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by brc 11y ago
The collective 'you' is the same as the singular. Just like fish and sheep. It's incorrect to create a collective 'you' in the same way it's incorrect to say 'sheep'. But English is open source, so
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I find it ironic that people are warning about 'oooh, Uber monopoly' when their business model is all about deconstructing actual government monopolies. Uber already has competitors in major markets. The market has very low swi
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Car manufacturers will benefit. What matters is passenger miles driven, not total number of unique car sales. If you open up a new pocket of driving demand because it's easier to get a lift, then the total passenger miles driven goes u
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Even just burying it, burning it or keeping it in a single pile would seem better than having it lying all over the place.
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I specifically noted in my comment that I know you cannot understand the underlying problems by watching TV.
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"While Lin and Chen were building their small lingerie empire, they noticed that there was a lot of garbage sitting in open piles around Asyut. They were not the first people to make this observation. But they were the first to respond
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TV is already mostly unwatchable. As people channel-surf more to avoid ads or boring TV, the TV shows try and adapt by regularly recapping what has happened before the last ad break. So they spend less time on the content and more time on
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by brc 11y ago
Yes, exactly. The former are incredibly rare, and the latter are common as muck. For all the pearl-clutching that goes on about monopolies, you'd think people would twig onto the risks in letting the size of the government grow to suc
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Seriously. Sometimes I wonder about who actually is visiting this site. The 'wonder' of compounding interest? It's merely the monetary representation of the return on investment in productive activities and assets. The reas
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1) There are no 'unregulated free markets' 2) Nobody -ever- has said that an 'unregulated free market produces a level playing field and a meritocracy' The facts are that a regulated and controlled market with freedom of
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Yes, that's exactly what they called it.
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Human rights? Like the right to a free and fair trial? The right to free speech? I think the hyperbole might have dulled the comment a bit.
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Just because you might not like cleaning, it's a stretch to imagine that casual cleaners don't like their job. Saying someone on by low wage job is 'modern slavery' is pretty obtuse when real life actual slavery is happ
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Yes, use them by all means - it's very difficult to get started unless you do. But don't trust them. Don't take their word for anything.
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Kind of - it wasn't booming when I first started, that was later on. I had a friend who made the decision to do the same thing, but arrived in October 2001. After three months of job searching and finding nothing, he spent all of his
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Often the remainder of it is 'gardening leave' or just paid out as cash. Where I worked, when the decision was made that someone was no longer going to be there, they didn't spend much time in the office.
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On the 4 months savings thing. When I arrived in London (as a foreigner fresh off the boat) I had about 4 weeks worth of money. I couch surfed and worked the recruiters endlessly and landed a job in 10 days. It wasn't the greatest jo
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by brc 11y ago
Ah yeah, you're right. It was a while ago...getting fuzzy. It was more like 400 pd
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by brc 11y ago
Good list. I would also add: - don't trust agents - don't trust agents One more thing: - don't trust agents If you find a half-honest one work with them as much as you can. They'll still try and screw you over but they
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In my experience, sometimes they wanted more skill and experience for a permanent role than they did for a contractor. I worked as a contractor and had to fill headcount, and the process was different for a contractor and a permanent. Con
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by brc 11y ago
Amazing that 15 years ago I was making more than 400 pd (contract was actually 45 ph, and you could push overtime if you wanted) and I was pretty junior at the time. And I was only paying 130 pw rent in Zone 2. Ah, boom times. Don't
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by brc 11y ago
The comment says 'especially with a family' Sure, a single guy can rent a single room and walk everywhere. Add in wife and kids and you need three rooms, a car, somewhere to park it. Schooling, activities, shoes and clothes, stu
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by brc 11y ago
Actually, it is a pretty sound argument when it comes to describing human behaviour. Things are often they way they are because it works on a macro and micro level. Sure, some things get into weird feedback loops and drift to silliness, bu
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It woudo be interesting to find out how many production staff they poach. Perhaps they used a lot lf contract staff anyway and won't be a big deal. Either way, with Andy Wilman in charge and undoubtedly a bigger budget, I would say it
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by brc 11y ago
The online shaming campaigns are stifling expression in a very bad way. Imagine a source code repository where you have to be mindful of your comments, lest you become the target of a SJW out to destroy your career, friendships and reputati
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by brc 11y ago
My kids has swim lessons from two years old. It is very cheap insurance. My son is now 7 and did his first triathlon this year. You should really think about paying for swim lessons if there is any chance they will be swimming, especia
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If said man has a life jacket on, grab the shoulders, push him under as far as you can go, then pull up. The buoyancy of the life jacket will provide additional momentum for pulling into the boat (assuming low sides)
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Yes. They conflate 'can swim across shallow pool' with 'johnny can swim now, so I can relax'.
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The issue is with the parents, who just want to let the kid in the pool so they can go back to their phone. I do volunteer work with my local surf live saving club, looking after the kids in the under 7 program. It is exhausting work stand
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Two things that would improve the plight of these people: 1) fish origin labelling - which has massive benefits of other types. Currently there just isn't enough 'look through' to enable consumers to determine the source of

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