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by dba7dba 8y ago
Thing is, there will be no mass exodus of employees over this issue. Also, I'd like to see the historical examples you mentioned.
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by dba7dba 8y ago
Roads/oil/education/internet/mining/etc can be and used for military purposes. Where do you want to draw the line?
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by dba7dba 8y ago
Computer, internet, CPU, and pretty much a lot of modern tech was created/refined out of funding by and for armed forces. I find this news to be incredibly ironic. And I disagree with the demands, just in my personal opinion. We have r
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by dba7dba 8y ago
Maybe the management/managers have been getting away with behaviors such as these for so long that they forgot sending such emails to terminated employee is a bad/expensive idea. Either way, whether religion is involved or not, di
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by dba7dba 8y ago
What I'd like to know is if private property that was seized in the past will be returned? One of my friend's dad had a hip surgery and was bed bound for a few weeks. The family had to be at work so they hired a live in helper who
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by dba7dba 8y ago
I disagree. Sure, there's profit motive. But 80 years ago, US population was extremely against any kind of military involvement overseas, and funding of US military reflected it. But turns out even if we don't want war, there&#x27
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by dba7dba 8y ago
In an IT industry magazine website (Information Week? not sure) had an article about an IT engineer at JPL who was picked/trained to be one of the drivers of the rovers. He was just a normal IT guy, but got the chance to be a driver fo
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by dba7dba 8y ago
I also stopped really checking voicemails... I stopped checking voicemails, as only people who call and leave voicemail are not the people who I communicate everyday. People in my life know to text/chat/email if they need to get
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by dba7dba 8y ago
Reminds me of the time, well a long time ago, when I worked at a tech startup during the early 2000 bubble. Talent war was intense. We had recruiters cold calling people's desk to try to lure people away. At that office, like every des
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by dba7dba 8y ago
I think hospitals/police should really start texting a phone number first, before calling to contact a family member. Just something like, "Please call such such hospital at this number to reach us. We need to get in touch with yo
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by dba7dba 8y ago
I kept mine for 10+ years. But not by choice. Could not afford to replace it. When it broke with potentially high repair cost, we purchased used, off lease car from dealer. Credit union offered good interest rate. Never buying brand new ca
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by dba7dba 8y ago
Funny you mentioned Mercedes/BMW being rampant in Seoul, because Doug Demuro thought it was hilarious S. Korea had no Mercedes/BMW but only Hyundai/Kia. And only in black/gray. https://www.youtube.com/wat
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by dba7dba 8y ago
I understand that Ubiquiti sells more than just wifi routers. BUT still, it makes me chuckle that Apple would kill off AirPort, product that was well liked by customers, only to buy (I mean IF the did) a WHOLE new company that includes a w
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by dba7dba 8y ago
I personally know someone who went to a state college AND a private, expensive private law school (not top tier). All while getting loans/grants. That is 7 years of borrowing. Not graduating from a top tier program meant the lawyer job
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by dba7dba 8y ago
Yet another masterpiece work by the fabulously lucrative sector called lobby industry. Lucrative both for the lobbyists themselves and the banks. Bravo.
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by dba7dba 8y ago
STEM is not the answer to all. I mean, I love engineers to be in charge of tech companies, but that doesn't mean I want EVEYRONE to go to college just for STEM. Also, I actually know a guy who graduated from a top public university IN
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by dba7dba 8y ago
I don't care about all that gender stuff. The point is someone signed off on that. And in a business, it's usually someone with an MBA. I can't imagine a business of that popularity having someone making business decisions wi
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by dba7dba 8y ago
Mr. Jobs was so eloquent in that interview. But, lol. The irony. He appoints Tim Cook to be his successor, who is NOT a product person but a supply chain specialist. He definitely is not a product person. The same product team under Mr. Job
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by dba7dba 8y ago
> They had some real creative minds at the helm that got replaced by "business" people. IBM >> Engineers at helm replaced by MBA. Goes down the drain. Plus many others I'm sure. I think we can go on and on about how
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by dba7dba 8y ago
> It’s hard to imagine how a company that received $15 per month from 12 million WoW subscribers for 10+ years can go bankrupt, but I guess nothing lasts forever. On the flip side, that may be the exact reason they are going bankrupt or
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by dba7dba 8y ago
Someone signed off on that feature that stole $4 from a $5 tip given to a person making minimum wage. Was that person an MBA graduate or not?
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by dba7dba 8y ago
> My guess is that this isn't really an ethical issue with Instacart, which I view as a very well run company. I can't agree with that. A well run company doesn't steal $4 from a $5 tip originally given to some poor person
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by dba7dba 8y ago
> Why did NO ONE in any meetings when designing this "feature" or process say anything? I am assuming you are saying PM, designers, backend engineers or others who actually had a hand in building the product should protest this
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by dba7dba 8y ago
I know a family who immigrated from East Asia to US about 30 years ago. The father of the family was from a poor family (which was the case for everyone 30 - 40 years ago) who couldn't afford to send their kids to college, and so he ha
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by dba7dba 8y ago
The camper van movement is pretty popular for sure. Sportsmobile has been converting vans to mini RV or camper van since 1965. Someone recently got a guided tour of the factory by the owner and here it is. https://youtu.be/p
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by dba7dba 8y ago
Even in 'Tech' companies, there are the very highly paid and the others who are not paid enough. Execs, senior programmers, project managers make a lot. And than there are the office support staff, customer service staff, etc that
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by dba7dba 8y ago
> Jeff Bezos is very focused on this “absolute dollar free cash flow metric. I wish Apple operated that way, as lowering Apple device price will very likely increase the absolute amount of dollars coming into their back acct. I mean I ge
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by dba7dba 8y ago
In MBA lingo, reducing cost often means laying off people, ruining their lives. Or paying as little as possible to employees, keeping them in perpetual servitude.
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by dba7dba 8y ago
Think you got mixed up a bit there. Ken Burns Vietnam documentary series was about Vietnam (1960s - 1975 ?), not the Korean War (1950 - 1953), no? The 320,000 South Korean troops who rotated through the Vietnam War over 10+ year period were
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by dba7dba 8y ago
From what I gather, some were old employees near retirement and really did not want to pick up and move to Texas, leaving family/friends/CA behind. And then there were those who really really did not generate output at work and ap

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