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by gph 14y ago
I'm curious, in what ways do you feel the culture has changed in your organization? Are there concrete changes to investment strategy/policy? Or a more general zeitgeist-type shift and people at the company have come to the general conclusi
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by gph 14y ago
>How could it possibly be cheaper? The insurance premiums will have to be enough to cover the costs of the payouts plus overhead and some additional margin of profit for the insurance company. This isn't completely true. Most insurance
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by gph 14y ago
Seriously? Getting VC funding isn't monetizing. That's not profit, it's an investment. I don't know if this needs to be spelled out, but generally when people make investments they expect the investment to be returned with additional profit
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by gph 14y ago
>The article claims that the US is "near the bottom in terms of actual social mobility", but only supports this with some points about how social mobility in the US isn't that good. They clearly reference several books by the people quo
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by gph 14y ago
I think what he means by 'historical decline' is that in centuries past the vast majority of people were either farmers or what would be considered small business owners. Only around the time of the industrial revolution did there start to
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by gph 14y ago
Anyone more knowledgeable in assembly and file formats care to expand on this: >It serves no purpose, except proving that files format not starting at offset 0 are a bad idea What exactly does it mean to start at offset 0 and why don't
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by gph 14y ago
It's plausible though doubtful that this was done to stifle free-speech. That said it appears DHS were given ample time to give a comment and decided not to. That was their choice and it left their motives open for speculation, which the ar
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by gph 14y ago
9/11. Kind of funny how a department setup to ostensibly protect us from terrorists is now involved in taking down websites and sending DMCAs.
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by gph 14y ago
Yea, from reading the article it seems like the entire test was bent towards a sexual angle. Perhaps they've already done some more neutral tests and this one came after those, but it feels like they were leading the results with the format
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by gph 14y ago
That's not really pertinent. The point is that the difference between using slave labor or using the abundant low-skilled cheap labor force is minimal. It might possibly swing the price of the product by tens of dollars, but there's no way
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by gph 14y ago
>Darwin's Selfish Gene I think you mean Dawkins. Easy to mix those two names up :)
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by gph 14y ago
Fair enough, but I'd hazard a guess that for the majority of people, especially the more urban ones, the only time they even hear about poachers is either in movies (Ace Ventura Pet Detective anyone?) or in articles about elephants/rhinos g
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by gph 14y ago
I agree with most of what you said but I'd like to add a couple follow-up comments. >Maybe I am reading this wrong but I am getting a sense that you think Africa is filled with "noble savages" who are getting corrupted by western influe
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by gph 14y ago
I can't help but read this with a pinch of salt. Yes, it's fascinating that these gorillas have learned this new behavior and are passing it down. And I think almost everyone wants to see endangered species protected. Yet I can't help but f
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by gph 14y ago
Well, prostitutes and drug dealers if you're into that kind of thing.
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by gph 14y ago
That's an interesting question. I don't have an expert opinion, but if I was to have some speculative fun I'd say that in the U.S. if you use the software without proper licensing then it would still be breaking civil copyright law. After a
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by gph 14y ago
No that's not really what it's like. They are using information from Craiglists site, even if you don't respect Craigslists claim to IP on the user-submitted listings you have to respect the fact that it's their servers/resources that colle
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by gph 15y ago
It doesn't work on the free VMWare software, though it does work on VMWare Workstation 8 (not free). Not that that disqualifies your statement in anyway, it is rather funny that it doesn't work on their own VM software. It even works on Ora
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by gph 15y ago
I wouldn't mind doing OT if my company treated it like that. Unfortunately, if I'm not at work anytime between 8AM-5PM, it's going to go down as either sick or vacation/holiday. No free time around here. But I understand this isn't the norm
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by gph 15y ago
You guys are taking this too far. I've not been around here that long, but I've seen much ruder posts go by without this level of chastising. It seems like the only reason this moral pile-on occurred was because he dared to challenge one of
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by gph 15y ago
Yea, came here to say this. <-- Currently making around 30k/yr with exempt status. Though my position doesn't usually demand OT, near release (Software QA) I've had to put in anywhere from 5-10 hours unpaid OT those weeks. I'm not happy
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by gph 15y ago
It's always amazed me that a company's outlook can look bad even though they're profit/revenue is growing, just because said growth isn't as big as it was in the past. I can sort of see why from an economics perspective, the stock price is
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by gph 15y ago
Now that you mention it, I've probably seen a couple of 'bricked' laptop batteries. At the time I didn't realize that was an issue inherent in the technology, but looking back that's probably what killed those batteries. Well at least this
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by gph 15y ago
The problem is that this isn't common knowledge yet and it needs to be. Is this Tesla's fault? Not entirely. But let's be honest, a small warning in the middle of the owners manual is not good enough. I'm sure they feel it would be stupid t
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by gph 15y ago
Only HD? Damn, I thought I'd get some good use out of my 3D flatscreen.
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by gph 15y ago
Ah, but not all shareholders are in it for long-term gain, so they don't necessarily want a CEO that aims for the long-term. And even those that are technically in it for the long-term are hand their money off to Fund Managers, who as recen
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by gph 15y ago
I'm not looking down on him, just saying he doesn't really belong in the same company as Bill Gates. There is a lot of Microsoft hate out there, which is partially deserved, but he still provided a needed and useful product/service that has
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by gph 15y ago
Including Rockefeller and Carnegie in that graphic is poor choice if you ask me. True they gave a lot of their money away... but mostly to their own causes.When it came to their own workers they were more willing to give money to thugs who
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by gph 15y ago
More like, don't act surprised when things you put on the internet are copied and don't try to push unjust restrictions because of it.
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by gph 15y ago
Even more stupid; expecting the legal system of different countries to fairly and efficiently protect your IP, especially if you don't already have large stacks of money to buy lawyers with.

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