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Google Spanner
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Trivial is subjective. The sketch of the proof is simple, but you skipped the details and it's not obvious to everyone at first.
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"begets the question" is a beautiful solution to the "begs the question" error, but I think in this case you meant "begs the question"?
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Why would an alcohol restriction make sense instead? Why is alcohol worse than broccoli, hamburger, or ice cream? Why is what they feed employees an important factor in a vendor? For example, would you check to see if other vendors pay thei
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Obviously not, but those factors are independent. They arent flying people out for the purpose of finding vegetarian meals.
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Shaking out all the rabid anti-vegetarianists might who kneejerk response with seething hatred and without reading, might enough of the business benefit to overcome any costs of this policy.
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WeWork doesn't operate in the (noncoastal) western US, so your argument is irrelevant to them. Most of us don't live in ancie Mesopotamia anymore. WeWork employees aren't expensing meals at Montana ranches.
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Isn't fixed rail a huge difference from flexible routing buses? How do transfers save time? By indirectly eliminating stops (two express routes)?
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AT&T still dominates telephone service. Most phone companies are renamed Baby Bells. Facebook has the analytics information and wealth to buy any competitor. IBM gave itself away to Microsoft when an exec handed Bill Gates a sweetheart
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Holocaust only needed personal data because of the weird racism. You don't need personal data if you want to just invent "communist" or "counter-revolutionary" victims to persecute or to murder everyone with a diff
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Look up the history of "political machines", "yellow journalism", "fascism". Democracy has always been corrupted because people are inherently not very good.
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I haven't noticed that's but it's hilarious. "OK" is how you boss Google tech, so "OK" is how it bosses you too.
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Why are you assuming its unbiased?
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Eric Naggum was one loud extremist. He wasn't the community, but he was so loud and rude (which unfortunately entertains people) that he was was what people thought the community was.
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Mods please fix clickbait title
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It's not a loophole if people follow a law's explicit purpose.
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It's the "Stop Soros Law", not the "Soros Law". Also you (accidentally?) Glossed over the part that it's targeting illegal immigrants.
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If there are so many rich people that this becomes a concern, simply *don't worry a out it". A little free rice to a rich person is a "Cadillac problem".
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Why haven't institutional investors fought back?
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Are you saying that a billionaire's carbon impact per dollar spent is lower than an average person's? That's an extraordinary claim.
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That because SoftBank isn't stuck with an immediate 35% tax bill when they invest in a US company. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-isnt-really-sitting-...
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What's wrong with gaining a few percentages or extra dividends?!
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It's an utter myth that a company can be punished by its shareholder's for paying too much tax, just as it's a myth that they could be punished for letting their employees due paid volunteer work.
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8y ago
So does conduit fall short?
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What loans? Grad school in CS is free, and undegrad is easily financed by internships in software developer.
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GPs don't make a ton of money anymore. Most are replaced by PAs. Specialists still have important skills. And all those bioinformatics and medical automation projects rely on MDs.
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That only makes sense if they lost some social skills they had earlier, which seems unlikely. It also doesn't explain how salespeople can socialize while thinking, or why engineers don't suddenly improve social skills at night an
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There's an interesting comment in that article, by someone who doesn't believe in the Copenhagen intepretation of social justice. > She said she liked working at Facebook and didn’t resent the engineers and product managers sh
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That's just because Amazon's warehouse workers are employees instead if outsourced.
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America is expensive because the quality of life is higher than in China or USA. Some parts of Europe are higher. There is a very strong correlation between quality of life and cost of living.
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