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by chosenbreed37 6y ago
I think this is a really good summary. You do often get some kind of kudos when people say they're rubbish at computers/IT but then they bring you down to earth by asking you for help with their bluetooth or some random app on the
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by chosenbreed37 6y ago
Why is it sad? If they offer no value and users move to an alternative or go off social media it will die a natural death. I mean the market will kill it. E.g. MySpace and others that came before it. They're not too big fail. To their
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by chosenbreed37 6y ago
> The EY point is interesting. I'm not sure if it's still this way, but when I worked there, a lot of care was put on audit clients as the partner(s) signing off the work had effectively unlimited liability, and could lose pret
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by chosenbreed37 6y ago
> If you are under 40 your risk of dying seems to be very very low. Based on the figures you provided I make that close to 0.7%. It is low but I wouldn't describe it as very very low :-)
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by chosenbreed37 6y ago
> My spouse and I both work in a hospital. She got covid and so did one of our two siblings. Neither of them had any symptoms (spouse is in her 50's, our sibling is twenty plus.) I never got it nor did our other sibling. I also don&
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by chosenbreed37 6y ago
> - The disease is astronomically worse for elderly people. One study said that for young person, getting COVID was as risky as going for a ~200 mile car drive but as a 90 year old it was as risky as flying a WWII bomber mission Interest
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by chosenbreed37 6y ago
LOL! That must have been some poker face! Unbelievable!
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by chosenbreed37 6y ago
> I lost my job in Germany and got one year of unemployment benefits, no savings needed. I'm glad you were able to get those benefits. I think in general it is a good system. You say no savings needed. By that you mean you personall
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by chosenbreed37 6y ago
This is probably going to be tricky. I don't see how the 2 meter rule (or variant thereof) can be enforced on the underground trains at peak times. On a slight tangent, given that everyone will be required to wear a mask doesn't t
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by chosenbreed37 6y ago
Great heuristic!
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by chosenbreed37 6y ago
> The anti-university sentiment on HN is absolutely alien to me. Mmm...how do measure that? I think it's balanced. I suspect that the majority of the folks that comment have at least an undergraduate degree. Even the ones who argue
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by chosenbreed37 6y ago
I think the idea was to keep it as a library rather than a complete all-in-one framework. It has it pros and cons
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by chosenbreed37 6y ago
It didn't take long...
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by chosenbreed37 6y ago
I think contracts come with clauses that enable either party to give notice and terminate the contract. As to whether or not you get 2 or 3 times the FTE that is highly variable. You wouldn't necessarily know what the FTE rate is. Typi
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by chosenbreed37 6y ago
> I’m pretty sure HN, the site were literally posting on, does not have either of these, or at least not at that scale and yet it’s miles better than anything on fb or twitter so I’m not sure I buy this argument. True. I like HN. By the
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by chosenbreed37 6y ago
> Massive caveat: Facebook is an absolutely garbage company and the world would be better off if they didn't exist. But paying less based on location is reasonable. Mmm...would garbage companies also include any of these Tik-tok, in
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by chosenbreed37 6y ago
It does appear that way. Perhaps it reflects the increasing disentangling of the work being done from where it is being done. That's increasingly the case for knowledge work. If a company needs drivers, chefs, receptionists at a given
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by chosenbreed37 6y ago
> My gut feel would be that if Facebook continued paying same rate even though people weren't in the bay area anymore that nobody would ever be able to compete and therefore the retention would be much longer. Does Facebook have a p
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by chosenbreed37 6y ago
It's not coming as surprise though. Is it? If I recall correctly it was announced a while ago but only just coming into effect now.
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by chosenbreed37 6y ago
They might be needed in the after life :-). Jokes aside I think individuals should have a right to do what they want with their organs. Even posthumously...
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by chosenbreed37 6y ago
So far in this discussion I've figures of 500 million, 800 million and 1.5 billion users for Tiktok. All staggering but rather large degree of variance
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by chosenbreed37 6y ago
1.5 billion users already. That's staggering!
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by chosenbreed37 6y ago
> [1] https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace/ It looks like the departing chief hadn't had the job for long. Might be a hot potato at the moment...
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by chosenbreed37 6y ago
It's an eye-catching headline but maybe there's nothing to see here. The resignation may be unrelated to the upcoming mission. I couldn't see anything in the article to suggest otherwise.
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by chosenbreed37 6y ago
I think they generate cash flows. It's just that they're not as profitable as the others you mentioned. They've got be badly affected by the pandemic and the fallout. It's going to be a long way back...
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by chosenbreed37 6y ago
Not ideal for the people affected. Didn't read the entire article so not sure what regions are affected. Hopefully they'll all get a good severance package. Not too bad if you can add "Ex-Uber" to your list of titles..
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by chosenbreed37 6y ago
Curious...if everyone is wearing a mask or equivalent does that not reduce or eliminating the need for distancing...?
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by chosenbreed37 6y ago
I doubt anyone will want to cycle after reading that LOL. Jokes aside you raise loads of good points. With respect to covid-19 I doubt many would want to use communal shower facilities. I wouldn't. In places like London and many other
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by chosenbreed37 6y ago
> The continued existence of parasitic suburbs may not be assured. What about the folks who've spent a small fortune to live in those "parasitic suburbs" LOL?
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by chosenbreed37 6y ago
In this case 30-45 minutes in the underground. I don't think we're talking about a couple of miles. While 5 miles on a bike each way is doable it's not a walk in the park for people that aren't used to it and for those h

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