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by crmd 4y ago
I hope fining Charter .00002 of their 51.6 billion annual revenue gets them to change their ways.
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by crmd 4y ago
Sweets are habit forming, like cigarettes. If you avoid them for a year, for example on strict keto, it’s hard to go back because the taste is so extreme.
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by crmd 4y ago
> as well as making the workplace more equitable (as Salesforce employees could not access this benefit). Equity should be about making a benefit available to all, not taking it away from some.
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by crmd 4y ago
You might be surprised to see the scale of LTO tape consumption by FAANG companies.
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by crmd 4y ago
His intention was to film and monetize a viral video.
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by crmd 4y ago
> The league had agreed in June, amid the uproar, to halt the use of race-norming, which assumes Black players start with lower cognitive function. For real?
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by crmd 4y ago
Port Newark is a primary industrial target, and the large cluster of defense contractors in northern NJ are a primary counterforce target. Unfortunately the fallout plumes from the Jersey targets covers all 5 boroughs.
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by crmd 4y ago
A healthy ego is helpful in design, but he lost me around the time he started being chauffeured to and from work in a Maybach, like some head of state.
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by crmd 4y ago
Matrix over avian carrier
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by crmd 4y ago
85% of US teenagers use tiktok. That's 85% of the future generation of US senators, Cabinet members, and Supreme Court justices, of police chiefs, civil rights activists, mayors, CEOs, etc. in their bedrooms right now consuming content
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by crmd 4y ago
It makes perfect sense that as a firm’s market power grows, it’s regulatory burden scales appropriately.
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by crmd 4y ago
Go to nytimes.com right now and search for the string “far-right” and then the string “far-left”, counting the number of times these respective phrases were included in an article in the past year. Then, do the same on foxnews.com. Symmetri
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by crmd 4y ago
Everyone I’ve been introduced to from Miami claims to be some permutation of stripper, real estate agent, DJ, and/or crypto investor. Seems like some wild shit going on down there.
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by crmd 4y ago
Agree 100%. I’ve never met Elon but his online behavior in the run up to and immediately after the Twitter deal sure seemed hypomanic to me.
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by crmd 4y ago
Temporary rate limiting on Elon’s firehouse API account[0] does not sound like a material breach of contract. [0] - page 5 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/000110465922...
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by crmd 4y ago
The typical "penalty" to a US business for unlawfully firing a worker for protected union activity is simply being ordered to reinstate the worker. Because there is zero punitive risk, the first step is often to fire the worker(s)
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by crmd 4y ago
I’m an American (New York city) and I originally met most of my friends at the neighborhood coffee shops and bars. Most people don’t go there specifically to caffeinate and get drunk, it’s just the third place (outside work and home) where
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by crmd 4y ago
Google is banned in China
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by crmd 4y ago
The long tail would be lucrative to middle class artists if my monthly $9.99 (minus Spotify’s profit) was divided evenly amongst the tracks I streamed last month. But that is not how it works. Instead, those artists get fractions of a penny
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by crmd 4y ago
The PG&E grid isn’t designed properly if the failure of one transmission line causes an outage like this. I live in New York City and pay some of the highest rates in the country for electricity, but over the past 10 years (including mu
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by crmd 4y ago
> 81% said improving their own equilibrium is more important than advancing their career right now. Are these the same 81% of executives driving return to office?
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by crmd 4y ago
> Capitalists routinely wipe the floor with people who don't take enough risk. Risk is necessary to get the best outcomes. Where will the risk taking happen if people try to regulate it out of existence? This is a straw man argument
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by crmd 4y ago
It should be unlawful for any company to use any customer’s data for any purpose other than what is reasonably expected based on their product marketing.
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by crmd 4y ago
At that time google had zero profit motive. They were proving product market fit by returning as the top result the page you were most likely looking for. You would have to go back to original pagerank and ignore SEO and ad sales optimizat
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by crmd 4y ago
I emailed Steve Jobs (sjobs@apple.com) in 2009 after a frustrating exchange at the Soho apple store in NY. He or someone using his account replied in less than 5 minutes with a follow up question, and the problem got fixed the next day.
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by crmd 4y ago
In the hacker ethos, gaining access to systems is in no way unethical or deserving of remorse. The hack in this case was (1) exploiting the ISP’s delayed batch processing of credit card orders, and (2) circumventing their deny list of callb
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by crmd 4y ago
My sister got a masters in education and taught for 5 years in the NYC school system, hating every moment of it. A big SaaS company took a risk on her and hired her as a salesperson. She is crushing it, working from home, and occasionally r
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by crmd 4y ago
> IMO, the upside of open-sourcing code may be moderate, but the downsides are huge. >Every piece of code has vulnerabilities and bugs. Open-sourcing code will make Twitter vulnerable and easy to be exploited by hackers. So I am again
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by crmd 4y ago
Victimhood is a crucial but temporary step in the healing process, where you acknowledge your pain and recognize that the trauma was not your fault. But if you get stuck there, you stop growing and healing. The next step is recognizing your
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by crmd 4y ago
The GPA doesn't matter once you are mid-career, but I'm amazed at how a prestigious university brand helps marginal candidates get through the filter to an on-site interview 20+ years after graduation. I was helping a company scal

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