wintogreen74

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by wintogreen74 3y ago
I think VRBO shows you the full cost for your visit (not in the nightly rate though!) while AirBnB shows you some subtotal presented as as the total cost, then when you start clicking through you get the "real" total cost. By that
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
>> You still have the mechanical resistance of turning the rotor, Isn't this exactly what regenerative braking is? There's no mechanical disconnect between the wheels and the motor (i.e. a clutch) so pushing the car essentia
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
How many headsets do you have to sell to make an impression against 32B though? Even the most optimistic sales guesses put total sales at < 5B over their entire lifetime. That's probably only a few hundred million this year, if that
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
Indeed. Revenue should be flat or go down after layoffs, not up.
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
I personally hate this train of thought. It sounds identical to the "all great things originally looked like toys" and then this gets twisted to the invalid conclusion that "all toys will eventually be great". His logic
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
A company the size of Alphabet "shedding" 5-10K employees is a notable but still minor adjustment in the grand scheme of things.
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
Disregarding the biological aspects, I think the problem is "families" don't care about people, it's a group of individuals who, through deeply caring about each other, create this thing we've labelled a family. I&#
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
>> on the company campus That part seems fireable IMO (or the getting caught part)
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
So the same people who fight change they interpret as pushing "woke" culture also believe they have a right to never be exposed to criticism or negative comments against anything with which they identify?
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
Sorry eh, but that's actually how we talk ya hoser.
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
and sun, and it's BIG
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
maybe any given interview is harder for a technical IC, but IME you go through a far more rigorous process for senior management.
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
"At Shopify, our approach to product reviews is different. " Ah yes, apparently the only thing every single company I've ever worked for has in common is that each and every one is a special snowflake. From his perspective: t
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
Yes, and our opioid situation is just super, nothing to see here!
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
>> Of all the shitty enterprise software vendors, there is no platform I hate more than ServiceNow. Forget about their enterprise software, the very premise of the function they support is the thing I hate most. The software, the comp
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
Ah yes, the Coast Guard will police the police!
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
Not a review site, but networks of people I trust directly is about the only thing that works. As soon as this grows beyond the trust I have in the network, the proxy trust tapers off quickly. That's the problem with something like gla
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
>> Walker said he wrote a letter to Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez early Thursday morning to inform him and his team of the decision. The fact that this is being lead by the Minister of Heritage should tell you how little
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
The funny part to me is that they assume this journey to uber-efficient utilization of labour will be super... efficient? How many decades will it take us to unlock the potential of all this displaced BS work?
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
They come up with a hypothesis like "Every hour of labor shaved off a job by AI gets converted to an hour at the highest value measure". Then they produce very complicated spreadsheets that show how many hours will be saved and mu
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
probably no eggs, which is what holds the oil and water together
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
>> when I'm in a rush but want a great meal that is affordable, fast, and can match my daily nutritional needs. Huh. My experience with McDonald's: never met daily nutritional needs, no longer affordable and struggling to be
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
I think his experience with tipping is actually pretty realistic of one (extreme) half of the total picture though: a waiter in a shitty restaurant running tourists through as quickly as possible, getting paid less than minimum wage with ti
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
>> by building generational wealth in the hope of ensuring a better life for their kids and grandkids You could make a better life for your kids, and a lot more people, without building "generational wealth". The alternative
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
What if an alternative was to make $70M or $7M a year without giving up anything? I know more companies that do turn down the crazy homerun deals and pursue the modest, yet still wildly profitable, ones on their own terms. We just don'
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
To build on your Pepsi example: I could probably sell a chew toy that looked like a bottle of Pepsi with my "Pupsi" look-alike logo and the Rogers Test could be applied, but if I trademarked (officially or via branding) the Pupsi
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
>> Can we comfortably use it for 8+ hours a day? With 2 hours of battery life this is not a problem.
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
Why would you seek to change the US vs. relocating your person to The Netherlands though? They're both impactful and costly, but the former is almost impossible while the latter well within the abilities of a motivated actor.
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
plus this conveniently pairs with "we don't need to regulate current models, but future models... oh boy do those need to be regulated!"
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
Really? Even after saying this? "While Sam is calling for regulation of future models, he didn’t think existing models were dangerous and thought it would be a big mistake to regulate or ban them."

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