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by iliketosleep 7y ago
That's amazing. It's clearly a scam and it's been going on for almost 1 year. This really hurts Amazon's credibility and can't be good for them in the long-term. It doesn't seem rational at all.
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
Isn't this just essentially just a reflection of maslow’s hierarchy of needs? I mean, everybody has their demons, and the founder of the billion dollar company has the time and resources to face those demons by receiving top quality pr
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
> Most interviews seem to weigh heavily in favor of "sprinters" over "marathoners". That is, they select for people who can go from nothing to working code in a short period of time. This is a great way of putting it.
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
No. It's China's market protectionism and one-way trade practices. For example, many products of major US companies are banned in China (think Google and Facebook). Whereas Chinese products are able to enter international markets
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
> Someone capable of making an app, website, software used inside of a company, script that gives a company insight, or whatever else you could possibly think of can make a 6 figure company on their own within a year for nearly zero doll
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
Good point, but beyond internalizing those ideas, you also really have to be on guard these - the technologies in question are ubiquitous. They are almost inescapable and are designed to get you hooked. It's easy to say look something
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
> Your tone implies that I don't understand the disparity of the human condition. I wasn't implying that at all. > I saw a way out, computers, and I took it. I was able to pivot to a better career by building skills in my fr
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
This is where there's a kind of evolutionary gap that comes into play. Sitting in front of a screen for 40+ hours a week, and spending additional time at the screen for recreation doesn't seem conducive to good mental or physical
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
The woman in question seems neither comfortable or complacent. She needs the money to pay for her day-to-day expenses and has a long commute. With her type of work experience, it would be difficult to find a more lucrative job. I don't
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
I find it strange that the occupations you mentioned (nurses, teachers, caretakers) are lowely paid. Let's take nursing as an example. I keep hearing there is a shortage of nurses, and if that is so, shouldn't nursing salaries sky
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
To take it further, for some people meditation can crystalize beyond all doubt that they don't want to play the game. The only thing that appears to possibly change such people is massive life upheavels.
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
If you look at it from the perspective of a collectivist culture, which China is, this is indeed a very big deal. The president's own daughter jetting off to the USA whilst the party has been ramping up its anti-western rhetoric has ma
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
This would have been a closely guarded secret known by only a few people. I wonder if this leak is in response to the situation in Hong Kong. Anyhow, as China's president Xi wouldn't have taken the decision to let her go back to t
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
It's a bit like all the arbitrary account terminations we hear about with Google. A machine makes a decision with virtually no recourse for the user. When governments are applying this same concept to welfare, it does indeed create a d
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
> A tight grip censorship dictatorship that has thrown dust in the world's eyes posing as softies while behind the scenes they amassed a lot of wealth riding West blindness. The West was fooled by China playing softies? No, you&#x27
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
As far as I'm aware, natural medicines are still largely unregulated.
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
Companies like CloudFlare are contributing to the erosion of user privacy in the name of security. I experience the same kind of issues that the author of the article highlights, just because I take some privacy measures. It's my view
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
From my experience, this is not necessarily true, even when a phone is advertised as unlockable. I know that Huawei phones, for instance, had two different unlock modes. One called USER Lock, and the other FB Lock. The unlock codes given to
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
I think it's because their job is to make purely political decisions, leading to decisions that on the surface actually look insane.
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
> This is the way the corporate world has always worked. To an extent, yes, but much more so now than in the past few decades. In the past, those who were senior exectives responsible for technical aspects of the company would usually be
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
It appears that the higher you go up the corporate ladder, the more it is about connections rather than actual knowledge, to the point that knowledge carries almost zero weight and connections are everything. A lot of companies are like thi
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
Large, irregular payouts can also constitute a living. In extreme cases, it might even be just one payout.
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
This is akin to saying "it is impossible to gamble at the casino for a living", which for the overwhelming majority of people is true. Having said that, it's not impossible. People have beaten casinos before, and they have be
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
It's going to be interesting to see where this ends up. Ads are inevitable, and in some ways beneficial to both content providers and consumers (i.e. revenue can be earned from users without any direct payment). But are invasive forms
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
Companies like google are indeed out of control and creating a dystopian future. Amongst other things, Google has already unleashed bots that arbitrarily destroy livelihoods (e.g. automated account terminations, in markets where there are f
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
> Otherwise, we are missing the whole point of essays which is to communicate effectively with another human, not just match certain text patterns. I agree, this is traditionally the purpose of an essay. But to play devil's advocate
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
1.4 billion educated people? China has made great progress in the area of education, but there is still a large percentage, especially from older generations and in rural areas, who never had any real educational opportunities (as you know,
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
> However, lately the tension between those two is so high that any small decision towards living the life you want to live may very well end in financial misery for the rest of your life. This is definitely an uncomfortable truth that i
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
There is something truly therapeutic about fishing. It might be because it helps us connect back with our evolutionary roots - out in nature, focusing on the task at hand to the exclusion of all else, and then experiencing the dopamine rush
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
I have a feeling this could get people into serious trouble for "hacking" in some juristrictions if they were to download some of the files found in the search. Especially when adding additional search filters such as site:gov

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