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by telchior 4y ago
Yeah, I thought so too. Then I started hiring (for my very small startup) in SE Asia. And, well, maybe I'm biased and chummy, but it just wasn't incredibly smooth sailing. This is purely remote, almost all written communication, e
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by telchior 4y ago
If the expectation is just hours worked, then you can't fulfill 2 (or more) full time jobs. But I'm not sure where that applies, outside of something mind-numbing like a call center. Realistically, it's a technical field and
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by telchior 4y ago
Sure, you're right. I wouldn't say that the problem is that the companies are not working her as hard as they could be; I'd say that what they think is a full time position should actually be part time. But they've refus
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by telchior 4y ago
That's a bit different than claiming time theft, isn't it? That's more of a suspicion that someone couldn't possibly be doing a good job if their attention is split. The two full-time companies objected strenuously to he
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by telchior 4y ago
I think you're making an unwarranted leap here. The management never complained about or monitored hours worked; the requirements of the job were simply completing tasks. Which she did, as I said, at or above expectations (the company
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by telchior 4y ago
Ah, just to clarify: she was also working far fewer hours. The meetings really were the primary time sink.
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by telchior 4y ago
Anecdotal, but my wife was doing 2.5 remote jobs simultaneously for a while, and apparently performing above expectation in all of them. However -- meetings were her major complaint, and she eventually burned out and quit the two full time
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by telchior 4y ago
Is it wrong to follow the opinion of someone with far more data than you? In the modern world, the vast majority of people (including me) don't have the mental capacity to examine everything. Whether we're talking about politics,
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by telchior 4y ago
That last sentence could apply to either the company or its users, really.
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by telchior 4y ago
Midges are not solely in cold, muddy places like Scotland, sadly. They can also be found at beaches, in tropical areas, and a variety of other habitats. I'm currently near the equator, and midges are more of a bane here than mosquitoes
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by telchior 4y ago
I love the "too expensive" button. I'm the sort of person who'd probably want to test a dozen variations of that, half of them being jokes, and try to figure out exactly why it works. Do you know how many of the full pri
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by telchior 4y ago
I think the arguments in the article made as much sense as you'd expect. Nobody has yet produced anything that really counters Google. So the best you can do is cast around to all the different quadrants that look like they might produ
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by telchior 4y ago
It's interesting that most of the responses here so far are criticizing the article and positing that Google is, more or less, the best we can expect. Yet numerous other front page posts on HN have been very unanimously critical of Goo
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by telchior 4y ago
I don't know if this is debunking you, but you've put words in OP's mouth. They didn't say that "she can't install Python", or anything remotely like that. They said, the 72 year old woman is starting from
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by telchior 4y ago
So many people are screwed by cutoffs and rules. My parents had assets on paper but were going through a messy divorce and bleeding cash; they refused to give me anything at the time I was in need of tuition money. I got two jobs, but that
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by telchior 4y ago
That seems like an unnecessarily convoluted interpretation of a simple idea: does the candidate act like an asshole to a powerless person? OP can report back on what the bar was, but I doubt people were getting rejected simply for being alo
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by telchior 4y ago
Since you're on Hacker News, I have to assume the "we" is "successful tech people". So who's the "the people leaving"? Blue collar workers? Poor people? Anyone who wants a house and isn't a milli
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by telchior 4y ago
Three cheers for the Osprey Porter, it's a really excellent pack. I've got the Porter 65, which supposedly is too large for carry-on -- but I've taken several dozen flights with it and never gotten a word from the check-in pe
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by telchior 4y ago
While I believe that the point about doing business in other countries is valid, we aren't talking about foreigners in this thread. We're talking about someone in state A that wants to do business in state B under the general assu
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by telchior 4y ago
"Small business that wants to behave like large business" You mean, exist in the 21st century and sell or conduct any kind of business online? Is that a big business? It's a well recognized fact that legal and accounting comp
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by telchior 4y ago
The point is that it's not insane to not have omniscient awareness of all laws in 50 states. It's tough running a very small business. If someone doesn't have enough funding to hire a team of lawyers, should they just fuck of
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by telchior 4y ago
California's attitude toward tax is that if they can strongarm you for money, they will. The state really doesn't care about what's reasonable, moral, or within the bounds of the law as it's written; if they become aware
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by telchior 4y ago
It's not insane. It's perhaps not perfect, but definitely not insane. Considering: * We have 50 states * ... and if you're doing business online, add 50 countries to that... * ... with their own sub-regions which may have the
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by telchior 4y ago
I ticket with this in mind. Often I'll write a ticket and either categorize or write it to make clear the the idea/feedback/bug needs some time to ferment and prove its value. A lot of times these never get looked at again or
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by telchior 4y ago
I agree that the piece may have been better off if it didn't mention Trump. However, so that other readers can be aware of where the dishonest attacks may be coming from here: The name "Trump" appears four times in over 7000
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by telchior 4y ago
There are various ways to modify a pushup. The absolute easiest that I know of being a standing push up -- stand, plant your hands on a wall, and do the push up motion. Horizontal pushups can also be made easier. Feels dissatisfying to not
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by telchior 4y ago
The author thinks Turkey may have a civil war. Do you really think that Germany is so "unknown" that it may have a war? Most corruption indexes rank Turkey as being pretty damn corrupt, which would seem to be pretty well confirmed
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by telchior 4y ago
I thought of adding the caveat that the "creeped out" feeling doesn't really apply in major cities but I'm making an effort to be less long-winded. Anyway, that's what I'd say in response. In a big city, nobody
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by telchior 4y ago
The game industry is so unstable, it can be nearly impossible to even tell who you should pay for something. An anecdote: Master of Magic is one of my favorite games of all time. The company that made it was acquired; the acquirer, I think,
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by telchior 4y ago
Immigration laws aren't very good in almost all countries. Governments do want to plan better and have good-sense policies that let in people who can integrate and contribute. But they are held back by a basic human instinct: xenophobi

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