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rashomon | 6 years ago | on: Alexis Ohanian speaks out against “always-on” work culture

It might also be that maybe he can be selective with the type of companies he funds. Ones that may not be "moon shot" ideas or require an upheaval of an industry. 99/100 companies who think they will unicorn, will not.

He's just choosing not to head for those avenues of founders.

rashomon | 6 years ago | on: “Users want control” is a shoulder shrug

I do think there is more of a feeling of attachment to the machinery with manual transmissions.

Germany is a huge exporter of precision-engineering so there might be a cultural sentiment there.

rashomon | 7 years ago | on: How Spotify and Discover Weekly Earn Me $400/month

In reality, albums were always so artificial. They were either filled with crap fillers, silly interludes or were just pawned off by the record company as a need to sell units.

Singles is where the heart of the artist lie.

rashomon | 7 years ago | on: Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankings and Pressuring Employees

It's the same business model as the Better Business Bureau and Yelp. It's a manufactured perspective.

As a devil's advocate, how can a company expect to be viewed impartially if the only folks who review them have tempers raged enough to motivate them to leave a poor review in the first place? How can I, a potential employee, trust said-reviewer wasn't let go due to Silo'd mismanagement, personal issues or a company pivoting?

I'd rather a platform that lays out exactly what the working conditions would be for most folks. Time in/out of office, salary merit increases or profit-sharing, draconian work-attire policy, etc.

rashomon | 7 years ago | on: Sears has another chance to avoid closing down

So the whole mechanism to these bonuses is for the banks/investors to keep the executives around long enough to not lose the institutional knowledge and to keep the company heading in a general direction during the bankruptcy chartering.

rashomon | 7 years ago | on: VirtualBox 6.0 released

> Call me a snob, but it reeks of sloppiness.

Snob.

The utility of the application far outweighs the aesthetics.

rashomon | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: How did you decide where to live?

[North America] I actually hope to jaunt into a remote position, in 2019, and this specific question has tussled quite a bit in mind. I'd love to hear what other people are considering.

Seeing that I'm in NYC, I think there are a few cultural, political and culinary reasons to choose a city to transition few. Here are a few of my requirements:

-Strong local job economy if in the event I lose my current position (my job is not sought after enough for me to gain remote positions immediately) -Cheap(er) real estate (this isn't hard considering I'm from NYC) -Left/Democrat-leaning locale (the state doesn't have to be blue but where I live should have an unshamed democratic community) -Some clustered seasonality (that removes FL, AZ, AL, and the northern state for their harsh winter)

My top cities I had in mind: -Raleigh or Charlotte (I have some trepidations about what the Republican leadership did recently) - Explosive growth which the city is not accustomed to/for - Traffic will be a nightmare if the rate continues (almost 0 public transport) - Good tech scene (Research Triangle) and quite cheap real-estate - Might be suburban hell/boring

rashomon | 7 years ago | on: Leaving NYC for Nashville

Can concur on the shushness and sublimation.

However, PATH is meandering near the border of MTA's hellish confines and looks drunk enough to stumble in. Couple that with the incessant development (there are 4 towers in constructions near Paulus hook) and already stressed PATH infra and you can guess what can happen next.

On the whole, JC is better than BK for a myriad of reasons.

rashomon | 7 years ago | on: Starting an ISP: Deploying Fiber

In the article, he's referring to people complaining about a 2-minute increase in their commute time for something that can absolutely benefit the community.

The short-sightedness is astounding.

rashomon | 7 years ago | on: Starting an ISP: Deploying Fiber

The cost for micro trenching can be upwards of $200k a building in Manhattan. I would assume dealing with sunken homes, collapsed PoE's and NIMBY folks would make it prohibitively expensive.

But I have no idea why they stopped.

rashomon | 7 years ago | on: Starting an ISP: Deploying Fiber

Absolutely true. I have property about 30 miles north of WB and Frontier told me they can't get a technician out to replace my service until January.

It would be faster for me to crawl on the ground to the nearest PoP and plugin to a GPON port then it would be for me to wait for them.

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