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Except you're selling a tax service, that's where the ROI comes from. There's a million expense trackers, many custom tailored to us Cannucks

And yet to a different concern about granting access to digital data the response is"what concerns do you have with sharing purchasing data?"

Naivety or purposely deflecting from the very real concerns many have and everyone should?

This is true everywhere in the sense that there's absolutely no upside to giving someone a bad references. About all you can do for someone terrible is confirm factual data and refuse to comment on any opinion based questions. The requester can't even interpret that as a negative endorsement because lots of companies only do the same thing for good candidates.

When he speaks with insider information from the company to an audience that will influence his personal position in said organization, he's not a private citizen.

I know few people who can do mental calculus, fewer who can perform the cost benefit analysis you describe and none who have the right to make that decision for everyone else, but that's exactly what happens

Apple most certainly did not invent the premium location minimalistic retail store, it's the standard template for high end fashion and boutiques globally. Look are the people behind their store team and you can see why.

Here's the rub though, what is the definition of "reasonable"? How about "record" or critically, "interaction"? Does browsing a web page allow them to build a shadow profile under the guise of recording an interaction?

Funny enough, the thing you object to is usually the one thing explicitly spelled out in ToS that they are allowed to do with your information

Socially I'm pretty liberal but the idea of providing free hard drugs to addicts is really hard to accept intuitively, despite a lot of evidence that it works best at a macro level.

It's also not a clean win. Open a safe injection site and crime and public disobedience goes up in the immediate community. So maybe society is better off, but your neighborhood is substantially worse off. Or you visit the emergency room with a serious but deemed non-life threatening condition and wait 6 hours because all the EMTs are coming in with fentanyl overdoses. These are hard problems that are charged with emotion. You can strongly disagree with prohibitionists, but it's not fair to entirely discount their viewpoint

Well in jurisdictions more likely to legalize any or all drugs they seem to have more social safety nets like Medicare. Drug users across the board use more resources so it makes sense to me to tax the hell out of it, be it tobacco, alcohol or marijuana

How about "a team of skilled developers is likely to be successful with any software development approach; an inexperienced or untalented team is doomed regardless of the chosen methodology"

After 20 years that's been my experience

GitHub != git

If you're just burying your waste at the beach you making it worse than if you just left it lying there

Why do you expect a child to learn a logical lesson that millions of adults don't understand?

Well, i went to the local arcade with my 9 year old last weekend. It is fully licensed, has games where you drop a ball (at a cost of about 2 bucks) to win tickets ranging in value from 10 to 500 points and redeem them for prizes like candy and video game themed toys.

I'd say that's stigma-free.

Maybe so, but it now enables global reach at the speed of light. You can't argue that the danger from a stick of dynamite is the same as the danger from a nuclear bomb. You might not care about the difference if you're standing next to it, but they are bit the same thing

You're basically saying that well done propaganda doesn't work then, which is patently false.

Watching polarizing YouTube videos isn't going to flip a bit, but constant exposure to a single perspective constantly reinforced is certainly going to influence your formation of beliefs. That's exactly what YouTube does with their recommendation system

Well life expectancy depending on variations is well past 80, especially once you make it into your late 60's and i don't imagine much of the working public wants to be heading into work Monday morning at that age, so yes - it is reasonable to assume life expectancy will outpace retirement for several decades.

>> are you instantly granted all rights to health care if you retire to another nation?

Yes, those rights being the sole right to purchase health care. Which can be very good if you have money and doesn't exist if you do not.

This is kind of like asking what would you do to make a donkey more like a zebra?

You can paint some stripes on it but it's still a donkey. They are fundamentally different creatures.

You can instill some startup practices at a bigco, just like a start up can benefit from some organization and structure, but they are not variations of the same beast

Having done both i wouldn't categorize the work you do at a startup as glamorous. A lot of the jobs and tasks you'd never be asked to do at bigco become the responsibility of everyone at a startup out of necessity, not efficiency or choice. Things like covering a support phone, or training users or marathon sales trips.

Not if you care what classes you take. Lots (most?) of the higher level year 3/4 courses are not taught in the summer in my experience (three different unis and i did my masters course work year round). You can pick up the more generic courses or a breadth requirement though.

First step would be to provide direction to your loved ones upon your passing.

This isn't necessarily the fault of the funeral home. It's a much the traditional and society pressure that says this is what you do when you die.

Aside: How come airlines give you a bereavement discount while a caterer doesn't?

Nothing stopping your family from a simple cremation and open tab at your favorite social spot for a couple of hours of celebration

Or a picnic...

Or a concert with your favorite local bands ...

Or a bike/hike into the mountains to scatter your ashes...

Etc. The point is you don't have to have a funeral service followed by internment in the ground. We've just been trained this is "the right thing to do".

My dad always (only half joking) says his dying wish is to have the last cheque he writes bounce.

do you have a SO or kids? I ask because my experience is this doesn't work as well when you move past single responsibility. It tends (a) reduce discretionary time and (b) push it earlier or later

That's pretty revisionist as to the actual reality. The vast majority where incredibly overvalued internet plays on traditional markets, exactly what the gp warns. You just picked one of the few that survived and thrived. Don't overestimate how inevitable it was that we ended up with the Amazon we see today.

The biggest difference I see this time is these unicorns have actual revenue. Heavily subsidized but revenue still. Last time we had monster companies that didn't even show that given 2 dollars they could make 1, so progress?

I agree with you, and this was my initial response when i started reading the post.

VCs also get far more information about the company and can demand way more control. How many employees of a startup get a board seat, even if you're non-founder employee #1?

Even those diversified portfolios aren't going to have huge returns in most cases.

I think the lesson is that if your value proposition is exchanging your skills and time for money (ie, an employee) you can't parlay that into startup style returns without essentially winning the lottery. If you can pick the next unicorn for employment purposes don't waste your talents on actually being an employee

Sounds like what you long for are the halcyon days of luxury air travel. The problem was it was not much more comfortable and far more dangerous, Plus took way longer

Ok, but you can't argue that talking in vague generalities is wrong because of one extreme outlier. Sure there's variance, but what does the distribution look like?

That's how good managers should be measured though, by the success of their charges

Meritocracies are better, but even there they generally still manage to some degree by the ass-in-seats proxy.

You can also work to eliminate politics to force a market-based outcome, but it's probably less work to get better at the political game.