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iterminate

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    A bunch of people will come out of the woodwork drawn to the idea of being able to immediately walk into managing a popular project, but it'll end poorly. If your project has outgr…

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    Comment #38306585

    > The irony? High end home sales require much less work/effort than low end. Far fewer showings. No open houses, ever. That's true of most work. Software engineering is much less w…

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    Comment #37990023

    Mass murder is not the natural conclusion of minor (or even major) untreated mental health issues.

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    Comment #37989760

    edit: not the place to discuss this.

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    Comment #37974338

    > Then, the next day, I can listen to the call, pause, increase speed 2x,3x, take notes for myself, write minutes, write summaries for internal use (casual slack message), notice i…

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    Comment #37956095

    > How do ownership costs get driven up by profit-making? The cost of owning a home for the average person is primarily reflected in the amount they pay for their mortgage. The cost…

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    Comment #37954711

    A mortgage. The cost of ownership only exceeds the cost of renting because ownership costs have been driven up by profit making: historically (and still today in some countries) it…

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    Comment #37954591

    Most insurance is invalidated by operating outside of the very narrow boundaries. For example, car insurance is often invalidated by driving for uber. If you're generating revenue …

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    Comment #37954574

    If the world wasn't full of landlords, people wouldn't need to use your stuff.

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    Comment #37947563

    >1,000 employees means a burn rate in the hundreds of millions per year just on the costs of having employees, $260m burned in a year sounds about right for a company of that size.…

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    Comment #37846665

    I'm generally sympathetic to the difficulties of building a sustainable business around open-source project stewardship but I'm not sure I agree with your conclusion that they were…

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    Comment #37714914

    Gell-Bott Amensia.

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    Comment #37714875

    > A confident GPT hallucination is almost indistinguishable from typical management consulting material... If you're measuring based on output, sure, but... the value of any knowle…

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    Comment #37627015

    Devices are just an interface for a lot of people, they might use dozens of devices during the period we (nerds) own a single computer. From borrowing their friends tablet, to chan…

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    Comment #37603157

    There's a temptation to get caught up on quantifiable scores when working on SEO because so much of it can't be quantified, everyone is mostly guessing what Google wants... however…

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    Comment #37576397

    I disagree with the premise of your comment but on a factual note: Russell Brand has been litigious on this very issue, he has threatened to take legal action and taken legal actio…

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    Comment #37336048

    Sorry, poor phrasing on my part. I typically make 1 monthly transfer which costs me about £100 with Wise and would cost me £3 with Atlantic Money.

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    Comment #37335998

    My company pays Wise around £100/month in transfer fees so reducing that to £3/month piques my interest but the headache I would experience if anything went wrong would cost me a l…

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    Comment #37323408

    Any metric. Pick a country with a well regarded prison system (e.g: Norway) and then compare the U.S. system on every metric to see the disparity. Injury, sickness, malnourishment,…