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sfkjlkfagfj··on Ask HN: How do you backup your files without depending on a third party service?
Onsite NAS Google Drive
sfkjlkfagfj··on Ask HN: Should you allow your employees to work on side projects?
Doesn't always work like that. The non-compete and conflict of interest clauses are narrower than that. In case of Amazon, they sell pretty much everything, to everyone, so you might have a conflict of interest. But if you start an e-commerce store that sell something very specific to very specific market segment than you may not have a conflict. For example, B2B marketplace for oil supply chain industry (Know a guy who does something similar).

Same thing with consulting, a friend works for a consulting company that closes 1M+ projects. He on side make websites for small businesses. Everyone knows at his company, no issues so far.

sfkjlkfagfj··on Ask HN: Should you allow your employees to work on side projects?
I pretty much never hire anyone who doesn't have a side project. I don't care if it is super shitty php code, as long as you are coding outside of work, I know you will be a good programmer.

And anytime I made exception to this rule, I always regretted it.

sfkjlkfagfj··on Ask HN: What is your Amazon counterfeit story?
Bought Avent nipples from Amazon. A bit thinner and softer than what we had as slow-flow newborn nipples. Didn't think much about it, but baby would be a lot more fussy when using these nipples. We thought he has just getting used to faster flow.

Finally, gave up and bought same nipples from Target. New nipples feel a lot more like old Slow-Flow nipples. Baby drinks from them just fine.

Amazon has lost me as a customer, will not be renewing Amazon Prime.

sfkjlkfagfj··on Ask HN: How much passive income do you generate, and from what?
I think most people here are expecting to see passive income from side projects.

Unless you are withdrawing dividends and selling shares for income, it is not passive income. Just good ole regular investing.

And I don't how anyone can consider real estate passive income. It is a business with a lot of downtime but also some serious headaches. I have few properties, most of my tenets are nice. But when you get one bad tenet, it wipes all your goodwill towards any tenet. Then unexpected expenses wipe out years of profit in an instant. Finally, you hope one day the building will be paid off and you will live off rent checks, then you do some calculations and realize that you would have made almost same rent check if you had just invested your down payment in stock market.

sfkjlkfagfj··on Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon
Same experience for me. The first time, I bought TV from Amazon I was a bit nervous. But the experience was so great. No need to drive to store, find parking, fit huge box in my tiny car, park car in loading area, unload, move car.... so on.

Since then I have bought more TVs for myself and helped friends and family who were reluctant to order online. No bad experience so far.

sfkjlkfagfj··on Ask HN: Have any of you left a startup that was selling snake oil?
Get out! If you don't feel comfortable with CEO, then it will be very hard to feel good about your work.

A while ago, I worked for a consulting company that specialized in e-commerce with fulfillment. Soon I realized that their clients are mostly MultiLayer Marketing companies. MLM is legal but very unethical industry. Our clients referred to their customers as idiots or bored housewives. Some of my coworkers tried to quite their concise by convincing themselves and me that these people are lazy who are trying to get rich quick. So they deserve to lose their money. They would say it is a cheaper than business school.

I tried to tell myself that I am just a worker, just following orders. It was a good job with a lot of benefits but it was very soul crushing. Leaving that job was the best ever thing. My mental health improved the minute I handed my two weeks notice.