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by fnimick 6y ago
I don't personally limit myself in this way, but I understand. Having personal friendships at work makes it more challenging to make hard business decisions such as switching companies when opportunities present themselves or firing &#
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by fnimick 10y ago
Part of being a modern startup means you have to break the rules to catch up with established competition. If you get big before the law catches up with you, you win. See: Uber. Flagrantly illegal, but it's gotten big enough to pressur
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by fnimick 11y ago
As someone with retrograde amnesia, I can confirm - this is exactly what it feels like. It's very interesting experiencing (essentially) the first few years of your life while being fully alert and forming memories.
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by fnimick 11y ago
Lower barrier to entry, all you need to get started are some photos. Creates a higher user population, so the % of creeps is lower (from conversation, this seems to be what turns my female friends off traditional dating apps) And lastly, t
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by fnimick 12y ago
If there were an infinite supply of housing, and tenants could choose landlords, I'd agree with you. In the city I live in, it's common practice for tenants to work entirely through agents, and a severe housing shortage means tha
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by fnimick 12y ago
Expensive and inefficient for society, great for those who profit from the poor. Of course they're trying to trap people in a cycle of poverty - what's better than having customers who can't escape?
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by fnimick 12y ago
Except their CEO is a sleazeball - all this behavior comes straight from the top.
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by fnimick 12y ago
Of course accountability isn't a priority. Their priority is to arrest and detain as many people as they can, and being accountable might cut into their revenue.
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by fnimick 12y ago
There's no quicker way of making yourself appear high-status than acting like you're better than the other big players at the table. Being a bully is the name of the game.
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by fnimick 12y ago
This is the same BS that comes up every time this issue emerges. I remember public outrage when a news station reported that (shocker) welfare recipients had refrigerators and microwaves. Just because you have a car, or a fridge, or even
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by fnimick 12y ago
As they should be. They were lucky to be born into a family of 'hard work and intelligent decisions.' They _themselves_ had absolutely nothing to do with it.
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by fnimick 12y ago
Oh, we probably would have invaded/nuked the Soviet Union. It's not like MAD stopped us from sowing destruction and chaos around the globe, either. It just made us fight proxy wars instead of real ones with other nuclear powers.
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by fnimick 13y ago
It's not because she was part of the Bush Administration, but what she did while she was there. There's a difference.
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by fnimick 13y ago
It's even worse than that - since companies are distributing binaries compiled with icc, it's more like a Ford gas refinery distributing gas to normal gas stations that secretly runs terribly in other cars. There simply is no way
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by fnimick 13y ago
It fixes the legal problem. Intel isn't required to provide an optimized compiler for competitors' chips, but it is required to note that its compiler that is compatible with those chips doesn't optimize code for them. I don
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by fnimick 13y ago
Actually we have 0 smoke alarms in our house exactly because they are so annoying. On the day we moved in, they went off 6 times while we were making dinner. They were all off the ceiling later that evening.
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by fnimick 13y ago
And this acquisition is brilliant - they acqui-hire, kill competition early for a relatively low price, and get to maintain their cozy duopoly with H&R Block in the tax prep market.
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by fnimick 13y ago
Rubbish. This is an employer's economy, and they have all the power. I can be replaced a lot easier than I can find another job.
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by fnimick 13y ago
I'm pretty sure they mean that you have to manually copy and store all your files in the Dropbox folder, where with plug, any file anywhere on your PC gets synced. I'm not entirely sure that's a good thing, but it's defi