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by grecy 2y ago
I used to work at a large telco, and had daily dealings with Marketing. It was incredible to see how important they thought they were, and how every single aspect of the entire company had to be about Marketing. Even when it very clearly ma
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by grecy 2y ago
Welcome to America. As you can see from all the replies here, employee exploitation is not just the norm, it's expected. As you can see people are even thankful for it!
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by grecy 2y ago
I love this game. While driving right around Africa it was fun to see maps with Zaire, or Sudan as one country. Even since my time Swaziland changed its name to Eswatini and Burundi moved its capital. I bet there are other changes I haven’t
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by grecy 2y ago
Thank you for arguing petty semantics and proving my point so well :) It is all bribery, plain and simple.
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by grecy 2y ago
We can call it by many names - lobbying, campaign contributions, gifts, free speech. Do not, under any circumstances call it corruption or bribery, those words have been replaced!
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by grecy 2y ago
I studied Software Engineering, but never quite grasped the difference between a Library and a Framework until I started my first job developing with Web Objects. It is a joy to use such a rich and well thought out Framework that really doe
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by grecy 2y ago
Have a look into the decline of the fishing industry on the eastern seaboard of the us and Canada. We fished ALL the fish.
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by grecy 2y ago
> There is no little damage in dignity done by choosing to subsidize such people rather than allowing them to exchange their real work for real value. But the damage is being done to society at large. By subsidizing that worker, taxpay
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by grecy 2y ago
This comment would be on the front page of Reddit , where I’ve always figured the average user is an hourly worker being exploited for profit. Here on HN it gets downvoted, because I assume the average user is the business owner (or very mu
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by grecy 2y ago
I’m from Australia, and while visiting NYC the cops got very aggressive because I walked on grass in a park! They also said if I kept throwing a football in Central Park there would be trouble, and yelled at me for lying on a bench in a tra
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by grecy 2y ago
I walked 35mins to work everyday of the 2 years I lived in Calgary, which got me excited to bike 20 mins to work everyday for 4 years in Whitehorse. Biking in -40 is a lot of fun when you attack big snow drifts in the pitch black at 10am!
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by grecy 2y ago
He was extremely careful not to touch much, and after meeting his parents they lived in constant terror
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by grecy 2y ago
> low incidence of peanut allergies in developing countries I know this sounds extremely insensitive, but I genuinely think the answer is simply that the vulnerable die. I spent 3 years moving through 35 different African countries and
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by grecy 2y ago
When I worked at a wilderness summer camp I had a kid in my group that was deathly allergic to peanuts, so weeks before we had to rid the camp of them. He was about 13, and said when he was little they did that scratch allergy test on his a
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by grecy 2y ago
Cheers, you too. Shockingly humid here too....
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by grecy 2y ago
You’re right. Thanks & sorry. I just took a really long walk and feel better.
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by grecy 2y ago
> Sort of, I suppose If you want to have a good discussion, this, right here, IMO is the reason we have to make decisions "within a fucked up system" (as you put it). You are letting these companies push you around. You accep
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by grecy 2y ago
> No, but you are at fault if they give you the option for instant withdrawal for $0.25. You can stick that. What if the "instant" option was $25? What if it was $250? Your logic falls down completely. I am genuinely horrifie
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by grecy 2y ago
> - OP also made the decision to inconvenience everyone boarding behind them No, the airline did that when they didn't seat the family together. If a bank has so many convoluted steps it takes me 10 minutes to withdraw cash from a
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by grecy 2y ago
> I just highlighted the impact of the decision OP made in that moment The decision they made was putting the onus on a multi-billion dollar corporation to respect and be kind to families! The fact they hadn't already done-so is e
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by grecy 2y ago
It is interesting you make it sound like it is that person's fault the airline did not seat their family together. It sounds almost like you think a multi-billion dollar company is more important that regular old families. I know I&#x2
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Boeing's Starliner has cost at least twice as much as SpaceX's Crew Dragon(arstechnica.com)
1 points by grecy 2y ago|1 comments
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by grecy 2y ago
Yes, lots of stuff linked on HN is an ad, or has been paid for by someone to convince you of something. Welcome to the internet.
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Both are illegal. One is taking money to advertise illegal substances, the other is taking money for a service and then not delivering that service.
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by grecy 2y ago
I find it really interesting Facebook collect money from someone to run these ads, and they can continue to do that without getting into legal trouble. When I moved countries it took 6 months for Facebook to stop showing me ads for the old
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by grecy 2y ago
I remember in High School in about 1995 when Dad and I made a jig to drill holes in 1.44MB disks to turn them into 2.88MB disks. It worked on about 90% of the 50 or so we drilled, IIRC.
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> fairly middling against other developing countries Fascinating you're compare the US to other developing countries.. and saying it is basically middle of the road as far as developing countries go.
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by grecy 2y ago
Cities used to bid for and compete to host the games. It was seen as an honor and something worth fighting for. It was recently announced Brisbane, Australia won the contest to host the 2032 summer games. They were the only city that submit
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SpaceX Falcon 9 returns to flight after identifying probable cuase of anomaly(spacex.com)
7 points by grecy 2y ago|1 comments
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by grecy 2y ago
and Tesla's include statements about Optimus and FSD

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