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by jeffwask 4y ago
CEO of Quibi should earn a lifetime achievement award in lighting money on fire.
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by jeffwask 4y ago
I'm really happy for her. Worst CEO has typically been a male dominated category. It's nice see some diversity in lacking empathy and having over inflated egos.
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by jeffwask 4y ago
One positive has been that he didn't have any issues getting work. He had a factory job within a few days and has already been offered potential advancement to a salaried role. I wouldn't be surprised if some of that stemmed from
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by jeffwask 4y ago
Because of the mandatory guidelines at the time (which have since been declared unconstitutional) any felony committed while in possession of a firearm federally had a 15 year minimum with no discretion for the judge.
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I fully agree he earned punishment and it was a serious crime. (he says the gun was never loaded but that's neither here nor there). My question is the scope and breadth of the punishment and whether the system is about restitution and
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The problem is more insidious, their incentives are to keep them incarcerated, not retrain them in any meaningful way, and hope they repeat.
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by jeffwask 4y ago
Victim isn't the right word because none of it is accidental. It's intentional design dating all the way back to 13th amendment which states. "The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and i
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by jeffwask 4y ago
The Mobility Scooter craze. South Park nailed it. One day there were a couple scooters and you went oh interesting. A moth later there were thousands clogging every sidewalk with no discernible method of managing these devices. Then just li
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by jeffwask 4y ago
Imagine if the title of the article was instead: "Is companies not paying a fair and living wage getting out of control?"
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by jeffwask 4y ago
None of this surprises me and I mostly laugh out loud when any manager or leader waxes poetically about employees not being loyal like the old days but it's still shocking that these companies aren't seeing it. How much more effor
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I also wonder if a focus on safety has slowed things some for the yolo days of just breathing in asbestos and lead.
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by jeffwask 4y ago
I'm close to your age and I don't particularly enjoy parties anymore. I think a big part of that is I don't really drink anymore but in general large loud gatherings don't hold that much interest for me anymore. So when
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what a strange alternate reality billionaires exist in
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by jeffwask 4y ago
This seems a lot like using mobility scooters to solve public transportation problems. The solution is municipal composting. In my city all food an lawn scraps go to a compost bin that's picked up and processed by the city
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And none of that changes the fact it's a tool to solve an non-existent problem that often impacts paying customers disproportionately.
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That's not consistent with anything I've seen or read in the last 5 years https://www.wired.com/story/empress-drm-cracking-denuvo-vide... https://www.pcgamer.com/denuvo-cracks-2019/
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by jeffwask 4y ago
Nothing. Almost all of the research points to piracy having zero impact on sales for example, https://corsearch.com/content-library/blog/does-piracy-impac... It's been shown time and again in gaming no matter
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by jeffwask 4y ago
A wealthy conservative Boomer raised by two college professors who had all the opportunity life could grant believes things aren't as bad as they seem. Shocking take, utterly shocking.
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It's mind boggling. The amount of money being thrown at these "companies" and how quickly the burn it with nothing to show at then end. The principles then move on unscathed and someone writes them another check.
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by jeffwask 4y ago
I don't know that I agree. I think it's gotten significantly worse under the VC/PE monstrosity that has grown over the last decade. The dishonesty has been ratcheted up and there are more Shkreli's, Bankman-Fried's
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> But frankly, investors often don't want an all-weather business. So many of these startup aren't build around a solid sustainable business model but around an exit. Fuck the employees, fuck the customers, all leadership cares
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by jeffwask 4y ago
Similar experiences, they were amazing for the first couple years I was on a team that worked with them. They really provided amazing support and took a lot of the burden of managing infrastructure off our smaller teams. Then it changed, th
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Hasbro is working overtime to alienate the game communities they purchased.
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Really happy for these guys and the reward for their passionate dedication to the game and community.
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His daughter Lisa's mother had to take him to court to prove paternity before he took responsibility despite her clearly being his.
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by jeffwask 4y ago
For at least a few years yes, I dropped them 3-4 years ago but as others have mention the red flags go back further. GoTo acquisition was the last straw for me.
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I knew someone who was working on this, my understanding was technology infrastructure was a huge blocker to their plans for international flights. The scheduling system required many hours of downtime every night to process. It effectively
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They were also among the cheapest flights available now they are among the most expensive and their little extra's don't cover the difference.
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There was an entire layer of software companies that were struggling to hire and fill roles because the big players were hoarding talent. All those companies are still hiring, the roles may not be as flashy, and the challenges may be differ
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absolutely or you could do a quick google search and see that she has been engaging Musk on his many questionable practices for years now and nothing about this latest statement is new or convenient.

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