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by confluence 12y ago
Reminds me of this scene form The Departed (great film): > Patriot Act. I love it! I love it! I love it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdqEuLhlexY
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by confluence 12y ago
I'm sure lawyers would have a field day answering your question.
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by confluence 12y ago
Looks like a bunch of heatmaps to me. Surprised no one did this earlier.
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by confluence 12y ago
PR pieces are usually released on a pre-agreed upon date. Something probably changed in the meantime.
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by confluence 12y ago
The title on this article is very clever. I can just see the journalist leaping up in glee when he figured it out.
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by confluence 12y ago
Gotta focus on them core competencies. Identical services don't market themselves, someone has got to spend a lot of money to convince people of their uniqueness, and that makes security secondary.
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by confluence 12y ago
Most companies are poorly run. Security and privacy safeguards are either non-existent or easily overridden.
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by confluence 12y ago
Brought to you by PuffCoLabs... uh.. I mean FastCoLabs.. I mean Fast Company, leading fluffers to both business ubermensch and their corporations. Other top fluffers include Inc., BusinessWeek and Forbes. Remember: > We sold our integri
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by confluence 12y ago
You should've said: > I find your lack of trust disturbing.
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by confluence 12y ago
Good. Bringing the deals in house lowers costs (ever meet an ibanker that didn't take a decent chunk), increases flexibility (no intermediaries) and let's deals move faster. It's like buying and selling a house without paying
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by confluence 12y ago
Another thing: > Is paying him a few million really that big of a deal? Paying anyone, anything, is supposed to be a huge deal. Employees get fired for sub performing for even a few weeks to a month! And we're not talking millions
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by confluence 12y ago
> If an employee only loses their company 50K this year compared to losing 100K if another guy had the job... then he's worth 50K to the company. Is paying him a couple of grand really that big of a deal? You know what would happe
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by confluence 12y ago
You'd be surprised at how many different careers pay very well to lose a lot of money. Are CEOs really worth 100x a line engineer? Especially when they oversee the gutting or collapse of their company? Probably not. With most employees
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by confluence 12y ago
> neither side -- left or right -- in America is that close to the ideas of National Socialism ... > False equivalence is a logical fallacy which describes a situation where there is a logical and apparent equivalence, but when in
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by confluence 12y ago
> In left-right politics, left-wing politics are political positions or activities that accept or support social equality, often in opposition to social hierarchy and social inequality Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by confluence 12y ago
In my original response I stated that National Socialism wasn't actually comprised of left wing socialists, but rather hard right fascists, and go on and on about how conservatives completely misrepresent this stuff all the time, and i
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by confluence 12y ago
... plus c'est la même chose. The funny thing is that many conservatives think National Socialism was "socialism", when in fact it was just their very own hard right conservatism. Tea Party and Republican candidates are where
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by confluence 12y ago
Lift heavy weights. Squat. Deadlift. Bench Press. Overhead Press. Barbell Row.
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by confluence 12y ago
How would the world cope with a Spanish Flu like situation in 2014?
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by confluence 12y ago
Can anyone give me an idea on what would happen if Ebola ever did get airborne? I know that its high mortality rate is a massive curb on its ability to spread, but is that enough to put a dampener on spread if it became more easily transmit
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by confluence 12y ago
I found The Pentagon Wars , both the film and the book, to be absolutely brilliant at explaining how things like the F-35 can happen and why cheap, fast, light, targeted vehicles like this aren't produced. I highly recommended that my
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by confluence 12y ago
What about this part? > We don’t have a no raid arrangement with Sony. We have set up one with ILM [Lucasfilm] and Dreamworks which has worked quite well. I probably should go down and meet with Sandy and Penney and Sony to reach some a
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by confluence 12y ago
Fucking Catmull too? At this stage I'm no longer angry about the wage fixing scandal. I've moved into complete disappointment. Ed was someone I really looked up to.
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by confluence 12y ago
tldr; They get fleeced, just like everyone else. A fool and his money are soon parted.
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by confluence 12y ago
And iron.
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by confluence 12y ago
> “Mortgage fraud ruins lives, destroys families, and devastates whole communities,” Attorney General Eric Holder said this morning at a press conference to announce the results of “Operation Stolen Dreams.” Launched on March 1, 2010, t
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by confluence 12y ago
Indeed. If we criminalized being shady most business owners in the continental US would be behind bars. Selling overpriced phones? Apple. Selling overpriced junk food? McDonalds. Selling overpriced headphones? Beats. Selling overpriced hous
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by confluence 12y ago
> Yet when he and his staff would meet with Breuer and other top DOJ officials, those officials would proudly tout the small mortgage brokers they were pursuing, in response to which Kaufman and his staff said: “No. Don’t show me small-
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by confluence 12y ago
It's much easier to prosecute money laundering than it is to prosecute stupidity. Some people did illegal stuff way back then and got totally destroyed (see what we did to the mortgage brokers). That didn't extend to the vast majo
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by confluence 12y ago
Managers lying to subordinates in the financial industry to juice returns! How preposterous! Now wait here while I make a verbal agreement to buy a mansion.

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