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Ask HN: Should I pass on a new job because they want me to sign a non-compete?
46 points by trentnix 6y ago|115 comments
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by trentnix 6y ago
Strangely there is always lots of talk about “profit sharing” and not “profit and loss sharing”. And I’ve never had to sign a business loan guarantee as an employee, but I’ve done so as a business owner.
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by trentnix 6y ago
Employers use the reality that someone equally talented will do it for the same wages or less. It's that simple.
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by trentnix 6y ago
If I'd said 'largely', would that have helped?
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by trentnix 6y ago
It has to. Every prescription I've read almost exclusively focuses on changing behavior. That means telling huge numbers of people - billions really - that their pursuit of wealth and convenience and modernization must be handicapped.
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by trentnix 6y ago
Pretty clearly unsustainable, isn't it?
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by trentnix 6y ago
That doesn’t make it okay to amplify that information. I’ve got no sympathy for Citi and the litany of penny-pinching that created the situation. And I loathe that their first reaction was probably to require ANOTHER layer of bureaucratic a
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by trentnix 6y ago
The executive can't do much damage if it doesn't have any money to work with.
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by trentnix 6y ago
It’s not a bug. It’s the best feature.
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by trentnix 6y ago
Yep. Like insider trading, it's a bipartisan scam.
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by trentnix 6y ago
If you want to see something just as dirty, dive into the world of book deals for politicians.
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by trentnix 6y ago
Of course she won't recuse herself. That wouldn't benefit Citadel at all. And they paid her expecting benefits.
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by trentnix 6y ago
90% – maybe 93% – of project managers, could probably disappear tomorrow to either no effect or a net gain in efficiency. Manager and sometimes dev lead here. I agree with this, but would qualify that it’s not because teams are “self-orga
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by trentnix 6y ago
How about people who scheme to deny the speech of others? That’s pretty fascist.
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by trentnix 6y ago
Well I guess that depends. Is the mayor a “Nazi”? Because they decided that was okay a few years back before they started calling everyone they don’t like a “Nazi”.
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by trentnix 6y ago
That's just a different weapon that can be aimed at the same enemy.
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by trentnix 6y ago
If it moderates the same political speech simultaneously across multiple, supposedly "independent" networks, then yeah.
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by trentnix 6y ago
Does anyone else just want to build cool s***? Or does everything under the sun need to be about furthering a social agenda?
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by trentnix 6y ago
Yep. In all the talk about privilege assigned to race or wealth, the reality is that the most beneficial privilege one can enjoy is the love, guidance, and support that comes from a two-parent home.
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by trentnix 6y ago
Or better stated, dishonesty does more harm than good.
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by trentnix 6y ago
Massive bureaucratic nightmares never act with malice, but the people get crushed all the same.
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by trentnix 6y ago
What Rolling Stone did in giving a political reporter the freedom to write about the banalities of the system was revolutionary at the time. They also allowed their writer to be a sides-taker and a rooter, which seemed natural and appropri
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by trentnix 6y ago
No bait and switch, and my experiences aren't from the boom period so take my commentary with a grain of salt. What I can tell you is that there is an immense amount of pressure from competitors and from customers to keep service price
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by trentnix 6y ago
We had our day! Business was okay, just not going to go far beyond a lifestyle business. A lifestyle business that takes away your weekends and part of every evening is a grind, so it was just time to move along. I very much learned the imp
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by trentnix 6y ago
Some in the bike industry have been asking for that very thing for years. The most common answer is, "you first".
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by trentnix 6y ago
Former bike dealer here (I've written about it briefly for anyone who might by be interested: http://www.sciencerocketry.com/blog/great-work-and-new-begin... ). You are correct that dealers have been unable to capi
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by trentnix 6y ago
So instead of recognizing your opportunity to make progress on the issue, you just enjoy watching the “other side” get poleaxed. That today’s political climate in a nutshell.
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by trentnix 6y ago
...every day of my life!
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by trentnix 6y ago
That describes my motivation for writing documentation perfectly. In my last job, I wrote documentation so I could quickly get back into the context of the different problems I was working on. Context switching was a real challenge in that
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by trentnix 6y ago
3. Simplicity Fighting complexity is a never-ending cause. Solutions should be as simple as possible. Assume the next person to maintain your code won’t be as smart as you. When you can use fewer technologies, do so. This

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