LurkingPenguin

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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> If you are a tourist in most countries and "fly" back home, you are judgement proof. There only liability is the guests airbnb account, which, is worthless. You can create new accounts, and in most places you can use alternat
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
The definition of "air cover" is: > protection from aircraft for land-based or naval operations in war situations. AirBnB needs better branding people.
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> That's what Putin did 20 years ago (with oil companies which are the dominant sector in Russia). That's an interesting spin on history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukos > The Permanent Court of Arb
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> At this point, I think everybody here knows someone who shares the same name with a criminal and has been mistreated for it. If I'm not mistaken, the Kyle Rittenhouse trial is ongoing and he hasn't been convicted of any cri
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> Please don't play dumb. You accused, and I quote, "it's disingenuous to dismiss historical facts about what white people have done in Africa on the basis that it hurts white people in Africa's feelings." That s
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> For example, do you feel it's appropriate to blame race Where did I "blame" race? And for what? People who are white have done horrible things in Africa. People who are black have done horrible things in Africa. It is, h
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> I'm heartily sick and tired of the way white South African men are portrayed as the 'new bogeymen'. New boogeyman? The malign influence of whites in Africa is not a new phenomenon. The statement you took issue with is tr
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
You're referring to what's called an "employer of record" (EOR) and this isn't as straightforward or risk-free as you think it is. First, there are some countries in which the law would consider your business to be
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> All those cases can be dealt with by the foreign company who knows the local laws and customs. I haven't seen it mentioned here but while in many cases you can as an employer outsource payroll and labor law compliance, you can nev
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
The best scams are usually low tech or even no tech.
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> But the logical reason to stay married to my partner is that it makes me happy to do so. Ostensibly, you actually love your partner and are not in a stable long-run relationship that was initiated by a mutual limerence-like state induc
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> What I have in mind, ideally, is a relatively quick and cheap activity, using behavioral, psychological and/or pharmaceutical techniques, that two people who have already matched for general compatibility (e.g. with a kind of dati
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> I feel that those that actively participate (commenting, posting, responding, reacting) are more affected and more caught in the feedback loop. Those that more or less passively read these platforms, rarely interact, and largely work t
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
I've come to believe that the whole business of "organic certification" is built on a shaky foundation, and outright fraud is just one of the reasons why. I once drove by a vineyard on a highly-trafficked highway in a very pr
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> It is an amusing anedocte that illustrates a broken piece of tech recruiting. The guy didn't list the employer on his resume: > The resume I passed doesn't have my old job listed by name, but it's a copy paste of the
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
Nothing is more productive than post nut sleep.
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
Humans aren't nearly as intelligent as they've come to believe themselves to be. - PROT
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> "I can probably be considered the biggest ethnically Chinese calculus teacher on Pornhub" No pun intended?
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> You could feel the panic and protective instinct in her movements. This comment reminded me of a great book I read called Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves . https://www.amazon.com&
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> I don't have any disdain for the freelancer in question, and I think it's quite an achievement to be earning $120k without training in the given field. I was only pointing out that there are a lot more people who earn really
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> Every dollar spent on this is not spent on targeted ads. If Facebook is successful, this will be a new vehicle through which to deliver targeted ads.
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
This is what I like to call a "Valley Bubble" comment. There are lots of people working in tech-related jobs at/for companies not named Facebook, Amazon, Apple or Google who earn well above average incomes. How to make this l
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> Even if this isn't your preferred mode of problem solving, I'm confident that any qualified candidate is capable of doing what was demonstrated in this post, and if they really want the job , they probably should. I get that
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> It's complicated. For people you have an obligation to, like relatives, superiors or customers at work, you have to go out of your way to be polite and helpful. But if you don't have that obligation, you don't need to do
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
Not really. When Big Wig Wall Street Investment Banker tries to get me to help foot the bill for his yacht fuel, he is compliant with US securities regulations and any offshore vehicles are based in tried and true jurisdictions, not countri
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
Not really. If you do it right, it's a "steal $100 million and pay a $10 million fine" kind of business.
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
But if we limit the use of private jets, how are the 1% going to get to the climate change summits at which they plot to save the world? https://www.businessinsider.com/private-jets-jeff-bezos-bide...
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
I did a quick Google search to see who the tweeter is and found this gem[1]: > BC: Will the Bond token be available to U.S. and U.K. users soon? > PD: U.K. is more likely than the U.S., possibly in Q1 we’ll make a deal with the owners
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> It's not very evident to me why that form of gambling is more attractive to the average person than wagering on football teams or trading stocks. Football/sports: there's the impression that you need to have a high level
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
1.16/5 from 1,845 reviews = B+ rating

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