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by akudha 5y ago
Years ago, I was at a huge electronics store in NYC. I wanted to buy something small, maybe 30 bucks worth. The cashier won’t bill unless I gave him my phone number. I asked him why he needs my number, he said “in case you return the item”.
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by akudha 5y ago
Isn’t this generally true in other industries too? Small cafes can’t compete with Starbucks, there are no mom and pop pharmacies, small grocery stores can’t compete with huge/ugly chains… At this rate, the entire planet will be ruled b
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by akudha 5y ago
In the case of forests, we can just turn them over to a team of conservationists - absolutely nothing to be done to them, except the minimum necessary to preserve them. No tourism, no logging, nothing - the only ones to access the forests w
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by akudha 5y ago
Maybe we should use this model to buy forests, lands, water resources etc held by profiteers.
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by akudha 5y ago
don’t ever let your career depend on an unstable platform and tooling unless you directly profit from that instability. Woah, unstable platform is bad, unless it makes you money? Am I reading this right?
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by akudha 5y ago
What does Space Force Intelligence do?
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by akudha 5y ago
You're mixing religious text and fantasy with movies/documentaries based on real people. Those are two different genre. People will watch a movie on mother Teresa as well as a movie on Hitler (or some other monster). But I bet a l
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by akudha 5y ago
Yeah, stories about bad people sell much easier than stories about good people. How many movies and shows are there on Netflix about drug lords, serial killers etc vs saints and good people? The public has a weird fascination with bad peopl
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by akudha 5y ago
The one thing I could think of while reading the article, this guy Denard's story would make a great movie! Despite the obvious nastiness, he seems to have lived a colorful life. I know it is wrong to popularize such characters by maki
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by akudha 5y ago
Interviews can be made much more useful and pleasant simply by making a subtle change - instead of finding out/exposing what the interviewee does not know, find out what they do know .
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by akudha 5y ago
Internet was still new to most people in 2001, even computers were a novelty back then. So it is somewhat understandable that people had trouble understanding computers back then. Today everyone is walking around with a mini computer in the
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by akudha 5y ago
One of my employers was using BigQuery. I was so scared that I might accidentally run queries and get a big bill, even though our tables weren’t that big. It is funny to look back, but getting huge bills without even realizing that we’re do
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by akudha 5y ago
Oh well, I am autistic then :( I honestly can’t tell if that person is joking. But hey, we live in a world where even The Onion is struggling to keep up!
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by akudha 5y ago
Imagine getting angry over someone saving an image from the public internet. How vain and stupid does one need to be, to get pissed over this? Sometimes I feel I am the one out of touch. Or maybe we are living in a simulated (bad) parody of
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by akudha 5y ago
Tim Ferris, Rich Roll - not all episodes, but many are good (Rich tends to ramble). Behind the bastards - good show, but it will depress you. Bankless - if you’re interested in crypto/blockchain Heist podcast - this one is fun. No murd
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by akudha 5y ago
Thats 32,000 pounds. In a single day. If I ate 5 pounds of food a day, it would take me nearly 18 years to eat that much! Any shithead who hunts these magnificent animals deserves to be locked up for life
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by akudha 5y ago
It would be nice to have some laws around subscription services. Something along the lines of 1. Services have to inform the user (text, email...) every time they charge their card. Even better would be to inform 48 hours before, so users h
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by akudha 5y ago
I don't understand why this would give someone anxiety attack - it would suck if the interviewer sat next to me and watched my every keystroke, it wasn't that in my case. He just set me up and left to do his job. I was on my own,
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by akudha 5y ago
In an interview, they gave me access to their codebase and asked me to fix an actual (small) bug. The interviewer showed me where the codebase was, how to replicate the bug, all of that took less than 10 mins. Then he left, told me to give
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by akudha 5y ago
I dunno, unless some criminal stuff is involved, I feel like it is not the business of an employer to probe why a candidate left their previous job in six months. Maybe it is a red flag if their entire resume is filled with 6 month stints,
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by akudha 5y ago
Ask yourself this - if you were a mess, will the company continue to employ you? I have made the mistake of staying in boring jobs because people were nice, in shitty jobs because I hated interviewing, in good jobs because they were good.
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by akudha 5y ago
Most likely this won’t last, but it still is a good thing. People are realizing they have greater than zero options, even if it is minuscule. That realization will help their future thinking and choices. In my case, I don’t even consider no
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by akudha 5y ago
The Barnes and Noble store near my home is in a super clean, nice mall. The store itself is awesome, except the bathroom. I guess any toilet open to the public is going to be bad, unless it is some high end establishment with someone full t
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by akudha 5y ago
I have never tried any drugs/alcohol, but I'm curious about Ayahuasca. Don't know anyone personally who has been through the ceremony, but I've listened to a bunch of interviews, read a bunch of articles about it. It mos
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by akudha 5y ago
Having watched the downfall of MySpace, Orkut etc, I thought (hoped) same thing might happen to FaceBook. But now it feels like they are going to be around, for a long, long time. I don't know if anyone is even trying to take on them,
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by akudha 5y ago
The only way to solve it is to cut out the middlemen, that is unlikely to happen though. I tried it in a couple of places that I contracted at, but was quickly shot down. From an employer's perspective, it is very convenient for them t
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by akudha 5y ago
I'd like to not deal with recruiters and middlemen, at all (excluding the HR department of the actual company that is hiring). Just this week, I had a recruiter tell me that they won't tell me the end client, until after the inter
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by akudha 5y ago
Another weird thing that vendors do is requiring work email. I put my Gmail at internal.io, it wouldn’t let me sign up. I found two competitors, signed up to both with Gmail and paying for one. Not my loss, doesn’t bother me. What is the lo
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by akudha 5y ago
If we could build deep undersea cities we would basically have a template to mitigate all climate instability for future (even on land). We have ruined our land and air. We have polluted the oceans to an insane level. What makes you think
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by akudha 5y ago
I have only heard of this in the U.S. Does this happen in other countries?

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