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bshoemaker··on Have the record number of investors in the stock market lost their minds?
If you think you have an investment that will do better in terms of climate change than the general stock market, I'm all ears
bshoemaker··on Germany flips to Apple-Google approach on smartphone contact tracing
That's a really passive aggressive way to build what you think is right... Have some backbone and learn to defend your perspective directly.
bshoemaker··on Handbook of Covid-19 Prevention and Treatment from Hospital with 0% fatality [pdf]
What is lung clearance?
bshoemaker··on Gates Foundation program will issue home testing kits for Covid 19 in Seattle
Our government is led by idiots, this is the result
bshoemaker··on Reasons not to become famous
Yep. This seems like the obvious one to me.
bshoemaker··on An erroneous paper on religion and generosity is retracted
Fun to see all these software engineers criticizing scientists for a bug in their code
bshoemaker··on An erroneous paper on religion and generosity is retracted
I think you're looking for the word rigor
bshoemaker··on Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B
If you have to write code for this stuff 90% of people won't be able to analyze things, and 90% of analyses won't happen because they won't be worth the time.
bshoemaker··on Why aren’t more companies remote-first?
I've never worked on a team that actually works well together, that worked from home more than 1 day a week. It's much, much more difficult to stay on the same page and in sync.
bshoemaker··on Ask HN: Best Passive Income Method?
Save aggressively, invest in index funds. This is by far the most reliable, simple, profitable strategy you can implement.
bshoemaker··on Ask HN: Best Passive Income Method?
Save aggressively, invest in index funds, and watch your money grow passively.
bshoemaker··on Sony's Deal with Microsoft Blindsided Its Own PlayStation Team
It honestly shocks me the degree to which some software developers are able to live with a complete lack of self-awareness. Developers absolutely rant about product managers giving any sort of technical feedback, and yet they're perfectly willing to act as if they should be included in corporate level business strategy.

I don't mean all software developers, but it's a common refrain on this forum.

bshoemaker··on Sony's Deal with Microsoft Blindsided Its Own PlayStation Team
Lol yeah the developers build the thing and the business people run the business
bshoemaker··on Jack Dorsey Is Gwyneth Paltrow for Silicon Valley
Reminds me of Tom Brady's TB12 idiocy
bshoemaker··on Want to Stop Fake News? Pay for the Real Thing
You do understand that the people laid off at Buzzfeed were not the people at the Buzzfeed media side of the house, they were actual reporters on the Buzzfeed news side?
bshoemaker··on Product-building articles by PMs at major tech companies
You sound insufferable
bshoemaker··on The US spends more on healthcare for no gain says new report from Johns Hopkins
Because it covers millions more, while spending less. Is this difficult to understand?
bshoemaker··on The Phone That’s Failing Apple: iPhone XR
Oh wow, the best unlock mechanism. What a feature!
bshoemaker··on The latest on Messages, Allo, Duo and Hangouts
Perfect example of the organization (different product teams) dictating the product
bshoemaker··on Jason Fung explains why intermittent fasting diets work
This comment has very little to do with the comment above it, which makes the point that weight is dictated by net calories, with very few exceptions.
bshoemaker··on Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They’re Not
The US is not a developing country, it's the most wealthy country in the world. This comparison does not seem useful.
bshoemaker··on The open-plan office is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea
Ah yes, Google & Facebook et. al. really seem to be minimizing their costs by spending hundreds of thousands per developer on salary and millions upon millions in toys and perks.

What world are you living in?

bshoemaker··on Founder to CEO: How to build a great company from the ground up
No, they're really not. You've probably worked at a company with an American culture, in Japan.
bshoemaker··on Palantir Wins $876M U.S. Army Contract
Corruption at its finest
bshoemaker··on Lyft says nearly 250K of its passengers ditched a personal car in 2017
Using Uber and Lyft as a primary form of transportation being cheaper than an affordable car... I doubt it.
bshoemaker··on White House Looks at Replacing Social Security Numbers
What would you have a private company do, exactly? Like many after this recent Equifax disaster, I've thought about taking some action - but I'm pretty unclear on what that would mean exactly. What private solution could address this? What product would help?
bshoemaker··on Reduce your startup's payroll taxes through the new Federal R&D Tax Credit
This is categorically wrong. HN sure loves a contrarian comment, even if it's completely incorrect
bshoemaker··on Metadata is the real data
Are there any companies that sell something like privacy as a service? It seems sorely needed that someone work on this
bshoemaker··on When did porn become sex ed?
Too late
bshoemaker··on Google AdWords Switching to 4 Ads on Top, None on Sidebar
Yep. It's trivially easy to buy on your own branded keywords (your relevancy is unmatched) and very cheap. Sure, you'll cannibalize some of your organic traffic, but the risk of a competitor advertising on your keywords is too great
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