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by hourago 4y ago
Brand stores also seem very popular, just look at Apple. Maybe you will buy your $1K phone on-line but you may want to take a look at it somewhere. Many people goes to a shop to look at products and then buy them on-line. That is not sustai
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by hourago 4y ago
> Half the people in the US couldn't afford food if the costs weren't low. Paying subsidies is a way to keep labor costs low while keeping people fed. Or to assure a minimum well being for the population. A good economy is just
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by hourago 4y ago
> "cultural appropriation" I think that you are into something there. That is a term invented by the far-right to create a straw-man to attack as "cultural appropriation" negates the reality of how culture works. Shou
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by hourago 4y ago
> Note that the guy who submitted the images to the contest created hundreds of images, and spent weeks finetuning the prompts and curating the results. Let a monkey write for a million years and choose the best writing. I think that cu
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by hourago 4y ago
What would hurt most the employee? That is the choice when you are bullying someone.
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by hourago 4y ago
> Boycotting Israel There are legal ways of firing an employee if the employee does something illegal. Bullying is not one of them. And that is my point, people insists that "Google has reasons" that does not justify to commit
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by hourago 4y ago
> what OP is saying is that said calculus is fairly superficial compared to the very real calculus of losing out on profits due to lack of access. The readers are an important part of that calculus. How would your readers react when the
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by hourago 4y ago
In Spain there is a famous case were a judge ruled that filming and publishing videos of people while they pee in the forest is legal as it is a public space. The guy that was spying and filming on the back of concert in the forest won the
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by hourago 4y ago
> “Due to retaliation, a hostile environment, and illegal actions by the company, I cannot continue to work at Google and have no choice but to leave the company at the end of this week,” Ariel Koren said in a statement posted Tuesday to
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by hourago 4y ago
> by people who have never, and will never work a job that could be dangerous It may be even worse. Quite often people that suffers from dangerous jobs will also support the situation as they fear the uncertainty of what change may mean.
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by hourago 4y ago
> We don't accept that kind of risk anymore in the US, which obviously drives up construction costs. It drives cost up for the building company, it drives cost way down for the community. Economy is not just one company but a comple
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by hourago 4y ago
> the highest performing engineering teams are usually males of similar cultural background. So, in an industry that 95% of employees are men you find that the top performing are men? I recommend that you take a look at Bayes theorem. It
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by hourago 4y ago
There is a risk that many young people feels that they personally need to fix the world, when it only can be done by political and economic leaders. The message that the most contaminant industries are sending is "You are personally at
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by hourago 4y ago
> I've found that too much humility gets you bullied That depends a lot on your environment. There are many companies were this happens, upper management nurtures an unhealthy environment were abuse is common and people need to be d
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by hourago 4y ago
Really bad advice. I have learned a lot from people way less experienced than me. Even if I usually know more than some individual I still find things that he may know and I do not. Let's not talk about classifying an individual as &qu
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by hourago 4y ago
Authoritarian regimes are designed top-down that limits the complexity of society and stifles innovation. Authoritarian regimes also fear an educated population further diminishing society value. A social democracy is in the opposite side o
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by hourago 4y ago
> Too many people discuss salary without discussing buying power. In capitalism that is not important. If I have the negotiation capability to get a higher salary why should I accept a lower one just because I live cheaper?
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by hourago 4y ago
> all platforms Meaning Windows, Web/WebAssembly, iOS, macOS, Android, and Linux. So, no consoles. But it looks good for many back-office applications.
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by hourago 4y ago
The man was "arrested" and it may have been a baseless arrest and it has not reach a court. The Saudi woman has been sentenced by a judge to 34 years prison term. Both events are not even close.
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by hourago 4y ago
Resource gathering (oil, minerals, etc) only requires a few experts and many slaves to create wealth. A dictatorship works well in such a situation. Green energy and other technology intensive industries require dynamic societies with well
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by hourago 4y ago
Self-censorship is extremely harmful. When people fears physical harm when expressing themselves many criticisms go unsaid.
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by hourago 4y ago
> His banter with the narrator is quite humorous. To be fair, Jack is one of the most successful Youtubers in the world, and the video in question have over 7 million views. So, the Internet agrees with your comment.
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by hourago 4y ago
> there's nothing that makes a woman look better than a little black dress. White woman, maybe? Different skin colors require different fashion. That also applies to grey, at least for clothes.
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by hourago 4y ago
It depends on what I need. If the company gets into some new technology then I read a couple of books on the topic. I try to get generalist books instead of framework x.yy books. So, it can be 4-8 books or none depending on the year.
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by hourago 4y ago
European companies lack the self grandiose promotion that USA companies have. But I think that it is a good thing. I wish USA corporations and CEOs chilled a little.
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by hourago 4y ago
On informed and uninformed people. Cryptocurrency companies sell their services to people that does not have the knowledge to understand what they are buying. Exotic investments should be limited to professionals that can evaluate the situa
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by hourago 4y ago
https://european-alternatives.eu/category/email-providers https://european-alternatives.eu/category/cloud-computing-pl... It should be easy to replace most of the services.
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by hourago 4y ago
It seems that the taxi industry had all this figured out and we are just going back to square one.
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by hourago 4y ago
Makes no sense that a car manufacturer is speculating on exotic financial investments. You buy shares of an automaker expecting cars and related stuff. It's the same that Tesla betting its capital in the Super Bowl.
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by hourago 4y ago
And yet blaming victims will solve nothing but incentivise more bad actors that think themselves morally justified.

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