alexqgb

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by alexqgb 1y ago
I watched an interview with him several years ago. The brother was sipping from a glass of whisky on the rocks the whole time. I fully get it.
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by alexqgb 7y ago
And did you update your email signature in the way the OP suggested? Specifically, do you let everyone getting email from you know that you not only track that read it, but when they read it, and even where they were when reading it? I as
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by alexqgb 8y ago
A better view would focus what kind of government control. Are we talking about a government where legislators are entirely and exclusively dependent on the votes of their constituents? Or are we talking about a government that merely pre
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by alexqgb 8y ago
In the offices of your clients, suppliers, partners, and regulators.
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by alexqgb 9y ago
Not if the election wasn't won with a majority.
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by alexqgb 9y ago
The most important cities (culturally and economically) are, at least, left-leaning. That's not a coincidence. It's a direct product of cosmopolitanism. The cities that represent it most clearly are its capitals. Like any workin
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by alexqgb 9y ago
It depends on the culture. Also worth nothing: some cultures make this effectively impossible.
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by alexqgb 9y ago
There is nothing random about the world's most powerful retailer wanting the basis of virtual retail to be based on an 3D engine they control, and not one controlled by an independent third party, such as Unity.
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by alexqgb 9y ago
Here's the deal; if you're (a) at work and (b) dealing with subordinates, the correct amount of sex to bring to the relationship is zero. Figuring out "where to draw the line" is no more complicated than deciding how muc
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by alexqgb 9y ago
It's not that representatives should isolated from all influence, just influence aside the electorate's.
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by alexqgb 9y ago
Whether they're enforced exactions of voluntary contributions is not the Court's call to make. Some people are happy to pay their taxes, recognizing them as the perfectly reasonable cost of living in a functioning civil society (w
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by alexqgb 9y ago
You're being downvoted because this is a fundamentally dishonest argument. Even if you believe the bit about averages it's clear that the recommendations made by the memo didn't pertain to the average. They pertained to the
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by alexqgb 9y ago
Here's a direct quote from the "Personality Differences" section of the screed: "Neuroticism (higher anxiety, lower stress tolerance).This may contribute to the higher levels of anxiety women report on Googlegeist and t
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by alexqgb 9y ago
Spoken like a dude who hasn't listened to a single response from women.
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by alexqgb 9y ago
Dude, this is a massive, for-profit corporation, not some leafy liberal arts campus. Their cultures and priorities may align to a degree, but there are some fundamental differences between them in terms of whose interests they serve, how th
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by alexqgb 9y ago
Assuming rough parity in terms of simplicity and cost, no. Unlike, the limited range of B&W photography vs. color, there is no intrinsic value in having a compromised sense of space and severely limited range of motion when using immers
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by alexqgb 9y ago
Not if you understand the difference between a system that only tracks three degrees of freedom (i.e., rotational motion only / e.g., Daydream and GearVR), and one that tracks all six (i.e., rotational + translational / e.g., Vive
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by alexqgb 9y ago
Eh, "community range" turns out to be pretty massive around the SF Bay Area, for example. Moving people two or more hours away by car can still do a lot of damage to their relationships, especially when their ability to drive is b
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by alexqgb 9y ago
That's a pretty shitty solution for everyone involved if they don't actually want to be separated from the rest of their family by 3,000 miles. And not just their families, but their friends and communities, which have a profoun
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by alexqgb 9y ago
As the end of the post notes, if you're having an especially hard time with this, that's a pretty good indicator that your company may be screwed. Noting how hard it is to unscrew a company that lacks clear focus, it makes a stron
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by alexqgb 9y ago
I'm sorry, but the writer was super clear about the exact formula. It's a simple I/O arrangement that opens with what a user does and closes with what happens (e.g. Push a button, get a ride). That's it.
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by alexqgb 9y ago
At this point, places like Scandinavia should have made it clear that socialism per se isn't the problem so much as cult-of-personality authoritarians who use the ideals of socialism as cover for bottomless corruption and ruthless op
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by alexqgb 9y ago
It a world where economies, political systems, and even entire ecologies are being horribly degraded by historically extreme concentrations of wealth, a massive tax hike is a feature, not a bug. Some may ignore this aspect of UBI programs,
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by alexqgb 10y ago
Also, this is arguably the most corrupt aspect of medical pricing. Putting these sociopathic predators under the thumb of good governance satisfies a moral as well as an economic desire.
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by alexqgb 10y ago
Trump lost the popular vote by more than 3 million. The Senate majority sits on a vote deficit of 6 million. And the GOP holds the House by a margin two digits greater than their share of the portion of the vote they won. If you think the g
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by alexqgb 10y ago
Somehow, the GOP can't stop making the case for single-payer stronger by the day.
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by alexqgb 10y ago
I'm sorry, but you've completely missed the point of a single-payer system. You don't set one up to get better deals out of insurance companies. Under single payer you put for-profit insurance companies out of business . Hos
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by alexqgb 10y ago
Part of the reason those drugs exist in the first place is that they've been engineered to extract the maximum amount of cash possible from our nightmare of a system. Yes, you may blow through your lifetime cap on one ailment, but the
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by alexqgb 10y ago
No, this is demonstrably wrong. Cutting $87,000 in markups from the price of $1,700 off-patent drugs does not mean "less is offered". To the contrary, far more people get access to the drug in question. It may mean that the syst
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by alexqgb 10y ago
Many. Start with highways, aviation safety, and prisons. Oh, and the history of private fire departments is a carnival of horrors. I mean, the list goes on (and on, and on).

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