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by jeffwask 4y ago
I believe the key point the author is making here is that even if you buy digital media from Apple or Amazon, it doesn't amount to anything more than a long term rental because if they lose the rights to that media and pull it from the
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> The majority are not some cartoonish greedy fatcats either; 53% of all stocks are held by the 1% so yes Virginia the MAJORITY are some cartoonish greedy fatcats
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There are two different contexts around layoffs. 1) The company is struggling, losing money, etc and needs to tackle corrective action before everyone loses their jobs. 2) The company is generating record revenues, profits are high, but gro
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Baby Boomers: Baby boomers were born between 1946 and 1964. They're currently between 57-75 years old They haven't. I'm GenX and all of my boomer parents still work and lots of my friends boomer parents. It's starting bu
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Cool. Thanks for the history. I fell off CS except for occasional casual sundays and dove head first into MMO land around that time so it's all rather fuzzy. I kinda forgot Global Offensive was it's own release.
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Not really, no. The value of your contribution over the person next to you is marginal at best after a certain point. Even if you are say 50% more efficient than the next engineer. You will still be less valuable than someone who operates a
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This is the most honest answer and something I have seen a lot folks who want the higher pay of the higher roles but none of the responsibility.
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>And in general, there are two ways to go. The first is to accept the fact that many senior engineering and most staff engineering gigs are more about this kind of mentorship approach than actually doing work. And basically accept that t
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No AWP servers were fairly common and where I mostly played. Even fixed the AWP never quite felt balanced.
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Nothing quite like hearing, "Fuck you, you fucking camper" echo across the office floor at noon.
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Source wasn't well received by a portion of the community. The community bisected for a while with some folks staying on 1.6. I don't recall everything behind the 20+ year old drama but it was a thing. Source eventually won out an
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I honestly can't recall when that was fixed. It's just such an embedded counterstrike memory. My second tech job IT setup an internal counter strike server and a bunch of us would play at lunch or after work until someone yelled a
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Bunny hop, shoot, bunny hop, shoot
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Interesting way for the local PD to say they are incompetent. Sorry, but the streets aren't safe for your children but here are two cruisers full of cops to explain parenting to you.
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"The layoffs will continue until we artificially inflate our growth rate". - Some CEO
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Because Reagan sold everyone out to corporate greed in the 80's and it's been going straight down from there. Profit above all. Year over year growth to infinity or die.
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This is a triumph of indie game dev. Really happy for them.
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My hope is dwindling.
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Is banning child labor bad for manufacturing?
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To be fair Donald Trump really lowered the bar for witness tampering and walked away without any punishment.
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Do you work for Nestle?
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Or if you don't like that one we could try... Because between 2020 and 2022 the world experienced the greatest transfer of wealth between the poor and middle class to the wealthy as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic. Or if you don&#
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Because the divide went from "I believe in a balanced budget and you don't" to I believe you have no right to live or have bodily autonomy and I will do everything in my power to strip you of your rights. There are no sides a
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100%. It's NIMBYs who drive the creation of these laws, actively block multi-family housing, prevent development of new roads and resources, etc... Now with large corporate ownership in residential real estate the problem has gotten wo
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You don't even need to be mustache twirly to price fix. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/10/company-that-mak... How many companies these days use some third party service for setting salaries? Ho
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This is why I think Executives are terrified of remote work. If the local theater doesn't want to meet my demand I have a global theater and someone will be always willing to leverage their competitive advantage to secure talent that w
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This is one of those terrifying security and operational scenarios. Sure the TSA can say nothing on our end was compromised but if the data is readily accessible to download and accessed by every mom and pop carrier with a 3 person IT staff
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You're a hero to all gamers. Take a bow sir.
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The key quote I see in a lot of these stories is "change the culture" and it seems the decision to change the culture from what got you there to something else is done entirely without understanding what the current culture actual
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CEOs who are just flat out criminals have their own category.

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