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by trowawee 9y ago
I'm a little frustrated at the tossed-off reference to Plato and Aristotle at the beginning - "The good life may have sufficed for Plato and Aristotle, but it is no longer enough." - because I feel like that ignores the fact
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I think he was deluded about being the Son of God, but that doesn't mean we should throw out the ethical precepts he advocated. A life lived by the major tenets espoused by Jesus in the Bible - treat other people the way you would want
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It's definitely broken. It doesn't help that a lot of the cost of hiring is born in externalities - it's difficult to measure the cost of the time spent screening and interviewing and thinking about prospects, or the cost of
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by trowawee 9y ago
Basecamp appears to be successfully managing this. If you look at their "About Us"[1] page, you see a lot of people who've been there for quite a while. Their solution appears to be: 1. Pay a lot of money: "Our target is
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by trowawee 9y ago
You still haven't actually laid out a metric showing that Medicare is inefficient; you just keep asserting it is not efficient in the face of evidence that single-payer systems are in fact pretty efficient. To add more evidence to the
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Personally, from my observations as a software engineer married to a doctor and friendly with lots of doctors, and as an occasional participant in the American healthcare system, the general inadequacy of electronic medical systems is one o
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I'm not sure where you live and you're not providing any links or statistics to back this claim up, so it's difficult for me to respond to what you're trying to claim here. If you read the link I provided, you would see
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The link I posted does suggest that economies of scale do, in fact, work for other governments, and that despite covering 100% of their population, they see significantly better efficiencies than our system does. If you're going to cla
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Actually, the first world nations that have socialized healthcare systems experience better outcomes than the United States with less per capita spending.[1] Medicare as it is currently formulated is specifically targeted towards at-risk po
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I don't think that's a particularly controversial view. Your last few sentences touch more on the issue - when you're faced with losing someone, it's very easy to say "Pull out all the stops, having [ mom | dad | gr
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by trowawee 9y ago
Well, I can’t shoot people to death and potentially get away with it at my job. If I was interviewing for a job where I literally held the power of life or death for other people, then yeah, I would probably expect some pretty strict contro
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by trowawee 9y ago
I would love to see more Bold Disrupting Entrepreneurs trying to disrupt the way that San Francisco treats poor and homeless people.
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Also a bit of a misanthrope, but I'd totally second this. I moved to Chicago from another Midwestern city that had no public transit a few years back, and I seriously sing the praises of the CTA to everyone. I have my share of gripes a
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by trowawee 9y ago
Sure, that's what I was trying to convey in the paragraph after D. That said, I think that even for a company Google's size, having those different skill sets will be useful as your business ages. Google will probably always need
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by trowawee 9y ago
I get that the response to this will be "they make $INFINITY as-is", but yes, I'd be willing to argue that they should reverse that. My basic argument would look something like: A) Writing algos on a whiteboard is not the be-
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by trowawee 9y ago
No no no, you just don't understand! Solving the issue of "how do we handle mid-month sign-ups for a service that bills monthly" is a nigh impossible problem that requires at least 40 to 50 Stanford- or MIT-trained engineers.
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by trowawee 9y ago
With the fee change, if you have a budget of, say, $15 to spend on creators on Patreon, it makes sense to split that into as few pledges as possible to minimize the number of times you pay the fees.
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Can't be a Real Silicon Valley Start-Up™ if you aren't wildly over-capitalized and constantly adding unnecessary headcount.
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Because it lets them extract a lot more cash from their users under the cover of processing fees.
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by trowawee 9y ago
Sorry, I should have worded that more precisely. I was basing it on this: https://twitter.com/wombatoverlord/status/938849760198447104 and various pieces I've read by creators. It looks like creators were ave
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by trowawee 9y ago
Well, the analyses that I'm seeing suggest they'll see about $0.05 more per pledge. So, not "no gain", but very little gain, and almost certainly some cost as patrons leave the service over the price increase.
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> If someone wants to fund a creator, they will, and the extra couple of bucks isn't going to discourage that. I'm explicitly hearing the opposite from creators on Twitter. People are already seeing patrons defecting from proje
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I mean, why wouldn't they say that in the messages they've distributed to creators and patrons, then? If that's the case, they have needlessly caused themselves a tremendous amount of public headache by being disingenuous abo
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I believe that Patreon's claim is that the bulk of that money is going to the payment processor, although that argument falls apart if they are batching your payments (which is what they currently do).
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I mean, if we can't extract money from people who are richer than God via taxation, I guess I support extracting it via their idiotic investments.
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Nope, that's a pretty dead accurate description.
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It's the only thing that makes reading stuff about us snake people bearable. And based on another thread here, I see they've already put something in that changes Generation Zed/Z into "Zolom's Children", which
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by trowawee 9y ago
Seconding this. Channels was actually shockingly easy to implement, maintain, and expand, even at a small startup with a fairly small and relatively inexperienced team.
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Huh. At my last job, we went from 1.7 to 1.11 and while it wasn't seamless, I suspect we spent about that much actual work time making upgrade-related changes/fixes (120ish person-hours) for all of those upgrades combined. We hadn
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by trowawee 9y ago
Welp. Someone has committed perjury today. https://twitter.com/kateconger/status/935584091990138881 "Russo is on the stand now. He says that Jacobs' statement about recruiting inside sources at competito

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