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by kafkaesq 9y ago
I beg to differ. I find it hardly emboldening to learn that the founders got a sweet exit, or that WeWork gets a toehold in some new market. When the former students are justly compensated for their dashed hopes and tarnished reputations
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
I can't find any OECD data that says Germany is the second highest taxed country in the world. They got it from the same place they found out they found that Germany also had "more than 300000 laws and rules for everything"
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Addendum: WeWork's general office conditions and amenities do compare favorably to those of early-stage companies (not to mention most random BigCorps), overall. (Again, it's the average of the great unwashed mass of compani
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New Footage Shows 20,000 American Nazis Rallying at Madison Square Garden(gothamist.com)
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Of course self-leased speace is generally (way) better - if you can find it (at the capacity you need right now ) and hire people to run it for you. WeWork's entire model relies on the fact that, while not it's not the swank
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
That's what the free beer is for - to anesthetize yourself from the negative working conditions, at the end of the day.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Indeed. Talk about a man ahead of his time.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
My (mid-previous-century, tech-free and entirely disconnected) bike is already way "smarter" than any modern "device". Precisely because its overall (non-)complexity is an exact fit for the role it's designed
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
The planet isn't conscious and can't "treat us" as anything. You may want to revisit that assumption. Being as the science on this subject is changing very rapidly, as we speak.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
So basically the planet is starting to treat us as a kind of a ... weed, in return.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
For what it's worth, I work for a public institution and my salary, and the salary of all my coworkers, is public. That's a choice you've chosen to make. Not everyone else would be comfortable with that choice, for a whole
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Smartphones Are Killing Americans, but Nobody’s Counting(bloomberg.com)
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Hmm. I have they sense they know do what they want ("a candidate who can do the work") but have but are basically at a loss as to how to deterministically assess that via the standard interview format. Hence the brain teaser s
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Having to then digest the content on Twitter really lets the content down. Absolutely. And casts doubt on the quality of the research behind it, as well.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
I didn't read the headline (perhaps it has mutated since) as indicating that she was involved in the release of the Panama Papers, per say - just that she was a journalist who wrote about them.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
I'm not exactly a paranoid conspiracy theorist, I think we can very safely just drop the term "conspiracy theorist", from now on. There can be very little doubt that "jobs" of this nature are not just approved, b
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
"We want to figure out whether a candidate can do the work we need them to do." Well, yeah, that's the thing - the answer is (or should be) so self-evident that one wonders if one wonders whether the question is really worth
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
A mixed bag. Questions like: Tell me about your hiring process — how many rounds, how many interviewers? Is there anything special about your interview process I should know? Are coding interviews on a whiteboard or laptop? What resources
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
I still can't believe how casually people talk about one of the shameful human rights abuses in recent history as if torturing a person would still be okay if worked. The point is that this guy took some actual risk (even if it&#x2
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
The Guardian has been giving pretty decent coverage to the Yemen conflict (and the US/UK/Saudi relation it) overall, actually. Well above the level most people in the U.S. would have a stomach for, were they to actually pay attent
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Though downvoted into submission, the above point is perfectly valid. A better stance to take might be: "We need to reiterate to the citizens of Puerto Rico that they are perfectly free to opt for statehood, or independence at any time
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
"Work in an exciting/agile fast-paced, dynamic environment", Or they're just randomly cut-and-pasting whatever fast-sounding lingo they've seen in other ads. Either way, it's a negative tell.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Point taken, but the article wasn't talking about "rebuilding local infrastructure", or long-term recovery. It was specifically talking about people dying, and in danger of dying, right now - for the lack of easily deploya
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Given we've had black, Asian, Israeli and lesbian astronauts, your politically correct racism is a bit out of tune. If you prefer to believe that there's such a thing as "reverse racism" that's in anyway comparabl
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
No drivers, no gas for trucks, and no passable roads to drive on. Which is what the Army, Coast Guard, and Marines -- not to mention all those gold bars in Fort Knox -- are for. If the current administration wanted to flex every available
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Vast animal-feed crops to satisfy our meat needs are destroying planet(theguardian.com)
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
One imagines there will eventually be free + for-pay tiers.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
I don't follow him too closely, actually, so I wouldn't have the articles handy. But as I recall the WP for him was pretty thick with references as to the details of his various gigs.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
A very legitimate issue, of course. (I'm not saying there aren't solid arguments against pets - just that the original argument wasn't make those arguments).
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
If Bitcoin reaches a 2 trillion market cap, it will require less than 1% additional world energy output. The key question raised in the parent comment, which your own riposte artfully dodges, is once again - who stands to benefit from t

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