horsecaptin

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by horsecaptin 8y ago
Amen. Cruel and unusual is what this is.
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by horsecaptin 8y ago
It is possible to do 80 hour workweeks if: - The rest of your life is exactly where you want it to be. So, this one isn't true for 99% of the population. - You have the correct mental attitude for it. This isn't true for most of t
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by horsecaptin 8y ago
I always like to ask, "who wins?". News gets out that Russia is poisoning people critical of it. Who wins? Do they achieve their goals of silencing criticism? Obviously people think negatively of them and think twice before visiti
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by horsecaptin 8y ago
I mistyped. I meant targets a gender for employment.
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by horsecaptin 8y ago
Does this mean that any company that targets an ad to men / women only on social media platforms can be sued for discrimination?
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by horsecaptin 8y ago
I've been a member of some minority almost all my life. On more than one occasion I've been a refugee, a tourist, an immigrant, a high scoring student, the new person. My rules for success as a minority. - If you are the minority,
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by horsecaptin 8y ago
It is socially acceptable in India to hire help for cooking and cleaning. It is much less socially acceptable in India to hire help raising the kids.
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by horsecaptin 8y ago
You know it.
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by horsecaptin 8y ago
I liked Udemy until they launched the nerd ad campaign on YouTube. It made me wonder: - Is that what they think most prospective developers look and talk like? - Is that what most developers really look and talk like?
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by horsecaptin 8y ago
China is not a market. It is a very large vendor and customer with many departments. This isn't good or evil, but it may be depending on who you are and what you're willing to stand for. In a traditional market, the organizers set
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by horsecaptin 8y ago
I wonder if Braintree warned their customers that they will be changing their operations / policy and gave fair warning before flipping the switch.
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by horsecaptin 8y ago
We need this. For us to be able to compete against internet based startups around the world, we absolutely need this.
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by horsecaptin 8y ago
Thats the whole point of the a capitalist environment! Hopefully those people were paid well for their hard work and saved up enough money to retire or move onto bigger things.
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by horsecaptin 8y ago
You bet!
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by horsecaptin 8y ago
It may be as boring as the all meat diet =). Nuts, avocados vegetables, leafy greens, mushrooms, berries. Coconut and olive oils. Most of the time this manifests as: - Salad with nuts in it. Dressing is chopped cilantro, lime juice, salt an
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by horsecaptin 8y ago
I've experienced similar results on a low-carb vegan diet - no hunger, mental clarity etc.
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by horsecaptin 8y ago
Google's P/E is in the 50s, just like Microsoft. Facebook is 28. Pretty much every successful tech stock is way more expensive than Apple.
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by horsecaptin 8y ago
Why isn't their P/E higher? Are all the institutional investors maxed out on how much Apple they can buy?
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by horsecaptin 8y ago
Competition, both perceived and real increases as density goes up. We're not wired well to handle it. Especially since so many lack the deep roots to feel truly secure.
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by horsecaptin 8y ago
Well, that depends. Is the escalator located at the Embarcadero BART Station in San Francisco? Are there people shitting on the escalator? Are the escalators designed to take such an abuse? Would you like the maintenance team to do somethin
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by horsecaptin 8y ago
The judge ruled that way because people who win lotteries tend to have a lot of life threatening bad luck after they win.
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by horsecaptin 8y ago
Doesn't a Tesla have fewer parts than a conventional vehicle? If so, I'd imagine that they're simpler to fix as long as the person knows what they're doing / is willing to learn. Really cool video, btw. The message
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by horsecaptin 8y ago
Didn't Shkreli make Daraprim available for free to anyone who couldn't afford it?
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by horsecaptin 8y ago
Weren't both Slack's and Atlassian's offerings cloud-based?
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by horsecaptin 8y ago
Reading that made me look up "tuskless elephants", and I found this: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/elephants-africa-tusks-iv...
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by horsecaptin 8y ago
Many non-white men who would rather not be put in the same group as women in debate(s) about equality.
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by horsecaptin 8y ago
Do 1/3rd of Americans need to take prescription drugs on a regular basis? If that's the case then alarm bells should be going off even if they're not depression related.
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by horsecaptin 8y ago
Usually at parking spots outside businesses. Or parking areas in general - another friend's catalytic converter got stolen because he drives an SUV and the ground clearance allows for very easy cutting. In both cases, the camera footag
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by horsecaptin 8y ago
I often wish security cameras in the US were more powerful. They're terrible at identifying useful information from a crime in progress: license plates, face and clothing... the important bits are always blurry.
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by horsecaptin 8y ago
The headline is misleading. It is an opinion piece trying to promote a book. Your attempts to skim through it to find information about the new company will fail.

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