patejam

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by patejam 7y ago
>But I still don't know why - if this is the case - why people who are still employed/working full time, getting their regular paycheck, just working from home, would feel the need to stop whatever domestic services they had in
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by patejam 7y ago
I've had 9 in 4.5 years. 3 were from me choosing to switch teams. All others were moves within 500ft to adjust for growing teams. Why do you think it's a big deal to switch desks every 6 months or so? My company does the move for
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by patejam 7y ago
>And yet that argument is never made to justify paying line-workers more. This isn't an argument to "justify paying the leadership more". That's backwards. This is an argument to say that when you're a board memb
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by patejam 7y ago
What if you prefer to get the most money you can to the cause that you care about?
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by patejam 7y ago
That's assuming the five CEOs aren't going to go after the same $1million each. A more talented CEO might be able to bring in new streams of money. Y'all are bringing up a ton of hypotheticals that don't matter to my mai
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by patejam 7y ago
A very pessimistic view of everything! I can't say anything about your fraud or conning comments. Obviously that's bad, and I worry that you're arguing in bad faith by bringing that up. My main point is that being the leader
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by patejam 7y ago
> I see big problems with this type of arrangement - you raise ten dollars while spending five thousand on the event itself. Yet you will call this a charity event? This reminds me of when people complain about charities paying their CEO
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by patejam 7y ago
Are they over priced? They're cheaper than Sennheiser or Bose at $159. They have a value-prop of having their own, better, wireless protocol that works flawlessly with iOS. And people seem to like the form factor.
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by patejam 7y ago
One screw up isn't going to keep me away, as I've had mostly good experiences with Airbnb. Is it worth a one time screw up of $200 for my years of positive experiences? For me, yes. If the ratio of positive to negative experiences
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by patejam 7y ago
Not always. Sometimes you have to sling a tree or rock in order to rappel. Sometimes gear gets stuck and you have to move on. Sometimes you drop gear by accident.
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by patejam 7y ago
I agree with you as far as startup costs go. But your example is only if you only boulder indoors. Costs add up quickly if you want to move outdoors and want the flexibility to do a variety of climbs. You can easily have a couple thousand d
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by patejam 7y ago
I guess I just have completely different use cases. Why would I want to read Facebook messages from complete strangers? If I don't want them to be Facebook friends, then I'll give them my email.
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by patejam 7y ago
This is what friend requests are for. I don't want unsolicited messages from people. It's bad enough for me on LinkedIn, where that's the whole point.
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by patejam 7y ago
I think it's an important distinction to say that is isn't a space issue, it's a money issue.
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by patejam 7y ago
I can usually find Twinings anywhere where I am in the US. How would you rate them?
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by patejam 7y ago
I'm not sure what app it is, but I really really like the feature where you can see exactly how many groups (and their sizes) are in front of you in line. Makes it easy to decide when to start heading back to the restaurant or when to
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by patejam 7y ago
You specifically said that the "US outright ban[s]" it, which is incorrect. Private companies can change whatever they want to sell more of their product. That's not censorship, that's just knowing your target audience.
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by patejam 7y ago
So a couple things (From the US perspective): 1. Copyright, trademarks, and patents are a pretty weak argument for "censorship" IMO. But I guess I see where you're coming from. There are also many "fair-use" excepti
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by patejam 7y ago
Hypothetically would you rather have: 1. Someone making $100k who is able to bring in and distribute $3m in donations per year 2. Someone making $300k who is able to bring in and distribute $5m in donations per year There's real value
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by patejam 7y ago
Accessibility is a good reason to not like it, that's very fair. That alone puts it from my original neutral position to it being a negative overall.
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by patejam 7y ago
I'm legitimately curious. Please help me understand. Again, I don't see how its worth all the hassle and surely extra cost for Apple to push it, but really don't see how it's any worse than the previous bar.
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by patejam 7y ago
What utility did the previous bar have? Volume changing? Screen brightness? Those are better with the touchbar. Escape key for vim or whatever? Switch your caps lock with escape! You should have been doing that the whole time! The actual fu
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by patejam 7y ago
I feel like this type of job self selects for people who would totally do that. Also, disobeying orders in space has happened before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylab_controversy
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by patejam 7y ago
To be clear, I wasn't arguing either way. I was just saying that a single poster on this site is not a way to get a feel for how common an opinion was back then. Your link is a much better start. And for some reason having that opinion
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by patejam 7y ago
Ok. Why does that make their singular beliefs relevant? I'd expect the poster I was responding to to link news articles, politicians, political pundits, etc. to show it was a not a commonly held belief that he'd face such charges.
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by patejam 7y ago
Yeah using a single "celebrity" on a niche online forum to prove it was not "commonly held he would face such charges" is very strange.
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by patejam 7y ago
Who is tptacek and why should we care what they have to say?
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by patejam 7y ago
https://twitter.com/p_millerd/status/1118071182534660096 Response #1 and #3 equal ~80%. I'd count those as being able to cover it. Many people use credit cards and pay it off in full on time (including me).
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by patejam 7y ago
My point was that the 3-4x stat is also not fair. My point was that there are very few fair comparisons, and gave some examples that I think are fair statements.
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by patejam 7y ago
I never liked comparing air travel to car travel. It's just not a fair comparison. Per mile danger is the most favorable towards airlines, but you could use per-journey and then airline travel is 3-4x more dangerous than cars. The best

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