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bmmayer1

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About bmmayer1

Co-Founder + CEO, Automated Industries [automatedindustries.ai] Co-Founder + Board, Ukraine Aid International [ukraineaidinternational.org]

Previously: VP, Performance Marketing & Operations at DailyPay, VP Product & Analytics at WayUp (W15 Acquired 2021), Sr. Director of Analytics at ZipRecruiter (IPO 2021), Product @StyleSeat, Ustream (Acquired IBM 2016), 2x founder (midVentures/TechWeek and ReservationHop/OK Shift). Will be top result when you Google "Most Hated Man in San Francisco" (though now I just live in Miami).

Travel junkie and amateur keyboardist and songwriter.

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    Who would you give the Nobel Peace Prize to?

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    Doesn't Mauna Loa spew CO2 by the metric ton on a regular basis? Why is that vantage point the best source of atmospheric CO2 ppm?

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    This is incredible -- serious question -- has anything of this scale been done in the US or Europe? Do we even have the technology?

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    Doesn't the MTA pay $2.95 billion per mile of new track?

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    Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. We need smarter policies not blaming employees for doing what they need to do to work around them.

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    This seems like a silly solution to a silly problem. If you're tracking your employees' performance based on actual business metrics, who cares how many times their mouse jiggles i…

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    And the third. I'm a UChicago alum and my premed friends were always complaining about having to compete against beneficiaries of Ivy League grade inflation.

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    It's one banana, Michael. What could it cost? 10 dollars?

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    Until this moment I had no earthly idea you could join a Zoom call from a browser. Good on them for their evil genius design team :-p

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    It's amazing that this solution has not been considered more openly and widely until now. It's cheaper, more effective, and doesn't require draconian regulations or near-impossible…

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    I assumed OP was talking about seeing crimes as a percentage of crime opportunities, whereas overall crime counts on a per capita basis might mask that people spend less time outdo…

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    "Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?"

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    Opening a new browser tab and forgetting what I was going to do in that tab is a very frequent phenomenon for me.

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    Brilliant early work from Bourdain that (I believe) launched his career, which was tragically cut short. Just last month, I feasted on bun cha next to the table in Hanoi where Obam…

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    By comparison, what % of humanities majors are working in humanities-related jobs? That would seem to be an important comparator that is excluded.

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    No reviews so far. Weird.

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    The right billionaire / fringe group / clandestine evil organization could do something interesting with Bir Tiwal, the largest expanse of unclaimed land in the world.[0] [0] https…

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    Airbus can outsource to US firms as well as Boeing can. Boeing and its shareholders deserve to lose business and market share.