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by bongobongo 7y ago
It's honestly hard to cut through the randomness of your data points and the bitchiness of your tone and judgments in order to discover an underlying argument.
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by bongobongo 7y ago
You're papering over all of the policy arguments that have been made over the past 30-50 years to convince people to give up pensions, unions, contracts, severance, etc., most of which boiled down to "not only will this new system
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by bongobongo 7y ago
Either way it's a hell of a lot more than the 2-4 barrels per day claimed by Taylor Energy Company.
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by bongobongo 7y ago
People expect their salary to go up for a number of reasons, but the major factors are inflation and cost-of-living. If your salary is not going up by at least a certain percent a year, you are likely stagnating or losing income. Another re
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by bongobongo 7y ago
The idea of having to include a headshot with a job application is insane to me. Unless you are in a public-facing role, your appearances are virtually irrelevant, and the information can only be used to discriminate against you for nefario
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by bongobongo 7y ago
>With age comes experience and wisdom and desire to not be taken advantage of and to not be manipulated by any dark patterns. You hit the nail on the head, here, I think. I would reckon that the vast majority of age discrimination in tec
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by bongobongo 7y ago
Gee, I dunno, maybe think about it for a second. What does a 65 year-old lower middle-class retiree with some money stashed in a 401(k) have in common with an ExxonMobil shareholder aside from the need to generate as much profit as possible
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by bongobongo 7y ago
Lol you would be wrong, just Google it. Theatres used to have ushers to keep the noise down and to keep the rooms from getting trashed, sound engineers to cater the room to specific films, attendants to make sure everything went right—now i
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by bongobongo 7y ago
“Event cinema” is precisely what caused this decline, transforming cinemas from clean, pleasant, affordable places to watch films with great audio and visual quality to today’s smelly, expensive, sticky auditoriums where digital video is cr
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by bongobongo 7y ago
11 denied requests? Those prosecutors must have been sloppy. Usually you don’t see denials because prosecutors know well enough not to waste the court’s time.
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by bongobongo 7y ago
They should not. All that's left to retail investors are mutual funds and index funds, which can be a decent deal but which also tie the interests of retirees to the interests of shareholders, which is kind of dumb and fucked up.
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by bongobongo 7y ago
Of course. My only point is that it's not the job of anybody to cover for the incompetence of their superiors.
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by bongobongo 7y ago
It's a term of art in journalism, it has nothing to do with anything related to the circumstances behind the study or its release
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by bongobongo 7y ago
RTFA. You are getting basic facts wrong. >In the past, Prof. Wachsmuth has done consulting work and produced reports for governments, and civic and business groups, including a hotel-industry association. This study, which has been peer
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by bongobongo 7y ago
Nope, I feel that my opinion reflects both the conventional wisdom and the expert consensus, which would be a waste of my time to reiterate. It’s the people arguing a multinational corporation ought to be able to circumvent the laws of sove
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by bongobongo 7y ago
No I wouldn’t because that would be dumb
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by bongobongo 7y ago
Absolutely.
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by bongobongo 7y ago
As a person who was a manager in the situation you describe, I disagree. My obligations are as follows: (1) to my co-workers/reports as fellow human beings; (2) to my work as a professional; (3) to the company that pays me for my profe
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by bongobongo 7y ago
No, we really don’t need to question that. Financial laws exist for a good reason. Nor should some private company have more power than a sovereign nation just because.
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by bongobongo 7y ago
A liberal constitutional democracy does not have any more ability to make you disappear than Facebook does. And repressive governments already use Facebook to disappear their people: >The Facebook posts were not from everyday internet us
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by bongobongo 7y ago
It's generally true for most people. You're right though that it's not true in certain special cases.
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by bongobongo 7y ago
>How are his staff not just jumping out of windows? Because everybody has a price, and Facebook knows how to find 'em cheap.
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by bongobongo 7y ago
Facebook has 70% of the social media global market share. Coca-Cola has just 40% of the non-alcoholic beverages global market share. And as others have pointed out, "don't use Facebook" doesn't solve the problem of all t
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by bongobongo 7y ago
It never ceases to amaze me how people who are opposed to government surveillance by accountable liberal constitutional democracies are OK with surveillance by unaccountable private interests who lie all the time and do harm in order to mak
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by bongobongo 7y ago
This is exciting. A big thank-you to all involved in bringing this sorely needed standard to life!
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by bongobongo 7y ago
I’m relatively new around here but it’s a cringeworthy level of uncritical sycophancy. (Perhaps that’s too harsh; perhaps not.)
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by bongobongo 7y ago
You need Prime to get the 5%. Prime costs $119/year. You would need to spend $2,380 or nearly $200/mo just to make it worthwhile. Sorry; that’s not a good product at all.
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by bongobongo 7y ago
I let my Prime subscription expire 6 months ago and I honestly haven't even noticed. The quality of the Amazon experience had already declined so much that I had already stopped using Amazon for most of my shopping/streaming. 2-3
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by bongobongo 7y ago
Yep. I'm really confused why this press release/advertisement for Amazon is on the front page of Hacker News. It's not new technology; it's not even close to being innovative. It's literally just an Amazon logo past
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by bongobongo 7y ago
Yep. Glad that there are at least a few people whose brains haven't been turned to mush by decades of propaganda and inflexible market fundamentalist orthodoxy.

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