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by gist 2y ago
Also what happens to a user whose hard drive is seized (and forensic tools are used) to find deleted files? Hard to believe (and why would they) take time to properly sanitize the drives.
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Guess what? Trump will (hopefully) come to the rescue here. Don't laugh at that. I'd imagine he will be helpful possibly even with some of the EU rules such as in particular the one which makes even small US companies liable (as I
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by gist 2y ago
So generally I agree with this. But I will note the following: 1) Vanguard offers Gold ETFs. Now they would say something ike 'oh that's because gold is used as an actual product ie has a purpose'. But most people accept that
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by gist 2y ago
Unclear to me why this info can't be (at this point it's the 20th AMA by Peter Roberts) in a faq format. Sure it's helpful. But it seems on the surface to be lead generation for an attorney and I'm sure there are tons of
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> Curiously, the fact that the founders of Twitter have been slow to monetize it may in the long run prove to be an advantage. This is the way in part things were done 'back then' (and for sure even now). As people might recall
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by gist 2y ago
And in particular engagement bait, when you're blogging or writing, requires you to not be circumspect but rather be polarized and absolute in what you say.
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Strong link/weak link (Nuclear Weapon)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by gist 2y ago
This is business it's not a friendly game of (whatever).
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by gist 2y ago
Anything that someone else does that you don't understand or can't do always sounds super important, impressive, and enviable. Usually. But you have to realize that he spends his life doing and thinking about this. And will stipul
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An example of this is something I learned from a former employee who went to work for Encyclopedia Brittanica 'back in the day'. I actually invited the former employee to come back to our office so I could understand and learn fro
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> any country looking to arrest either man should tread carefully. I'd imagine that if they were detained the IDF would put out quite a bit of effort to get them sprung from prison ... at any cost. (Imagine if a former US leader was
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by gist 2y ago
Are you serious? You think they don't care about this except if the stock 'takes a bit hit'??
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I had buffering issues but then backed off and let a bit of it buffer up (maybe 1 or 2 mintues?) and then it was fine for the entire Tyson Paul match. There was no reason I needed it to be live vs. a 1 or 2 minute delay.
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by gist 2y ago
As someone who has a very high end car (ie 2.3 seconds 0 to 60 and that's with what others claim is, um, 'acceleration lag' and a standing stop (ie not the way Tesla apparently does it) in almost all driving you don't go
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> And the noise, the vibration and the smell of the fumes. In this day and age? Which car do you 'smell the fumes' or 'the vibration' unless the vibration is intentional (for the experience).
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by gist 2y ago
Also see this and note who the OP is: https://gothamgal.com/2024/10/journalism-vs-media/
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As America's Marijuana Use Grows, So Do the Harms(nytimes.com)
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A Brief History of US and Chinese Security Camera Manufacturing(getscw.com)
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Lowering Cholesterol Without Statins(nytimes.com)
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Wonderful but almost all startups don't have a cultural icon (and btw he was one way back after Apple got started and obviously when he returned) nor do they have the resources to 'hire great people' and fire anyone and repla
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> I would guess that previous drafts of this essay had concrete examples It's always bothered me to no end that PG has his essays read by others prior to posting. This isn't academia (or an application to college or a job appli
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> Their advice could be optimistically summarized as "hire good people and give them room to do their jobs." What's the definition of 'good people' in the sense that nobody knowingly hires 'bad' people.
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> but largely useless ruling because it fails to define the maximum duration for which property can be held. As such, it's up to the police as to what qualifies as indefinite. If the ruling had capped it to 14 or 30 days, that would
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Can't afford 'high' prices? Work harder spend less time on play or leisure pursuits. Realize maybe you should have studied harder in high school or picked a career based on earnings rather than 'what you enjoyed'. W
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Truckstop Hierarchy, Rich People, and Moby Dick (2017)(longreads.com)
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Do I know that she knew that it wasn't Jeff Bezos. Absolutely. That's no excuse for what amounts to slander https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/slander "Slander is a false statement, usually made orally, wh
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I'd like to know what attempts they made in that time period to 'not suffer' meaning exactly what was said by Amazon's attorneys by way of a potential settlement. Nice they fought 'till the bitter end' (and app
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> "outrage first, thinking never" This is near exactly my point. The outrage rising to the level as if amazon is just a truly evil entity and all based on perhaps a few bad experiences confirmed by this particular story.
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Yes it's called hyperbole and clickbait. By the same token she could have gotten even more attention by claiming the janitor wrote the contract.
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First this type of information should be on a web page or blog post. Not a hard to read twitter thread. Second saying that Jeff Bezos wrote (and further that he tried to imprison her husband) it makes the OP loose credibility (especially a

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