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tchalla
32,740karma·5,338submissions·November 17, 2011
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> If a driver is logged into Uber and Doordash and GrubHub on 3 phones waiting for a delivery they probably should not be accruing $17.96*3 per hour at that time. Why not? The entire shtick of Uber…
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You can address social problems with transparency in access.
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> Ships will sail around the world but the Flat Earth Society will flourish. There will continue to be wide discrepancies between price and value in the marketplace, and those who read their Graham…
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Non profit doesn’t mean no profit.
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> I believe it's because of the top-down approach to software development. The amount of waterfall in those projects is insane It's more about consensus driven decision making and waiting…
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> If we were being very pedantic, what would you say is the test of ownership? Here's the concept of ownership for private property in German Law. It's broadly defined as 1) Exclusive Rig…
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Pichai's Compensation from SEC Filing (p54) [0] is as follows - 1) Base Salary $ 2M, 2) Stock Awards $ 218M, 3) Miscellaneous $ 5.9M. The stock awards are based on Class C Google Stock Unit (GSU…
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Gig economy
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93% of deposits are uninsured according to a recent regulatory filing. So, I doubt it will be “all depositors” that would be made whole. https://twitter.com/business/status/1…
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> “Most Googlers will now share a desk with one other Googler,” the internal document stated, noting they expect employees to come in on alternate days so they're not at the same desk on the s…
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Oh yes, China/India/Brazil are “far less diversified”.
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Your comment reminds me of Steve Jobs lecture at MIT 1992. The part about consulting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c4CNB80SRc …
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The other elephant in the room is that almost every other country has done the same. Examples : Germany, US and now China. Great powers are built on imitation, then innovation. https://www.…
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Oh great another obscure abbreviation to think about.
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It’s honestly getting out of hand. It’s almost as if one requires a dictionary to communicate these days. Even though I know these abbreviations it’s just off putting.
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"I never allow myself to hold an opinion on anything that I don't know the other side's argument better than they do" ― Charlie Munger