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Good social media is a sign of a good organization. Why? Because it shows it gives employees the autonomy they need to do a good job. Poor organizations on the other hand sound canned and corporate because they have to follow some type of g
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Interesting, never heard about this dynamic before. How does spreading rumors help them get out of being micromanaged? (sincere question)
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> Will any of these acquisitions result in Germany having an easier time doing business in mainland China? That's obviously what your citation says.
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This is exactly how Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer designed their news products 100 years ago.
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Its pretty obvious that it should be bdhd, the gLTD however needs some thought as .ly, .io, and .co are too nerdy and frankly past their due dates.
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Doesn't sound democratic. Hmm...
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Why is this racist not banned yet?
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If Dennett claims that he's unconscious then it just provides a reason to dismiss his other claims, too.
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> I think success is a product of more things than talent, it could be about projected talent as much as what's underneath the hood - confidence as a product of ignorance and narcism is indistinguishable from the real thing, unless
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Sounds like the same system Facebook is implementing in response to the fake "fake news" stories.
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> Why doesn't within the EU count? Schengen has a shared outer border.
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Private Equity
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This is an example of Artificial Stupidity; what we get when the pipe dream of AI fails.
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No, they supported a narrative that was false by refusing to investigating claims by officials - that's planted fake news, and that news was created at publication. News don't exist if it isn't published, that is its definiti
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The Iraq war was preceded and enabled by a massive propaganda campaign where close to 100% of American outlets went along with the WMD claim and were for an invasion (FAIR.org). You don't get to say a propaganda campaign that ruined a
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News don't just come into existence as the result of some law of nature. News is created when someone publishes it. Therefore, all news is fake based on these absurd criteria. And now one side wants to make sure that only their fake ne
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Eugenics.
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If home internet was fast enough to power a turnkey server with software to provide similar capability to what we get from Google and Facebook today then, yes, it would free information.
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Well, if you want it to be tough and durable I think the first think you need to do is choose a different material than plywood :)
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> And while the amounts in each phone are small – 0.034g of gold, for example – they quickly add up when you consider that around 42 million tonnes of e-waste were generated in 2014 alone, and the UN Environmental Program estimates that
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I'm sure IBM couldn't set up a single profitable bakery.
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No, it's extremely useful, and no different than other people in the thread who express how exercise or hobbies have helped them cope with work stress. They're implying compartmentalization too, because having a hobby shows that t
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The best professional skill is compartmentalizing. Leave work at work.
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Because the incentives are not aligned with presenting complex realities to readers of the media. Practice intellectual self defense: Read books, and lots of them, read the comment sections but skip the articles, and engage in communities o
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The potential for labor cost arbitrage is disappearing as China scales the value chain, its nominal wages increase, the yuan appreciates and purchasing power increases, all the while the US and EU see decreased real wages. A moderate increa
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Dark matter isn't "ignored", it is unknown. Not because nobody cares but because, as the parent said, the current scientific paradigm is incomplete and by extension incorrect.
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They can still unionize because they are still employees. Franchising is a perfectly normal business structure in industries like fast food and supermarkets, just like cooperatives exists certain other industries.
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Leave.
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I don't doubt that the factory is going to be a grim sight. I was more thinking about the centralization aspect, which would cause massive damage if the lab covering an entire state or country was contaminated.
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UBI is a practical impossibility because it isn't possible to answer the most basic question in a satisfactory manner: How high should that income be?

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