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by csa 5mo ago
> Are BYD cars specifically banned or do they just not comply with all the US regulations? Whatever the stated reasons are is one thing. The biggest issue is that a network of BYDs in the US would be a massive intelligence coup. It will
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by csa 5mo ago
> I just don't see why everyone seems to not be cheering that perhaps we are not going to go back to the days where all those kids are going to be re charged. It almost feels like everyone wants to go back to labels carpet bombing s
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by csa 5mo ago
> It's the fact that they kept the employee around as a toxic asset/reminder that I think really puts it into "mistake" territory. This is the exact line of inquiry that I took. I asked why they didn’t just offer the
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by csa 5mo ago
> what's going to happen when companies figure out how to inject ads into the model? In certain domains, this has already happened.
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by csa 5mo ago
Great questions. > Sounds like the company in the latter example really screwed up Interesting. I think they made an unfortunate but sound decision based on their circumstances. > but how does that connect to disclaimers? It doesn’t d
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by csa 5mo ago
> Why would they be speaking on behalf of their employers? Disclaimers aren’t there for folks who are thinking and acting rationally. They are there for people who are thinking irrationally and/or manipulatively. There are (relative
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by csa 5mo ago
Probably an AI bot farming karma.
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by csa 6mo ago
> this is unashamedly published on a so-called credible journalism outlet There may be credible journalists at some major print newspapers, but I don’t think there are many people who actually believe that any major US-based journalism o
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by csa 6mo ago
> It is a fact that the reputation of the USA has being damaged, perhaps not repairable for decades or more. The MAGA base does not care about the international reputation of the US. They lean heavily towards isolationism (irrationally,
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by csa 6mo ago
> Anyone without a disability can run and pull a trigger This is very much untrue in terms of being a soldier in a high-functioning military. Technically, you’re not wrong (at least for lighter weapons). That said, there are many more ph
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by csa 7mo ago
> And LBO debt isn’t “pushed” onto the company’s books, it’s never on the sponsor’s (LBO shop’s) books in the first place to any material extent. Could you please explain the how and why of the mechanics of this process (edit: from the p
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by csa 7mo ago
> I immediately stopped considering them as options. If you can’t be bothered to have a human respond to my email when I’m trying to give you my money, what level of service can I expect once I’m already obligated to pay rent? I will go
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by csa 7mo ago
> Ok but for most people work hours are dictated by a shared clock (and many daily activities as well) so... Obviously request a reasonable accommodation and sue if you don’t get it. /s
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by csa 7mo ago
> I sense that when expectations are clear they'll often surprise you with diligence. Data does not support your sense. Most students do not have good time management skills, usually because they have no models and/or have not
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by csa 7mo ago
> For some reason people keep telling you that you will get a better education if you pay a ridiculous amount of money for it and even if it's not better and you can't figure out how to pay the student loan off, you should stil
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by csa 7mo ago
> get mixed together so that when they finish university, these groups become (mostly) indistinguishable Sort of. 1. It’s a place where capital can make friends with capable people who will be willing to work for them later. 2. It gives
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by csa 7mo ago
> The rules are simple and ancient: noble blood breeds nobles; common blood breeds commoners. This is a great narrative for folks who want to be fatalistic. From my view: - Much of what you call “nobles” and “commoners” are more about va
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by csa 7mo ago
> And if it's so cheap and bespoke, why buying it and not making it in house? 0. Sure, some products will be made in house. That said, being able to spec a product well is a skill that is not as common as some folks seem to think. I
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by csa 7mo ago
> No? I dont see any indication that this would be a good idea. Or even looked for. Do you spec software for a variety of businesses? I do. It’s rare that one SaaS or software package does what the people paying want it to do. Either the
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by csa 7mo ago
> And those companies will do what? Produce products in uber-saturated markets? > Or magically 9900 more products or markets will be created, all of them successful? Yes. Products will become more tailored/bespoke rather than a l
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by csa 7mo ago
> nobody understanding what is going on underneath I think many developers, especially ones who come from EE backgrounds, grossly overestimate the number of people needed who understand what is going on underneath. “Going on underneath”
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by csa 7mo ago
> Whats unique or special about these particular tessellations? 1. He talked about them to people who were interested in listening. 2. He was able to apply the knowledge he gained for his specific task in a variety of team tasks at the e
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by csa 7mo ago
> I'm still not sure if I was an idiot or smart to reject that Both. Smart because you realized that BTC is an incredibly flawed currency, or store of value, or whatever you want to call it. Idiot because you grossly underestimated
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by csa 7mo ago
> Unless you want a Soviet system where jobs are kept to keep people busy. In $big_corp, everyone seems to have penis envy over “head count”, constantly checking whose is bigger. If you want to see an executive have an existential crisis
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by csa 7mo ago
> Is Microsoft a "dying company"? The stock market certainly thinks otherwise. This is the entire sentence that I wrote that you seem to be referring to: “These are examples of how bad management thinks, or at best, how managem
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by csa 7mo ago
> The firm simply assumes that if the top X was sufficient in the past, it is still sufficient now. > From the perspective of modern management, there's really no reason to keep people if you can automate them away. These are exa
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by csa 7mo ago
Scope will increase. Good accounting teams will have more time and resources to do things like identify fraud, waste, duplicated processes, etc. They will also have time to streamline/optimize existing practices. Good teams will earn m
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by csa 7mo ago
> But the job had better take fewer people, or the automation is not justified. In many cases, this is a fallacy. Much like programming, there is often essentially an infinite amount of (in this case) bookkeeping tasks that need to be do
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by csa 8mo ago
> You quoted "reasonable", but nothing what you said has any effect on reasonableness. Being notified that you are or have been breaking the law and being told that there will be severe consequences if you don’t stop seems reas
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by csa 8mo ago
> reasonable policing Policing SOPs in East Asia (incl. Singapore) is different than policing SOPs in the west. Typically people are warned, often multiple times, that they are in danger of experiencing the less kind side of local law. O

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