palakchokshi

Culture is important. Having 12K employees all give an input is counter productive. I believe that's what he was referring to as naive. Companies with great culture didn't have every single employee in a grand summit providing culture input.

Can't imagine this was due to a hack of their systems. Seems more like an (ex)employee took a data dump and released it. Or it could be spear fishing.

Maybe because people subconsciously equate the % rise in wage to % rise in out of pocket expense e.g. if wages increase $4/hour (50% increase) that means the cost to buy that shirt will increase by 50%

This goes both ways.

I get emails, LinkedIn messages from recruiters and I could tell which recruiters mass emailed to candidates and used a generic template. They are probably just playing the numbers game. Since they didn't care enough to at a minimum change or add one or two sentences to make the email unique to my skill set, they didn't get far in their recruiting efforts.

I'm going to try and address each of the "negative" impacts this person states of the DOL ruling

1.In a survey we conducted internally, the cost for live-in/24-hour care doubled from $250 to $550 per day average in Los Angeles, pushing the price above a skilled nursing facility on a per day basis.

At the rate he mentions of $250 per day, hourly wages would be $10.4 for 24/7 live in care giver. So he was paying less than minimum wage in California. Let's revise that number to meet the minimum wage. It comes to $360. That number of $550 is inaccurate. The correct number is $480 (8 hours of regular pay at $15 per hour if you are in California and 16 hours of $22.5 per hour) So in California the cost went up from 360 to 480. That's a 33% increase not the over 100% increase he states.

2.Families were forced to reduce caregiver hours or fire their agency completely (and go under the table).

This seems to suggest that families were ok with exploiting the care givers even if they had to go "under the table". What kind of care givers will take less than mandated by law? Ones that can be exploited because of their immigration status?

3. Hundreds of thousands of caregivers who were unable or unwilling to be employed as W-2 workers were either removed from their families or let go by their domestic referral agency.

????what?? unable to be employed as W-2? why? Is it because they are not legally allowed to work in the country without a permit? Not willing to work as W-2?? I don't understand why someone would not want to work as a full time W-2. Are they trying to avoid paying taxes? Either ways this is a choice that the caregiver has to make. They would rather make $10.41 and hour than go to $15 or $22.5? Something doesn't smell right.

4. Seniors struggled with “continuity of care” issues as agencies started rotating multiple caregivers in and out of houses throughout the day to avoid overtime costs. This had an especially negative impact on Alzheimer’s and dementia patients.

I get this. I do. My grandmother was bedridden for 12 years and we had a live in caregiver and I know my grandmother would sometimes get confused and scared if we got a replacement when the caregiver was on vacation.

5.The additional rotations in shifts increased gas, parking and transportation costs and added a layer of complexity to scheduling.

This is a problem for the agency. This is where you can have your USP. Don't cry about it. Figure out a kick ass algorithm to reduce scheduling complexity.

6.Caregivers saw their working hours and income reduced, seniors weren’t able to get the 24/7 care they needed, and home care agencies saw a significant a decline in revenue from live-ins.

Caregivers only saw a reduction in working hours and income because agencies didn't want to pay overtime and pass the cost down to the family.

You're absolutely right. Its what the businesses are using. What's your Whatsapp number? Very interesting indeed.

Here's some anecdotal evidence of how many businesses in India are using Whatsapp as a business chat app.

1)As a notification system. Went to a tailor to get some shirts stitched. He took my Whatsapp number so he could notify when I could come in for a fitting then then for a pickup.

2)As a sales app with photos. Went to buy some clothes but they didn't have the item in the color I wanted. I was looking for a specific color. The sales guy said they had the color but not in stock. Took down my Whatsapp number and messaged me photos of the item in the color I wanted when they had it in stock. I saw the color and it was the right shade I wanted, asked him to keep my size aside so I can come buy it.

3)As an information sharing app. I wanted to buy toothpaste for my 2 year old and went to the local pharmacy. They had a toothpaste for babies but it didn't say if the toothpaste contained flouride. I said I couldn't buy it without knowing that. The pharmacist took down my Whatsapp number and told me he'll find out and let me know if that brand contained Flouride. I left to pick up groceries and in 10 minutes I had a message from the pharmacist with screenshot of the relevant information he had dug up from the company's website.

Business chat can be really helpful.

"Among the stocks she has never downgraded are Priceline, Amazon, Yahoo, and FreeMarkets--all of which have declined between 85% and 97% from their peak."

Maybe she knew what she was doing?

Same here on Chrome. I tweeted @JamesMeirowsky who is their Director of Engineering. Hopefully they'll fix it.

He paid for the 4 bedroom house in cash, paid for the aircraft, didn't have a job for some time so house expenses. I'm guessing he bought cars, etc. Every move he made probably came with expenses. Since he had to purchase houses in cash as he wouldn't have been able to get a loan.

That's what makes his claim that he was pressured to do this by some gang, seem dubious. More probable is the idea that he was the one who kept the full 1.6 million.

I wanted to walk you through my thought process regarding the right side buttons if you'll indulge me:

1. I clicked the edit button on the right to get in to edit mode. Edit button was highlighted in pink.

2. Saw the buttons on the bottom appear when I clicked a Text section.

3. Bolded some selected text by clicking the B button. B button got highlighted.

4. Clicked the B button again and text went back to normal and the highlight on the B got turned off. (At this point I'm thinking cool buttons are on/off. On state is indicated by a highlight, Off state is indicated as normal style)

5. Performed some other edits then clicked the Edit button the right since it was highlighted and based on my experience with the bottom buttons I expected clicking it again would turn off edit mode.

You don't have to make the change. I just wanted to walk through the thought process of one user.

Thanks for indulging me :)

Looks pretty good and I didn't see performance issues. From a usability perspective it's simple to use. I would suggest a couple of usability improvements.

1. The right side buttons for edit, layout, etc. have tooltips (that's great) but they should be like on/off buttons e.g. clicking layout once puts the editor in layout mode, clicking it again should bring editor out of layout mode back into preview.

2. In Edit mode the buttons on the bottom work like on/off buttons (that's great) those buttons should have tooltips.

3. Editing an image I can't put an alt value or title? How accessible is the content created by the editor?

Keep up the good work. I would use this for quick website/blog setup.

I'll try to take a stab at this.

1.Sex is not ping pong. It is much more personal and intimate. There is a reason sex in public is an offense and playing ping pong in public is not. It is not yet another way to blow off some steam. It can come with baggage. It does not belong in a professional environment like an office. Go have sex at home, at a hotel, at a friend's place or in a sex dungeon (if that's your scene).

2.Talk about sex at work with someone who doesn't mind it or infront of someone who doesn't mind it. Personally I am not interested in hearing about your bondage fetishes or your "conquests". Be respectful of other's wishes. If you talk about your sexual life or someone else's in front of people who do mind that creates an uncomfortable working environment.

3. If you say sex is allowed in the office who's to say what kind of sex allowed vs. not allowed? There are infinite fetishes from the mundane to the unbelievable. If you are saying, but well sex in office isn't going to happen in an open setting but in a closed room so what does it matter what fetish is being enacted, well then my friend don't be cheap, just rent a hotel room for those activities instead of asking your employer to provide you with a sex room to indulge your sexual needs. Next you'll ask them to provide you with "companions", after all your employer did provide that ping pong table right?

4. Now you may say well the "puritanical" attitudes of your coworkers creates an uncomfortable work environment for you so how about they conform to your social beliefs? Well you see the majority dictates the social norms. It is a fact of life whether you think it is fair or not. Till a majority's attitude towards openly LGBTQ work colleagues hadn't shifted towards acceptability, having them as colleagues was uncomfortable for people. Then the majority attitude changed and it became acceptable.

Now the LGBTQ community worked hard to change that mindset and my friend in our democracy you too have that option to change people's minds.

But till you have changed a majority's mind you are stuck with our rules. Deal with it.

I'm genuinely interested in knowing the answer to this question: What makes someone stay in a job after they've been asked to clean up a room where they found underwear and opened condom packets? Especially if the top honcho was allegedly engaged in such behavior. There is no chance the situation is going to get better no matter who you complained to. get out now!

Actually by the time full autopilot is acceptable insurance will actually go down since data will support that in full autopilot the probability of accident is lower than human driving.

Maintenance costs on an electric self driving car will actually be lower than a traditional car [1]

You are correct though that the income will have taxes applied to it.

[1] http://insideevs.com/ev-vs-ice-maintenance-the-first-100000-...

There will still be a barrier to owning a Tesla due to the upfront cost of buying one. The fact that it'll be able to pay itself off over time is immaterial to the affordability of at time of purchase.

I do think in a language but that changes based on situations too. For abstract thoughts I think in English, for planning thoughts I think in another language, etc. It is not a conscious choice, my brain somehow picks a language for thought

...for single filers

and $300,000 for joint filers

2 self driving Teslas in the garage (making money when not used) $150,000

1 power wall battery pack $7,000

1 Solar Roof $80,000

Subtract

$15,000 in Federal tax credits for both cars

$5,000 in California tax credits for both cars

30% of 80,000 = $24,000 Solar Investment tax credit

$237,000 - $44,000

Grand Total $193,000

Calculate savings

$240 per month in gas

$100-$300 per month in electricity

$1000 - $2000 earned by the cars while not used by owner (10 years into the future)

$1340 to $2540 per month

$193,000/1340 = 144 months = 12 years to recover costs

$193,000/2540 = 76 months = 6.33 years to recover costs

Take away the income from the cars

$193,000/540 = 357 months = 30 years to recover costs

If PGE gives you money for putting excess electricity into the grid then you can recover costs faster.

As a multi(poly?)lingual person I had never consciously thought of this but after going over every language I know I can see, I perceive time in distance, volume as well as sizes.

Interestingly a couple of languages I know depict time in distance as well as sizes depending on the context.

I think he missed the point about TV ad budget not moving to the likes of Netflix or Amazon. The reason it hasn't moved is not because the audience is limited but because the companies in question don't want to pollute their viewers' experience with Ads. Compare that to YouTube which is free and does have Ads.

Viewing habits are shifting but so is public opinion on Ads. The future of Ads on these internet TV sites is going to be the same as it was for traditional TV albeit a bit more targeted. Instead of TV networks controlling the viewing data in the future internet TV services will control it.

so the potential of a startup to take advantage of that data is going to be minimal since it will be guarded like gold.

What about having Ad Blockers work more like Anti Virus tools where in they let through Ads that conform to an Ad industry standard?

The post is written as if it was written in the future talking about things happening currently. See the line just below the title. Reporting from the very near post Google future.

This explains to some extent why investors might have given the company that valuation of 9 billion. If the company faked demos and portrayed results obtained on non Theranos tech as Theranos tech results, most investors can't be blamed for believing the tech worked and it was only a matter of time before all tests could be performed by the tech.

What is baffling to me is unless the data was doctored why didn't any one of the medical consultants or partners bring this up sooner? Why did it take a deposition to reveal this? I'm sure whistleblower protections would have been provided to anyone working there with this knowledge who chose to make it public.

Considering the recall seems to be proactive it puts Tesla in a positive light.

"The startup has been trying to muster a turnaround effort under the helm of new Chief Executive Officer James Beriker, the former head of recruiting company Simply Hired. He has cut jobs across the company this year to stop the bleeding."

Ironic that the former head of a recruiting company has cut jobs at Munchery

Actually a good chunk of work was actually research, marketing and sales since he didn't start on the website creation till the very end. He picked a template and modified it so that's not a lot of work either. In the end he got lucky with getting the first sale. As shown by him he was not able to replicate his initial sale. In fact now that I read it again all his sales were lucky shots. None of which he could reliably replicate as a sales strategy.

Bill Gates also lived with his parents and worked out from their garage. If this article was targeted at rich kids that want to make money on the side and don't have to worry about paying rent and buying food then sure don't worry that you are going to end up losing money in Month #1. and Month #2 and Month #6.

I actually am very interested to know if SpokenGrowth grows. I think it's a great idea. Will it become successful depends on a very specific combination of skill set and determination and persistence and having the financial means to persist.[edit] Saying "if I can do it anybody can" is not actually fair since even though you used a pen name you did bring your considerable marketing experience to promoting the idea and site.

But you see there lies the big dilemma. Great ideas are dime a dozen. The question is how big is the market for the idea and how do you reach that market and finally how do you monetize that market that results in a decent ROI. It doesn't have to be mind blowing ROI but something that generates passive income is good too.

I agree. But here's what I think would have gotten your point of "take action" across much better. At the end be honest about ROI and projections.

This is a cold calling marketing campaign you had to do to get your sales. If at the end you had actionable advice on improving conversion rate of cold calling campaigns with numbers to back it up(not anecdotal evidence) that would be very useful.

My suggestion is to track SpokenGrowth.com over a period of 3 months now that you've handed it off to someone who might not have your marketing skills. Do another post 3 months later that either proves you can make a viable business if you "just take action" or shows how hard it can be and maybe do a lessons learnt post.

I'm all for hustling to market your product or your skills. Good luck on SpokenGrowth.com