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by 15457345234 3y ago
> It certainly didn't start during COVID No, but during the pandemic there were a ridiculous number of dubious acquisitions and somewhat-inexplicable business deals that really need to be investigated.
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by 15457345234 3y ago
> China is simply claiming that the USA invests less than they actually do. So, you're refuting your own source? You posted this source: http://www.sais-cari.org/chinese-investment-in-africa#:~:tex... Are you now sa
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by 15457345234 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID.me "In the wake of the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic" There it is
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by 15457345234 3y ago
It's very weird when people post links which contradict their text. I usually block people that do that, because I find a quick trawl through their comment history often reveals they're deliberately spreading misinformation and&#x
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by 15457345234 3y ago
The figures quoted revolve around the size of the company _today_ - so even if only one quarter of that 900k stayed, that means they onboarded even to make up for whomever left.
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by 15457345234 3y ago
They haven't pointed anything out, they just guessed. I want to _actually know_ what those people are doing.
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by 15457345234 3y ago
Were you an 'uncomplicated' customer i.e. from a country not associated with tons of online fraud, connecting plainly from a 'normal' ISP account (not a VPN, not using a browser cranked to the gills with privacy plugins)
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by 15457345234 3y ago
Would genuinely like to know what additional value Amazon is getting from hiring nearly, what, 900k people since 2018? I mean, seriously, what do they all do? I can't fathom onboarding that many people in that space of time and integra
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by 15457345234 3y ago
What do they love about it? If you genuinely know people that like it, please ask them. Although I do notice that lots of people like to work from coffee shops so... I guess it might be pushing the same buttons...
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by 15457345234 3y ago
Definitely a whole lot of very weird things happened during the pandemic that people are going to have a very hard time explaining when questioned. And they will be questioned.
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by 15457345234 3y ago
> survivor bias Using that phrase is... 80s childhoods weren't some sort of trial by fire threshing machine, dude. By and large everybody survived. Children being lost to quicksand or stumbling across gangs of counterfeiters holed u
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by 15457345234 3y ago
Define 'contain' If I can reliably recite verbatim a 10 page short story then I 'contain' it even though you can't dissect my brain and find it. If a LLM can reliably and repeatably recite an article verbatim then i
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by 15457345234 3y ago
> I think hotdesking/hoteling is worse than any desk move because you get to have the feeling of uneasiness and disruption daily. It's interesting to observe how many companies deliberately adopt policies which they _know_ caus
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by 15457345234 3y ago
Do you think it's really random?
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by 15457345234 3y ago
Haven't read that one, might have to give it a glance. Always thought Asimov a bit dry, preferred Niven's more... whimsical style of writing.
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by 15457345234 3y ago
> by other peoples' apparent surprise about their high functioning A lot of high school textbooks carried a very simplified message about human evolution and basically included neanderthals as 'a branch of human evolution that
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by 15457345234 3y ago
I mean that's a tough one, because the algorithm can be very subtle sometimes and trying to explain your reasoning as to why you think a certain trend in the content you're being suggested is an insidious form of behaviour modific
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by 15457345234 3y ago
> I'm trying to get my kids to use their Ubuntu Linux machines instead of the fucking iPads. Take the pads away, daddy. That's what being a daddy is about, preventing harm when you see it occurring right in front of your eyes.
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by 15457345234 3y ago
1. Correct 2. I don't know
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by 15457345234 3y ago
Have you determined for sure that it's real users and not bots doing this?
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by 15457345234 3y ago
> The point of the marketplace metaphor The marketplace metaphor implies there are buyers and sellers. The sellers are the ones fighting to make their case for the ideas they are 'selling.' The 'buyers' are the audien
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by 15457345234 3y ago
> Dropping bombs onto an undersea cable is not. Of course it is, that's been covered upthread. Literally the post you're replying to says: > It's categorically terrorism by that definition. So, to be clear: It's ca
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by 15457345234 3y ago
Violence against stuff that is the support infrastructure for people is violence against people.
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by 15457345234 3y ago
Nothing you say really makes any sense when you sit down and think about it. People fight for a position because they believe in it. It's like asking someone 'why don't you just support the football team that's most like
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by 15457345234 3y ago
Ennis house
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by 15457345234 3y ago
Not many people are familiar with the original Mad Max movie, for some reason - the second two have much more recognition. The first one is really quite a different type of movie.
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by 15457345234 3y ago
> seems to satirize it all at the same time Verhoeven managed that very well in Total Recall and Starship Troopers too - he really hit the right note. Right on the boundary of ludicrous and believable.
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by 15457345234 3y ago
I don't know if you want to hear this, but your bio comes off as prickly/activist and I personally wouldn't hire you because I get the impression you'd just use my company or platform as a horse to ride into battle for w
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by 15457345234 3y ago
I mean, cutting cables is a violent act, property destruction is violence. Unless we're going to go with the weird reddit anarchist definition in which you can destroy whole structures and it isn't violence if nobody gets hurt bec
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by 15457345234 3y ago
It's categorically terrorism by that definition. Objectively intended to coerce or intimidate governments: do as you're told if you want to have a viable economy, because so much of today's economy relies on communication.

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