MajorBee

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by MajorBee 6y ago
Isn't the difference between "fraud" and "incorrectly filling out documents" basically intent? And intent is hard to prove or disprove.
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by MajorBee 6y ago
I am 100% sure this is way worse on reddit, that paradise of armchair experts.
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by MajorBee 6y ago
Hmm my company's anti-corruption training material states very explicitly that the only gifts allowed are very minor ones (probably things like company-branded T-shirts or something) and dinners need to be on a modest budget, definitel
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by MajorBee 6y ago
Or maybe he employed more run-of-the-mill unsavoury techniques like low-level bribery (gifts, expensive wine-and-dine), plenty of shmoozing and the like. These techniques are not exactly useless in getting new business; however, most modern
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by MajorBee 6y ago
I have full faith (some pun intended) that as soon as an alien civilization shows up (however slightly more advanced they might apparently be), there will be entire religions based around them as the gods. Hell, I'm sure there will be
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by MajorBee 6y ago
If these witnesses were presented and heard, leading to (long shot maybe, but still) a conviction by the Senate of Trump, of course, things would have been very different today. You can argue that the violent events of last week would h
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by MajorBee 6y ago
Well, cigarettes used to be all "free market" right from marketing to technology for quite some time, and we all know how that particular industry ended up. There are certain things that just seem to be a net-loss to society, no m
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by MajorBee 6y ago
> ... it must not censor censorship. Doesn't this imply that censorship must be allowed for a free society? Coming to the main point, I think the meaning behind the phrase is that absolute tolerance is not sustainable; a line must b
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by MajorBee 6y ago
Holding a cellphone is step 1; step 2 is having a tool that can facilitate frictionless communication to one or more people -- easy and cheap enough for pretty much any demographic to grasp. Contacting someone from what was essentially a po
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by MajorBee 6y ago
I think most people do manage to get at least a buck or two's worth (adjusted for local purchasing power) of use out of WhatsApp (if not facebook.com); surely, the ability to instantly contact people via text/call/video must
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by MajorBee 6y ago
Well, I don't think anyone claims that electronic voting systems should be the source of truth for vote-count; it's mostly there for convenience and if there is any doubt at all about its integrity, the paper ballots can always (a
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by MajorBee 6y ago
How about electronic voting systems backed by paper ballots?
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by MajorBee 6y ago
In this specific CamScanner context, I think it has less to do with political correctness and more to do with the fact that CamScanner was one of the first apps in the marketplace that had this ability to produce half-decent scans through a
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by MajorBee 6y ago
> $MANGA as well. (Microsoft, Apple, Netflix, Google, Amazon) I must say this is a new acronym (backronym?) for me. Why do people insist on shoe-horning in Netflix in there? Yes, I'm aware without the N these acronyms can collapse i
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by MajorBee 6y ago
It could also imply that they simply get more good applications than they need. Everyone and their grandma seems to want to work for Big N, after all.
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by MajorBee 6y ago
Once again, the adage "don't let perfection be the enemy of good" applies.
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by MajorBee 6y ago
Unrelated to the content of the article -- it appears that the font used in the article has (some) letters "dipping down" below others; for example, the "t" and "i" in "noticing" don't have their
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by MajorBee 6y ago
Personally, I do like the concealed nature of threads within the main conversation, but I do not like how they are presented when opened. The whole "displayed on a narrow pane on the side" seems too cluttered to me. I'd much
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by MajorBee 6y ago
Most disposable coffee cups (the kind you'd find in the Starbucks of the world) have a plastic lining (polyethylene) that's responsible for the cup not devolving into a soggy mess with hot liquids. Although it appears that replaci
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by MajorBee 6y ago
I just took a peak at the comments underneath the article — saying it was wild would be an understatement.
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by MajorBee 6y ago
Gradual social/political destabilization, caused at least in part and certainly accelerated by social media (FB/Twitter) and pervasive adtech in personal life (led by Google) seem to be the big ones here. Arguably as bad as Big To
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by MajorBee 6y ago
I'm sure they must have had a conversation on the trade-off of having a "known name" attached to their investigative journalism wing and that very "known name" causing them to be negatively associated with vacuous l
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by MajorBee 6y ago
I think Facebook has gained an almost utility-like status among the general population. Sure, you might not be on it as much as you used to be a decade ago, but most people still consider having an account on it as useful. Facebook really s
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by MajorBee 6y ago
It's not that hard to monetize interest in damn near _anything_ (as long as it is not clearly illegal, I guess). For the two examples you've posted, maybe advertise flights/vacations to Singapore if you show a persistent inte
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by MajorBee 6y ago
At that point, why not just use (Facebook) Messenger and stop using the main website altogether? Messenger gives you the benefit of a Rolodex without subjecting you to the normal feed. Facebook did a pretty good job of cleaning up bloat fro
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by MajorBee 6y ago
Might also be that people are preferring to not move in the coming months (thanks to COVID-19) and so the units that _are_ on the market simply aren't finding many buyers. I'm actually looking for a new place in the Bay Area next
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by MajorBee 6y ago
Chicago is Tier 3? That doesn't seem right.
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by MajorBee 6y ago
Of course, bringing a healthy online-subscription model back into the mainstream is definitely ideal for journalism. Even more than that, I do wish there was a quick/easy/safe way to purchase individual articles (or even whole iss
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by MajorBee 7y ago
> Aural contraceptive aborting pregnant conversation” Now that is a lyric, goddamn.
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by MajorBee 7y ago
I think it's a little more shocking when you see ALL this activity collated in one place by a single entity. It's not quite as impactful (and scary) if it had been Spotify or Apple Music with the music tracking, because that means

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