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by wojt_eu 9y ago
The main point is that Amazon's advantage is exposing divisions to external competition. Without it "internal supplier gets complacent with a captive, internal customer." However later paragraph says: > The key advantage t
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by wojt_eu 9y ago
“If you go back to 1960 or thereabouts, corporate taxes were about 4 percent of G.D.P.,” Mr. Buffett said. “I mean, they bounced around some. And now, they’re about 2 percent of G.D.P.” By contrast, he said, while tax rates have fallen as a
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Warren Buffett says health care costs are a bigger problem than corporate taxes(nytimes.com)
249 points by wojt_eu 9y ago|336 comments
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by wojt_eu 9y ago
Half an hour meeting with 8 developers takes 4 developer hours. This is often enough to give manager a pause.
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by wojt_eu 10y ago
Curl should be split into micro-services.
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Don’t accelerate your startup(m.signalvnoise.com)
8 points by wojt_eu 10y ago|1 comments
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by wojt_eu 10y ago
When email comes delayed (with invalid token) can you white-list that particular sender? You'd then request another sign-in email that comes promptly this time.
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by wojt_eu 10y ago
I take breaks for hands-on training in between contracts or sometimes in the middle, on average it's been three 1-week breaks a year. Besides that it's just 15 minutes of technical blogs before work and maybe two hours with a tech
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by wojt_eu 10y ago
Introspection and mindfulness. Learning how my mental state and well-being affects my productivity. "Practicing Mindfulness: An Introduction to Meditation" [0] was very helpful even though I don't practice meditation. [0] ht
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by wojt_eu 10y ago
In the mean time coal power plants kill more people than Chernobyl disaster every year . "A United Nations study estimates the final total of premature deaths associated with the disaster will be around 4000, mostly from an estimated
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by wojt_eu 10y ago
Especially when the competitors on Kickstarter are demoralized by learning about competing product already entering market and starting incremental updates.
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by wojt_eu 10y ago
I usually hear about villages forming militias rather than hiring professional security. It would be interesting to read examples of primitive governments formed like that.
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by wojt_eu 10y ago
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bs-detector/dlcgke...
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by wojt_eu 10y ago
Just make sure to blog about it and you can file this time under "marketing". A touch of geekiness looks good on a résumé as long as it does not smell of elitism.
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by wojt_eu 10y ago
Did you mean ALAP (as long as possible)? My 4s became really sluggish after upgrade to (I think) iOS 7. I wonder at which point I should stop upgrading iPhone 7 to extend its life a bit.
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by wojt_eu 10y ago
I've read a couple of Seth's books couple years ago. I felt they are all like a great blog posts inflated to size a short book. But maybe going on about one idea for two hundred pages makes some sense, it made it really sink in fo
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by wojt_eu 10y ago
Seth Godin wrote a book on the subject https://www.amazon.com/Dip-Little-Book-Teaches-Stick/dp/1591...
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by wojt_eu 10y ago
Or was that open-plan office?
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by wojt_eu 10y ago
Then I believe such a "team building" activity should count towards working hours total.
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by wojt_eu 10y ago
So can construction workers on the other side of the street.
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by wojt_eu 10y ago
Personal anecdote: I've experienced worrying about finishing project so that my two employees would still have a job next month and so that people who invested their personal savings in the project would get at least most of it back. I
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by wojt_eu 10y ago
As a result a book about Computer Science would be pre-emptively shipped to a warehouse near SV and investment book about economy and shipped near NY.
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by wojt_eu 10y ago
Personally when facing decision between highways, local roads and other means of transportation I almost always have a specific destination in mind. Accidents per mile is the statistic I want. Accidents per hour of driving would be more use
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by wojt_eu 10y ago
Ah, I missed "before".
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by wojt_eu 10y ago
As a 18-old Polander I was absolutely thrilled to work part-time for a US company. In hindsight, it was also much more valuable for me than academic education I pursued later. I would be offended if someone called this child labour and atte
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by wojt_eu 10y ago
Vim or NeoVIM?
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Ople Favor Naturals Over Strivers – Even Though They Say Otherwise(hbr.org)
1 points by wojt_eu 10y ago|0 comments
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by wojt_eu 10y ago
Anecdote: I have logged 3700 hours on oDesk (before they merged with Elance into Upwork) for about 20 clients. About half of that was for two biggest clients. I think there's power distribution in play. While browsing Ruby on Rails job
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by wojt_eu 10y ago
Yeah one corporate client of mine has paid oDesk's[1] $3000 "disintermediation fee" just so that we could switch to working directly on their standard vendor contract with wire transfers and invoices. [1] before oDesk and Ela
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by wojt_eu 10y ago
I think it could work out well for them. It'll certainly reduce number of small projects (e.g. install WP plugin) which Upwork makes less money from. I might still consider using Upwork for small projects if I think they have a good ch

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