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by goldcd 7y ago
I can assure you my regional office manager doesn't give a toss about "silicon valley brand recognition". I think it's down to the customer. There's a post below about somebody being reassured "it's a We W
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by goldcd 7y ago
I'd agree. should I ever have thought about ways to launder money, it's the ability to scale, not so much the % that's important.
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by goldcd 7y ago
Well there's a clear advantage for b2b. Say you're a pretty large company and suddenly decide you want to open a dozen 'offices' in a dozen different countries. You just have to deal with one provider, one set of infrast
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by goldcd 7y ago
Admirable - and what he did.
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by goldcd 7y ago
The specific thing I was thinking, was that the guys who got in after them probably had their own stories of being "the 2nd or 3rd black guy in an IBM office" - which I'd have thought would likewise be a source of pride to th
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by goldcd 7y ago
Indeed - although the point may still be valid. Once you're qualified, it's natural to go off and place yourself where you can make money. As an anecdotal example, in my local practice, there are a lot of Eastern-European and now
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by goldcd 7y ago
The article is written in an ambiguous fashion. If it was "This is the type of interview and type of questions you're likely to come across" - then I've no real issue. As you mention, educational opportunities were not e
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by goldcd 7y ago
I was happily nodding along, until I got to: "Somehow, he managed to obtain copies of the IBM entrance examination questions and answers, which he surreptitiously shared with promising young black job applicants. He coached them on pas
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by goldcd 7y ago
It's really hard to see where their killer position is. If the focus is getting a lot of people into an office for a long time, then it will eventually be cheaper for those people to rent their own. If focus is on short term individual
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by goldcd 7y ago
Strangely I find myself not-liking this ruling. I mean I can absolutely see from an intellectual level, why it's happened - but there will be repercussions. Firstly the minor one. Restrictions on transfer is what allows us to pick up r
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by goldcd 7y ago
And also the difficulty replacing the fuel in the increasing number of flights. On the ground, we're starting to have "entirely green days" for electricity - and say new cars that use it.
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by goldcd 7y ago
Or it could all be FUD, spread by MI6 raises eyebrow
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by goldcd 7y ago
There's limited demand on both sides of this though. To take the Uber model - you are going to take n trips, in m cities, for y duration. Uber and their users want unlimited drivers, riders, cities piled into their app. Wag is complete
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by goldcd 7y ago
More seriously, the 'matching industry' has two flavours currently that can make money. There's the geographically diverse Uber model (I want the single nearest transport wherever I am) and the Tinder model (I want all the or
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by goldcd 7y ago
I'm just imagining one of the wag investors asking "What's to stop your walker who lives nearby the dog's owner, just doing the walk independently with the person they've built trust with?" And the answer is &q
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by goldcd 7y ago
As a mind experiment, imagine money randomly appeared in your bank account. $500 - Bank error in your favour and you move on with your life. $5,000 - Maybe buy you some breathing space to look for a job you prefer. Pay off a debt? $50,000 -
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by goldcd 7y ago
I was thinking more you could blue up to provide insta-protest-cool. No I'm the <strike>messiah</strike> protester
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by goldcd 7y ago
Nah - they have to give you something, as not everywhere will accept it and people would then panic about "I'll be stranded if my phone's not working". So you get the pretty little physical card to tick off that worry. T
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by goldcd 7y ago
But it is indirectly mentioned in the news continuously. Maybe equivalent would be a "Heartwarming story of how a 9 year old in Oregon has defended his family home, with his .22 rifle from the Isis caliphate that invaded back in March&
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by goldcd 7y ago
Many years ago I went out to South Africa to work in telco. When cabling up an area, they laid: 1) Deep cables to carry the data 2) Shallow cables to be dug up and stolen, without affecting the data-carrying ones.
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by goldcd 7y ago
The point of the article is that "These DIY staffers built this handy contraption" - but also that the stories they reference seem to consider it entirely normal that if they hadn't this child would have been shit-out-of-luck
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by goldcd 7y ago
The point is that in most Western countries (US aside), the idea that the folks down the local hardware store made a medical device is simply bizarre. My NHS is most certainly not perfect, but provides a decent safety net. They'd have
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by goldcd 7y ago
"America's got untreated illnesses" "Unfortunately Keith, you lost the public vote and also your left foot to diabetes" "Tune in next week!"
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by goldcd 7y ago
Slightly OT - but https://99percentinvisible.org/ is a really great podcast series. I believe the notional theme is 'design' (and good design being 99% invisible) - but it's a wonderful mish-mash of stuff t
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by goldcd 7y ago
I'd seen the idea of using street-furniture, such as lamp-posts - but can't help seeing visions of coils of cable looping all over the pavement/sidewalk (in the UK at least, lamp posts tend not to be on the road side of the p
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by goldcd 7y ago
I'm not sure I'd agree that there's been some "backlash" - on any discussion, both sides will quite happily criticize the BBC for bias, which I take to be a good thing. The funding model behind the BBC is a bit susp
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by goldcd 7y ago
My takeaway thought from the article was that "pre-sliced" != "long-life" I'd always assumed that pre-sliced came along after long-life/'functional' bread came along. Quite appreciated the fact that t
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by goldcd 7y ago
Like a few other commenters below have indicated - this is a confusing story. The "fencing" part seems clear. Pawnshops had load of transactions from same people. Pawnshops appeared to be solely flogging new items online, via Amaz
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That Headline Grabbing FTC Fine(theregister.co.uk)
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by goldcd 7y ago
I listened to an interesting podcast on Kodak - https://www.spectacularfailures.org/episode/2019/07/15/kodak... My previous perception which I think is common, is that due to the amount they made from no

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