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by dade_ 5y ago
20% of companies are knocking it out of the park, and 50% are nowhere near a leaderboard. I expect such folks are correct in their observation, but work for the 50%. Perhaps you work for one that is getting a promoter score. My advice to
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Companies with a promoter level score during the pandemic grew their business. There is a direct correlation between a promoter NPS and revenue growth. The percentage of companies that now provide a promoter level service is now over 20%,
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I use this for managing offline backups and syncing my music library to my phone and a USB stick for my car stereo. Great tool, stable and dependable.
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There are alternatives, but due to their bad business practices ( such as illegally collecting and selling their massive database of user data, and probably things I’d never think of) impossible to overtake. Consider existing brand awarene
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To get laid, now. It’s impressive in that regard.
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Many cities, such as Toronto where I live, still have lead pipes for drinking water. The levels are extremely low, and they have various additives in the water supply to minimize risk, but the safe level of lead consumption is zero. So ye
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Good. Grindr is probably the best example of extremely high brand & network value vs shockingly poor security & application quality. The company demonstrates zero integrity and needs to be shut down or fined to death. It would se
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It’s Windows Millennium Edition 2. Break things that worked fine, add things that add no value, recategorize everything to confound expert and novice users.
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Assuming he is guilty of not declaring 600K/year in income, he needs to go to jail and the US treats tax evasion very harshly. Second, he should be fired and not allowed to work in an academic or research role as he clearly isn’t trus
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Massive consolidation is happening in every industry, IT distribution to cabinet parts to industrial equipent. I think it is from cheap debt allowing private equity to buy up a bunch of companies, smash them together, cut the duplication a
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This is based on survey responses from a 1000 people, based on DII which is apparently misused and not well understood. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6416047/ My observation, people like to e
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by dade_ 5y ago
I found this rule more practical (and I hold to it): Do not rely on software you cannot self host or holds your data hostage in a proprietary format. Data export must be a supported feature.
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People that live in countries with unstable or collapsed currencies use USD (I assume the same of Euros and GBP) as well. Everyone in Cuba wants USD now for example. It isn’t for money laundering or terrorism, it is for toothpaste and cl
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Did the Apple store employee ask why he wanted a computer that comes in the smallest box, or did he just assume the customer is stupid or ignorant? He doesn’t say either way, but most people will make an assumption instead of asking. The
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Also consider warranty, repair, and accidental damage protection: My Surface Pro 3 had extended warranty, and there used to be stores to drop into. I had many problems with the machine, but the horrible part was that they could only be swa
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Zerohedge’s source was Ron Paul, who was apparently making stuff up: https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/southwest-cancels-hundred... http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/
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No, I’d be done with Google, but nothing competes with Maps, and Earth. Apple maps isn’t cross platform, so useless to me anyway. My nest was just replaced with Ecobee. I still use their search and news, but web only. I am open to switch
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I do this all the time, I am used to the browser autocompleting the URL from history, but I think Edge was designed to maximize Bing searches to pump up usage numbers.
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It’s been over 7 years since I deleted my FB and I’ve never had Instagram. Their IP address scopes are blocked in my home. I do miss the now ancient FB, before they destroyed it with algos controlling what I got to see. That is when I g
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Also, Mike Zafirovski (Nortel CEO) asked for financial support from Harper, who refused. Nortel had many problems, but Stephen Harper (prime minister) and his Conservatives killed Nortel and the telecom industry in Canada with this decisio
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Now they can start their investigation of a suspected criminal element in the Labour Party and any other annoying opposition. These powers are a ruling government’s dream, let alone their financial master’s.
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Especially sunscreen on overcast days. UVA doesn't cause tanning or sunburn, but it does pass through clouds and damages the skin.
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And I am downright hostile to them as a vendor. Just say no to GCP. Whatever feature you want to use, they will probably cancel it with 30 days notice anyway…
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They had one at the Sony experience center in NYC, so I was able to play with one. Far more advanced than the 20 year old ones. Covered in touch sensors, they are much more lifelike and natural acting than I expected. My favourite was th
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I recall watching videos of interactions with dogs. Dogs seem to hate them, then ignore them. It seems they aren’t fooled, but I really enjoyed playing with one.
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Plastic straws are social media outrage about a tortoise and has no significant impact on global warming. People upset about plastic in the ocean should be focused on ghost fishing nets.
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Instead of trying to control people's lives and their very personal decision to have children and how many, we should be ensuring every women in every country in the world is provided at least basic education. A vast amount of benefit
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It's the cargo ships. They usually use dirty fuel and there are so many of them. Cruise ships are a problem, but there aren't nearly as many.
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Ha! Exactly that, he has named all of his exercise with humorous names. Worst result is the referral to a podiatrist for expensive insoles that IMHO are snake oil. Huge waste of time and money. It turned out that the primary problem they
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If I suspect I could have a broken bone, I always go to the GP first. Otherwise, I skip the doctor because it is always the same routine that ends in painkillers and a recommendation for a PT. Therein lies a major problem, PTs are so used

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