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by agency 6y ago
So it would be better for these employees if they were barred from going to work for Apple?
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by agency 6y ago
The business judgement rule gives company management pretty wide latitude in making business decisions so long as they are not blatantly fraudulent or conflicted. For example Shlensky v Wrigley[1] which concerns the owner of Wrigley field’s
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by agency 6y ago
It’s no wonder they got into an accident, their feet can’t even reach the pedals!
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by agency 6y ago
Fun fact: In the US, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act forbids employment discrimination based on age against people over 40. It’s legal to discriminate against young people based on age.
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by agency 6y ago
The comedian Hannibal Buress (who has asthma) has a funny bit about this in his most recent special [1]. He talks about how asthma gets a raw deal compared to other illnesses and isn't taken seriously at all (nerdy stereotypes etc) and
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by agency 6y ago
Bandcamp has struck me as seeming to be healthy in this regard. They only raised one round of funding a decade ago so they don’t seem beholden to investors and they contribute to a number of charitable causes (including regularly waiving th
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by agency 6y ago
Works in JS as well. Though I have never seen anyone put whitespace around field accesses like that, in any language.
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by agency 6y ago
Ask WireCard
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by agency 6y ago
I draw mine like a capital H minus the lower left segment and I gave up trying to get it to recognize it. It kept coming up 7 or 9
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by agency 6y ago
It's there for me on iOS 13.7: https://imgur.com/gJyId5P It was on by default - I toggled it off.
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by agency 6y ago
Same exact situation here. I have {commonFirstName}.{commonLastName}@gmail.com and get so much legit email without the dot for other people with my name. There’s at least a few of them - a retired vet, a substitute teacher in Ireland, a mid
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by agency 6y ago
No, it is not just “some awful slang” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language
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by agency 6y ago
Yeah the focus on making the “perfect unboxing you” is a brilliant business move but it’s kind of dystopian. Just imagining all these kids watching endless algorithm-recommended unboxing videos.
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by agency 6y ago
Reminds me of Ronald Wayne, the third co-founder of Apple who sold his 10% stake for a total of $2,300 USD. Rough. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Wayne
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by agency 6y ago
Those predators must be feeling foolish
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by agency 6y ago
outline link: https://outline.com/DWN7nS
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by agency 6y ago
The author was born and raised in the Soviet Union and lived in Moscow from 1991 to 2013. Perhaps it is you who needs to work on their research?
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by agency 6y ago
The author (Masha Gessen [1]) was born and raised in the Soviet Union, moved to the US in 1981 as a refugee, and returned to Russia in 1991 and lived there until 2013. That sure makes them seem qualified to make this comparison to me. [1]
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by agency 6y ago
Something that totally blew my mind is that octopuses seem to react to MDMA in ways similar to us - socially disinhibited, acting "cuddly": https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/09/20&#
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by agency 6y ago
Asking someone why they don’t drink is such a deranged thing to do. I can’t believe how often it happens.
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by agency 6y ago
My experience is that the web app does not work perfectly. In fact I get an endless spinner >50% of the time and lord help me if I try to open a comment thread.
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by agency 6y ago
And indeed I think the reduction of NP problems to SAT is pretty intuitively understandable, at least at a hand-wavy level. If a decision problem is in NP, then given some candidate solution to the problem we can verify it in polynomial tim
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by agency 6y ago
Obligatory Matt Levine take[1] > I just want to spell it out a bit here because, again, the common story these days is that a SPAC is a substitute for an IPO that is cheaper and avoids mispricing. I have argued before that that is wrong,
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by agency 6y ago
The article actually _does_ mention challenges to the real virus, at the end of the "What are the next steps in the trial?" section: > There are also calls to perform "challenge trials"[1] in which vaccinated people a
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by agency 6y ago
Couldn’t agree more. I just finished rewatching The Return and it is such an astonishing achievement. I’m still kind of in disbelief that it exists.
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by agency 6y ago
This is great. Those curtains are so loud though, they could really use some silent drape runners[1]. [1] https://imgur.com/a/Mzj9QsY
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by agency 6y ago
And written by Vince Gilligan! He also wrote my single favorite X-Files episode "Bad Blood"
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by agency 6y ago
This quote cracked me up > The other had short dark hair and protruding ears. “A hayseed,” Yablonsky said. “A goober type.”
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by agency 6y ago
Agreed. It's a little mystery that I get to dig into and investigate. Certainly sometimes the issue is just frustrating and tedious, but often it's illuminating. And it's gratifying to get to the bottom of it. To go from the
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by agency 6y ago
> Sure, there's a difference between 440 and 442 but that's not considered an interval in western music theory. Well that's just your 2 cents... I mean, 7.85 cents.

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