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by goldcd 8y ago
That's just a tiny incremental change to the supermarket you're already in. The idea of 'pre-packed food, with a bar-code you have to pick up yourself' - quite a leap from standing at the counter asking the aproned worke
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by goldcd 8y ago
Indeed - I don't like him (but on this basis I'm not a great fan of myself either) - but what wikileaks exposed is important. I'm not even saying it's true, or of importance, or of anything. Just, as an example: https:&
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by goldcd 8y ago
I'm not an Uber-hater - but they don't offer anything unique and the valuation is insane. Their problem is that if they rack up prices/commission to pay off their investors, then both their drivers and riders will simply swit
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by goldcd 8y ago
Indeed it does - Got to sleep, now, but bookmarked for tomorrow. Thanks for the pointer - Sounds precisely in the ball-park of my "I've had a beer" thinking, and I look forward to seeing how it failed for obvious reasons tomo
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by goldcd 8y ago
The lack of 'want' is why I quite like it. Say 50c an hour 'went to stock' - the worker would much prefer to take the 50c home each week, and the CEO would prefer not to have to deal with the workers collectively buildin
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by goldcd 8y ago
or to look at it from the entry-level side. There are currently no shortage of minimumish wage jobs out there (choose your payment-point). The jobs and therefore you as an employer are interchangeable. What do you offer that makes them want
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by goldcd 8y ago
Something is clearly going wrong - and unless we have a correction, then it's going to take us all down with it. My suggestion for discussion: "Stock Options for all" - or something that provides a similar motivation. If you
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by goldcd 8y ago
If it's little spots where the paint looks like it's 'gone crackly' - that's bird shit you didn't wash off. I know, as my roof is covered in them. Fortunately the undercoat seems impervious - so can be consider
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by goldcd 8y ago
I'm not a 'car guy' - but love my 2003 Mk1 Ford Focus. I live in a city, it parks on the street, I don't really even need a car - but I'm emotionally attached to the little-blue-fella. Why? Well I bought it as after
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by goldcd 8y ago
I've not taken a thinkpad apart for a long time - but my memory of upgrading them is a great one. Yes, they have the technical manuals easily available - but they had the information embedded in their molds for the parts. e.g. If you w
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by goldcd 8y ago
a fair point - but if it wasn't clear, all opinions expressed were anecdotally happening between a single pair of my ears. My apologies if you'd adjusted your personal realization of the world around you, based upon my post (altho
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by goldcd 8y ago
I'd always seen it being wider than "just children" More of a "I'm concerned by the effect of this on minds I consider more feeble than my own (due to some massive superiority complex I'm in possession of)&quot
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by goldcd 8y ago
I know, but what I should have said is that it needs an accepted fancy-latin-term like "ad hominem" Or at the very least an accepted English equivalent such as "Straw man" Basically I'd like something other than Rev
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by goldcd 8y ago
Even to the casual observer/thinker "screen time" being a concern is quite clearly "bollocks" For as long as I can remember "society worries about every change" - but at least previously we focused on the
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by goldcd 8y ago
silent scream "Think of the children" should surely have its own rhetorical-rejection term (although the mental playback of a Simpsons gif, has made me smile).
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by goldcd 8y ago
bites bait You think Cal is entirely 1/3 of what we collectively "need to know"?
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by goldcd 8y ago
and I think it's his last 3 of 6, that made this top 10. He must be awesome. Place your bets please on which his next will knock off the list.
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by goldcd 8y ago
Good god, just wait until somebody discovers the number of 'horoscope' or 'biorhythms' apps that are available on both Google and Apple's stores. More seriously, my inner adolescent doesn't want to lose the abi
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by goldcd 8y ago
My humble take is that unionization is valuable as a counter-balance in a company and can benefit it and all within. Let's take extreme examples: 1) CEO sees a blip coming in the quarterly income results. CEO disposes of enough people
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by goldcd 8y ago
But the point of paying these dues to have a point. For example, strike-pay. If your employees are living pay-cheque to pay-cheque, then your risk of them all striking as a whole is minimal, whatever you do. If you know they could all subsi
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by goldcd 8y ago
raises hand I see my job to be a human-shield whose sole purpose is to try to ensure something worthwhile gets done by the collective. No shortage of smart-people. Tricky bit is keeping them pointing vaguely in the right direction and ens
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by goldcd 8y ago
I thought the answer was obvious - then realized blackmail is seemingly a more vague term than I'd previous thought. My previous understanding was that blackmail was ~"a threat to reveal illegal activity unless you were compensate
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by goldcd 8y ago
Well f me. I've now just to mentally add another 30 to my mental tally of "the collective suffering of mankind"
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by goldcd 8y ago
EA seems to be doing better - there's a few new things in there once you strip out Battlefield, Sims and the Sports stuff - but still.. ..For some reason I'd still thought the big publishers were some massive force of nature, cru
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by goldcd 8y ago
Activision Blizzard googles 4k employees and.. Last year managed to re-make Crash Bandicoot & Spyro - and a CoD. That's it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Activision_video_games That boggles my mind..
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by goldcd 8y ago
As an end-user - make it cheap and as frictionless as possible (and to providers, my take would to be sacrifice pretty much anything on this altar). I'm not a provider, so can only provide anecdotal advise. 1) Google Drive. I started o
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by goldcd 8y ago
Except to follow this to the logical conclusion, amazon will be the only person I can buy my "sliding mitre saw" from. In the end I didn't buy mine from Amazon - I picked up my maybe #2 option from a local wholesaler that had
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by goldcd 8y ago
I don't look at it as being antagonistic - it's a non-zero-sum game. If you accept as a starting point that there is consumption and production, then optimizing that provides efficiencies that enable both more production and consu
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by goldcd 8y ago
I think you've nailed it. I've just accepted I'm tracked and it's the price to pay for the benefits shrugs I don't see adtech as 'free of ethics' - merely what I'd do myself in their position (quali
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by goldcd 8y ago
I can't find the damn thing now, but I believe you're right - I mentioned some other anecdotal "being pursued across the internet incorrectly" comment in this thread. Solution to diffuse the feeling was to insert the ide

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