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What do you mean you don't hunt and kill your own food and grow your own grain?

Businesses should absolutely have the right to not let you use their services for any arbitrary reason! It's a free market! Sucks to be you!

</ sarcasm> ［Offer valid until the same thing happens to me, then I can scream and cry about it］

To anyone who is seriously considering paying $250 an hour for someone who isn't guaranteeing they will deliver anything--

I will personally quit my job and sign a contract with you that clearly defines what will be delivered by what date, if you are willing to pay flat rate of $X.

You will not pay until after you accept delivery of the system.

Yet again people downvoting the truth.

I completely agree, that is totally a nasty risk vector!

Fortunately I am a Boeing shareholder at $139.xx per share, so any measure to cut costs and reduce bureaucracy is welcome in my book. What a world!

Objectively, this is true. Whether the intent is to actually have a conference or not, the real outcome is that employees are A) in a different location and B) the trip is written off as an expense.

Objectively. It is impossible to say that this is not what is happening. It's like saying "The Sun does not shine." It absolutely does shine. We don't know what the motive was for it to shine, but objectively, it is shining.

It would be very unfair for Boeing to offer 1 week per year served if you leave voluntarily, and then revoke that payment if they forcibly lay you off.

At $OLD_TECH_CORPORATION_MAKING_DATABASES, we received one week per year served after being forced out, plus an additional "free month" of pay as well.

I am for a UBI. I think it should replace bureaucracy generated by all these alphabet agencies. Funding sources can all be explored.

If we dont do this, surely robots will replace most jobs.

I was typing out a really long response to you with many if...then statements, but then I realized there are too many powerful agencies and institutions that don't want to give up their ability to tax/spend. Medicaid/Medicare, Social Security, IRS, all 50 states etc have defined (and flawed processes) and probably will refuse to give up control over welfare spending or tax revenue generation.

So if you can't completely start from scratch, then ultimately the only source of revenue for UBI would be to cut spending somehow (good luck convincing the Pentagon of that), or to generate additional taxation on businesses (which resulted in them moving crucial facilities to Mexico, Eastern Europe, India, China, etc)

At some point, the USA might be better off if we all have a dividend for every citizen based on our country's profit, like Alaska has currently.

This way it is not a guarantee how much you will make, but it is something.

"A hypothesis that if one touches their face, they are more likely to smell themselves as well"

is an infinitely clearer title, in my opinion.

If your goal is for only 5 people to understand you and think you are cool, then it's no surprise why we have academic titles like

"Embodied intersectionality and the intersectional management of hotel labour: the everyday experiences of social differentiation in customer‐oriented work"

I am a native English speaker who graduated with a 3.8 GPA in History from a world Top 30 university.

I still had to use a dictionary to understand what "subserves" means in this context.

Our language is so hilariously broken with all of the "aliasing" that is used by people who want to make themselves sound smarter.

What we should do instead is try to make sure other people can understand what we are trying to say.

Lots of people use Jira for non programming related things. One of the guys who works at Jira used it to assign tasks to the family for preparation of thanksgiving dinner :)

Dont worry, Valve's official statement is that everything is fine and this was already leaked and patched in 2017 :)

Reverse engineer everything that is worth reverse engineering! :)

Only do something for 1 minute, focusing as hard as you can.

Then take a break.

Then try for 2 minutes.

Then take a break.

Repeat until you can focus for a long time :)

With regard to 2), if that's indeed how VC works, then YC just needs to fund every company. There's no need to do vetting if you are guaranteed to fund the next FB and the earnings will outweigh all operational expenditure on non-FBs.

1) People would definitely love a machine that prints gourmet food for them in their house, but it's really difficult to do that. It's so difficult that the amount of money it would take to make such a machine is pronably greater than all of the money in the world. This is what I mean by "the economy has a cap on the number of new ideas that can be funded"

I completely agree. But I am curious as to why the economy only allows a certain number of winners. As in, why do 90% fail?

Additionally, if you fund 100% of companies equally, if 1 becomes FB and 99 become nothing, dont the winnings from FB pay for the losses of the 99?

``` “In addition, processing hundreds of follow-on rounds per year has created significant operational complexities for YC that we did not anticipate. Said simply, investing in every round for every YC company requires more capital than we want to raise and manage. We always tell startups to stay small and manage their budgets carefully. In this instance, we failed to follow our own advice.” ```

Is picking winners difficult? Or is it that the economy has a hard cap on how many winners will occur every year?

I was in Sun's Hardware division if that makes it any more or less satisfying for you ^.^

I ain't neva sold a database license in my life!

Likewise at Oracle. Over 250k taken from me over the years. On the screen one day and off it the next.

For my specific workflow, Notepad++ and UnrealEd. Mastering bsp is a really fun skill to have and for the most part UnrealEd is intuitive with some practice.

There cannot simultaneously be a surplus of COBOL developers and a shortage of COBOL developers.

Well, supposedly there could be one in the Midwest and one in NJ, but theoretically those who do not have a job in the Midwest would be motivated to move, since their only options are:

A) Remain jobless in Midwest.

B) Switch careers in Midwest.

C) Move to NJ for immediately available position.

The bigger question is why does a COBOL dev accept work for 60k when they could make 120k in Javascript?

>immediately cough into their hand, touch door knob, then someone else touches door knob and then their face

Ah yes so the single men's bathroom at my office of 250 people!

It sounds like it's just a way for the Navy to blow taxpayer money.

Look at how our government managed a virus. Now imagine WW3.

Are the same pieces of meat involved?

Lots of grocery store meat that you buy "fresh" was killed x number of days ago.

If a dog eats raw meat within a few hours of it being killed, it's a big difference.

How did I come to this opinion? Try freezing a super market steak a few days before the "expiration date." Then unfreeze it a few days after the expiration date.

You'll notice a rancid smell immediately upon cooking.

Not exactly, if they just so happen to be spending a lot of money on purchases of ad-space, or advertising services.

For example, just one marketing VP with a salary of $120,000 could have an advertising spend budget of a few million.

But in Yelp's specific case, they do have a ton of sales/customer service people who most definitely are among the first to go, along with engineers who are working on projects that are not related to keeping the website from 404ing

My condolences to all those laid off.

May their talents be put to better use immediately!

Just apply. There is no penalty for applying. If you want work, they definitely will at least talk to you.

Almost every town has some code that says you can't do that.

Or the house is already built, and tearing it down to make a brick one is $$$ plus permit maybe will be denied.

And most homebuilding companies only use wood.

HAH this has been my experience as well. And the system often times out even when the main screen is "accessible".

As a former waiter turned programmer, I genuinely hope we find more ways to make more programmers, even if it is at the expense of having less waiters.

Life is simply better in every way.