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Comment · 6 years ago
What do you mean you don't hunt and kill your own food and grow your own grain?

Businesses should absolutely have the right to not let you use their services for any arbitrary reason! It's a free market! Sucks to be you!

</ sarcasm> [Offer valid until the same thing happens to me, then I can scream and cry about it]

Comment · 6 years ago
To anyone who is seriously considering paying $250 an hour for someone who isn't guaranteeing they will deliver anything--

I will personally quit my job and sign a contract with you that clearly defines what will be delivered by what date, if you are willing to pay flat rate of $X.

You will not pay until after you accept delivery of the system.

Comment · 6 years ago
Yet again people downvoting the truth.
Comment · 6 years ago
I completely agree, that is totally a nasty risk vector!

Fortunately I am a Boeing shareholder at $139.xx per share, so any measure to cut costs and reduce bureaucracy is welcome in my book. What a world!

Comment · 6 years ago
Objectively, this is true. Whether the intent is to actually have a conference or not, the real outcome is that employees are A) in a different location and B) the trip is written off as an expense.

Objectively. It is impossible to say that this is not what is happening. It's like saying "The Sun does not shine." It absolutely does shine. We don't know what the motive was for it to shine, but objectively, it is shining.

Comment · 6 years ago
It would be very unfair for Boeing to offer 1 week per year served if you leave voluntarily, and then revoke that payment if they forcibly lay you off.

At $OLD_TECH_CORPORATION_MAKING_DATABASES, we received one week per year served after being forced out, plus an additional "free month" of pay as well.

Comment · 6 years ago
I am for a UBI. I think it should replace bureaucracy generated by all these alphabet agencies. Funding sources can all be explored.

If we dont do this, surely robots will replace most jobs.

Comment · 6 years ago
I was typing out a really long response to you with many if...then statements, but then I realized there are too many powerful agencies and institutions that don't want to give up their ability to tax/spend. Medicaid/Medicare, Social Security, IRS, all 50 states etc have defined (and flawed processes) and probably will refuse to give up control over welfare spending or tax revenue generation.

So if you can't completely start from scratch, then ultimately the only source of revenue for UBI would be to cut spending somehow (good luck convincing the Pentagon of that), or to generate additional taxation on businesses (which resulted in them moving crucial facilities to Mexico, Eastern Europe, India, China, etc)

At some point, the USA might be better off if we all have a dividend for every citizen based on our country's profit, like Alaska has currently.

This way it is not a guarantee how much you will make, but it is something.

Comment · 6 years ago
"A hypothesis that if one touches their face, they are more likely to smell themselves as well"

is an infinitely clearer title, in my opinion.

If your goal is for only 5 people to understand you and think you are cool, then it's no surprise why we have academic titles like

"Embodied intersectionality and the intersectional management of hotel labour: the everyday experiences of social differentiation in customer‐oriented work"

Comment · 6 years ago
I am a native English speaker who graduated with a 3.8 GPA in History from a world Top 30 university.

I still had to use a dictionary to understand what "subserves" means in this context.

Our language is so hilariously broken with all of the "aliasing" that is used by people who want to make themselves sound smarter.

What we should do instead is try to make sure other people can understand what we are trying to say.

Comment · 6 years ago
Lots of people use Jira for non programming related things. One of the guys who works at Jira used it to assign tasks to the family for preparation of thanksgiving dinner :)
Comment · 6 years ago
Dont worry, Valve's official statement is that everything is fine and this was already leaked and patched in 2017 :)
Comment · 6 years ago
Reverse engineer everything that is worth reverse engineering! :)
Comment · 6 years ago
Only do something for 1 minute, focusing as hard as you can.

Then take a break.

Then try for 2 minutes.

Then take a break.

Repeat until you can focus for a long time :)

Comment · 6 years ago
With regard to 2), if that's indeed how VC works, then YC just needs to fund every company. There's no need to do vetting if you are guaranteed to fund the next FB and the earnings will outweigh all operational expenditure on non-FBs.

1) People would definitely love a machine that prints gourmet food for them in their house, but it's really difficult to do that. It's so difficult that the amount of money it would take to make such a machine is pronably greater than all of the money in the world. This is what I mean by "the economy has a cap on the number of new ideas that can be funded"

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