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by throwaway7312 10y ago
You're jumping to conclusions and assuming that good programmers are losing their jobs because of inept bosses making rash decisions. While I've no doubt that does happen, in this case you're allowing a bias to fill in blanks
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by throwaway7312 10y ago
We tried shame and humiliation as good things and governance tools in Germany before, between 1919 and 1933. We know how well that worked the first time. Yet, it's become the governance tool of choice there again. For years, whenever I
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by throwaway7312 10y ago
As a long-time UpWork user, this has saved our butts a few times, especially with technical hires. We've had times we had hires billing full work weeks but seemed not to be getting much done. But how do you know if it really ought to t
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by throwaway7312 10y ago
We had a similar incident with a freelancer recently. We left them a 5 star review, a nice written review, marked the job as successfully completed, and left no private feedback. They wrote us immediately after we reviewed them to tell us t
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by throwaway7312 10y ago
From the employer side. We're a platinum employer on UpWork with probably close to $100,000 spent on the platform and maybe 70 completed jobs. Tons of reviews calling us one of the best employers on UpWork. Right after oDesk merged wit
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by throwaway7312 10y ago
If you've had the experience of being physically assaulted by random blacks high on drugs, had other random blacks break into your car, and still others accost you at night and ask probing questions designed to test how soft or hard yo
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by throwaway7312 10y ago
Better the candidate agitating for nuclear war with Russia, right? [1][2][3] We might all turn to glass, but at least we'd still have our safe spaces. [1] http://dailycaller.com/2016/09/26/clintons-syria-
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by throwaway7312 10y ago
If we're blaming culture for male violence, "animal culture" would seem the more fitting one, since violent males are a feature throughout the animal kingdom and exceptions are, well, the exception. American culture is not mu
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by throwaway7312 10y ago
Capitalism has the same problem all economic systems have, and that is a unidirectional drive toward more regulation. More regulation benefits entrenched companies and creates barriers to entry to new ones, who have increasingly bigger hurd
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by throwaway7312 10y ago
Having not lived in the American South and much preferring the idea of an entire Union than one divided into two or more feuding countries, I don’t meet your criteria. However, the case in the States was that at the turn of the 19th Century
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by throwaway7312 10y ago
5 years. Lots of stumbling around in the dark and making dumb errors before I got serious about ramping the business up and making it a legitimate contender in its niche last year. The first 3.5 years were mostly learning the market + learn
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by throwaway7312 10y ago
Depends on what your end goal is and what you're starting with. If the goal is to get big and you have funds (or funding), you can be a single founder and just look for a couple of talented people, or perhaps one right-hand man, to tak
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by throwaway7312 10y ago
We've taken no capital. After the experience of losing control of the cofounded businesses, the last thing I wanted was to bring in investors who'd be staring over my shoulder or telling me what to do. I'd be open to taking c
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by throwaway7312 10y ago
To the commenters responding to this comment saying the Civil War was about slavery, slavery was the trigger. The Civil War was in truth about whether the U.S. would remain "these united States" ("States" capitalized, &q
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by throwaway7312 10y ago
I've cofounded 4 different startups. All were good ideas that bled cash or time and flopped, largely due to infighting or founder differences. One cofounder of one of the companies got really nasty about trying to leave with the rights
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by throwaway7312 10y ago
You're talking about killing the primary income source for publishers. That's writers, bloggers, journalists, experts of all stripes who want to make a living from creating content. Donations don't do it because nobody donate
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by throwaway7312 10y ago
We'd get there even faster with the money mismanaged by the US welfare system. Armed forces is only 23% of the US federal budget. Welfare's a whopping 40%. Of course, without American armed forces and the Pax Americana, the unprec
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by throwaway7312 10y ago
By the same coin, think how unidirectional innovation would be if we were all hooked on the same network, thinking the same thoughts, signalling the same virtues. The sharing of information is vital for creativity. Yet, so too is diversity.
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by throwaway7312 10y ago
20,000 years ago, an alien race made contact with a tribal chieftan. "We noticed you had a large supply of both petroleum and uranium on this world," the alien race said. "What would you like for them?" "Both are wo
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by throwaway7312 10y ago
I'm a single founder. We do ~$150K / year in revenue right now. We did $15,000 in 2011 (our first year in business). $55,000 in 2012. $96,000 in 2013. $157,000 in 2014. Dropped to $133,000 in 2015, our first year of negative growt
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by throwaway7312 10y ago
I could not begin to tell you :) Far smarter men than me are still debating how much is genes, how much is early childhood influence, how much is the result of what you experience along the way, etc. I don't suspect we'll have any
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by throwaway7312 10y ago
You’re assuming poor American working class voters vote against their interests by voting conservative. Leaving aside the social issues for now and looking solely at economic ones, let’s ask the question whether that’s true to them in their