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It really depends on the situation. If you are getting a company started, you will need to work long hours until it's stable. But after this, it shouldn't be your normal schedule.

"but what Trump is doing is something new and very dangerous." The mainstream press was not just partisan, they colluded with Hillary Clinton to destroy all of her political enemie…

"aggressive tech code reviews/debates/arguments/chat where young males love to beat their chest" You mean passionate engineers and developers discussing ways of getting the job don…

Drug prices are high because of government regulation. It can take up to a billion dollars and decades to get FDA approval and drug companies only have a limited time to recoup the…

This could lead to CEOs that make decisions to make people happy and get elected, rather than for the good of the company. These are sometimes two different things.

It's a real problem. I have been buying and selling used products from Amazon to other marketplaces for the last 8 years. I used to get counterfeits once a month. Now, I get them 3…

The only reason we are seeing this influx of Electoral college articles is because people are unhappy with the outcome. When Obama was elected, nobody cared. If the system was brok…

If it was murder or embezzlement? Yes. Most employers don't really care about drug charges.

This is Nintendo's strategy: intentionally have a shortage of Switches, the desire grows exponential because there is something about wanting to have something exclusive. People ge…

"Killing abortion providers or bombing a clinic explicitly in the name of some version of Christianity are examples of Christian terrorism" I can think of this happening once or tw…

Islam is not a race. Also, an act of terror by someone that just happens to be Christian is completely different than an act by someone doing it in the name of a religion, like Isl…

"After months of media hype about what would happen if a xenophobic extremist like Wilders won the election, it’s not surprising that any other outcome was so quickly heralded as a…

It's really not 'no fault of his'. There are ways to stop it from auto-starting. I even have an app that kills my torrent application if it doesn't detect my VPN.

I think the title should be reversed. Apple has always been for consumers with more money. It is only now making segmented phones that everyone can buy. The only reason many people…

Like I said, the downside is that most people are lazy and will just fill out the form and send it in because they don't want to deal with it or think about it. You can't get most …

"The 1040EZ is supposed to take 7 hours" Huh? I've had my business for a few years, but I did my 1040EZ by hand many times. It took at most, 3 hours. Most people have one job and y…

The government would actually love this. Most people are ignorant of tax laws and would just sign a piece of paper to get all of their taxes done. It would be an instant pay raise …

It's funny. I said this same thing in a different thread about the US having lower happiness levels and was down votes.

Y Combinator is based on merit. If there is a diversity problem, it's because there aren't enough people applying and we need to find out why.

Most of the time, people that have more freedom are less happy. I remember stories I heard about people moving from Soviet Russia to the United States back in the early 80s. They w…

It's pretty unrealistic to expect a job without a manger. I also hate being managed. My solution? I started my own company 10 years ago and have been running it ever since.

I've been interested in running my own business since I was 20 (I'm 37 now). When I was in my early 20s, I was the developer in a partnership. My partner was the 'ideas' guy and wa…

I'm a developer and have helped bootstrap a couple of SaaS. The problem is that in most partnerships like this, the other person can usually only offer ideas or something very mini…

"Still, it was a reminder that as a woman in tech, she should be prepared to have her authority questioned at any moment, even by some guy trying to get a job at her company." This…

It would probably be better to get a job at this point in your life.