kcarter80

It is unlimited if the employee is talented and good at advocating for themselves.

It isn't if they are meek or mid.

In general: it's good to let your employer know that you value your time. If you don't suck, they'll respect you more, not less.

Narrator: they didn't.

As a percentage of total water on earth, how many of the H2O molecules do you speculate came from comets or industrial processes?

Same question for the biological processes you mention.

Losing to a fire truck is hardly an indictment against a car's safety. Everything loses to a fire truck.

Contract work. I don't take contracts that aren't worth my time and my time is very valuable to me. When my clients blush at my cost, which they sometimes do, I point out that they are welcome to measure my output however they like and to cancel the contract at any time. Most new clients come from word of mouth, which of course is a position of privilege, but not that hard if you do great work.

I think you're generally right that it's difficult to find salaried positions that are properly compensated.

Could you elaborate on why it's obvious why you won't name the account?

Futures markets favor Lula 10:1. Do you have reason to doubt the herd?

OP wasn't arguing your use case doesn't exist.

They were arguing it's uncommon and requires above average competency.

You must be really looking forward to fully autonomous vehicles, then!

Thanks for replying!

> We were all massively into music at the time.

There was something consistent and unusual about your lack of exposure to this song.

I'm 41. I just asked 6 friends who are my contemporaries and each of them knew this song well. It was also, of course, extremely popular, as the link points out.

Can you introspect a bit about what may be unusual about you so that you were never exposed to this song?

I skimmed and couldn't find. Is the baud rate mentioned?

She's not trying to turn this into a career. She's just curious to understand and potentially interested in picking up a new hobby.

My dad (also 72) has been learning to play guitar lately. He's not very good, and his progress is slow, but he's thoroughly enjoying it.

Your opinion is almost universally disagreed upon by the comments in the article itself and here. Care to elaborate?

> I've seen plenty of very promising electrical and mechanical designs that might have seriously affected their market segment

Like what?

Why couldn't a potential hire be given 5 minutes to think about a solution and then be asked what their plan is? What benefit is added by 36x-ing the time allowed that justifies putting the candidate through such pain?

That is a professional network.

In blind tests it's the same for beer. And colas.

I'm not sure it does. Merlot isn't even the primary varietal in that wine.

There are plenty of tricks to make improving yourself easier. I could list dozens, especially with respect to eating, drinking, and exercising.

As for social media, I'm not aware of as many, and I'm guessing the OP isn't either, which prompted his post.

Viewing is non linear over time. Just guessing but maybe half occurs in the first week nominally.

Many websites won't function until you approve, and why did you ask your original question if you understood the denial mechanic?

Such things have been possible via the web for about a decade.

Yes, the plebs must be shielded from information we deem harmful.

Source?

Be that as it may, that doesn't make "Y!" Y Combinator.

I'm taking your lack of meaningful response as a tacit withdrawal of your criticism.

First, "Y!" is Yahoo, not Y Combinator.

Second, YC goes to great lengths to fund unusual, socially conscious, and wide eyed startups. Do you have an informed view that contradicts this widely stated goal of theirs or were you just commenting extemporaneously?

Civ 6 is deeper and better balanced than anything before it. What is your specific complaint?

I can.

I had the USB-C connector on my Pixel 3XL fail. This failure is covered under warranty. I was in Asia at the time. I asked for a replacement, but they cannot ship internationally (even if I paid for it). So I had them ship it to my dad's place, he was going to be meeting me in Thailand.

Well, they shipped it to the wrong address, and by the time it was returned to sender and they sent my dad another one, he'd already left for Thailand.

When he returned home, he mailed the replacement phone back to Google.

When I returned from Asia, I requested another replacement. Well, my account had gotten into some state where they couldn't issue a replacement. I was escalated to a higher level of tech and told to wait. I waited. And waited. 2 months past. My account was finally "fixed" but by then I'd left for a 3 month trip to Europe.

I had them ship the replacement to my mom in Chicago. Then she mailed the replacement to me in Switzerland.

An incredible hassle all around, made far worse by their very low end customer support folks. Every interaction began with a 20 minute conversation about what had happened followed by them typically saying "you're escalated to a higher tier, there's nothing we can do."

Some of the pain above could be fixed by changing their international shipping policy. But my account being in some state where they couldn't issue a new phone to me for 2 months even when I was in the US was supremely frustrating and intolerable.

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I've had another issue recently. I bought a Pixel 4XL. Google allows trade-ins of old phones, but at the time trading in a Pixel 3XL was not an option (they fully acknowledge this). So I called the next day and asked to add a trade in. Not possible. They suggested I return to sender the phone I bought to avoid the restocking fee (it was too late to cancel the order), and then place another order with a trade in. Well, that wasn't going to work because the phone was sold out.

LAME.