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by throw3823423 3y ago
If your goal is maximizing acreage for farming, a pretty good idea would be to get rid of land dedicated to our number one crop: grass that gets mowed. We spend over 40 millions of acres in lawns, as farms get replaced with subdivisions th
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by throw3823423 3y ago
In an efficient world, charging costs would have significant time factor to account for opportunity costs. The supercharger network already charges an idle fee if the charger is busy and you don't leave your space when fully charged. T
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by throw3823423 3y ago
I have seen a very predictable scrum, but the tradeoffs with productivity were comical. In this very large corporation, most developers could do most of the tasks in their 2 week sprints in 3 days of actual work. But they don't know if
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by throw3823423 3y ago
In that world, you better make it very difficult to change your alerts downard: Otherwise, the very first thing a hacker would do is to take over the alert system, and only then start using your account for their profit-making ventures.
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by throw3823423 3y ago
The problem of the highway expansion is not damage done by the highway, or that the highway itself doesn't increase value for land far away: It's that the very subsidized highway later gives us horribly inefficient land uses which
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by throw3823423 3y ago
It's more complicated than that. Many companies that aren't mainly in tech end up having strange ideas of what competitive pay is for FTEs, thanks to HR, but managers can spend capital project money with far fewer limitations. Thi
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by throw3823423 4y ago
It's pretty accurate: Employees don't have a few million in change, each, to turn the RSUs into plain stock. I don't think the issue is making employees wealthy or not: It's 10 year old RSUs, so most of them are owned by
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by throw3823423 4y ago
Stripe is a B2B company, and the hardest part of B2B, by a country mile, is sales. If you have to do sales, selling to a small company is also far easier than to a large company. A startup that just joined ycombinator, and is setting up a m
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by throw3823423 4y ago
There are significant differences when it comes to expectations on a fix. If the problem is just refusal to spend, the policy problem is easily improved with easy to write legislation: 'medicare will now cover everyone over 55'. T
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by throw3823423 4y ago
For anyone that has been there anywhere near a decade, there's been opportunities to cash out partially, at very good valuations. You'll see that a vast majority of early employees have departed, and they didn't do that by gi