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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Low-hanging fruit. Generally, it's far easier to get rid of someone for lying ("You lied about about your reasons for leaving your previous company, it seems") than to prove novel allegations against them.
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Job well done. In the spirit of "Friends don't let friends", I suppose. Seriously, against my better instincts I had more than a few slices of their "product" at a meetup the other night. My innards are still curs
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Guess which industry stands to profit quite obscenely from this move. And which not-so-coincidentally donated very handsomely to his campaign: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/02/23&
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Let's just say that VCs (both involved in Uber and otherwise) can choose to take this as a "teachable moment" if they want to, moving forward.
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
EVEN if they don't agree with those decisions, it's expected that they'll be a team player and provide support in whatever way possible. Up to certain limits, and respecting certain ethical norms. Apparently the Kapors cam
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Why Is Facebook Helping Fund CPAC?(thedailybeast.com)
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It takes a while to consider what you're saying. But actually yes, that's a very distinct possibility.
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She stared at me for a few seconds and remarked, “Oh. I didn’t see you. You blended in. You’re so black, you blend into the chair.” I didn’t believe what I was hearing and I didn’t know what to do. I looked at my arm, compared it to the ch
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International science collaboration growing at astonishing rate(phys.org)
2 points by kafkaesq 10y ago|0 comments
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Saying things like "I learn fast" and "I'm a good communicator" don't get a recruiter's attention. Right. You don't impress people by saying "I'm a good communicator." You impress t
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Hacker reveals dark arts of Russian blackmail and spies(ft.com)
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The framework and approach described might be useful in some cases, but... you still need to understand CSS, HTML, and... pretty much everything about webfrontendism to meaningfully design and "build" such an app, of course (even
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Elon Musk claims employee pushing to unionize is a paid agitator, UAW denies(electrek.co)
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Snowden claims report Russia may 'gift' him to Trump proves he is not a spy(theguardian.com)
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
From the information we have so far, it does not appear that his people "advised" him to order that raid; in fact, they gave him plenty of indications that it was actually a Very Bad Idea (for the reasons that have since come to l
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
I'm not really on top of the various policy debates, actually. What's important is not to be distracted by this idea that "life sucks, and you can't really do anything about it -- so just keep your head down and look af
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Newsflash: Life sucks anywhere when you're poor and uneducated. And abundant evidence indicates that (most) corporations will do everything within their power to take advantage of this fact, unless very strongly regulated.
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
There is nothing "so-called" about the administration; The moment when the "administration", via its spokesperson, Donald Trump (speaking for President Bannon) referred to Judge Robart as a "so-called judge"
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Nine young children killed: The full details of botched US raid in Yemen(thebureauinvestigates.com)
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The Crimes of Seal Team 6(theintercept.com)
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Unfortunately it's not up to "the U.S." to make such a decision; but to the current so-called administration. Which, as we have seen in regard to just about every "decision" it has made thus far -- couldn't beg
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Will his work on Octave--which by all rights should be able to serve as a strong-enough resume by itself to justify his hiring--even be looked at by potential employers? It'll probably register on the backs of their eyeballs somewher
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Ambitious Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to combat disease is about to be tested(theguardian.com)
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Reached via Mind-Reading Device, Deeply Paralyzed Patients Say They Want to Live(technologyreview.com)
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
The AIDS epidemic literally almost swallowed the whole country. I appreciate your input overall, but you're making more than a slight exaggeration, here. Even countries with the world's highest HIV infection rates were never &q
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
The Crimeans had no problem with it. The mafia-run local government (and a good chunk of the Russian-speaking population) had no problem with it, you mean.
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Crimeans just asked for the same right against Ukraine as Ukrainians asked against Russia. They didn't "just ask", of course. A visit by 3,000 or so "vacationing" soldiers from a certain large, neighboring countr
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Looks like she missed the story of her career. In addition to a chance at saving us all from nuclear annihilation (had things gone differently, and certain neurons misfired in his brain at the wrong time).
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
The point is that as the leader of a nuclear power one isn't suppose to joke about certain things -- particularly not a the expense of rival powers one deeply anguished relations with (and which one also happens to have come close to f
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
You know, if you were actually living through that era his sense of "humor" (combined with the suspicion, then widely assumed among leftist, now since medically substantiated) that he was most likely suffering from some form of ea

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