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by swombat 10y ago
I think it's simpler than that. We don't want to miss out on a great ending by picking a suboptimal one. Endings are definitely not equal.
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by swombat 10y ago
Urgh. > But I am a single mother who can’t afford health insurance under Obamacare. The president’s mortgage-loan modification program, “HOPE NOW,” didn’t help me. Tuesday, I drove into Virginia from my hometown of Morgantown, W.Va., whe
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by swombat 10y ago
> Php code that isn't as insecure as an ugly girl on prom night What the hell? Where did this come from? Could you not think of a less sexist metaphor to use here? Maybe this is how you talk to your buddies, and maybe that's fi
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by swombat 10y ago
I always find it laughable (in a very sad way) when people support a political candidate based on the active belief that they won't actually do what they say. If your best chance is that the president has been lying and exaggerating
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by swombat 10y ago
Apple could just buy Tesla instead, it's only $20b or so. Pocket change.
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by swombat 10y ago
Sure we can! Which rainforest do you want to cut down to make space for the new fields?
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by swombat 10y ago
overgard's point is that you wouldn't run iOS on the desktop, you'd run macOS there, but on chips designed for mobiles (A*).
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by swombat 10y ago
This is obviously valuable work in general, because a lot of people don't read science fiction, blogs, dream about technology, etc. I question how valuable this is to the HN audience who spends much of their time thinking about these t
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by swombat 10y ago
These are not mildly negative health effects. There has been an enormous rise in diabetes and obesity, including in children. Large numbers of people are dead because of these side effects and there are enormous costs imposed on the health
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by swombat 10y ago
Yep, you do make sense (though I would suggest more line breaks :-P ). Also my username is swombat not snowbat... A great source for this discussion is Hannah Arendt's book "The Human Condition". I find it really heavy and di
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by swombat 10y ago
> In one of his books he says the meaning of life is "about experiencing existence, in all its angles and glory, for the sheer and pure sake of experience itself! We don’t eat a nice meal, make love or travel to beautiful locations
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by swombat 10y ago
It's an interesting conjecture and probably has some merit, but looking at the examples in the article, I, as someone who is not an architect (but do like nice looking things) find that the McMansion examples are generally pretty ugly
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by swombat 10y ago
I haven't been in that situation in terms of being in a high-burn rate, VC-funded startup, but I think the transparency can work if it is consistent. Of course, if our company tells us nothing about its finances and then suddenly the n
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by swombat 10y ago
Wow, you might actually be right - so I was wrong. I think I got that idea from "Rich Dad Poor Dad" by Kyosaki. Well, it's never too late to learn you were wrong. http://english.stackexchange.com/questions&#x2
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by swombat 10y ago
The case of the Amistad in 1839 (fictionalised in a famous Spielberg movie) shows that this was not at all the case in reality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._The_Amistad I'm sure many slaves were
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by swombat 10y ago
There is no right to construct the things you damn like upon your private property in most of Europe. There are a lot of zoning laws, safety laws, standards, etc. Generally, even if fairly loose places like the UK, each locality gets to vet
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by swombat 10y ago
As a Swiss I agree with the above. I think it also helps that there is no concentration of the executive power in any single person. The Federal Council ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Federal_Council ) is made o
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by swombat 10y ago
No, we don't pay overtime. There hasn't been a recent decision about that, so it's more a historical artefact at this point, but my rationale for not paying overtime (apart from the fact that it's uncommon to get overtim
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by swombat 10y ago
We do that already.
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by swombat 10y ago
Interesting. Why do you think that would be "profiteering as your main motivator" to have as a general principle that as you scale your work you also scale your salary? I'm not sure how that follows. It also seems to be the g
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by swombat 10y ago
There's definitely a problem there, I agree. In practice, the people that we take to that stage of the interview process typically have quite a lot of self-awareness and also know a fair bit about our company by then, so so far it&#x27
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by swombat 10y ago
Most of our hires are not developers. We're not building cutting edge tech. We have some internal tools but I don't believe they require "top developers" by whatever metrics Facebook might use. That said, I think the few
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by swombat 10y ago
Thanks for the open follow-up response. Re-reading, I realise my previous response was a bit unnecessarily snarky. Sorry for that. > I find it difficult to work with people who are compensated less than me. I want my coworkers to be bet
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by swombat 10y ago
We have two people who are on 4-day weeks. It depends on your role(s)... Some are less compatible with part time work.
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by swombat 10y ago
Try again: 3. a couple of migrants from Romania and Poland with no starting wealth, living in a flat that we couldn't even afford to pay for (but my cofounder on the previous business, which bombed, basically let me stay in his flat on
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by swombat 10y ago
I'm not fabulously wealthy, nor do I expect to get so from GrantTree. Yes, I am fairly well off at this point, able to buy (jointly with my wife) a small 2-bed flat in an ex-council flat in London - that's after spending 5.5 years
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by swombat 10y ago
> "I was 20 minutes late because I had to take my newborn to the hospital and they only gave me a written warning!" Or: since my child was born I've been able to be home by 5pm every day without any problems. > &quot
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by swombat 10y ago
Nope. But don't beat yourself up over it! Missing a piece of a comment happens all the time. Hopefully you see there was no offence intended to people who have different views on this. I think it's totally fine that different peop
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by swombat 10y ago
> Since when is an individual expected to just defer to a greater good in an employment arrangement? Which is most likely "at-will"? 1) You should never "defer to the greater good". I would not advise it. If this en
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by swombat 10y ago
I would float to you the idea that what you're reacting to is not necessarily the higher wage but the fact your new employer seems to trust you more and perhaps even care about you more.

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