refriedbeans3

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by refriedbeans3 10y ago
I work from home, live in SF, travel often, and make more here than anywhere else and put more away even with insane prices. But I also sell software development services, so not really a better place to be. Even if I didn't, I would n
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by refriedbeans3 10y ago
There's no innate human right to freedom of movement within other societies. Humans are individuals, individuals form into groups, and those groups when large and cohesive enough form into societies, civilizations, and now nation state
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by refriedbeans3 10y ago
I didn't say only admit people that are already running large companies, though those are welcome as well. I said "on the path to 100m in 5 years" That could be $0 through year 1-3, but it would be wholly different if that co
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by refriedbeans3 10y ago
I don't disagree with many of your points, but I think perhaps what is missing is perspective. Playing a bit of devil's advocate: > I think that what's lacking in the american system is the recognition of "normal&quot
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by refriedbeans3 10y ago
Should just turn on "do not disturb" and set it up to let important people's phone numbers through to you.
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by refriedbeans3 10y ago
Or writing code for a fortune 100 company. Or designing interfaces for some of the most iconic software and hardware companies. Most of these centers are creating jobs - but not high paying, technical jobs. Support and cost center staffing
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by refriedbeans3 10y ago
Carry your own food and enough batteries to last to the destination. Or have a hot swap battery bot like a military jet re-fueler. No stopping at all! In all seriousness, I'm not saying there won't be stop offs and rest stops (bec
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by refriedbeans3 10y ago
What if I offered you $5,000 to fix it?
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by refriedbeans3 10y ago
bye felicia. lower rents for all!
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by refriedbeans3 10y ago
That's it?
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by refriedbeans3 10y ago
Great points. Also important to note, that Uber does a few things exceptionally well that most other "Uber for X" companies fail with at least one or more: 1) Dramatically increase convenience / quality of service 2) Lower or
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by refriedbeans3 10y ago
That Austin drop is staggering. And interesting to note that Dallas (?!) has 2x the venture investment that Austin does. Detroit had slightly more in Q1. Crazy.
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by refriedbeans3 10y ago
In theory, this could alleviate some of the issues you are seeing in SF, but in practice this is not something many tech companies founded here would do. Most new tech companies are being started by people already working in the industry, a
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by refriedbeans3 11y ago
Not so much the 'middle class', more like top ~15% of people.
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by refriedbeans3 11y ago
It already is happening. So many graduates see the higher level of skill they have and the joke of a salary that adjuncts make and 'nope-ing' out into industry. Academia is going to starve itself of it's best performers by
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by refriedbeans3 11y ago
An assistant professor is a full time position. An adjunct is like the contractor/part time version of an assistant professor. The result is that adjuncts typically teach at multiple institutions, for example an R1 research university,
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by refriedbeans3 11y ago
That deal has been heavily touted as a terrible deal for square for years. As such was priced into the IPO price as well as the current valuation. That is basically the only bad deal you can point to that they are in.
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by refriedbeans3 11y ago
570,000 paying customers.
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by refriedbeans3 11y ago
What made you decide to purchase YouTube Red? How much YouTube content do you watch?
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by refriedbeans3 11y ago
Right - he makes that point in the article that it went well with the Germans and Irish, but it doesn't mean it would go well with mass immigration from China, India, or the Middle East. Impossible to prove without doing it, but valid
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by refriedbeans3 11y ago
Trying to compete with that $5 Raspberry Pi
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by refriedbeans3 11y ago
Smart read with some perspective on immigration from a scientist studying historical migration and immigration to the United States. Couple of take aways: > "The United States has experienced much higher immigration rates than at pr
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by refriedbeans3 11y ago
Nope
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by refriedbeans3 11y ago
"...the company had bookings of $2.2 billion, double the level one year ago. The company also generated $340 million in revenue in the third quarter, according to the Journal. The home rental company last raised money in April 2014 at
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by refriedbeans3 11y ago
Troll of the Week Award: Donald Trump.
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by refriedbeans3 11y ago
Side effect of this is that Mailbox was the first to support out of the box notifications on my Apple Watch + gmail accounts. Apple mail doesn't monitor/push emails from Gmail so you don't get notified on the watch.
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by refriedbeans3 11y ago
Would be great if they Dropbox opensourced Mailbox's codebase. I don't want to have to go back to apple mail...