> “I would have a neighborhood with little 1920s, ‘30s and ‘40s single-family homes look like Dubai 10 years later,” Koretz said. yeah, well, that would be a shame, except of course that the homeowners will have each…
i'm not really sure that follows. i'm 35, and grew up in the 80s and 90s. i also wasn't 'allowed' to do a lot of things, but did them anyway along with my friends, and endured the consequences, simply because there was…
people only get backed into corners (i.e., exclusivity, compelled actions, or some kind of limitation on funding, bad pricing) when they're desperate. protip: never be desperate. easier said than done, sort of like…
nice guess, but it's the owners who pick up the slack, i.e. me and my partners. we don't have junior people on the payroll i.e. people who would be frequently on call. second, we manage run-of-the-mill web applications,…
here, i'll tell you why you're getting downvoted. the problem with what you're saying is you can apply it to literally any price point. in other words, it's a meaningless statement. $100 or $10 are certainly cheap, but…
> Employees are sellers of labor so are most employers.
> Business owners deal constantly with people who want more: suppliers, competitors, regulators, the tax man, employees, spouses, kids, brothers-in-law this rings true in my experience. i own a successful small…
> So who has the best human expertise is irrelevant. i agree, there's no way on earth any chinese firm could have the best shoe-making robot plant in 20 years. we all know chinese people aren't smart enough for that.
we're a small managed private+public cloud services provider and we only have 2 full time operations engineers to support 30+ client companies. we also have a handful of consultants that do specialized work, working a…
how about: in the year 2036, the chinese are just better at making shoes than anyone else, because they've been doing it for 60 years? why is this so difficult for you to imagine? i mean, i'm pretty sure i know why, but…
the same goes for real life stuff that you don't use on a daily or weekly basis. just get rid of it if you haven't used it in a year.
> The problem is the paycheck. Do I want to risk it all, throw away my savings, all for a chance at success? here's something nobody seems to mention. most people don't risk everything once, then exit with a…
that's a management consultant, and the reason they're hired is to provide cover and credibility for both management and your technology team. i.e., "the expensive consultant said it was okay, so don't fire anyone in…
"pshhh, name calling and social ostracization? you non-white people should be happy to even be in this country. at least it's not lynching. sack up."
> a lot (but not all) of my asian dude friends had a bad time with dating for instance i was mainly talking about raising existing families, but yeah, this is true also. basically if you're not in the top 5-10%…
well then, how about you tell everyone where you grew up, so you can actually help someone out with some data? because that's certainly the exception, and not the rule.
look dude. in america, if you aren't white, living in a place where it's 90% white is really, really, really unpleasant. people basically treat you like human garbage on a daily basis. this has a massive effect on your…
> their worst experiences of in-your-face, constant racial/ethnic discrimination and tension in the US are almost always in the Midwest i'm asian american. here's what life is like somewhere other than maybe 3 or 4…
> “I would have a neighborhood with little 1920s, ‘30s and ‘40s single-family homes look like Dubai 10 years later,” Koretz said. yeah, well, that would be a shame, except of course that the homeowners will have each…
i'm not really sure that follows. i'm 35, and grew up in the 80s and 90s. i also wasn't 'allowed' to do a lot of things, but did them anyway along with my friends, and endured the consequences, simply because there was…
people only get backed into corners (i.e., exclusivity, compelled actions, or some kind of limitation on funding, bad pricing) when they're desperate. protip: never be desperate. easier said than done, sort of like…
nice guess, but it's the owners who pick up the slack, i.e. me and my partners. we don't have junior people on the payroll i.e. people who would be frequently on call. second, we manage run-of-the-mill web applications,…
here, i'll tell you why you're getting downvoted. the problem with what you're saying is you can apply it to literally any price point. in other words, it's a meaningless statement. $100 or $10 are certainly cheap, but…
> Employees are sellers of labor so are most employers.
> Business owners deal constantly with people who want more: suppliers, competitors, regulators, the tax man, employees, spouses, kids, brothers-in-law this rings true in my experience. i own a successful small…
> So who has the best human expertise is irrelevant. i agree, there's no way on earth any chinese firm could have the best shoe-making robot plant in 20 years. we all know chinese people aren't smart enough for that.
we're a small managed private+public cloud services provider and we only have 2 full time operations engineers to support 30+ client companies. we also have a handful of consultants that do specialized work, working a…
how about: in the year 2036, the chinese are just better at making shoes than anyone else, because they've been doing it for 60 years? why is this so difficult for you to imagine? i mean, i'm pretty sure i know why, but…
the same goes for real life stuff that you don't use on a daily or weekly basis. just get rid of it if you haven't used it in a year.
> The problem is the paycheck. Do I want to risk it all, throw away my savings, all for a chance at success? here's something nobody seems to mention. most people don't risk everything once, then exit with a…
that's a management consultant, and the reason they're hired is to provide cover and credibility for both management and your technology team. i.e., "the expensive consultant said it was okay, so don't fire anyone in…
"pshhh, name calling and social ostracization? you non-white people should be happy to even be in this country. at least it's not lynching. sack up."
> a lot (but not all) of my asian dude friends had a bad time with dating for instance i was mainly talking about raising existing families, but yeah, this is true also. basically if you're not in the top 5-10%…
well then, how about you tell everyone where you grew up, so you can actually help someone out with some data? because that's certainly the exception, and not the rule.
look dude. in america, if you aren't white, living in a place where it's 90% white is really, really, really unpleasant. people basically treat you like human garbage on a daily basis. this has a massive effect on your…
> their worst experiences of in-your-face, constant racial/ethnic discrimination and tension in the US are almost always in the Midwest i'm asian american. here's what life is like somewhere other than maybe 3 or 4…