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The challenge is software development is planning out software development years in advance. Moving up the deadline years in doesn’t really help anyone because marketing and sales won’t have planned around your new date (see: the surprise r
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You’re not paid for 9-5 hours. You’re paid to get the job done. Sometimes that takes two hours. Sometimes it’s ten hours plus a weekend. It’s very easy to identify (and fire) workers that don’t honor this system.
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Also measuring productivity is difficult in many cases. I can sometimes be more productive just thinking in the shower in the morning than I am copying text from one place to another.
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If there are any short story writers out there, you could create an entire genre from ideas about hallucinating AIs. Marathon did it as "rampancy" back in the 90s but this is arguably even more interesting.
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Employers may imagine the system is efficient. In fact, it is a wasted opportunity. Every time someone applies for a job, there is a chance to build that company’s reputation. Couldn’t agree with this more. I’ve heard some stories about c
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These consonances cannot be replicated on a Western piano, for instance, because they would fall between the cracks of the scale traditionally used. Sounds like the author doesn't realize you can tune a piano. Actually, it doesn&#x27
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https://www.nerdwallet.com/best/banking/high-yield-online-sa... I've gotten a lot of mileage out of NerdWallet over the years. Hope it helps you too.
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Because you don't need to research this to see that it's obviously true and has been true throughout history. Really wish Twitch had stayed true to its lewd ban of 2014[0] instead of becoming Chaturbate 2.0. [0] https://
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TL;DR: it's complicated[0]. Also, you're right - I'm mistakenly conflating SA with the UAE. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/chicago/comments/164hefi/comment/jy...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Parking_Meters for those not in the know. Chicago basically sold all revenue from their parking meters to Saudi Arabia for the next 75 years. Not basically, that is exactly what ha
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This is like nailing Al Capone for tax evasion. They missed the one actual example of Apple abusing its ownership in one industry (the OS) to then give itself a monopoly over another industry (app stores/app store fees).
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It wasn’t my original thought. That’s been the popular justification on Reddit for the system. Makes sense considering WH is a southern-centric restaurant and many in the south would still have struggled with literacy circa 1955 when it was
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Either you can cherry-pick non-white candidates among the US population or you can claim that there aren't enough skilled candidates in the US and hire H-1Bs from abroad - you cannot have both. Beggars cannot be choosers.
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This short-termism seems like it's been America's chief problem through the centuries. "We need slavery - our economy will fall apart without it!" "We need Standard Oil and US Steel - splitting them apart would be a
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This just sounds like how we got into our current mess with Boeing.
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How is that not immediate grounds for his termination? The board should be canned too for allowing such an obvious charlatan to continue ruining the company.
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Why not just fire them? Severance isn’t guaranteed yet in the US and just cause isn’t that hard to document (I’m genuinely asking - HR fascinates me).
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Well yes but you're going to have to have traded on your reputation to enter a position where they trust you so freely and it's going to take a frustratingly long time to rebuild that reputation afterwards.
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Or at least send a watermarked copy to the Library of Congress for future preservation. If those copies get out, the US can reimburse them or…something.
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Nobody actually wants this though Pretty sure I do. I just want comprehensive rules that are publicly and readily available from the get-go, I want total transparency on behalf of moderation, and I don't want hidden actions only avai
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Revoke patents for machines that aren’t demonstrably reparable. For that matter, suspend copyright for works that aren’t purchasable.
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the US I would caution against lumping everyone else in with California. There are definitely functional states in the US that can finish projects. California, however, is not one of them.
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Yeah, this does not seem useful. I'm not a smoker and I'm not obese so these calculations are going to lump me in with people who don't closely match me.
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On top of the house that took the space where trees previously were? There’s only so much space for trees. Seizing it for AirBNBs seems like a massive waste when we have hotels that use space much more efficiently.
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Having a prominent media platform under the control of a hostile government is a serious threat. Then China was right to ban Google, Facebook, and Reddit? This seems like a war where no one wins. Why not simply ensure platforms are open,
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Couldn't agree more. I'm tired of the HN crowd that espouses the benefits of building more supply, yet consider the AirBNB and rental-afflicted homes to be totally untouchable. Even worse are the ones that seem to strongly believe
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The problem with homework is the total lack of coordination between teachers. They’ll all pile on on one day and wonder why students half-assed everything. Even if they do coordinate, it only takes one teacher overassigning to ruin it for e
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During a keynote speech, an employee in the company’s cloud division protested publicly, proclaiming “I refuse to build technology that powers genocide.” The Google Cloud engineer was subsequently fired, CNBC has learned, marking another d
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If you ban AirBNB, you'll immediately get 50,000 (or however many) houses back on the market. You would otherwise need to build 50,000 houses, which would surely require a great deal more effort. Why would you not reach for the lowest-
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I have to wager that the Iraqi people probably prefer the current order of things. I would guess that they would keep things the way they are rather than bring back Saddam.

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