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by the_watcher 6y ago
I disagree that this is a likely outcome. For many people, this is a worst of both worlds - still requires all the costs of living within commuting distance of your employer (particularly for SFBA and NYC) and likely shrinks the average siz
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by the_watcher 6y ago
As you move up the chain in global companies such as Twitter, it becomes more likely that you'll have a superior or direct report based in a different location than you, and this has been true for years. The "people person"
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by the_watcher 6y ago
Dropshippers (assuming the product they are shipping is decent quality) are providing a service to the manufacturer - customer acquisition. Sure, it's possible for a consumer to find the vendor on Ali Express or somewhere like that,
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by the_watcher 6y ago
> 2015, the year Facebook Ads Manager was launched but before dropshipping got big. Is this right? I was definitely using Power Editor prior to 2015, and am almost sure that Ads Manager predated it.
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by the_watcher 6y ago
> If herd immunity is the strategy we're pursuing, then we should lift restrictions enough to meet hospital capacity, so we can get to herd immunity as quickly as possible and get the economy back to something approaching normal le
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by the_watcher 6y ago
> there would be some serious schadenfreude if Wickard v. Filburn showed up to defend individuals from state prosecution for once. Could not agree more about this.
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by the_watcher 6y ago
Freedom of assembly (and to a lesser extent, at least by precise Constitutional language, freedom to exercise religion) have Constitutional protections (that may or may not be unlimited, depending on the justice you're asking). There i
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by the_watcher 6y ago
> Laws exist with the consent of the governed. This is goalpost moving. Of course laws exist by the consent of the governed. Your original post claimed that there was no law, and that businesses should consider litigating to the Supreme
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by the_watcher 6y ago
State and local governments have far greater abilities to issue orders like this than the federal government. What, exactly, is unconstitutional about a city issuing an order that revokes the ability of a business to operate due to a heal
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by the_watcher 6y ago
> there’s zero evidence for this kind of intervention. Citation absolutely required. While there is definitely a ton of uncertainty around what causes spread, the one thing that there seems to be broad agreement on is that sustained
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by the_watcher 6y ago
What evidence is there that the SIP is limited in effectiveness? The existing evidence I am aware of is starkly contra that assertion. Anecdotes of seeing people too close together in the park are not evidence of an ineffective SIP.
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by the_watcher 6y ago
If they're charging interest, their fees would be a lot higher than 2%.
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by the_watcher 6y ago
It's briefly mentioned in the article, but Google actually shed jobs during the financial crisis. Facebook is the company that ramped up hiring newly available talent.
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by the_watcher 6y ago
You can have issues with the economics of supply and demand, but as you outline very well, there's not really a button that just scales supply when you need it.
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> If I used to produce 100 units per month because that's how many I could sell, but now I know I can sell 10000 units per month, that is incentive enough to increase production. This assumes that you can actually scale production t
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by the_watcher 6y ago
> This would explain some of the more puzzling positive / negative / positive test sequences. It seems far more likely to me that both of these phenomena are explained by higher-than-usual false positive and false negative te
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by the_watcher 7y ago
Matches my experience - was very much a "sure, we could do that, but it's not our core competency or the best use of our resources"
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by the_watcher 7y ago
Yea, this actually seems to fall pretty specifically into the Microsoft case. AFAIK, Google does not require third parties working with Google to use GCP
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by the_watcher 7y ago
It is beneficial to the owners of $AAPL, their shareholders, whose wealth doubled simply via buybacks. Relatedly, it increases the value of unvested stock held by employees, helping with retention and recruitment.
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by the_watcher 7y ago
I had the same response. I'm sympathetic to the idea that there might be wrong with the increase in buybacks in recent years, although that's more of a sense that any massive change in behavior should have extremely well-understoo
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by the_watcher 7y ago
Chloroquine is a common anti-malarial and can be purchased OTC in much of Latin America.
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by the_watcher 7y ago
It's at least (apparently) easy to produce and abundantly available in other countries. The medical system status quo is a challenge, but not having to stand up an entirely new production line is a big plus here.
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by the_watcher 7y ago
While I almost certainly agree with the OP on surveillance overall, it seems like this bill doesn't actually change the status quo in any negative direction? It seems to mostly preserve a status quo that already contains all of this.
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by the_watcher 7y ago
Do antibody tests exist at the moment? While not as critical as actual tests, it's not far behind if you could get a negative COVID-19 test and a positive antibody test.
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by the_watcher 7y ago
Your first concern is a problem in the current situation, but wouldn't this be immensely helpful in avoiding/preparing for a second wave in the fall (if weather has any impact) or next year (if it becomes pandemic and endemic)?
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by the_watcher 7y ago
Student loan interest on government loans is suspended? Am I reading this right? EDIT: Found some info, although it's unclear what exactly qualifies the loan: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/business&#
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by the_watcher 7y ago
> He adds that the law "should also specify that the payments would continue in 2021 and beyond if the unemployment rate rises to 5.5% and remains there or higher. Hopefully this will not happen, but if it does, the money will be ne
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by the_watcher 7y ago
The Airbnb founders both maxed out their credit cards, and famously kept the lights on by selling cereal at the 2008 Republican and Democratic conventions. I believe the actual idea for Airbnb spun out of them realizing it could help them p
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by the_watcher 7y ago
I'll add that I agree with him that more companies should try the Netflix approach of all cash comp, with stock for purchase (particularly the cash flow monsters). But he's just so convinced that he's right that he also think
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by the_watcher 7y ago
> I have tried to recruit too many smart people who are wasting their prime years of productivity working in Big Tech because ‘the pay is too good’. This is the most honest sentence in the entire piece: We should remove the choice of ind

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