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by addicted 4y ago
The UK government also has an excellent civil servant corps. In reality it’s the civil service, that continues across government, that keeps the UK govt running. The elected officials are limited to providing high level directions. One of t
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by addicted 4y ago
My biggest frustration with the WFH discussion has been that the vast majority of people say that the #1 (and sometimes only) reason they prefer WFH is to save time on the commute. But this has not led to any discussions on how we can actua
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by addicted 4y ago
One of the most incredible tricks the IT industry pulled was convincing companies to convert a whole bunch of capex to opex in the middle of a decade of historically low borrowing rates.
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by addicted 4y ago
A clarification. They’ve not worked in rail. They’ve worked in hyperloop. A fantasy technology that does not, and probably never will, exist. Imagine being able to destroy the idea of constructing rail in a few paragraphs of a tiny blog an
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by addicted 4y ago
Also, with boomers living and working longer than ever, there’s a huge issue where millennials are getting screwed since they’re unable to enter positions of power since the boomers will just not leave. This is a massive problem in companie
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by addicted 4y ago
The oldest millennials are about 40 years today. To the extent they’re running anything its in a handful of cases over the past couple of years. So the fact that you think it’s going off the rails it’s almost entirely because of Boomers, wh
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by addicted 4y ago
Lethal injection is not a medical procedure. If it was a medical procedure it wouldn’t make the recipient’s condition deliberately worse than it was before the procedure. Just because a procedure involves injecting chemicals in someone’s bo
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by addicted 4y ago
This whole story is just disgraceful. And while there are definitely understandable concerns about interviewing a basically imprisoned population, 1. the fact that only a handful of prisoners opted to speak while the rest declined shows tha
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by addicted 4y ago
Google+ was the turning point it seems. I guess once your company culture allows you to U-turn so hard on something you’ve been pushing so much, as Google was Google+, U-turning on anything else becomes super easy.
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by addicted 4y ago
Microsoft Office is a strong brand, but the product doesn’t really exist anymore. And the major components of the Office Suite are probably stronger brands by themselves (Word, Excel, PowerPoint). That being said I don’t expect colloquial u
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by addicted 4y ago
Because it doesn’t impact the handful of money earners they do have. ie various version of Ads.
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by addicted 4y ago
All this research appears to be from the 80s and 90s. When women were still largely confined to being homemakers and soft jobs. Since then research has shown that people tend to have far more negative views of women in power than equivalent
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by addicted 4y ago
And the NRC has global powers which is why nuclear was barely being built anywhere else in the world other China, and projects in other countries weee collapsing until the were bailed out by the Chinese, like in the UK.
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by addicted 4y ago
> given that they were trying to incarcerate an innocent person in the case I think that the detectives in this case were either incompetent, or immoral. It really doesn’t need to be that exciting. For the most part, it’s much more munda
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by addicted 4y ago
The places that have cheap housing stock are usually places that are undesirable to live in because of crime, an undeserved reputation for crime, and generally pathetic government services. Metro Detroit has low housing expenses because the
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by addicted 4y ago
Thanks Biden. On a more serious note, hopefully this will lead to business leaders advocating for better government support in terms of child care and healthcare. The former because it will make more women available to the workforce (becaus
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by addicted 4y ago
You do realize that there is no contradiction in being both a republic and a democracy right? Your point 1) is the equivalent of you rebutting someone’s claim that their hair is black by saying that their eyes are brown.
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by addicted 4y ago
Ben Franklin: > That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved. This builds upon an idea espoused by Voltaire, I believe. Western philo
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by addicted 4y ago
Something I don’t understand about standups. Why should anyone wait until the standup itself to reveal blockers? In my experience the team reveals blockers as they arise and someone usually finds a solution for them within 30-60 mins. There
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by addicted 4y ago
Conference program Saturday, November 12 Talks day! All talks will be streamed live on YouTube, exact schedule to be announced. Sunday, November 13 Workshop day! We’ll use Discord for the workshops, exact schedule to be announced. —————————
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by addicted 4y ago
Politicians will always be political. The question is if your politics and support base means “being political” leads to you pardoning thousands of people for something pretty much everyone agrees is not a crime and making their and their f
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by addicted 4y ago
It’s only sincere if you do something when you will not benefit from it is the thinking of a 4 year old. And thinking politics is about sincerity and morality is the thinking of a politically inclined 12 year old.
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by addicted 4y ago
What does one actually discuss about crypto. Blockchain is interesting but it’s been around for decades (it’s older than Bitcoin) and no one’s really come up with any good uses for it. There’s very few uses where the decentralized nature he
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by addicted 4y ago
The U.S. also has an additional problem where it doesn’t really agree on what USPS is supposed to be. Half the country believes it should be a public service and therefore it should serve everyone even if they’re unprofitable subsidized by
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by addicted 4y ago
$20 is also huge. Don’t forget that it’s also far more expensive for Russia to send oil to India. They don’t have oil pipelines to India. Their oil is being shipped to India, but their ports are all located on their Northern coast which mea
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by addicted 4y ago
1. The West already appeased Putin in 2014 by allowing him to have Crimea. All it led to was him trying to take over more of Ukraine. 2. Random bloggers and Twits repeating it every time they talk about this will not make this a U.S. driven
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by addicted 4y ago
Oil is a global market. India buying Russian oil means they aren’t buying it from the broader market. If they didn’t buy Russian oil they would buy it from the broader market increasing overall oil prices and inflation in Europe. More impor
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by addicted 4y ago
As Google is finding out though that user trust is easy to break and can greatly impact your future products’ success. If Meta continues destroying users’ faith in Instagram the way they have in Facebook, it will gravely hurt any attempt by
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by addicted 4y ago
I think this is mistaken. We have seen no Western governments strongly criticize India for these oil purchases. The only criticisms have been from media outlets and mild criticisms when government officials are questioned by the media. But
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by addicted 4y ago
I’m not sure how Apple being pissed matters here (for one thing, I’m not sure why Apple is pissed in the first place). If Apple got a better deal than TSMC somewhere else they would have taken it. Irrespective of whether they were pissed or

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