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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
Have you ever heard that price is what you pay, and value is what you get? The people who understand this look at dividends. The rest buy companies like Amazon for silly multiples. P.S. Preferreds may or may not pay dividends. The preferr
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
Yeah. I can certainly understand avoiding lawsuits, but they don't need to provide positive letters to do that. Just doing/saying nothing at all is sufficient.
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
This seems like a pretty silly question, and the answers reinforce that. Getting fired by Google is like getting fired anywhere else. One of the commenters mentioned that it's harder to explain a short term at Google to prospective e
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
It's much more than that. "No one goes there any more; it's too crowded" implies that the place is so successful that tastemakers look elsewhere, while they're still in fact booked solid every single night. Klout,
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
Perhaps I should ask whether you think that horsecarts are long-dead as a mode of transportation. They're still legal, and one can still purchase horses, carts, tack, etc. But no more than a handful of people use them on any given da
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
It's more like them "proposing we have a vehicles [sic] that use four wheels and internal combustion engines" while owning 100% of General Motors. There is nothing about this paper that is not self-promotion (and for a total
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
Klout is long dead, but Klouchebag lives on: http://www.tomscott.com/klouchebag/ .
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
> Or they conquer their own land, i.e. a revolution. Maybe, but that doesn't solve the problem. They're still single and would rather not be. Something else still has to give. A very long civil war might do it, if that'
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
Yes. And while the cultural aspects are worth understanding, neither they nor the women are the real story in China. As you note, there have always been and will always be people of both sexes who are single through choice or temperament.
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
It isn't. Used to be that two could keep a secret if one were dead. Still true, unless one is a corporation; they can never really die.
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
> A world without wood smoke would be a poorer, sadder, less pleasant-smelling world. It would also be a world without trees, because that's the only way to avoid ever breathing wood smoke. Forest fires are a natural phenomenon and
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
Less lung cancer, more mouth and esophogeal cancer. You have to adjust for the fact that people who smoke pipes and cigars smoke much less overall, and then also for the fact that cigarettes almost always have filters. It's not hard t
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
Just replace "meat" with "________" and you can supplant an entire shelf of political science tomes with a clear and concise summary of the 21st century political universe.
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
Ideal to whom? The state may or may not have its own paternalistic notions about how people ought to die, but so does each individual. Your ideal death is the one you'd prefer; mine is the one I'd prefer. Side note, ever seen an
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
I've worked for many companies large and small, and many CEOs in that time. There's not a single one of them I respected, at the time or upon reflection. Would you mind sharing a few names for the rest of us to study?
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
At the risk of sounding glib, they're paid the most because they're the best at convincing people who control money to pay them. Also, in no small part, because in most cases the people who control the money have little or no inc
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
I'm not denying the greenhouse effect, nor that most if not all of its modern increase is anthropogenic. You need to go back and actually read what I wrote. The greenhouse effect, if any, induced by burning non-fossil plant matter i
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
> Further, the comparison itself is misleading as the CO2 figures for the US (and all other countries, for that matter), only count burning fossil fuel (and producing cement). Some of the things you note that aren't counted should b
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
At the line manager level, probably many, even most. Empathy is selected against for promotion at most corporations, so if the OP is reporting to someone who is already a senior manager or aspiring to become one, it's unlikely. That s
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
A personal relationship is part of the necessary context, but all things considered it is usually a small part. Managers at most shops are valued by the company for their ability to build and maintain a functional team. If they have high a
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
It's hit or miss. A lot of the bad managers (and the world's full of 'em) just make sure most of their employees are on H1 visas so they can't plausibly quit. That way they don't have to do anything for the employ
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
Sell the company if anyone is willing to pay a premium to the current share price. Otherwise liquidate most of it, perhaps keeping a small rump if that rump can churn out enough cash to keep the lights on and a small dividend flowing. An
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
Both your and the parent's suggested explanations seem to me to be more about pushing an agenda than an actual explanation. I'm sure there's no one reason that people are leaving Yahoo. It's possible that their interes
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
While I'm not sympathetic to prison operators or the mass-incarceration system in general, this is a weak article with little substance. Declaring an assertion to be myth requires a substantial investment in disproving it. Indeed, th
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
Still best to make it as expensive as possible.
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
So why demand access to the source code? Reverse reverse reverse reverse reverse psychology I guess.
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
Thanks. Hopefully that's what's happening here. The article wasn't clear at all as to whether what's happening is what you describe or simply China getting copies of the source (in some form). What a difference it mak
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
I see. That's not assumption of benevolence, it's simple greed. The same "I'll be gone, you'll be gone" attitude that created the mortgage implosion and so much else that's gone wrong throughout human hi
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
I'll start by saying I agree 100% with everything you said, and it makes me as angry as it makes you. You are dead right in all respects. However... there is another subtle argument to be made here. The Han culture has no concept of
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
> I think in general we're far too willing, far too often, to dismiss Chinese business tactics as benevolent. Who are "we" in this context? I don't really think anyone in the western world seriously believes there is

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