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New comment by misterbee in "Apple Is the New Pimco"

misterbee — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 02:14:20 +0000

Even worse, Apple etc do engineering work in EU, and then lie to regulators to say that "no innovation happens in Europe" to avoid local taxes.

New comment by misterbee in "Apple Is the New Pimco"

misterbee — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 02:12:43 +0000

thought experiment: What if Apple spun out Apple Design as a US company and paid it contract rates to invent, much like it outsources factories to Chinese companies? then how are the holding-companies profits taxes?

New comment by misterbee in "Apple Is the New Pimco"

misterbee — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 02:08:53 +0000

That's great, for each of you there are 10 people who look like you but who rip off their clients. So what's a client to do?

New comment by misterbee in "Autopsy: Lessons from Failed Startups"

misterbee — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 02:07:48 +0000

Google's original name was "BackRub". Facebook was "TheFaceBook". They changed the name when it mattered.

New comment by misterbee in "Autopsy: Lessons from Failed Startups"

misterbee — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 02:06:37 +0000

That's product quality, not market fit. Market fit is reaching the people who would buy your product, and meeting their needs, before you are famous enough for them to find you.

New comment by misterbee in "Autopsy: Lessons from Failed Startups"

misterbee — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 02:04:43 +0000

they are researchers, not employees. Employees are the people you need to do drudge work in a professional manner.

New comment by misterbee in "Autopsy: Lessons from Failed Startups"

misterbee — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 02:03:35 +0000

that's because the Garmin screen was resistive, not capacitive, and it was years before autocomplete tech.

New comment by misterbee in "Autopsy: Lessons from Failed Startups"

misterbee — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 02:02:05 +0000

the term "product-market (mis)fit" means that the product failed to find its market, not that the product has no market. The term for that is "shitty product".

New comment by misterbee in "Autopsy: Lessons from Failed Startups"

misterbee — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 01:59:24 +0000

> It's very hard to drop someone else into an unfamiliar codebase and have them pick up where the original person left off,

Eh, this is what every new employee at an established company does.

And when a startup has a "technical cofounder", that usually means the "tech" is a CRUD website, as opposed to a novel invention being productized (in which case it would be a technical founder or technical founder pair.

New comment by misterbee in "Last Task After Layoff at Disney: Train Foreign Replacements"

misterbee — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 05:53:49 +0000

That doesn't really hold up. Once we are well clear of the minimum wage, there is room to have an inversion where there are 1000 positions to fill and 500 qualified candidates who could auction-price themselves above the profit they generate.

New comment by misterbee in "Last Task After Layoff at Disney: Train Foreign Replacements"

misterbee — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 05:49:33 +0000

Your whole argument hinges on an assumption that national borders are somehow relevant in determining which workers are entitled to jobs. You could recast the same argument in terms of races, and it holds up equally well -- reserving jobs for whites protects the employments of a country's own citizenry, black people don't deserve the rights of citizens, women should stay home and not interfere in business, yadda yadda.

New comment by misterbee in "Last Task After Layoff at Disney: Train Foreign Replacements"

misterbee — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 05:45:33 +0000

That doesn't make sense. The marginal rate for an H1-B employee should be approximately the same as the marginal rate for a local employee -- If talent is truly scarce, then your existing employees wages are bid up to the max already.

New comment by misterbee in "Last Task After Layoff at Disney: Train Foreign Replacements"

misterbee — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 05:43:31 +0000

Well, "foreign" indicates that the operation was likely illegal. You might think that law unfairly discriminatory, but even so, if it is lowering wages, it is a net-loss overall, as more money its pocketed by wealthy owners instead of wage-earning employees.

New comment by misterbee in "Last Task After Layoff at Disney: Train Foreign Replacements"

misterbee — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 05:41:36 +0000

Are we overlooking the crime associated with corporate management, the featherbedding, and how non-union company employees abjectly failed to thrive in the -- what's a "post-post-WWII era" anyway?

New comment by misterbee in "Last Task After Layoff at Disney: Train Foreign Replacements"

misterbee — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 05:38:45 +0000

This is not true. You pay supply/demand. Someone with less expenses, or visa constraints, or other geographic constraints, but equally talented, will accept a lower wage.

New comment by misterbee in "Today is the end of sheloshim for my beloved husband"

misterbee — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 05:25:21 +0000

Stay at a fun retirement home!

New comment by misterbee in "Today is the end of sheloshim for my beloved husband"

misterbee — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 05:24:05 +0000

Actually, forgetting is the way to feeling as happy again. If you can forget.

Imagine standing at your child's wedding, or your grandchild's wedding, beaming, and then remembering that your spouse isn't next to you.

New comment by misterbee in "Today is the end of sheloshim for my beloved husband"

misterbee — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 05:20:33 +0000

> trigger responses

> game

New comment by misterbee in "Today is the end of sheloshim for my beloved husband"

misterbee — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 05:20:04 +0000

Not close at all. --Wait, which one are you saying is higher? Because different people have different values; there's no need to shit on someone's life choices if they aren't hurting people.

New comment by misterbee in "Today is the end of sheloshim for my beloved husband"

misterbee — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 05:18:15 +0000

There's nothing to "fix" about not being around for every single moment.

"firsts" aren't really such a big deal.

1. There are many many "firsts". 2. Each one isn't really a "first", because so much of what we do is gradual, that's arbitary where you draw the line of accomplishment.