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by blahblahblogger 6y ago
> I am in favor of capitalists controlling their own business - modulo protected class issues What does this mean? Can you give an example of a protected class and how the business would be impacted?
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by blahblahblogger 6y ago
I don't use my Home device ever, but its been plugged in for so long. The other day while walking by it, I decided to just unplug it. Why not? I put a cover over my laptop cam.
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by blahblahblogger 6y ago
I haven't listened to this yet, but am wondering if the gender gap in teaching could be an issue? I work in tech where the gender disparity between men and women is discussed very often -- but I don't see these conversations takin
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by blahblahblogger 6y ago
> It was not the first time Chan tried to buy a Model 3. In 2016, he placed a reservation for the EV and was charged seven times by Tesla. He canceled the reservation and only received all his money back three and a half years later – wi
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by blahblahblogger 6y ago
This is a key point of Peter Thiel's in his talk at YC from some years ago. He expands on it to great effect in a few other videos too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtJ0C0UHFfE .
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by blahblahblogger 6y ago
honest Q: why is it their job to fix this? also: for companies that are global in nature, with global operations, offices, employees, etc. is it right to take on the issues of the country where they have an office? (or are HQ-ed, or have X%
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by blahblahblogger 6y ago
Does the US have protections that prohibit companies from doing that? Or is it just that there's more faith in our legal system if a company does what isn't in the shareholders' best interest?
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by blahblahblogger 6y ago
I work at a Bay Area tech company with a lot of H1Bs. I consider myself to be an average coder, no formal education, and yet it behooves me why I'm sitting next to Stanford and Harvard grads at work doing the same grunt-work coding tha
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by blahblahblogger 6y ago
From my perspective we still need other information, do they also ban other apps that are purpose-built for hate speech? Was it just this app because of the controversy over banned Twitter users going to it? I'm not taking a side eithe
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by blahblahblogger 6y ago
Can the outside world hear in though? People may forget themselves and lose sense of perspective. I have a bipolar condition where sometimes I'll pace my apartment and yell about anything and everything, if I lived in one of these plac
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by blahblahblogger 6y ago
Well this type of employee activism is happening everywhere even in tech, or especially so in tech. I work at a company in SF that's gone full ACAB ("all cops are bastards"), defund the police, you must be with us or you are
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by blahblahblogger 6y ago
omg yes, I was noticing this over the past week specifically. I keep getting these crap ads multiple times in pretty short video (less than 20 min?) Reminds me of watching TV when I was a kid :(
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by blahblahblogger 6y ago
> If you’re new to how these socialist organizations think, check out their self-avowed plan to infiltrate BLM early and leverage its cause for their own Marxist ends... They have a mentality to implement their ideology at its fullest wi
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by blahblahblogger 6y ago
> A city that put a 90% tax on billionaires would find that they all left pretty quickly. That's kind of hyperbole given the OP said "up to 10%". But aside from that, don't a lot of billionaires (steve jobs, bill gate
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by blahblahblogger 6y ago
> Here's the rub: I strongly suspect that YouTube is not profitable, or is just barely profitable, such that it would be difficult to run as a separate company from the rest of Google... > Breaking apart Google would substantiall
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by blahblahblogger 6y ago
The growth in the administrative side of education has been incredible as money from the government kept pouring - I read an article a few years ago about a university (Arizona?) with bloated administration that had built a dorm with a pool
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by blahblahblogger 6y ago
I like things like this, anyone have any similar to share?
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by blahblahblogger 6y ago
Why would this open source project add something specific to the US even if just a banner? People keep saying slogans like "injustice anywhere..." or silence is complicit ... but they mean just on this US/Western issue? It se
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by blahblahblogger 6y ago
Wow so if I work for a company with an office in Chicago, but I work in their SF office - I could potentially relocate without a salary adjustment?
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by blahblahblogger 7y ago
Can you explain more? What does "having to disable the telemetry" mean and what's the effect of that?
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by blahblahblogger 7y ago
Your "against" seems to be an actual study, your "for" links are from Jane McGonigal who's been criticized for making claims not backed up in any way and who makes money selling "betterness" through apps,
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by blahblahblogger 7y ago
Fuschia seems like the type of project that's begging to be canceled.
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by blahblahblogger 7y ago
Uh huh, that article is from 2017 and also says this: > Nearly 45 years after NASA astronauts last embarked on a lunar mission, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has announced his company's plans to send two private citizens on a flight around t
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by blahblahblogger 7y ago
Hmm I was also told that I didn't need to bother getting this done b/c I'm in my mid-30s. But I haven't been that sexually active in my life :( so I know the stat about most ppl having some form of HPV but it may not app
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by blahblahblogger 7y ago
To what extent do CEOs like Jack Ma, who are known in the West (at least on here), acknowledge the reality of this system? Or do they?
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by blahblahblogger 7y ago
> As a coder, if I'm honest, money speaks louder, unfortunately. If they pay me I'll do it, as others obviously do Agreed. The company I work for is doing AMP and are getting real business value from it. As such money does spea
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by blahblahblogger 7y ago
> But try changing your diet. I won't make any suggestions but there are limitless option to biohack your body. You will see amazing effects on your brain too. Can you give an example?
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by blahblahblogger 7y ago
> cinema is having its most successful years ever, so clearly many people are enjoying the films Hollywood is putting out. Is that really true or is it just films like "Avengers" who make Hollywood's balance sheet look bet
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by blahblahblogger 7y ago
where do you people buy this stuff? I must be the most uncool person in the world :(
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by blahblahblogger 7y ago
This is also what Google's new Flutter project uses to build cross-platform apps.

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