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by filoleg 3y ago
Is the last one also referencing someone else’s name that is meaningful (similar to the first two) or was it just a curse-word joke?
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by filoleg 3y ago
> Tips versus "information" Is there an actual distinction between those two terms in this context? I strongly doubt it, given that the official SEC page for whistleblowing uses "tips" and "information" full
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> I doubt those materials would be admissible in court. As long as legitimacy of those documents is confirmed in court, why would they be inadmissible? From my perspective on admissibility, I don’t see much of a difference between the wh
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> SEC whistleblower information has to be original, which I presume means you have to have direct knowledge of infractions, rather than just claiming someone told you about them. I think of it like walking outside and accidentally encoun
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by filoleg 3y ago
> I'm happy to be left out of those, groupchat via MMS is awful So are most people who prefer iMessage over MMS (aka “green bubbles”), which is kind of the point.
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by filoleg 3y ago
> If you socially exclude someone because they care about the color of text message bubbles, don't you care at least as much as they do? The grandparent comment is talking about excluding people for wasting their time going on rants
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by filoleg 3y ago
It’s not that they would reject you if they already had some sort of a connection formed with you or that they consider having “green bubbles”to be an absolute dealbreaker. But if you have 5 similarly good on paper dating candidates, you ar
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by filoleg 3y ago
And I know multiple people who refuse dates from those who have a zodiac sign that is “incompatible” with theirs. I think we can safely disregard that as a factor, despite how relatively not-that-rare it could be.
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by filoleg 3y ago
> I also believe unpaid internships should also be illegal unless they are purely observational In the US, it is already illegal, and has been this way for a while. The enforcement in practice is another story though. Here[0] is the sour
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by filoleg 3y ago
The difference is that with “your own illegal police” aka gangs, the ultimate destination for when someone “commits a crime” (aka whatever gangs would consider a crime) is a bit more grim. Your judge and jury are often just the nicknames of
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by filoleg 3y ago
I agree with you. Just wanted to clarify who the grandparent comment was talking about.
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by filoleg 3y ago
I think “kids” here means not literal children (under the age of 18), but more like fresh out of HS college students and recent grads. And they got stimulus checks distributed directly to them, yeah.
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by filoleg 3y ago
Incentive: you already have an employee on a visa working for you. They are a solid proven employee that you already invested money and other resources into (hiring/recruiting costs, onboarding, training, visa paperwork, time of other
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> Depending on your start date, you might be either outright ineligible for a rating, or the rating defaults to "meeting expectations," because the expectations for the first 1-2 months are for you to just learn the stack and g
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> if there's some good way to gate kids from participating then gambling with loot boxes should be perfectly accepted There already is, you gotta have a credit card to buy lootboxes. And while I am not aware of the situation all acr
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by filoleg 3y ago
To be fair though, even the most baseline tier of a cloud machine at GOOG is pretty nice. 64GB RAM + 32 cores (i think it might be more cores now, but not certain) is good enough for pretty much anything, aside from niche specialist tasks (
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by filoleg 3y ago
Not so sure. Not trying to defend Brian or AirBnB, but realistically, it was bound to happen, just like Uber was. Perhaps under a different name with a different path, but I am fairly certain that the ending would have been the same. And th
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by filoleg 3y ago
> isn't it turning out to be a bad idea? Not for Brian, no. Even if Airbnb ceases to exist tomorrow, I am fairly certain that Brian is gonna be in a better spot than he would have been in if he listened to his mom.
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by filoleg 3y ago
And yet, chances don’t seem that good. The highest possible estimate for survival rate from chapter 11 bankruptcy that i managed to find was quoting about 25%[0]. 0. https://www.forbes.com/2008/09/25/chapter-1
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by filoleg 3y ago
> Buying legally in the US isn't that hard to make it worth it to buy illegally unless you are a broke teenager Or unless you have a felony, which would make up a much larger share of illegall firearm purchases than teenagers.
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by filoleg 3y ago
This is just plain wrong. Guess which other companies filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy? Sears, BedBath&Beyond, and Circuit City. I don’t see them coming back at all. Not saying that there is no possible comeback from chapter 11, there is
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by filoleg 3y ago
This makes sense and isn’t like the shitshow OP is talking about though. I initially assumed the same thing as you, but after reading the OP, the title is the least scary part of their situation by far. At google it has been kinda similar t
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by filoleg 3y ago
> The number of Grow postings is a fraction of a fraction of what it was before August '22. Entirely fair, heard the same from others. The first time I opened Grow ever was in the first month of 2023, so I wouldn’t have noticed it m
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I was always envious when I saw packs of Groms passing by and looking like they were having tons of fun. Meanwhile, my bike was fun and all, but there is almost definitely this social element to Groms and the overall culture around them tha
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by filoleg 3y ago
> There aren't* open positions and there haven't been since August 2022. This is plainly incorrect. Source: myself applied to an open position I saw internally on Grow in May 2023 (earlier this year), had a few talks with the t
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> Does any voice assistant work? As a real human personal assistant would? Nope. As a nice utility for tons of different specific use cases? They absolutely do. Personally the things I use mine for: setting a timer while cooking or doing
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> I agree that the misconception may originate from practical factors (either directly-experienced or through garbled retelling), however I also believe it has spread and exists among a lot of people who don't have a good personal e
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In the US, if you are qualified, you can get on an income-driven repayment plan. Under that plan, your federal student loan repayment is also capped at income percentage. If you keep making payments, the rest of the loan gets discharged aft
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by filoleg 3y ago
> they are insanely wealthy The OP mentions that the main guy running the SWAT service makes roughly $100k/mo at most. While it is certainly a lot of money, it isn’t even close to being “above the law.” The OP says that the service
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by filoleg 3y ago
> I've met adults-with-children who still think things like "I can't accept that raise, it'll put me into a higher tax bracket." If talking purely about taxes and income without anything else in the context, you

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