youngButEager

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by youngButEager 10y ago
You underestimate things. Is Tokyo a destination city? Yes. Total urban population? 38 million people. I don't think you realize how attractive a beautiful city really is to the people of our planet. While I'd agree that 38 mill
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by youngButEager 10y ago
The east coast of the USA was settled first, recall. What did they do back east to 'solve' this problem of "we're running out of space"? They increased the density of occupants per unit of land -- they built UPWAR
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by youngButEager 10y ago
Maybe this type of FB behavior will finally kill that awful web site. Sites like this have become a 'punitive tease' -- it's hard to know when the rug will be pulled out from under you, yet you're lured into using it bec
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by youngButEager 10y ago
No. No error. Pot smokers make bad decisions MUCH more frequently than sober non-users. I am in a position to observe that -- lots of non-users and a few users, at our properties It doesn't matter if 100,000 non-experienced people tel
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by youngButEager 10y ago
'DGAF' is not always evident in the short time we meet, interact with a new tenant. Unlike a job interview process (several stages of contact: phone, in person several times, etc.) it's not practical for landlords to spend t
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by youngButEager 10y ago
Imagine showing vacant apartments to prospective renters since 1993 -- for 23 years. Lots of units, lots of prospective tenants. In 1993 I had no pool of 'before move-in/after move-in' experience with tenants. 23 years on, I
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by youngButEager 10y ago
INSIGHT: Being in a position to observe the behavior of users -- MANY users -- over a period of time, and non-users in the same settings. Most of you probably don't have that experience. - Parents do. Ask parents "how did your ki
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by youngButEager 10y ago
Money. Money as motivator. Was building hardware devices for musical pursuits (guitar effects) and my 1st degree was in EE. You can graduate with an EE degree, having taken a course or two or three in basic programming but it falls out of
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by youngButEager 10y ago
Easy to buy a condo in Silicon Valley on an Engineer's salary. For as little as $350,000 you can have your own place. If you're a first time buyer you can come in with 10% down; an engineer can easily save up $35,000 not long aft
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by youngButEager 10y ago
No it's actually true, and everyone knew from the context I meant commerce monopolies in capitalist economies, such as Microsoft, IBM (in the early days of computers you apparently could get fired for writing a P.O. for a non-IBM mac
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by youngButEager 10y ago
Arrogance from a seller of a good or service alienates/pisses off their customers. SCENE: You walk into a large retail TV/tech/stereo store. There are monitors displaying ads. NOT in a ubiquitous way; in an annoying ubiquitou
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by youngButEager 10y ago
The Feds are probably furious. Replacing the U.S. currency is seen as a threat; any and all alternative types of 'medium of exchange' have been ruthlessly attacked/shut down by the Feds. They could step in and appeal this j
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by youngButEager 10y ago
Here's an interview question I might pose to candidates (for a coding job): "Which torrent site with access to popular songs and movies over the past 5 years has been the best, meaning the one you use most?" My candidate resp
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by youngButEager 10y ago
GOOD RIDDANCE. The example of Zuckerberg stealing the idea for Facebook and getting rich has contributed to the foolish belief that it's okay to "enjoy the benefit of something that was SUPPOSED to be paid for -- and NOT PAYING&q
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by youngButEager 10y ago
The problem with calling out 'jerks, bozos and assholes' is contextual -- social norms/what works in NYC is quite different from small-town Indiana for example. Two ways to handle someone you think is being a 'jerk/
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by youngButEager 10y ago
This is a WHISTLE BLOWER situation. First identify who is trying to persecute the whistleblower. There, you've found the party that has committed untoward acts who is now trying to SILENCE THE WHISTLEBLOWER/CHANGE THE SUBJECT. I w
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by youngButEager 10y ago
Assange hints that the leaks may be from the DNC itself. Recall that a DNC insider, Seth Rich, who worked on exposing election fraud during the Democratic party's primaries was murdered several days ago. There are undoubtedly others i
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by youngButEager 10y ago
I know the founder, Marcus Weller. I've had business dealings with him at the time Skully was just an idea, in the very formative stages. I wanted to tell him "look dude, anything hardware-related will be copied in China like tom
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by youngButEager 10y ago
Not sure what point you're making. I did read the article. There's no getting around history. The reasons are very complex but the facts are this: in our current period, the distribution of creativity/problem solving/
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by youngButEager 10y ago
Edward Snowden was the source of leaks exposing the massive and illegal snooping on U.S. citizens by our government. The vast majority of U.S. citizens did not focus anger on the leaker -- only the exposed facts mattered. It really doesn&#x
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by youngButEager 10y ago
Ignoring genetic dispositions and innate traits because they're socially 'inconvenient' is foolish. Assume for a moment that all humans have the exact same innate, instinctive traits and tendencies. Same degree of curiosity,
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by youngButEager 10y ago
The very interesting thing is the degree of denial - of ANY negative side effect -- of using pot among any user. The vast majority of smokers would laugh it off if they were told "there's a notable correlation between suicide and
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by youngButEager 10y ago
Why didn't Tesla build its largest-in-the-industry battery factory here? Why did Toyota move out? "Business relocation expert Joe Vranich has been counting. “I tracked for 2011, that 254 companies of all sizes and shapes and kinds
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by youngButEager 10y ago
Actually, no, you're 100% wrong -- dangerously wrong. Failure to follow the law has consequences. My point is that, simply. "Getting a benefit that is legally required to be paid for AND NOT PAYING" is stealing. Staying out
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by youngButEager 10y ago
The Left has not helped Silicon Valley much. 1) ageism -- once you hit 40-45yo, you're done. Take a survey of the ages of the people at your company for evidence. Most engineers in their 20s; some in their 30s; almost none in their 40
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by youngButEager 10y ago
You often need permission, then pay royalties, to copyright holders. That is the theft. In cases where you enjoy then distribute the copyrighted works of someone without their permission and avoid paying them the required royalties -- you
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by youngButEager 10y ago
You can try but you'll never be able to rationalize stealing from someone. Especially when you use someone(s) else's actions to try to justify stealing from them. You folks are young. If you're lucky enough to learn some of
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by youngButEager 10y ago
"Do you have a legal right to distribute this content?" "No." "Do you respect the people who spent their personal time and their money to make the content you distribute?" "Yes of course." "No yo
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by youngButEager 10y ago
$50 million burn rate per month? Time to go public! That president broke a cardinal rule of VC-backed startups -- never reveal your numbers. Although some do, admittedly. But at that rate of burn, it's pretty surprising he got approv
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by youngButEager 10y ago
H1B story. I was contracting as a middleware software engineer a while back. They posted job descriptions for two senior-level programmers, both positions requiring Masters degrees. These two 'job opening' announcements were plac

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