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Does the delta between lowering the cost of labor (assuming people will work for the lower wage) cover the tax increase? Labor, in the service industry, is already handled like a v…

Playing devil's advocate, what happens to businesses in the presence of an even higher regulatory and tax environment and what will the impact of increased taxes be on employment a…

I managed >1TB Postgres installs using not-fancy tools and we did just fine. The How: Installing databases was pretty easy. We wrote DDLs for our databases and created shell script…

This is my biggest gripe with the modern technology industry. We've gone from "you have the background and skills to do the work - here's how we do what we do" to "You don't check …

Playing devil's advocate, could this also be a means by which Amazon increases their influence in the book selling world by decreasing the value of the title of "best selling" auth…

Speaking from personal experience, I think a lot of them end up in the boat of having just enough paying customers that the idea looks viable but not getting enough long term tract…

I'm going to respectfully disagree with you here and argue that understanding some facets of psychology (perhaps wrapped in a broader definition of people skills) are essential to …

Yes! Best way to keep up with blogs and websites I like, especially ones that don't update very often, and avoid a lot of the cruft that can make the websites themselves hard to us…

A couple of questions I've found helpful when talking to startups are as follows: 1) What is the funding situation like - specifically, how much capital is available, is any of it …

Right now it's being used to build out the Air Defense Identification Zone they claimed over the south china sea a couple years ago and back up their claim with the threat of shoot…

As with all other Forward Operating Bases (FOB), it will face the same challenges as any island during conflict. If you can exhaust the island's supplies and constrict replenishmen…

It's the same strategy the Japanese tried using in WWII to turn islands into stationary aircraft carriers. So long as you can keep them resupplied, it works to a certain degree. Th…

It's unfortunately common that once you're salaried, your compensation is capped at $X/yr for 40hr/week of work but it's reasonable for managers to demand extra hours above the 40 …

They're growing rent until they hit the breaking point that no one will pay. Many of the families in my metro area are 2-parent working families and many of the big corp positions …

As always, it depends. Speaking anecdotally, most of the millennials I know speak rather forcefully about their desire to not settle down, marry, or begin a family prior to 30. I c…

Perhaps, I haven't fully explored that option and it would make sense since the investor's money will be tied up longer. However, paying down principal quickly reduces total cost o…

The basic premise behind that idea is rents are (historically were) cheaper than a mortgage so you could take the mortgage-rent delta, invest that, and generate a return greater th…

30 year mortgages make the monthly payment smaller, which reduces the monthly cost of housing, BUT you end up paying more interest since you aren't paying principal off as fast whi…

That's the way my recent home buying friends look at it. They know they'll be in this metro area for X years and given most landlords raise rents by 3-5%+ in this area depending on…

The American VC market has been saturated and everyone with a spare dollar has been throwing cash into the market trying to find the next Google/Facebook/Twitter. A lot of institut…

Frankly, I don't even look at them at all. Snacks are a nice-to-have and shouldn't be a selling perk and a 1x week team lunch can be a good way to build morale and camaraderie in t…

Lets look at it from an evolution of technology angle. 10-15 years ago we had pain points with web apps and making them more fully featured/responsive and dealing with things break…

First off, relax. You want to be there, they want you to be there. You're already "in". Working relationships will begin to develop naturally in the first couple of months as you g…

Apple Maps, in many ways, is more usable than Google Maps when it comes to directions / heads up on turns and such. Unfortunately, it's still missing a glaring feature for me where…

That is the one hiccup I foresee happening. The best current workaround I could think of would be to setup your datastore as a micro service the other parts of the app could intera…