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by ejb999 5y ago
they didn't just 'lose 200K subscribers', its much worse than that - they said they were going to gain 2.5 million, so a losing 200K means they missed the target by closer to 2.7 million.... epic miss.
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by ejb999 5y ago
But this is the comment I was responding to: " I think it would be fine if my taxes were helping others to start out. " so that poster was saying having his taxes jacked up to help someone out is 'ok with them', and yet
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>I generally attribute that to the lockdowns, do people have another explanation? Yea, they lie - do you have any evidence that China will not try and cover up any stories that make them look bad?
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>how did China avert the vast majority of equivalent deaths? Do you really believe they 'averted 'the deaths? or is it more likely they hid the truth. I vote for the latter; they don't have a good track record.
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by ejb999 5y ago
which, I think, is the OP's point - if they spin off AWS, when they need to negotiate with the union then amazon won't look nearly as profitable as Amazon plus AWS: "hey we lost a billion dollars last year, we can't affo
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by ejb999 5y ago
I've pretty much stopped shopping from amazon, based solely on the fact they are almost never the lowest cost place to buy things anymore - used to be for most things I buy, now I think they are counting on people not checking prices a
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by ejb999 5y ago
biggest problem, of making 'society change for the better', is getting 'society' to agree on what 'better' looks like. One person's 'better' is another person's 'worse' - I don&#x2
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by ejb999 5y ago
I use JIRA and confluence every single day, I have to, it is everywhere - but imo it is such a horrific toolset in every way (even before this outage), I can't for the life of me figure out how it got so much market-share.
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>employer paid plans are subsidized by the employer, who uses them as a tax write off, Calling them a 'tax write-off' makes it sound like something sinister is going on - just about everything a business pays to run their b
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by ejb999 5y ago
buying carbon offset always struck me as the same as regularly beating your wife and kids, and then absolving your sins by donating some money each year to a domestic violence non-profit.
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by ejb999 5y ago
Use your imagination, maybe you can figure it out.
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by ejb999 5y ago
very true
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by ejb999 5y ago
right - and rude people wouldn't be tolerated in an in-person meeting, on a zoom call, especially without video - a lot of people don't pay attention or engage like they would in person.
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by ejb999 5y ago
not all jobs are as simple as counting how many widgets did you make today.
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by ejb999 5y ago
I suspect several were.
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by ejb999 5y ago
I personally hate having everyone working from home - how many times have you been on a zoom call with a team, someone gets asked a question, and the inevitable response 'sorry, I was multi-tasking can you repeat the question? (i.e. th
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by ejb999 5y ago
I don't think it is just about time management - all skills can be learned - but sadly there are a non-trivial percent of people in any organization who will simply get away with anything they think they can. These people, for the most
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by ejb999 5y ago
imo, yes - the easier you make it for people to live 'ok', without working, the more a certain percentage of people will simply choose not to work - like it or not, we need people making entry-level wages to work, to fill jobs tha
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by ejb999 5y ago
It is no surprise to me - I have been 100% remote my entire IT career (decades), almost always working with 100% onsite people. With lots of newly-minted remote workers I have seen HUGE drops in accountability and performance, including man
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by ejb999 5y ago
"Even if only 1,000 workers were confirmed to be deaths"... thats the problem, you are just guessing, yes 1000 deaths on a construction project would be an awful lot - but the article makes zero claims about how many people died f
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by ejb999 5y ago
I agree - there is probably a story here, but the writer didn't do a very good job connecting the dots, correlation is not causation, lazy journalism at its worst. How is this for a headline? "5,333 US workers died in the 12 month
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by ejb999 5y ago
personally, I don't understand the appeal of tiktok, guess that makes me too old for the target demographic I guess. I never liked facebook (fake people bragging about their perfect fake lives for all the world to see). I used to find
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by ejb999 5y ago
and tiktok is 100X more appealing to them than either of those. Facebook is for grandparents, twitter is for bots.
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>Twitter is the only social network I use where I get an unfiltered balance of ideas If you think you are getting 'unfiltered balance' from twitter, then you don't know twitter very well.
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>There's literally no way that you could have any possible way of bargaining your way around that as a single person. Actually you do, by walking across the street and getting a big fat raise to join a different company. That is
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by ejb999 5y ago
I've had that happen to me as well - person finds a wrong number online someplace, calls me, and then is mad at me that I am not who they are looking for...go figure.
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by ejb999 5y ago
Its not really supposed to be an 'investment' - anymore than the dollar is an investment? If crypto wants to replace dollars, they are going to have to do better than this. Would you tell someone who's dollars are stolen &#x2
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by ejb999 5y ago
Yet, but it will.
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>could someone please explain what is a left join any why using it exclusively is a problem? reply There is nothing wrong with it per se, it depends on the question you are trying to answer - gauging someones competence based on the
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by ejb999 5y ago
OK, tell me specifically what a hospital - or anyone else - can do, to 'help' a patient that won't help themselves? Lock them up and dry them out against their will? Should we lock up drug addicts to keep them away from drugs

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