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by topkai22 7y ago
WGU is a interesting set up- they are very fully online and you can consume course work at your own pace, and that pace can be very rapid indeed. I have a colleague who completed the entire MBA program in under 100 days. A WGU degree isn&#x
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by topkai22 7y ago
The mentor-protégé relationship has been deconstructed. The coaching and development part is called the mentor - mentee relationship, and the career promotion aspect is called sponsorship (sponsor-sponsee.) From experience, this is probably
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by topkai22 7y ago
I remember being so absorbed by Dues Ex that after a long play session that, IRL, I walked up an ATM and for a few moments tried to find the “hack” button. It is also the first game I remember that forced me to make consequential more choic
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by topkai22 7y ago
It’s definitely not the preferred solution, but the article here is trying to make the case for running a whole ISP for a customer base that’s less than the employee count of this single site. They also already maintain their own roads and
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by topkai22 7y ago
Thank you, this is fantastic. I am working with a 100+ employee company doing highly technical engineering work in a very rural location, currently trying to run their business off of 10 MBPS. They are getting quotes exceeding $500k from mo
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by topkai22 7y ago
That’s a pretty large one- in my area (small city suburbs) there are very few good SFHs on the rental market compared to the purchase market. It's also amazing to sort of tricks people do to force themselves to save money, having it pa
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by topkai22 7y ago
I think the shenanigans referred to are on the part of the merchant (not reporting income, stealing from the till or enabling bribes) rather than the consumer (card fraud, etc.)
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by topkai22 7y ago
This is really unfair to those people who experienced it. From a financial sense you are of course right- they got use of a house for “free”. In a human sense, many people lost their homes- they were forced out of the places where the lived
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by topkai22 7y ago
While I agree that we need abandon the idea of home value appreciation, there are many things that make home ownership an attractive investment even in a zero real dollar appreciation environment 1) Inflation hedge 2) Mortgage= Forced savin
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Also presumably land acquisition/NIMBYism is easier to deal with.
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by topkai22 7y ago
I think it depends on how you view it. I am not well studied in this area so my terms may be inaccurate, but to me a "heroic" ideal of self sacrifice for the benefit of others or some ideal is not anti-civilization. It may in fact
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by topkai22 7y ago
It's an essay by a very important 20th century intellectual who lived under the Italian fascist regime. I don't think it's fluff. It provides a very elegant framework to think about components of the worst political ideology
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by topkai22 7y ago
Early on the essay makes clear distinctions that not all moves toward fascism are necessarily fascist, in the very first bullet calling out “traditionalism” as being very distinct from “fascism.” I myself find solace in some of the points o
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by topkai22 7y ago
I’m not sure I follow the dislike of fate gates, especially how the author believes the largest rail transit systems in the world should use them but no one else. My experience has mostly been with Washington DC transit and I don’t ever rem
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by topkai22 7y ago
Or the tragedy of LucasArts, which is one reason I left LucasFilm off the list. Disney and gaming seem like a match made in heaven, but for some reason it seems like the mouse struggles to perform in that market compared to its unqualified
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by topkai22 7y ago
Pixar / Disney Marvel / Disney Facebook / Instagram EBay/PayPal Exxon/Mobil Massive numbers of banking / pharma/ industrial mergers. I will agree though that I can't think of a tech sector merger at t
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by topkai22 7y ago
If I'm reading the document correctly the "on-premise technical support" refers to any products not in the cloud. Microsoft will still provide support incidents to partners for cloud based products. Microsoft is screaming &qu
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by topkai22 7y ago
Remote work can be an interesting forcing function though- the things you need to make remote work succeed will make you a better company anyways, so why not try to work towards a remote friendly culture?
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by topkai22 7y ago
GitHub was acquired for $7.5B. That's pretty unicorny. There seems to be limits to remote first though- GitHub is a remote first culture, but even then they had a non-insignificant in-office population, ~30% if I remember correctly. Th
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by topkai22 7y ago
I think the real issue here is an improper definition of the word “buy” from a truth in advertising perspective. I think if a company says you are “buying” a digital good, then that good than access to that good should be required to be per
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by topkai22 7y ago
Fascinating that the author starts an article on the danger of monopolization with Bell Labs as an icon of American innovation, as the reason Bell Labs existed was Bell's monopoly of the American telephone system. I really wish he had
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by topkai22 7y ago
It's pretty well documented and both the popular and academic literature I believe. A quick search at found http://longevity.stanford.edu/social-engagement/ to start.
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by topkai22 7y ago
The data I’ve looked at is surprisingly unclear on whether or not people enjoy retirement versus working. For empowered workers in meaning filled fields, such as surgeons, I could easily see retirement being unsatisfying versus working. Als
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I thought in 2007 and I still think today the fundamental reason why there was space for the iPhone to be the phenomenon it was is that 1) The success of the iPod let them dictate terms to AT&T and get subsidies no one else could while
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by topkai22 7y ago
Fixing a ripped pair of pants? Probably, I’ve watched my mother in law fix a pair of pants on her sewing machine in a couple of minutes. Let’s say it takes 5 minutes of fully loaded labor time and de minimus materials, that’s $60/hour,
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by topkai22 7y ago
I find the Vernor Vinge's vision of ubiquitous AR blending with VR from "Rainbow's End" a more compelling vision then the "Snow Crash" metaverse. Not sure if we'll get to persistently worn contact lenses o
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by topkai22 7y ago
1) Wait, does DuckDuckGo use Bing’s search index? 2) A good solution would do both- open up the underlying data while breaking up the various ad sales businesses. A great example is YouTube- YouTube should not be able to single handedly dem
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by topkai22 7y ago
I suspect we'll find that there are a surprisingly large number of things transportation workers due to today that we aren't able to automate via self driving tech that limit job losses too. Even Uber drivers spend a fair amount o
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by topkai22 7y ago
Less work is harder then it sounds because (in advanced economies) MOST jobs are skilled jobs, even the ones that don't seem that way, and developing skill takes time, skill, and practice. As others have noted, labor isn't nearly
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I don't think you are right about people not enjoying their work, in the US context at least. The vast majority of workers seem to have pretty high job satisfaction. In fact, a quick search shows concern when average nationwide job sat

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