that emergencies don't happen so often. This isn't the case when you're trying to get $3.50 to last till payday.
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by seem_2211 7y ago
I'm not advocating for any specific policy change (although I think minimum wage should be raised and indexed to inflation), but rather am talking about cultural changes that need to be addressed. Broadly, as a society, we want people
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by seem_2211 7y ago
It seems like the struggle for people in these jobs is mostly around the consistency in hours, and the miserly low pay. Both of which are deliberate choices by the firms that employ them. To some degree, serving the "customer" by
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by seem_2211 7y ago
My first job was working in a supermarket, on the register and collecting the trolleys. You got a break roughly 90-120 minutes. You REALLY miss one / notice when you're running late. Now I work in an office. It's nothing to g
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by seem_2211 7y ago
Yep. I rent a private office, and the lease is coming up next month. I'm not planning to renew.
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by seem_2211 7y ago
It'd be interesting to know where the lines get drawn here. Private businesses are set up with a primary purpose of being self dealing (looking at what Adam Neumann did, and it's hard to argue that from the outset at least, it doe
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by seem_2211 7y ago
> You see the effect a bit with Tesla where I'm sure Musk would love to focus on quality but has to rush things out to make decent quarterly numbers or risk going bust by not getting ongoing financing "Tesla CEO Elon Musk order
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by seem_2211 7y ago
There's a difference between performance and brand marketing. Bart advertising by Twitter/ Facebook is mostly brand marketing (not really tied to anything). A lot of marketing is about reminding you that a company exists.
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by seem_2211 7y ago
Can't have a lot of engineering teams without salespeople or marketers though.
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by seem_2211 7y ago
I live in the Bay Area now, but I grew up in Hamilton, New Zealand. I'm back home with greencard stuff at the moment. On my parents relatively modest street houses are now selling for $850k. These were houses that cost $400-500k ten ye
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by seem_2211 7y ago
> Good school, healthcare and do actually matter, you know. So that the child has also middle class future. Nail on the head. Virtue signal all you want, but I know that I'll be putting my money into making sure that any kids I have
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by seem_2211 7y ago
While you are technically correct, the common man on the street so to say would say that property is where the returns would be (even if the returns have technically been 0% once property taxes, mortgage interest, insurance and repairs are
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by seem_2211 7y ago
100% agreed. It won't end well, and politicians being politicians (and voters being voters), we're going to continue this mad show as long as possible, ensuing we get the worst possible outcome here. The weird bit is that San Fran
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by seem_2211 7y ago
Reading this as someone who has moved from New Zealand to San Francisco, the parallels are depressing. In New Zealand the price of housing has skyrocketed, and exists in a similar plane to Canada's housing market. We have the same issu
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by seem_2211 7y ago
I don't agree. Coming from NZ to America, I am amazed at how cheap housing is (outside of a few select areas - California, New York and a few major urban metros), and the fact that you can fix your interest rates for the length of the
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by seem_2211 7y ago
There's absolutely nothing wrong with selling socks online, and I'm happy that someone is doing it, but you can't convince me that that is innovation worth celebrating.
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by seem_2211 7y ago
My theory is that a lot of people read Zero to One, decided that spending more money than anyone else to build a monopoly is the best strategy (even if you work in an area with low barriers to energy), managed to find a VC fund with the sam
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by seem_2211 7y ago
There has been disappointingly little success from all of Google X's many investment dollars. I think with the hundreds of managers, institutional knowledge and helpful infrastructure comes a bureaucracy that kills a lot of what it cre
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by seem_2211 7y ago
I know a few people who were put on the list of 30 under 30 a few years ago. Nothing particularly interesting has come from then since they won the award. It's one of those things, where the more personal brand building you do (speakin
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by seem_2211 7y ago
As a recruiter, there's an interesting relationship, whereby people use funding raised as a positive metric (oh yes, they raised $200m, this must be a good company!) Even though the less they have raised, the more valuable your equity

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