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by PeachPlum 9y ago
While I am in no way defending DHL's practices which I think are wrong for other reasons: How does an employee having to buy their own healthcare mean I pay more tax? How does DHL buying healthcare for employees mean I pay less tax? Ho
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"It's like Facebook, but for $group" Groan
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Jevan's Paradox
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If you are concerned about death then obesity kills 100x more people than guns. And abortion kills 2x as many as obesity.
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See the Sony break in where the dubious attribution was used by Obama as a reason for more DPRK sanctions
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You can only publish what you are given.
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UK pubs closing at a rate of 27 a week, Camra says http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/uk-pubs-clos...
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Does that make it false ?
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Marketing is getting something of value on the shelf. Advertising is making sure it doesn't stay there.
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Having made the error of judgment are you suggesting they should have stuck to their guns and doubled down on it. Perhaps banning all the newspapers that reported the first ban?
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Brendan Eich's Brave browser - https://brave.com/ Chrome without the tracking
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The Word processor on my 8 Bit Computer (BBC Micro) is ready to type into about 2 seconds from when I switch the power on.
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I know Ron, he used to work at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, running Plan 9 on IBM's Deep Blue among other things. e.g. running 1 million Linux kernel at once https://share-ng.sandia.gov/news/resources
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Fix this computer or got to prison. How would that work ?
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Try Shardik too, his next work.
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Can you show me the list of President Trump's human rights abuses ?
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If we extend our timelines then all of the European nations would go to the top. Late 19th century unbridled mercantilism killed millions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Victorian_Holocausts
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amoral, not immoral but even then I disagree, just look at the life expectancy of the billions of people under capitalism. Milton Friedman - Is Capitalism Humane? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHPI1emZFVg
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Hiring people who care and keeping them in that mindset is hard, especially at scale. 32.9% of U.S. employees "engaged" in workplace in February (2015) http://news.gallup.com/poll/181895/employee-engageme
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No real error rates though, as I said, it is easy to imagine none occurred in just 28k operations. What if the error rate was (in extremis) 1 death in 50k for non assisted and 1 death in 500k for assisted. The extra cost might be justified
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You will find jobs at different levels, from Intern to Researcher https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/?keywords=battery&locat... Once you know who does the work, target them as a goal.
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But they make up for that with volume.
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Hmm, there's no mention of error rates / mistakes. 24,000 operations without error is quite possible. If the robot reduced the chance of catastrophe by 5x (to pluck a figure from thin air) it may well pay for itself even at an ext
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Thank you for fulfilling my prophecy
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The solution is to provide terminals with only access to work tools. No-one plays Solitaire on a supermarket checkout till (cue someone finding a photo of someone playing Solitaire on a supermarket checkout till)
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http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit Now that I have made this catalogue of swindles and perversions, let me give another example of the kind of writing that they lead to. This ti
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March 14, 2017 Saudi deputy crown prince, Trump meeting a 'turning point': Saudi adviser https://archive.is/nAC1H WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia hailed a “historical turning point” in U.S.-Saudi relations aft
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"Dopey Prince" is a famous tweet
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2011 Russian Election Vladimir Putin accuses Hillary Clinton of encouraging Russian protests https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/dec/08/vladimir-putin...
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The CIA has many people working as "journalists" in the USA for the same reasons. Over 40 CIA working as 'journalists' and on the JFK assassination story in 1973. How many are CIA reporters today? https://www.

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