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One must hope that the spirit that compells malicious actors to archive private p*rn Discord servers on a publicly-accessible site eventually finds itself to people with access to technical servers. I get that everyone wants their secret ha
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The employment/mentorship pipeline for Black artists seems to have been decimated.
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This has happened to me. I can't remember the explanation, but the solution for deliverypeople caught by it is kind of fun. Ideally, the restaurant will just remake the order, but if they won't, it's sometimes advantageous to
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>Instrumentation of browsers to show performance constraints remains poor and/or a Black Art Which makes the loss of all our DEI programs over the past month all the more painful.
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People need to realize that leisure time - time off work, commute, chores - is paid for by their employer (as far as they're concerned). Which is to say that those of us with only a couple of hours to ourselves a day are being stiffed,
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And even then. Little reported: Switzerland's largest private bank was forced by the government to take over its rival's assets. Why "forced"? Something something Archegos. The truth is that we don't know what UBS s
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>Are suggesting that's what's going on now? Yes. >Because it sure doesn't look like that at all, it looks like lack of supply to meet people's needs That is certainly the propaganda line that is being pushed in ord
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This is assuming that companies are initially led and managed by people who actually care about it and the service/product produced, and that the bean counters and corporate climbers only show up later, when it becomes clear that the b
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No Newtype powers required.
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In college, I remember writing and posting to Facebook a poem about my frustrations with my own impotence in the face of Big Issues Facing the World, and ending it with something along the lines of glancing at a sunny window and watching, o
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What I gather about the differences between American and European attitudes towards work hours and vacation leads me to believe that there's actually a material difference between American and European acquisitions. I'm certain th
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America has multiple examples of companies that thrived for decades until a certain type of manager showed up (of which leet code engineers are an aspect; clueless MBA grads are another; there are more). Sears. General Electric. IBM. Compan
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I am wracking my brain to come up with a "coats to coats" joke that makes sense here.
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I'm told that the French don't have to put up with this crap because they are much more willing to go on strike, even after securing a cushy, high-paying job. I think it must be a herd immunity thing; ever since being unceremoniou
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1) Housing is not land. Conflation of the two is incorrect, as any Georgist will tell you. 2) The commodification and securitization of housing as we know it today is absolutely new. This allows for new and exciting ways to distort valuatio
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Correct. A phenomenon that IS global is the financialization or property (of which AirBNB is an aspect). Could it be as simple as, "Housing is now an investment, rent goes up because investors want returns, the solution is to limit or
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That was the closest we got, and you did start to see the symptoms I mentioned. Banks foreclosed illegally on some houses, people walked away from underwater mortgages, and the share of housing owned by individuals to reside in versus owned
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He started doing this well before it was clear that Trump would win reelection. He doesn't want to say the latter half because it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy, regardless of who's in office. They don't call him the
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So many people have been saying this since ~2016, and nothing seems to shake the economy for long. Every chance at a correction gets manhandled back to the "line go up" status quo by unprecedented action by regulators and watchdog
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>Harris beat Trump in H2H polls against Trump in 2024. Not as consistently, not by the same margins, and with a large amount of ambivalence from swing voters. They liked Sanders in a way that Harris could never emulate. Every election ov