I'm spending about a grand to have a sensor in my golf door handle fixed because the car beeps for about 10 seconds every time it passes 10mph. Thinking of buying a car at least 15 years old so I can experience the lack of electronics again.
Readit NewsWas there ever a time when you could reasonably expect to make more money by joining a startup? That has never been the case so far as I am aware, and I'm currently on my seventh tour through startup-land...
Maybe way back in the .com days but its a terrible decision financially now.
eweise commented on Section 174 is reversed, mostly newsletter.pragmaticengin... · Posted by u/jawns
> The remaining thing that stings for companies is how foreign devs still need to be amortized for 15 years.
I'm having a hard time seeing the issue with this.
Same.
Good to see that they at least gave some instructions on moving the money (it was the absolute minimum, to be fair). No hate to them - some business don't work out.
That said, I personally don't understand keeping my assets that I hope to retire off of someday at a startup style company. Everyone's gotta start somewhere, but financial services like this are probably a hard sell for a lot of people.
I worked for a wealth management company. The money was held at the financial institution's accounts. We just calculated when to re-balance the portfolios and executed the trades on the customer's behalf. Not sure if that's how this works.
eweise commented on If AI Lets Us Do More in Less Time–Why Not Shorten the Workweek? sfg.media/en/a/if-ai-lets... · Posted by u/sergeyfomkin
"This question is increasingly central to debates about the future of work" Nope. The only question my company is asking is how to get more efficiencies from AI so that they don't have to hire so many people.
eweise commented on The Death of the Middle-Class Musician thewalrus.ca/the-death-of... · Posted by u/pseudolus
Part of the problem is that the barrier to entry is really low now. In the old days, you had to be relatively talented on your instrument, hone your skills for years playing clubs to gather an audience, and then a record label would finally give you a contract. Now you can download Logic and it will generate most of the music. You just sing along, autotune your vocals and you've got a tune that can be uploaded to Spotify, Apple Music, etc.
I just saw MonoNeon in concert. His albums are mediocre but I'm guessing he's making an ok living because he's extremely talented on bass. The place was sold out.
I was listening to an interview of Alan Parsons and when they were talking about 1973’s Dark Side of the Moon, he mentioned that it was not nominated for the album Grammy and that Stevie Wonder won.
So I listened to Wonder’s Inner Visions and it was clear why it won. It is a much better album. It is a pity Inner Visions is largely forgotten.
Innervisions is hardly a forgotten record. To claim its better than Dark Side of the Moon is totally subjective and I would argue that its not. Dark Side works as an album while Innervisions feels like a collection of songs. Also, "Visions" as the second song, just sucks the energy out of a listen. They should have tacked that tune onto the end.
eweise commented on See how a dollar would have grown over the past 94 years [pdf] newyorklifeinvestments.co... · Posted by u/mooreds
Not comparing apples to apples, though. Those government bonds were, by any reasonable measurement, risk free (EDIT: as another commenter noted, not exactly, we could call them "minimal risk"), while "the market" is not.
Looking back in hindsight is always risk-free, though, which can lead to faulty conclusions.
isn't the stock market risk free over a 30 year span? Maybe with the exception of the depression.
eweise commented on The rise of judgement over technical skill notsocommonthoughts.com/b... · Posted by u/kohlhofer
As a (very good I would say) product manager once told me - the product vision and strategy depends very much on the ability to execute. The market doesn't stand still, and what you _can_ do defines very much what you _should_ do.
What I mean to say here is that not even product management is reduced to just "understand the domain" - so it kinda' feels that your entire prediction leans on overly-simplified assumptions.
pretty big logic leap you made there. I didn't say understanding the domain was the only requirement. But certainly not understanding it will cause you to fail.
I say that's a darn good use of water. Fore!