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by dahdum 3y ago
I doubt the union “forced” them, cutting checks manually is the standard practice for payroll screwups like this. I’ve seen it happen in a handful of companies, all but one outside their control. Two of them offered to cover any resulting o
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by dahdum 3y ago
Innovating your own wheels to sell carts requires capital investment, time, effort, and risk. The saying is a rehash of common advice to focus on core competencies and not overextend. If I sold, or even manufactured carts, I would not be ea
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by dahdum 3y ago
It's definitely hyperbole, but the core idea that learning Chinese is rapidly becoming less useful for Westerners is fair. It'd be a fantastic idea if you live in BRICS and friends though. I expect China to essentially dominate th
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by dahdum 3y ago
> According to the letter, the layoffs will primarily hit workers in corporate, back-office, and technology roles. Retail and customer service workers won't be impacted by the cuts, it's said. As a corporate and technology work
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by dahdum 3y ago
I don’t see definitive statements in that article. It’s a lawyer stating opinion, using qualifiers like “in most cases” and “I would argue”. Most concerning is: > This is a complex topic that courts and lawyers disagree on I would arg
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by dahdum 3y ago
> He wrote a program to upload pseudorandom bytes to Dropbox and periodically download segments of this data and hash it to validate integrity. I head that the amount of data was uploaded was in the petabytes range. He had specific datab
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by dahdum 3y ago
How is not a loan if they’ve been repaying it?
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by dahdum 3y ago
I’d rather they unbundle sports from YouTube TV. They’ve “reimagined” cable with the same forced bundling and sports subsidies that ruined cable in the first place.
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by dahdum 3y ago
> I think more realistically they'd shut up about the risk and downplay it a lot. AI is an existential threat to search engines like Google, social media (FB, Twitter), advertising networks, and other massive multinationals. Many ot
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by dahdum 3y ago
After ten years of using Lyft/Uber for airport trips instead of driving I’ve decided to go back to park/fly companies. This past week I had a scheduled and confirmed pickup with Lyft, driver cancelled 2 min before pickup and it to
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by dahdum 3y ago
They reached out to him to give a talk he wasn’t ready to do. He obliges, works to make it happen, and gets blindsided by organizational politics. If he feels the organization and leadership neither respect him personally or his efforts, it
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by dahdum 3y ago
> They probably could've operated under-the-radar for a while but now they have a target on their backs. They have 85k followers on IG/TT, recruiting, starting a podcast, and are putting out a merch line. They were never trying
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by dahdum 3y ago
Oh the irony of reading an article championing accessibility and design written in small pure white text on a near black background.
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by dahdum 4y ago
Personal vehicles are a luxury, why shouldn't they pay relatively more than commercial traffic?
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by dahdum 4y ago
Aren’t they permanent when they involve regular people? Would Twitter just randomly reinstate her in a few days if she was unable to call attention to it? Are there stats on how often that happens available?
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by dahdum 4y ago
You’re looking for a green field industry where individuals and small teams can have outsized impact, barriers to entry are low, and the guard rails are down. AI has that potential if it escapes the arbiters of truth, morality, and entrenc
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by dahdum 4y ago
I've seen plenty of yellow sausages that didn't mean emergency, I think that's location specific (I'm not sure where it applies). Most people I know pick the color based on personal preference / color matching the r
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by dahdum 4y ago
In the complaint we can see she tested at just 18 nanograms. Utterly negligent. > No one explained the details of the test results to Kaitlin at the time, but Kaitlin later learned that the second test conducted on her urine sample rep
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by dahdum 4y ago
> a six figure settlement is a rounding error for these institutions. Given their inefficiency it could easily cost many times that just to change their practices and train doctors to not do the wrong thing. They refused to discharge the
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by dahdum 4y ago
> To guard against false positives, the Mandatory Guidelines for Federal Workplace Drug Testing Programs, published in 2017, require a codeine cutoff of 2,000 nanograms per milliliter of urine. But the Hackensack University Medical Cente
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by dahdum 4y ago
Why? All that water is being used for direct human consumption. Isn't that better use than a gallon per almond? I think so.
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by dahdum 4y ago
First, they'll never have any change when they do this hoping to force you to overpay. Second, they can charge you for the ATM trip and the wait time (and then you have $20 bills, so forced to overpay). Third, if the machine "fail
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by dahdum 4y ago
Until relatively recently you could not easily buy cable without ESPN, because ESPN would refuse all contracts that didn’t include it in the basic package, along with all the other channels people do want they could attach to it. It’s only
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by dahdum 4y ago
They just lie when you arrive at the destination anyway, and you can’t easily decline from a taxi stand and take the #2 driver instead. If you are skeptical these scams happen, there are many reported examples. Here’s a doozy: https:/
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by dahdum 4y ago
Same experience mid December in the evening, with a ~$110 fare. I’m happy to wait if the alternative is taking a taxi though. I’ve gotten way too tired of the “machine isn’t working” schtick.
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by dahdum 4y ago
I'm curious what rehabilitation looks like for Holmes? Is it just abstaining from future confidence schemes? What about SBF? Not stealing billions more?
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by dahdum 4y ago
ESPN is the most expensive channel by far and has been forced bundling for decades. They sued Verizon for offering basic packages without ESPN a while back, and have been rightfully terrified of consumer choice. Almost every cable subscribe
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by dahdum 4y ago
In a slightly different reality… “Sorry team, our main VC advised us to keep our money in SVB because it’s the right thing to do. We can’t make payroll. Our VC, true to their ideals, kept their cash in SVB too. They can’t help us. Kindly ca
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by dahdum 4y ago
Put another way, this is a list of VCs that prioritize their portfolio companies health and success more than their personal banking relationships or public perception. That’s a pretty strong signal to future startups they’ve got your back
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by dahdum 4y ago
Could you explain further? By nuance do you mean the idea that they’re telling a “white lie” to keep smaller banks from overextending and intend to bail them out anyway? I do think that’s part of it, but it’s still going to cause capital fl

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