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by jpster 7y ago
>It's so strange that we've collectively lost this skill in what seems to be less than one generation. Yeah, super weird. Similarly, people talk on the phone less these days and are losing that skill, too. I’ve been increasingl
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by jpster 8y ago
I’m curious about their Treasury department. How do they manage the float bet. when users pay and when drivers are paid? How do they manage FX? A sharp treasury team is quite an asset.
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by jpster 8y ago
Popular in some black American communities. It’s aka a sou-sou. Not sure if there’s an interest payment element. I believe the biggest benefit is the solidarity of doing something (saving money) that’s hard to find discipline for on your ow
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by jpster 8y ago
Is this also how you react when you come across stories of Holocaust survivors or their descendants? Let’s say in cases where they hope to recover artworks stolen by the Nazis. “Are we still on about this? what good does it do other than ma
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by jpster 8y ago
The EU is quite popular among most of its other citizens. (Half) the UK citizenry was an outlier in that regard.
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by jpster 8y ago
I concur. One only need look within the number of companies who have opted to move offices to the Continent.
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by jpster 8y ago
Yes, but now the UK is out over its skis. It has much less leverage now than its MPs seem to realize. The clock is ticking — they are headed for a hard Brexit in 10 weeks and everyone knows they’ve not planned for it.
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by jpster 8y ago
IMO the UK has very little negotiating leverage with the EU. For its preservation, the EU leaders know they must make an example of the UK. A new referendum will take time - if it ever happens. And if it does, the country may remain as divi
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by jpster 8y ago
Merry Christmas! And best wishes for a splendid 2019.
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by jpster 8y ago
That’s a low bar for comparison.
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by jpster 8y ago
Bargaining power. (Organized) working humans have it...but it will erode as robots and algorithms take on more and more work. An argument for striking while the iron is hot. (No pun intended.)
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by jpster 8y ago
Re 1, Hire organizers who have provable matchmaking skills at scale.
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by jpster 8y ago
Loneliness, or alienation, can certainly be exploited by politicians & the malevolent. Not as grave as climate change but possibly impactful at scale.
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by jpster 8y ago
Apple Watch has fall detection?
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by jpster 8y ago
Boy, bye.
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The most intellectual creature to ever walk Earth is destroying its only home'(theguardian.com)
25 points by jpster 8y ago|7 comments
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>We thought that being like a New Yorker was the pinnacle of black culture, and that if we could make it out of the South, then we’d make futures for ourselves. As a black New Yorker who has also lived in the South, I’m glad the inferior
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by jpster 8y ago
>Each time, we have conducted rigorous internal investigations based on their inquiries and each time we have found absolutely no evidence to support any of them. An uncharitable reading, but this statement does not exclude the possibili
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by jpster 8y ago
What was Shazam’s business model?
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by jpster 8y ago
How so Mexican?
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by jpster 8y ago
How do you train System 1?
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by jpster 8y ago
Perhaps by "soulful cry" Jones was referring specifically to the blues and gospel? The article mentions that these were two of Elvis's primary influences. It's hard to imagine a world without cultural exchange. It seems
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by jpster 8y ago
This quote from Van Jones does a great job of explaining why "cultural appropriation" is a thing that some black people feel strongly about. >It’s an interesting country. It inflicts pain on black people, denies that it inflict
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by jpster 8y ago
From afar it seems the LAPD has a horrible reputation. So the LAFD must seem like saints by comparison.
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by jpster 8y ago
this seems of a piece with open focus techniques. https://www.amazon.com/Open-Focus-Brain-Harnessing-Power-Att... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OsotDvMJmk
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Hood surveillance(twitter.com)
2 points by jpster 8y ago|0 comments
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by jpster 8y ago
>Black american culture has been pretty self-destructive these last hundred years. Look at rap music videos, thug culture, single motherhood statistics, etc. I suspect you would hesitate to judge the entirety of white american cultural p
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by jpster 8y ago
FTA > Also, while most students (67 per cent) actually failed to study in a way consistent with their supposedly preferred learning style, those who did study in line with their dominant style did not achieve a better grade in their anat
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by jpster 8y ago
What’s remarkable in the case of America, however is its reps’ very voluble profession that it is somehow better than other countries, more freedom-loving, more just, etc. with a straight face.
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by jpster 8y ago
>what's remaining is somehow by the choice of the participants It’s a shame that this is a widely accepted explanation for the segregated neighborhoods we live in today. There were proactive policies — some promoted by the federal g

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