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by IMTDb 4y ago
My main points is that I do not believe that it's OK for the state to be paying for things that have not proven their efficacy . My whole relatives are MD Doctors (father, 5 sisters, wife and best friend) and they all agree that we ar
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by IMTDb 4y ago
In my book, a medical treatment that does not beat placebo is ineffective. That's also what we are asking pharmaceutical companies to prove through those double blind studies. If acupuncture does not beat placebo, lets direct people to
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by IMTDb 4y ago
11% of growth every year for 10 years is 2.83, almost 3. Things haven't gotten 3 times more expensive in the last decade - far from it.
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by IMTDb 4y ago
Couldn't the same be said of any company that isn't currently filing for bankruptcy ?
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by IMTDb 4y ago
It hasn't evaded anyone. People just don't care. Parking e-scooters on bike lanes is dangerous for you , but convenient for me . The general lack of regulations and the total of $0 spent on enforcing them, leads to e-scooters dr
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by IMTDb 4y ago
Public policies are now heavily favouring public transport and cycling, which both require higher population density than single family homes to be effective. As a consequence, a higher share of the population is expected to live in apartme
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by IMTDb 4y ago
> We are talking about intelligent people discussing among each other and reaching a consensus together without having someone else tell them what to think. You are assuming here that people are competent, willing and able to cooperate,
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by IMTDb 4y ago
Isn't working from a co-working space an option ?
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by IMTDb 4y ago
I think you have read the wrong law and I have have read the right one, as the cookie handling requirements are defined in the ePrivacy Directive of 2002 and amended in 2009, not the GDPR. You can start here: https://eur-lex.euro
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by IMTDb 4y ago
The law - not the companies - explicitly forbids me from expressing my preferences globally at the browser level. I know exactly what I am ready to accept - and what I want to reject. The law says "you have to repeat your preferenc
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by IMTDb 4y ago
Behind in tech companies, forward in useless consumer nagging I am looking at you, EU cookie notice.
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by IMTDb 4y ago
> None of my code ever have gone bang in production Should be read "None of my code ever have gone bang in production, so far, that I am aware of"
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by IMTDb 4y ago
> relies on the efforts of software engineers to design and build your primary products, they should have the primary equity in the company. The average tenure at Google is 4 years. This means that most current Google's have joined
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by IMTDb 4y ago
I see two possible options: 1. Either he has one (or more) good and constructive idea on how to fix the problems faced by his former employer. In which case, please share those ideas and justify them as this is way more interesting than an
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by IMTDb 4y ago
I did not ask for you to fix the business, I just asked for one constructive idea, rather than a blanket " they don't know, their business is doomed lol". So far I got nothing.
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by IMTDb 4y ago
Funny, you could have phrased that " We were desperate because nothing was working and we were losing money and we didn't know what we were doing." It looks like you have all the answers and " they " have no
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by IMTDb 4y ago
Without being a "racist homophobic bigot", you can be tired of seing that every single TV show they produce seems to absolutely need to play the race/gender/sexual orientation bingo. To me, it feels like the "dive
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by IMTDb 5y ago
"Marketing manager" go for around $140k / year. That's a job that requires some skill but definitely not in the realm of "uniquely valuable". 80% of that is $112k / year or 1.6 times the US median salary.
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by IMTDb 5y ago
FYI, these exist. They are called DJ pools. (Eg: https://www.zipdj.com ) Cost is roughly $35/month
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by IMTDb 5y ago
> If I expect Twitter to 20x in the next 5 years why would I want to sell my share to Elon? Vote with your dollars: buy shares at a price higher than Elon's. Borrow if you must. If you are not ready to take that risk, then maybe you
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by IMTDb 5y ago
> That's not always legal, but it would help the interests of shareholders. Except the guy at 19.9% trying to move up. Considering he has already invested quite a lot of money on the company, shouldn't the board also work f
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by IMTDb 5y ago
Because the fact that it is relayed by a pro-putin newspaper is significant. This was is also an information war, so analysing who reports the news is almost as important as what is reported.
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by IMTDb 5y ago
> You can’t pin down the when, how much, what and how all at the same time Precisely. And my point is that you should set the when and how much as soon as possible. Then negotiate the what . Then, based on all these information, dec
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by IMTDb 5y ago
> Recognising this ”reality”, and building your software development processes around it, is _engineering_. A pillar of good engineering is understanding that the when and the how much matter often as much as the what and are funda
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by IMTDb 5y ago
FYI, absolutely all the exec / management courses that I have taken specifically advise against dragging a "bad" news after a sea of explanation. All the "exec rulebook" tell the same thing: announce the news firs
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by IMTDb 5y ago
Because it probably cost a lot more to the institution than it brought to the intended target. A middleman takes the bulk of the additional investment, without providing that much value in itself. And that money came from somewhere, probabl
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by IMTDb 5y ago
Walmart, apparently. They'll employ less truckers than now since each one will be able to handle more trucks, but they'll need some.
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by IMTDb 5y ago
Some reasons : - FAANG aren't/weren't remote - The appeal for working at a startup vs an established company, and the sense of freedom associated with that - Some guys that would love the idea behind FAANS...but would not lik
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by IMTDb 5y ago
The key informations are here : > Fast offered $200-240K/year in base salaries with full remote work > Sign-on bonuses were common and large. Those who asked for almost always received sign-on bonuses of $20-50K as a one-off paym
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by IMTDb 5y ago
I am always quite surprised to see these as being labeled "overachiever" goals (they are pretty commonly expressed similarly). Being an "overachiever" means : benefiting from the work of others (food, clothes, transports

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