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rohitb91··on Why is San Francisco covered in human feces?
It's interesting that one of the brightest cities of the world can't be bothered to tackle and fix the problem of homelessness.
rohitb91··on Uber reportedly lost $891M in the second quarter of 2018 as growth slows
How does Uber even lose that much money while paying their drivers on average $3.5 per hour and offering no benefits or safety nets?

I wonder if a downturn will be what it takes for Uber to finally die.

rohitb91··on How Musicians Make Money, Or Don’t, In 2018
Or group lessons in a studio.
rohitb91··on Doing Windows, Part 5: A Second Try
That really echoes what I've been asking for years. If you get a CEO that walks in, does barely anything, will anyone even notice? Short of any media blunders or completely nuking a company, how can you really mess up a company during your tenure such that you get in and get out with your ridiculous compensation?
rohitb91··on Ask HN: How do you organize/track your personal goals?
Get married? Have kids? Reach a higher position? Join your dream company? Climb Everest? Do 10 pullups? Learn french? Help kids in Africa? Donate a million dollars? Tip someone a hundred that needs it? Donate 100 books to a library? Fly an aircraft over the Atlantic? Write a book? Get famous on social media?

Whatever you want

rohitb91··on Employers will do almost anything to find workers except pay them more
If profits don't grow or profits don't reach or surpass expectations, board members get fired. If board members are threatened, management is threatened. If management is threatened, workers are threatened.

Profits change by increasing revenue and/or decreasing costs.

Wages are an obvious way of optimizing wages further.

rohitb91··on Secrets of Resilience: Lessons from adults who overcame difficult childhoods
I can echo that. Low middle class, alcoholic parent, failed family businesses that I wasted teenage and early 20s in, just rebuilding now.

Tragic.

rohitb91··on The US startup is disappearing
After they actively pushed people in to houses with little and even no income and the sharks that targeted minorities with little understanding of contractual law.

And only the taxpayers and the global market felt the consequence.

rohitb91··on ‘Gaming disorder’ is officially recognized by the World Health Organization
Yep I've had the same problem with counter-strike, SC2 and LoL. All my mind would be devoted to the games and I'd live in a state of ignorance bliss about my career, building up networks, building up any skills whatsoever.

Bad times.

rohitb91··on What if Canada had spent $200bn on wind energy instead of oil?
Weren't too many electrical cars back then.
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