senior_james

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by senior_james 9y ago
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 or 4 times a week. Even when I bring it to Amazon&#
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by senior_james 9y ago
"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 victory" "Xenophobic" implies that you
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by senior_james 9y ago
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.
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by senior_james 9y ago
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 even have an iphone is because the true cost is hidden th
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by senior_james 10y ago
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 people to do simple math.
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by senior_james 10y ago
"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 you basically just copy all of the info you
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by senior_james 10y ago
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 because most people would never even know if they could wr
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by senior_james 10y ago
It's funny. I said this same thing in a different thread about the US having lower happiness levels and was down votes.
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by senior_james 10y ago
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.
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by senior_james 10y ago
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 were unhappy and stressed out because in the soviet union,
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by senior_james 10y ago
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.
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by senior_james 10y ago
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 was going to finance anything we needed
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by senior_james 10y ago
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 minimal with regards to the success of the business. I usu
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by senior_james 10y ago
"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 anecdote wasn't a good example of sexism. W
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by senior_james 10y ago
It would probably be better to get a job at this point in your life.
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by senior_james 10y ago
I grew up in Detroit. I travel to LA frequently for work and the traffic is not really that bad. It's congested, but at least it moves. Adding more barriers for the poor will not help the situation.
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by senior_james 10y ago
..who do you know that would kill someone for $1000 cash?
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by senior_james 10y ago
I don't respect a site like this. Instead of getting scientists to actually willingly upload their research for free, you are just infringing on the rights of the intellectual property owners.
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by senior_james 10y ago
Open source has already started doing this to some degree. At my last few companies, we used open source projects as a base for many of our software. Instead of having to hire multiple senior level developers, all they needed to do was hir
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by senior_james 10y ago
I find it odd that when it comes to frat guys at a university and sexual assault, we immediately demonize the frat guys even if the evidence doesn't add up (The Duke Lacross team is a good example of this). However, when it comes to im
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by senior_james 10y ago
"Because the FDA restricts the importing of drugs from overseas if a version is available domestically, patients are stuck with the new, expensive version" They restrict the importing of drugs overseas because it takes around 3 bi
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by senior_james 10y ago
I think it's great that they are trying to disrupt the textbook industry. However, the industry is so large and the majority of US universities are so entrenched, it's going to be an uphill battle. There have been many startups t
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by senior_james 10y ago
"Can you reframe your first sentence based on the fact that a sign with "Death to All Jews" was used? " Yes. it's like saying someone is racist for having a picture of a racist sign in an article about racism in Am
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by senior_james 10y ago
The stunt wasn't actually anti-sematic. It was just trying to show how ridiculous the world has come to where you can pay a guy on Fiverr $5 to do pretty much anything (while it was in poor taste). To me, it just shows me how ridiculo
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by senior_james 10y ago
"There is no single US healthcare system that someone can experience first-hand. " Sure there is. There aren't that many private insurance companies in the US and they all work similarly. "I take you haven't experi
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by senior_james 10y ago
I see you have actual experience with the system. Most people commenting here seem to be parroting talking points from politicians. When I actually post my real experiences, I get down voted to -2. ....and we wonder why there are so many b
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by senior_james 10y ago
"Something like cancer, with ct scans, chemo, radiation, surgery with a 1 week hospital stay, etc...can bankrupt you." Again, I will have to disagree. Do you have any actual experience with this or are you going to just give me m
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by senior_james 10y ago
"However, all it takes is one savvy baker to recognize he or she could raise the prices just a little lower than everyone else, enough for people to start preferring their shop instead of the competition." This doesn't take t
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by senior_james 10y ago
I keep hearing that you will 'go bankrupt' with every minor health issue in the US. Do you actually live in the US? Have you used US healthcare? I pay for my own health insurance (because I own my own company) and while not chea
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by senior_james 10y ago
'hacker' has also changed meanings. There isn't much you can do about it. That's the nature of language. Copyright infringement isn't theft, it's counterfeiting. It's 100X worse because instead of just

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