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by drugme 8y ago
There's no "trickle-down" effect. It's a trickle-up effect in terms of (1) rents necessarily raising in reaction to the dwindling supply and (2) the ensuing speculation bubble in "hot" neighborhoods. Both of
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by drugme 8y ago
Clearly demand from investors would raise sale prices, but why would renters pay more to rent in buildings owned by shady oligarchs? You don't have to specifically live in these buildings to be affected by the influx of all that cash
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by drugme 8y ago
Yup. Throw in avoiding AirBnB + Uber and you're practically "off the grid."
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'No one likes being a tourist': the rise of the anti-tour(theguardian.com)
6 points by drugme 8y ago|4 comments
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Going viral: the victims of online conspiracy theories(theguardian.com)
1 points by drugme 8y ago|0 comments
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by drugme 8y ago
BuzzFeed sucks, their journalists were providing benefit to the business, so they pivoted. This isn't about BuzzFeed "sucking". But rather, about its screwing over its employees while trying to appear "hip" and &q
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Faking it: how selfie dysmorphia is driving people to seek surgery(theguardian.com)
2 points by drugme 8y ago|0 comments
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by drugme 8y ago
Of course there's no such thing as "unlimited PTO" - it's just a gimmick, basically. So don't expect any decisions or statements made by companies offering "unlimited PTO" to be fair - or many any kind of
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by drugme 8y ago
Google must think we're very naive if we're to accept -- solely on the basis of blind faith, it would seem -- their promises that their anonymization algorithms are sufficiently robust to prevent the various kinds of abuses one ca
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by drugme 8y ago
If you thought Google would be different I wonder why you thought so? Different, no. Actually this is exactly how I would expect Google to behave.
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Companies on the smaller side tend not to have "metrics" like these, actually. But I would agree with you that there's probably nothing special about Google in this context.
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by drugme 8y ago
Great job taking the comment entirely out of context. I read and understood the full context. I was keeping it short for the sake of simplicity. The basic message they're conveying is, after all: "If you have disagreements, do
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by drugme 8y ago
A typical scenario is that you are in a corporate culture where, for whatever reason your manager does not "manage down", like at all. Indeed, there's a whole range of dysfunctional (and sometimes simply toxic) managerial b
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by drugme 8y ago
Find another job.
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by drugme 8y ago
So, when a decision is made that doesn't make sense to you, here are the steps: 2. Don't disagree; This sounds like a recipe for a toxic work culture where everyone is walking on eggshells and fearful not only of stating their
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by drugme 8y ago
Perhaps the most significant change in the proposal called for trimming the rate of promotions. Each year, a certain number of employees are up for promotions based on performance and other metrics. The slide deck suggested reducing this b
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by drugme 8y ago
Because they've internalized - quite unconsciously, it would seem - the dominating ideology of their time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism
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by drugme 8y ago
A very limited range of scenarios. Like (in the dating or social context) when the other party has already crossed some important line in some fashion (e.g. by acting outright abusively). In the vast majority of cases, it's really m
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by drugme 8y ago
4. Then again when you're getting blatantly dicked over, this obligation no longer applies.
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by drugme 8y ago
I'm all for quitting on the spot, when the situation merits. And for costing the company $15k to $20k -- again, when the situation merits. As it appears to have done in this case. But still - given the overall narrative of the situat
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by drugme 8y ago
Yup - another corroborating factor.
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FDA's opioids adviser accuses agency of having 'direct' link to crisis(theguardian.com)
3 points by drugme 8y ago|1 comments
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by drugme 8y ago
then perhaps you'll struggle if they hired you. Actually, no. Though problems like these do (occasionally) occur IRL, the conditions under which you're expected to solve these problems in interviews ("on the spot, while I
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by drugme 8y ago
A far from incidental detail. But is there sourced information available about his parents' actual income level? We do have this quote from the Esquire interview in 2014, which is rather telling: For my eighth birthday, my parents go
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by drugme 8y ago
EDIT: "are any less likely ..."
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by drugme 8y ago
State coercion is an abuse on individual liberty, plain and simple. It's not, but if you prefer to believe that it is, hey, that's your right.
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Fair enough - I just like to understand where people are coming from on this issue.
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That is what the phrase “monopoly on violence” means. Actually that's not what it means. And there's no evidence that decentralized agencies of force (where these can be stable for any length of time) are any likely to devolve i
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Having strong opinions yet... basically not knowing what they're talking about.
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You're qenerally quite limited in the languages / protocols you can use at any decent shop. It's not about oppressive top-down control or anything like that. It's a matter of choice. And the better shops tend to make

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