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by dilemma 9y ago
I think the leason is to have a viable business with earnings.
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by dilemma 9y ago
This is a misapplication of core competencies. Cleaning isn't complex and the milk analogy doesn't fly because janitors are self-contained producers of cleaning.
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If you read the entire email, it's actually not that bad.
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The real problem is that Facebook is controlled by a single person, who is planning to use it for their own political goals.
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by dilemma 9y ago
What you describe is lean management applied to the construction industry. I'm certain that it is possible but I've never heard of it being practiced. Possibly by Broad Sustainable in Chiba.
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This admission of serious wrongdoing means that thr others that partook need to receive similar punishment, including their CEO.
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You mean 10% of mobile users couldn't use NFC.
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by dilemma 9y ago
If you look at photos from for example Tim Cook's visit to Foxconn you'll see that the factory is extremely clean and give the impression of having excellent working conditions. The problem is how work is regimented: employees are
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This is a BS comparison. People do not usually kill themselves at work.
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Check out the book Lean Thinking.
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Independent bookstores have different selections as they are often targeted at some niche whereas a chain focuses on bestsellers and proven authors. Still, Amazon has increased my reading by several thousand percent, because the books I rea
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by dilemma 9y ago
Post-war Europe didn't have cars and cities are surrounded by farmland? Nope.
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Yes, you need to submit a photo of yourself along with your ID when you register an account. And bikes can be traced so there is accountability.
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Among private tech firms, Airbnb has pursued a distinct strategy(economist.com)
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Schools are built on a theory of mass production and we know from the last hundred years that mass production is expensive, slow, and low in quality. See Ford and GM vs Toyota in the mid 20th century. Lean is about integration and removing
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by dilemma 9y ago
You're talking about housing which is a business Airbnb is not in.
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Toyota does it in one week.
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by dilemma 9y ago
But Levandowski is Uber.
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No. Car manufacturers are and have for a long time been known as assemblers . This goes for Ford as well as Tesla. Tesla is not a battery company.
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by dilemma 9y ago
Needs better storage options. I want an i5 with 512GB or 1TB, but not for $2,000++.
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Artificial Stupidity: AI gets paint colours hilariously wrong(dazeddigital.com)
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Opposing opinions are never welcome within any social group or system such as the academy, and discussion is always kept between narrow bounds. >but in my experience at least higher education encourages more independent thinking, reasone
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why Apple's iPhone sales are struggling in China(businessinsider.com)
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It is also possible that he wasn't as confident as he seemed but his role required projecting confidence in his company's idea, so he did.
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by dilemma 9y ago
>One reason I think everyone should go to college is to gain exposure to cultures completely different from theirs and lose their sheltered and ethnocentric mindset. This doesn't happen in college but through actually living away fr
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Are Baby Boomers a ‘Generation of Sociopaths’?(huffingtonpost.com)
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"* is broken" is the ultimate expression of a highly potent mixture of ignorance and narcissism. It assumes that everyone but you is an idiot, that the answer is simple, and that you have it.
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Medium's customer shouldn't be readers but publications. Medium should be a new AP and sell content to publications around the world.
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I don't, but the article posits that there are thousands of copies of a title sold that don't come from a publisher, so it is implied. They also mention promotional copies but that is no large quantity.
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by dilemma 9y ago
This is a long article that confuses the issue. The root of the problem, if it even exists, is that some sellers sell bootleg copies on Amazon. That is what the article should be about rather than the buy box.

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