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by 908B64B197 3y ago
It's much better than what he would have made under the old medallion system Uber disrupted. Pre-Uber/Lyft, either the driver rented the car from a middleman who rented the medallion from a rich owner, or said owner was selling an
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> I no longer discuss anything related to gender, relationships, or personal life dynamics with anyone outside of my bubble. It's also pointless to discuss them. People say all sorts of things, but then act completely differently!
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> EU and even more so Asia-based employees prefer to first discuss the idea on multiple 1:1s for a long time, to discuss / think / make decision with everyone, come up with some harmony before any formal meetings. And the meeti
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> between "buying nothing" and "buying the biggest game developer in the world" I wonder how much of that is because of IP and said IP's underperformance.
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> or the deal could be modified to suit the UK’s concerns. The argument given by the UK's bureaucrats had something to do with cloud gaming. I guess they could make Activision's tittles available on competing cloud gaming platf
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> Is the EFF aware that 95.75% of the population of the planet does not live under the Amendments of the Constitution of the USA? And yet, that 95.75% has a net drain (especially among high earners and top of their fields professional) t
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> without literally going through everyone's private communications? Most shooters had mental issues that went ignored or were swept under the rug by the adults that were supposed to help. > Only like 0.1% of them will ever shoot
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
I have no clue why GP's comment was flagged. Brigading going on? Few years ago we acquired something in Montreal related to AI, and it's interesting because when we tried to get the team to relocate to California many weren't
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
Something you have to keep in mind is that there are two parallel markets over there: SV caliber developers and the rest. The former won't have any issue getting a job in the US (takes maybe a week for a talented engineer to get one).
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
At the time it was puzzling to me why Trudeau was so submissive regarding China. He bowed down to the CCP and wasn't able to secure the `Two Michaels` release. In retrospect, that might have been because of the double allegiances the T
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
Anecdotally, seems there's a lot of Canadians expats here in the Valley and they don't seem too keen on returning. We've been getting a lot of international applicants (but work from home was supposed to mean Canadians could
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> Castro then demanded that in addition to their relatives, the boats had to be filled with common prisoners from jails and mental patients, who were given the choice of staying in prison or trying their luck emigrating on those boats. C
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
... and that's still a better deal than the UK, where the norm is no equity and an capped salaries for "IT personnel" (their words, not mine). Anecdotally, seems there's a lot of British and European expats here in the V
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
It's probably a great thing for Canada that the Avro project was shut down. The real tragedy was the CSeries/Airbus A220. The Avro was a cool paper project (it is ultimately unknown if it could even achieve the projected performan
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
It's completely self-inflicted. Duties, tariffs, out of control regulations and taxes to pay for underperforming civil servant's pension funds. It all adds up.
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
Facebook ignored compliance at the time, but the way they mitigated the risks was by targeting a smaller, exclusive market (smaller colleges in the US) that's less risky compliance-wise (no minors for instance, domestic market).
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> Across the board, illegal immigrants are LESS likely to commit crimes. While true, it should be noted that part of this is because illegal immigrants can't be repeat offenders, unlike citizens. According to the Bureau of Justice S
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
Can it even shrink that much? Optics killed HoloLens.
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
Pro Display XDR is also in a market segment where it's the last step before getting a calibrated display that's 10x the price. When looking at the specs it's actually a great display at a good price point. > Of course, Vis
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
It's part for the course in a country that bans paternity testing (to "protect the unity of families"! ) [0] [0] https://idtodna.com/paternity-test-in-france/
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Public transit is extremely safe if you withhold crime stats and footage as not to incentivize "racist stereotypes" (whatever that means). [0] [0] https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/bart-withholdin
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Keep in mind there's a direct correlation between "screen time" and depression... Meaning that kids that spend 5+ hours per day on their phones are depressed. Up to one hour had no noticeable effects. [0] Now think about why
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> The whole dedollarization narrative is like some weird propaganda pushed by china. The beauty of the US dollar is it's always worth a US dollar... It's strength is a measure of much foreigners trust the US economy and it&#x27
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> they have racist laws Like, against black people? > voted twice in my life about leaving Canada That's not at all like the US Confederation or Civil War. > they had an IRA style terrorist group called the FLQ. Did they actua
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> confederate state > secession I don't know if these words have the same connotation in Canada as in the US, but these are two pretty loaded terms out here.
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
Aren’t the French Canadians notorious for buying and consuming their own culture? Friend of mine here in the bay area is French Canadian and his teenagers (both full Americans born here) both watch and follow French Canadians on TikTok, Ins
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> News organizations are tired of providing fodder for Facebook comment sections and not getting eyeballs on their own websites. That's not limited to Canada. It's a worldwide phenomena. But the question media company should be
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The most interesting thing is what's defined as "Canadian Content". Most of what Celine Dion produced in her career doesn't fit the government approved list of cultural content, so is considered foreign music. Celine Dio
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> It seems to me that a good standardized test score is one of the only things that someone with a lot of motivation and talent, but very few resources, can use to distinguish themselves. That's the way poor immigrant Asian kids and
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
From our experience there's no difference between Ivies and good State schools. Especially with affirmative action, it's way harder for a White or Asian male to get a spot at some universities.

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