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ThrowAgain
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ThrowAgain
4y ago
> I did also come to them with a job offer from another company that had a larger dollar amount associated to it. As far as I know, this negotation strategy is orders of magnitude more effective than voicing feelings about being treated
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ThrowAgain
4y ago
Wait, is this typical to had PA system in your apartment controlled by your landlord there? Can you tell more about this? I'm genuinely interested.
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ThrowAgain
4y ago
I consider lack of digital freedom quite oppressive, especially given "software eating the world" trend. The fact that they even can tell the age of person playing games during night time in the first place sounds quite sketchy to
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ThrowAgain
4y ago
Is it? EU talks a lot about national carbon footprint, and GCP launched carbon calculator https://cloud.google.com/carbon-footprint . Sure, noone asks this in explicit way but given current trends it feels like we are going
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ThrowAgain
4y ago
Between this and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutdown_law South Korea sounds like pretty oppressive country to live in.
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ThrowAgain
4y ago
> Is it not enough for you that he went out of his way to improve other people's lives? How did he went out of his way? > How do you know? Have you ever been in that position? I don't think snark is necessary here; probably
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4y ago
2, 3 or 5 billion don't matter if you still have tens of billions left. I'm not saying he shouldn't outsource his videos. What I'm saying is that this looks more like a professionally made commercial (advertising his per
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4y ago
Eh, I would say he puts a lot of effort intro creating image of benevolent nerd philantropist. Point in case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hnZJIRd6Qw There must have been a team of people dedicated to carefully crafting
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4y ago
Funny how all my "nerdy" friends love Gates now. I guess 100B$+ is enough to afford PR team that can convince public you are no longer "more evil than satan himself".