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by alvah 5y ago
I suspected that would be the response. If you close down all the businesses that can't survive paying more for unskilled or semi-skilled labour, what do all the unskilled and semi-skilled people do? Where do they get the opportunity t
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by alvah 5y ago
"I suggest offering more money instead" To an extent that's true, but this type of sentiment is airily tossed around by people who've never had to make payroll. There's often little or even no profit to be made at t
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by alvah 5y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I suspect you misunderstand the purpose of all those recipes with ~2000 words of ramble followed by ~300 words of actual recipe. The 2000 words of fluff isn't for the reader, it's 100% for the sea
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by alvah 5y ago
If you select for diversity in everything except viewpoint, which (in my experience) has increasingly been the case over the last ~20 years of my career, is it surprising that you end up with little diversity in (expressed) viewpoint?
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by alvah 6y ago
Arthur Andersen and their ~85,000 employees would like a word.
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by alvah 6y ago
Company generates revenue, offsets costs against that revenue, pays tax on the balance. Yawn.
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by alvah 6y ago
"I can't think of any other person who has successfully started multiple billion dollar companies." Steve Jobs did, I believe there are a couple others too. I agree though, the list is short.
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by alvah 6y ago
"a non-Hispanic white woman with short blond hair who appeared to be in her fifties, claimed that smoke from the tires was killing nearby trees and that traffic from the gathering would make it impossible for an ambulance to reach her
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by alvah 6y ago
The UK was a beneficiary of the original contract signed on May 17. The EU signed its contract on August 27, the day before another contract was signed by the UK. (edited to clarify dates)
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by alvah 6y ago
No, I’m telling you forcing a bureaucrat’s idea of the right thing on everyone is fraught with problems.
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by alvah 6y ago
"the EU's don't, despite them being the first to sign with AstraZeneca" That's an unusual way to write "The EU signed 3 months after the UK"
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by alvah 6y ago
"You simply enact policies that enforce the right thing" That's a very naïve view of how science (and the world) works. Who gets to decide what "the right thing" is? What if they're later proven wrong, do their
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by alvah 6y ago
Because you don’t “just hire a developer”, and you certainly don’t do anything close to that for most of the needs Zapier addresses.
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by alvah 6y ago
It's not so surprising in Australia - protectionism is the norm here, where legally you have to hire an electrician to change a plug on an appliance. Making the standards expensive tends to force the average consumer to pay for the (ov
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by alvah 6y ago
This is the question I have too. Looks like they have far too many employees (IIRC around 10-20x their biggest rival Ahrefs, who incidentally aren't losing money). The headcount can't be all of it though.
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by alvah 6y ago
Always, if used correctly. i.e. = in other words, e.g. = for example. Surely, as a native English speaker, you can see the huge difference? One is definitive, the other is presenting one or more examples.
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by alvah 6y ago
That's not how it ends, that cuts off the story halfway through. Also, the next populist will likely make Trump look level-headed and restrained.
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by alvah 6y ago
I don't think all Trump supporters (or all Brexit voters) feel disenfranchised. My point is there are a large number of people who do feel discarded by the "system", and when given the opportunity to metaphorically throw a br
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by alvah 6y ago
“nihilistic rage of WSB seems to be spilling out into the world” I think it’s the other way round - there are millions of people who feel disenfranchised, cast away, left behind. Their rage has been manifesting in events such as Brexit &amp
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by alvah 6y ago
This. Google has had it in for affiliate sites for as long as I can remember, and they specifically dislike thin content. While the site has ~250 words of value editorial at the top of the pages I've looked at, the descriptions of the
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by alvah 6y ago
It is completely possible to drive conservatively and with caution, while exceeding an arbitrary limit. Here's one for you, a 3-lane highway adjacent to a shopping centre and school. The 60km/h speed limit is too high during shopp
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by alvah 6y ago
"(exceeding the one-size-fits all speed limit) is evidence of bad judgement" This is not as self-evident as you assert. Do you have anything to back up your claim?
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by alvah 6y ago
That is an interesting question, as a world without large industrial plants will not resemble the world we live in today, in all kinds of ways. Any sensible plan to reduce emissions will need to provide for industry (most industrial process
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by alvah 6y ago
“ How is that any different than a software developer receiving a higher salary because they are more efficient due to computers being more powerful?” There’s a much higher barrier to entry as a software engineer than a shelf stacker. The b
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by alvah 6y ago
"once the evidence of climate change became too obvious in our day to day." Citation?
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by alvah 6y ago
Is this the NYT article you're talking about?: https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/22/health/22whoop.html Can you explain to the layperson why it's "basically bullshit"? The NYT article I
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by alvah 6y ago
It must have taken a special effort to write all those words without once mentioning the false positive rate of the PCR test (~2.3%), which (unlike earlier in the pandemic) is now in the ballpark of reported case numbers: https:/&#x2F
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by alvah 6y ago
New Zealand hasn't even begun dealing with Covid-19 yet, unless their plan is to keep the borders closed permanently, or at least until the development of the first vaccine in history for any coronavirus. They are probably the farthest
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by alvah 6y ago
Interesting(ish) tangent - the UK fuel economy specs used to be published at a constant 56mph & 75mph. When the Mk3 Vauxhall Cavalier was launched in the late 1980s, it had great (theoretical) fuel economy, much better than its rivals,
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by alvah 6y ago
"Alex Jones has every right to start his own network if he wants" Ah, the tired old "start your own Google / Facebook / Twitter / YouTube" trope. That can't be too hard /sarc Why is delegating (e

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