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> They'd gain control over the market

what you described is a loss of control. business is hard.

the problem is brain drain. asia does "send their best" because the US only accepts the best from asia. having oceans between you allows you to be picky.

> I'll literally flip a coin or use a random generator.

this is also a good trick to find out what you actually want, which reveals itself when a choice is made for you.

a good small business/early startup is basically #1 and #3, and none of #2.

unfortunately, it is a _whole_ lot more work and a _whole_ lot more stress, and is thus the road less traveled.

i doubt it. i think america is just huge, and that they can't responsibly expand too fast.

remember, ikea is expanding globally. on my last vacation, i saw an ikea identical to the one by my house in california, in southern germany. that's really sort of unprecedented at the scale of an ikea store.

a bunch of stranger-animals in a room together can be hilarious fun though.

serious q: isn't transmission unregulated during emergency situations?

so is your apprehension because of sql server on linux, or because of docker, or because of the combination of the two? this post is snarky but lacks real information.

i'll provide the alternative point of view here.

i know broke people who just surf or hang out all day and they sure seem happy.

i also know rich people on a mission in life, and they are very unhappy, or will constantly find something to be unhappy about, so the net effect is just never being happy.

i knew plenty of non-alpha types in frats. lots of fairly nerdy guys, in fact. it's more about coming from a wealthy family that recognizes the value in such things.

very few people played a college-level sport and were in frats, for example.

there are plenty of rich, workaholic, yuppie addicts. professional drive is oftentimes counterbalanced with substance abuse.

makes me wonder what kind of crazy bubble you grew up in. what a strange belief to have.

take the money and run.

i agree with this. as i've gotten older i've become a morning person, usually starting around 6, but sometimes earlier. you can easily belt out 4-5 hours of real work before lunch time, and then take a leisurely lunch/walk/coffee, and do administrative / non-intense tasks in the early afternoon, leaving a relaxed afternoon and evening to do real life things.

and, when a true emergency pops up, it's rare, and it doesn't trigger your stress/frustration response.

well sure, you can falsify my statement by simply not classifying anything as racism. i think the gleeful enthusiasm shown by people relentlessly china-bashing is telling, especially since they seem to do it all the time, as if they've found a loophole to freely express their hatred.

if nothing else it's a great little vehicle for racists to hop onto guilt-free.

i don't know about the 'real' journalists either.

after having done marketing for my own company, i just expect that anything that makes it onto a screen and into my attention span has an agenda and special interest behind it, spending money to make it visible.

literally nothing you see is unbiased, not even personal blogs. i think this is the most valuable takeaway from the 2016 election.

> China is playing a long game

the majority of people in the west, the US especially, thinks all china does is make cheap walmart crap. it's perfectly fine to say horrible, racist things about the chinese. nobody seems to care.

what's really happening is the chinese government runs the show and facilitates the dumping of cheap stuff into the west to manage expectations/anxiety about their rise, and to fund the real manufacturing and mineral extraction empire. if your competition doesn't take you seriously, that's a net asset, not a liability.

"All warfare is based on deception."

> If Coke ... had research 50 years ago that showed the link between their products and diabetes and then funded misinformation and contradictory research for the following decades

do you honestly believe this isn't the case? where do you think low fat marketing and all of the insanely bad public health fallout came from? it's bought and paid for by the sugar industry.

having said that, no, i don't think we should sue them, what's the point of that? people like eating crap and medical care is still privatized.

> board for beginners professionals alike.

might want to notify your customer they have a typo in the first paragraph of their website

> Acrivastine doesn't really have any sedative effect at all

no, but benadryl does. which is exactly what the op said, and op doesn't live in your country. in fact, most people don't live in your country.

this isn't a question of being less literal, it's a question of building a search taxonomy and synonym database and tuning it for relevance, in this case, in the restaurants vertical.

this is something a lot of people don't realize about search engines i.e. yelp, angie's, etc. - they are tuned to fit the humans to the data, not vice versa.

i agree. hover a geo map and have an easy 'hide this' button to hit that will remove the entry and take you back to the timemap.

choosing where to go for lunch will be a flash.

judging by the uptake of new CS grads, they are willing to put in the time and money to train people who are already proven to be in the upper 10% of intelligence.

the problem is, aptitude for technical skills is, to say the least, not uniformly distributed in the population. it's not like factory work. in addition to programming and sysadmin/devops, this includes stuff like CNC and auto technician/mechanics and electricians and plumbers.

if they were to take un-degreed un-proven people and try to train them in tech work, probably 99% of them would drop out.

have you ever seen a college CS weeder course? it's not pretty. imagine that, except with not even the luxury of a college acceptance filter. so why in the world do that, when there's a perfectly good feeder system of experienced proven workers and proven college grads?

In the US, yes, it is.

people from the ivy league run the US, so it's prestigious in the US. people from oxford and cambridge run the UK, so it's prestigious in the commonwealth. it's really not any more complicated than that.

they're already doing it, so this isn't much of a 'what if'. the problem is that money is kept offshore and never spent, because it's at risk of getting taxed immediately upon repatriation.

for what it's worth, OSH seems to be the happy medium for me.

> they've found another way to achieve it

there are literally thousands of technology companies you have never, ever, ever heard of, in the < $100 million revenue range. those are run by smart technical people who do not play nicely with others (i.e. wouldn't last an HOUR at google, even if they COULD get through the interview, which many couldn't, because FAMG interviewing process sucks), but are competent and rich.

who do you think is buying all your cloud computing services?

you're being pretty unreasonable. he took a look at the body of evidence, including statements from the company itself, did some follow-up (i doubt the specifics actually matter), and got a really bad feeling about it. the technical term for this is 'spidey sense'. also 'bad juju'. or 'his bullshit detector went off'.

what if the answer you're looking for is, "he called up someone at mizuho, went and got a beer, and the guy let it slip that that gox is broke."

then what? hmm? haha what are you going to do about that? that's how the vast majority of insider information (note i didn't say insider trading) is passed. are you going to replicate that the next time around on a specific asset that's about to crash, or a specific company that's going to go insolvent? good luck, friend. this is how the world works; you clearly were not in on it, none of us were, that's why a bunch of people were left holding their dicks in one hand and an empty wallet in the other (i don't deal in bitcoin because i'm too dumb to comprehend it, but i saw the carnage online).

at the end of the day he believed something differently than most. it's not any more complicated than that. that's how people generally make a bunch of money, or in this case, prevent from losing a bunch of money.

also, he lived or lives in japan and speaks japanese, so that's probably going to be the major hurdle for you to grasp his process - he has a lot more day to day context of how all this stuff works in that country. unless of course, you live there too, in which case, that's even worse for you. sorry pal.

i agree that the dependencies are probably unavoidable and probably a net good but... well... just don't forget the system and network security best practices while you quickly put together that project, especially if it's in a public cloud.

btw you should be making $6000 + $1000 or so a month for at least a couple of years doing that, not $6000 a single time. the total lifetime value of setting up an application should be above $30k, hopefully way above, but at the entry level where you are that's a nice healthy number to shoot for.

we bill our total customer base over $6000 a day for this kind of work and it all starts with 'assembling a job' but certainly doesn't end there, or ever (hopefully). good luck buddy!

well i would have mentioned all the german cuisine in the south but we wouldn't want to remind everyone of that pesky nazi situation, would we?

it's tough seeing your country analyzed by an outsider. here, i'll do the same thing with my home country, america.

americans primarily eat cheap feedlot-produced beef and chicken, often in the form of fast food such as mcdonalds. the majority of beverages consumed are alcoholic or laden with sugar.

in the south, most of the cuisine is largely modernized slave food and plantation food. cigarettes and rum are, or were until recently, consumed in large quantities, made from sugar and tobacco which was the backbone of the slave economy in the gulf/caribbean region.

there is also an emphasis on quantity, with people oftentimes eating or serving more to a person than they can actually eat in a single meal. people frequently take the remainder to go, although many force themselves to finish.

unfortunately, americans' entertainment culture revolves around watching tv so the effects of overeating are compounded and result in epidemic levels of obesity and diabetes and other metabolic diseases.

is this true? is this biased? does this apply to berkeley, ca as well as it does to dallas, texas?

this doesn't describe me as an american, yet it's undoubtedly true, uncomfortable, and critical as it may be.

the truth hurts.