Hokusai

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> declining content production Declining? Ten years ago all my Facebook friends were posting things, breakfast pictures, personal updates, trip pictures, commenting on each other posts. Nowadays my feed is Ads, suggested content by peopl
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That is not what my company is doing, first time I heard that a company does such a think. I agree that it makes little sense.
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> As a recent article from The Washington Post put it: “They’re still spending most of their time isolated and glued to their computers for Zoom meetings, email, and Slack.” At all companies I have worked for, teams sit together and talk
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The air industry has this solved, it's mandatory to report certain kind of incidents to avoid them in the future and inform the aviation community. https://www.skybrary.aero/index.php/Mandatory_Occurrence_Rep... T
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> One of the jobs performed by our smaller facilities is to respond to DNS queries. DNS is the address book of the internet, enabling the simple web names we type into browsers to be translated into specific server IP addresses. What is
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1. Facebook gives service for the profit with little regard for its users. 2. Facebook purchased WhatsApp to remove competition and options from its users. And more https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct&#
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> So like the multi-billionaire CEO who's only in that position because he works 80hr/wk and never turns it off... I do not believe this narrative that is only confirmed by billionaires themselves. They mostly rely on the work
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How it can be allowed that two of the most used messaging apps inn the world fall at the same time? The regulators in many countries that allowed the purchase failed to protect customers and competition and helped to create a more fragile w
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> You should consider that WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger are the primary communication method for large parts of the globe. I wish regulators would have though that before allowing the purchase of WhatsApp by Facebook. That both of the
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"Bezos's Blue Origin hit headlines in recent days after 21 current and former employees claimed it had ignored safety concerns to gain an advantage in the space race, and complained of a culture of sexism." That seems more li
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Is this related in any way to what happened to Slack recently in their DNS?
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> I don't mind people being filthy rich You do not like that they move money offshore, and that is for a good reason, the super rich have so much resources that they can unilaterally distort the economy. The more concentrated the we
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Things happened: https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/five-years... E.g. In Denmark, the country’s tax minister cited the Panama Papers to justify hiring hundreds of new employees to bolster the fight
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I read the Bantam books version of Hiroshima before traveling to Japan and visiting the city. It gives one perspective on what happened there and the reality of the atomic bomb.
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It's interesting but not insightful. Anyway, I would find more conducive to stop talking nonsense about collapses and focus on the many technologies that are being developed. We got a million times better at creating vaccines. AIDS vac
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"Cottage-core: the fetishization of bucolic and isolated life is once again proposed by cottage-core as an escape from declining modernity. " From the article perspective they are in the pessimist section. As they are pessimist av
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They can use a very good Danish/Swedish alternative: Skype. Or maybe not, because it was sold to an American company.
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Looks cool. I think that Ironman's mask is copyrighted, thou.
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No, you don't get the money back. In theory you should act as if you got the tickets for free. You are going because you find the concert interesting, you do not go because you have already spend $50. Also you take into account future
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It was not because uncensored content. It was bastly superior because there was a lack of comercialization. Before SEO, before targeted ads, an internet made by educacional institutions and people with hobbies. Nowadays allow everybody to p
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> Agency scientists say management silences and harasses them to appease chemical industry > 'Managers seem to think their job is to get as many new chemicals on the market as fast as possible,’ Kyla Bennett said. > It’s money
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That same exceptions may cause an increased difficulty for dyslexics. The design of a language has effects on the society that speaks it. "So, how then have we ended up with the phenomenon that some people who speak both English and an
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> Another of Javier's scams is to change the locks of empty apartments, then sell the keys for 1,000 or 1,200 euros to impoverished people who struggle to pay a market rent - a group that has grown in size since the start of the pan
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"this has led to the rise of private eviction companies, some of which use threats to achieve their goal." Some times landlords rent without contracts, to not pay taxes, and claim that the renters are squatting to evict them. A lo
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> https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/j19txa/average_age_... It has been working really well all these years. > But until recently, getting a well-maintained, rent-controlled apartment straigh
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> while letting the planet do what it has to in order to manage the ecosystem --as it has for billions of years. Evolution has a maximum speed. A too fast changing environment means the death of most life. Even science have a maximum spe
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5 years + 3 years of queues + 1 year to a decision = 9 years. Unless you marry a citizen, that speeds up the process.
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HN is different depending on the time of the day. It's 02:00AM here in Europe, most of it at least. So the opinions that you see are not Europe time opinions but USA time opinions. I'm going to sleep now, but I'm part of the
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> and as a corporation beholden to shareholders they have a legal duty to maximize returns I never understood this point. If there is a legal requirement to maximize profit, CEOs should be legally required to have low compensations so as
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Google and similar get 30% of all sales. Many companies will lose money in games and apps published in the store meanwhile Google profits. It seems an unsustainable model.

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