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by altacc 3y ago
It was probably mostly about cash balance for the company. I once worked in a company that was a niche business but very profitable and with predictable cash flow. That made it very quick and easy to sell when needed, basically a tradeable
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by altacc 3y ago
I take photos with an SLR & phone so have built up quite a large collection of photos and quick early sorting & review is the key for good future usability of your photos. My workflow is to import all photos onto the computer into a
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I know exactly what you mean but also that normalisation of despair and acceptance of the futility of action is part of the PR machine of those who wish to do whatever they want. Resisting that seems to be the right thing to do but also see
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by altacc 3y ago
> During the 2008 financial crisis, the UAW made major concessions to help auto companies get back on their feet. Workers are still feeling the effects of those concessions to this day... > Collectively, the Big Three automakers have
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Sounds like a bad union and in many places unions are badly run. Did people keep voting for the same ineffective union reps? I don't think about what a union can do for me personally, rather what it can do for the collective and hope t
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by altacc 3y ago
If they are a normal bike and packed, then American, Quantas, Delta, BA, Nippon, Delta, Emirates to name a few.
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One of the benefits of representative democracy & taxes is that individuals don't get asked about spending for each line item. That decision lies on the people chosen (directly or indirectly by the public) to make those decisions b
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Yep, even a lot of Western political demagoguery is telling people they have it good compared to some unfortunate others, so that the politicians can avoid having to actually make things better.
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I think it's mostly the control from the first 2 points you mention. They are often working from China, where the authorities will not help them. "Well compensated" in North Korea terms means not starving and your family has
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From what I've read from NK experts: they intentionally and intensively create hackers. If you are a child in NK who shows skills in mathematics then you will be monitored and if you are good enough you will be sent to a special mathem
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> I loved how huge Netflix's DVD catalog was. I used to use the DVD service and the films I rented were across a much broader spectrum than is available via streaming subscription, especially considering the recommendation engine on
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by altacc 3y ago
The more you know about something that Musk talks about as if he’s an expert in it, the more you realise that he’s a bluffer. He real skill may be his motivational & promotional skills but from all that’s known, he’s neither reasonable
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by altacc 3y ago
So many times I heard “but you can just block them” as a defence for allowing any speech on Twitter. How’s that plan working out? I give it 10 minutes after the feature is turned off and Musk is flooded with tweets that trigger him before h
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by altacc 3y ago
I don't go to concerts for the music quality. Listening to a mastered studio recording is much better for that. I go (or rather used to go) for the atmosphere. Some bands really know how to perform and experiencing that as part of a cr
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I've been to a stadium concert with a similar doughnut layout and the main problem was that at all times at least half the audience is looking at a band member's back, not their face. You get some connection by being close but tha
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by altacc 3y ago
Tim Wu makes a similar point in his book The Attention Merchants. Humans are interested in things and throughout time various people and media (which tends to be controlled by a small number of people) have been working to capture our atten
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> That's only true in some kind of naive sense imho. My opinion is that the use of cui bono is simplistic and naive and therefore inherently prone to abuse. It is rarely a real tool for investigation and then only ever the starting
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Which shows what a joke the "non-profit" label is. People are making substantial amounts of personal profit, just not corporate shareholders. Often the label is there just to benefit from tax exemptions.
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The problem with cui bono is that it can, and usually is, be twisted to fit any narrative without proving causation. Just because something is possible, or beneficial, does not mean it happened or had any causal link. Human decision making
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by altacc 3y ago
Title is misleading / totally incorrect. Should be "Far-Right Libertarian Wins Argentina’s Presidential Primary" In short, a politician who wants to replace the dollar got 30% of the votes in the primary and will now contest
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https://archive.is/zCRno
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I live in a country where English is not the native language and the idiom is not in common usage, so the literal translation works. Sometimes I often wonder if it would be useful for more internet forums to allow users to add a flair to de
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by altacc 3y ago
> What I did is come in as an outsider [and] let my naivety guide my investigation... I call this being "a useful idiot", which I sometimes use to describe my role. A large part of my job is floating between teams & applica
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AI comes for YouTube’s thumbnail industry(restofworld.org)
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No, it’s not true. 13% of Americans over 12 are recent drug users but 13% of Americans aren’t living on the streets due to drug abuse. https://drugabusestatistics.org/ And let’s not forget that the drugs that are considered
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Maybe wait and see if it really is a sustainable business first. Making a profit for 1 quarter after 50 quarters of loses whilst having over $9 billion of debt isn't strong proof that it will be profitable from now on. The numbers are
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International travel was not easy nor reliable during the pandemic, with many borders de facto closed or severely restricted, with quarantines, tests, etc.. needed. The drilling season involves moving an international team from each of thei
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It's not a continuous 24/7/365 process. They have a drilling season each year, I believe about 6-8 weeks, have drilled at 2 different sites and been interrupted by the pandemic.
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For a large number of significant issues, the minority rule. This is how the political system is structured. Political & legal appointments are made to ensure that even when a party has minority voter support, it has functional control
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Except that there are other dashed lines on the map, dashed lines are a common way of denoting travel on maps, and the dashes in question are higher up than the disputed border is. Hanlon's razor: "Never attribute to malice that w

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