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aaxe··on Beware the Man of Many Studies
Useful in this context: https://examine.com/guides/how-to-read-a-study/
aaxe··on My Stripe Tax Story
> and don't verify regularly

I think that's it really - you need to have checks and balances on all things (including yourself imo as the boss).

Personally I would not want to be double-checking receipts every day (and with 100 employees, the volume is likely significant), but if he enjoys it, that's all that matters eh!

aaxe··on Trapped in Silicon Valley’s hidden caste system
What a stupid choice.

BJP is literally diametrically opposed to Muslims. There may be a lot of shit Mullahs, but at least some care.

aaxe··on My Stripe Tax Story
> Your employees are not going to idly look through logs to see if everything is running smoothly when they are done with their tasks

Because that's a job!

aaxe··on My Stripe Tax Story
Your dad sounds awesome.

If your dad loves the work, okay cool. But your effective implication is you cannot have anyone else do this, which is obviously absurd because there are companies much much larger than either of ours that pull it off.

The key point is not "the owner has to do it", it's someone has to be held responsible for this.

For smaller businesses, it's likely the owner. For someone like your dad's, it's usually someone else. Even a solid bookkeeping system would have picked up what OP missed.

> you develop a sixth sense for problems

100% agreed, but for the owner/operator it's usually all things, but for the person who is responsible, it's usually a lot more of the minutiae.

It's literally impossible to be the master of all things.

aaxe··on My Stripe Tax Story
> he sits down at his computer every night at home, logs into the ERP system, and reviews sales and receipts

Sorry, what?

How is this OK or even normalized - he should not have to check every single receipt every night. You hire people to do that, and if they cannot do it right, you hire someone else.

As OP mentioned, it wasn't a gradual thing, and when you have a lot of customers, it can easily slip through. Even your father would be the same here - if a few people who should have been charged a recurring bill did not, how would he remember that?

> Every good business owner does it.

Absolutely not. Every good business owner gets someone to take care of it, and then double checks their work at times.

aaxe··on Trapped in Silicon Valley’s hidden caste system
People are so obsessed over this mythos of the "more deserving" person being pushed down cuz he's white/upper cast/<insert dominant group of people> and yet if you still look at most people in power, it's still that same fucking dominant group in charge, just maybe not AS dominant as before.

There was a reddit thread that went super viral right after the SuperBowl (with zero data) about "demographics of people in the tv ads vs US demographics", and everyone was obsessing over how black people were vastly overrepresented versus their demographics... and STILL white people were also over-represented.

Don't kid yourself that just because you hear (or even experience) anecdotes of people belonging to the dominant group being "discriminated" against that it's the norm.

Simple - go try applying for jobs with a white-sounding versus a black-sounding name and see what happens.

And btw, this is literally what CRT is, and actual experts and academics have shown over and over and over again that the political systems are tilted against the non-dominant groups, even with the boogeyman of affirmative action.

aaxe··on Trapped in Silicon Valley’s hidden caste system
This is equivalent to a really poor white person saying "nah man, them blacks don't have it any harder."
aaxe··on Trapped in Silicon Valley’s hidden caste system
Jesus christ, it's 2022 and you're legitimately arguing that BJP is helpful towards Muslims.
aaxe··on Trapped in Silicon Valley’s hidden caste system
Because you're getting the elite of the elite.

I don't understand how this is still such a difficult concept for people.

aaxe··on Google’s New Business Profile: When Search Becomes a Political Tool
Lets say it was more level than it was today.
aaxe··on Google’s New Business Profile: When Search Becomes a Political Tool
Uhhh - that was because of the people at the top, not the employees there.

Hell, the USPS was going to mail everyone masks but someone nixxed that idea.

aaxe··on Is Type 2 Diabetes Reversible at Scale?
Don't trust this guy: https://www.wired.com/story/how-a-dollar40-million-nutrition...
aaxe··on Counting Calories Is Not the Key to Weight Loss, New Study Finds
Actually if anything this study DID show calories mattered.

Here's a full in-depth analysis, including a Q&A with the lead author and graphing each individual's weight loss and gain: https://examine.com/nutrition/low-fat-vs-low-carb-for-weight...

aaxe··on Supplements are a $30B racket
Examine.com is the truth.
aaxe··on 12 month study finds that low-fat vs. low-carb does not matter for weight loss
Notable:

  12 months
  600+ people
  Tested insulin levels
  Tested genotypes
  Tested body composition
  22 nutrition counseling sessions
  Focused on real world application
aaxe··on Ask HN: Where to get reliable information on nutrition/health?
www.Examine.com, slam dunk.

The deeper analytical stuff by NYTimes and NHS is strong too.

aaxe··on Ask HN: Where to get reliable information on nutrition/health?
Hear hear.
aaxe··on Soylent Closes $50M Series B Round Led by GV
Examine.com absolutely gives study quality, impact factor, etc consideration.

Perhaps your superficial look was the problem.

aaxe··on Kalzumeus Software Year in Review 2016
You realize that teaching is a different skillset?

Mind you, I'd wager 95% of people trying to teach have zero previous experience, much less on-going experience.

If you wanna go after Amy, you're being foolhardy.

aaxe··on Let’s make peer review scientific
www.Examine.com does a great job analyzing nutrition/supplements studies.
aaxe··on The sugar conspiracy: sugar—not fat—is the greatest danger to our health
No no no no no

God damn. This is a perfect example of how a little knowledge is dangerous.

1. Artificial sweeteners do NOT cause insulin to be released. 2. On that note, insulin is a storage hormone. That is it. It is not a fat-hormone. You know what's one of the few hormones that almost all bodybuilders take? Insulin - because it makes their muscles grow.

You get fat because your intake of calories is excessive, regardless of whether its done via carbs or fats.

aaxe··on Show HN: LogDNA – Easy logging in the cloud
It's just a company name...
aaxe··on Yelp Posts Q4 Loss, CFO Resigns
A great read before people get on the "Yelp removes bad reviews if you pay" bandwagon: http://screenwerk.com/2016/02/02/reviews-rashomon-plumber-re...
aaxe··on Yelp Posts Q4 Loss, CFO Resigns
I call bullshit: http://screenwerk.com/2016/02/02/reviews-rashomon-plumber-re...
aaxe··on Why do people put on differing amounts of weight?
Did you just compare holding your breath for 30m to not eating?

Fail.

aaxe··on Ways to start eating insects
You're sound like a conspiracy theorist.

Attack the data if you have a problem.

aaxe··on The Evidence Supports Artificial Sweeteners Over Sugar
Crazy that they advertise their own stuff. They should start growing money trees in their backyard like the rest of us.
aaxe··on The Evidence Supports Artificial Sweeteners Over Sugar
Why don't you trust Examine.com?
aaxe··on Fish Oil Claims Not Supported by Research
> The study a couple of years ago that linked fish-oil (natural and supplemental) to a 41% increase in prostate cancer / 71% increase in aggressive prostate cancer

You mean http://examine.com/blog/fish-oil-and-your-prostate/ ?

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