kartan

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How the media's weapons fetish primes us for war [video](youtube.com)
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by kartan 9y ago
> If someone from 1980s were teleported to today's Bleecker Street People from 1980s are still alive. They can take the subway, they don't need teleportation. ;)
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"accuses the companies of engaging in a sustained marketing campaign to downplay the addiction risks of the prescription opioid drugs they sell and to exaggerate the benefits of their use for health problems such as chronic pain."
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> To have countries not repeat mistakes like this would need a new approach? The old approach is the best approach. Novels and movies are a good way of passing this information in a way that appeals to our intelligence and to our feeling
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* Headcount: 2368 people* * Hired in 2015: 1160 people https://www.quora.com/How-many-employees-does-Airbnb-have-1 I worked in a company with similar growing speed. And things went from good to bad. Everything starts with t
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> These people don't make any individual decision. Yes, they have. If it were possible to fully automate the task, Facebook will not hire humans. From the article: "The moderators have to check posts that have been flagged up a
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> Will young Philippinos empathize with terrorist causes after reading too much? I didn't say anything about terrorism. I was talking about "One ex-manager who helped recruit Facebook moderators said staff were often traumatise
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> Facebook employs hundreds of young Filipinos - some with limited English skills - to remove offensive and terror related material from the site 1984 was wrong on this one. The censorship doesn't come from an all knowledgable gober
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> average annual family income If you get 10% over the "average annual family income" of a USA family, but you live in San Francisco Area, you are screwed. I understand your point, but "Doing this job is the local equival
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I like the article, and it has some really good ideas. And it is not about making firing people easier or cheaper. It is about on how to decide when to fire someone. About firing fast and easy, it is a bad idea. I work in Sweden. I don&#x27
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It looks like the Top Grossing iOS apps are Hybrid Apps or games. So I don't see that "IF Weren't for Apple". https://sensortower.com/ios/rankings/top/iphone/us/all-categ...
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> Admittedly, that was ten years ago The tech scene in Spain has changed a lot in 10 years. 10 years ago all money was used in the housing marked, tech was low priority for investors. That has changed, nowadays the tech industry in Spain
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> It is very, very rare to meet Europeans who drive across multiple countries for leisure. I don't have statistical data, but I have that experience. I have never heard of anyone doing that in Europe. Long car travels are avoided as
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> spending habit established over decades is not an easy thing to change I think that you are right. A lot of people is arguing about investments, health care, etc. like if human beings where "Homo economicus". We are not. We a
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> It seems obvious then that the goal in mind with raising the minimum wage is to make it even more difficult to employ Americans Do you realistically think that this is the goal? Do you think that someone thought, Let's look for wa
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> For example, male employees stated how they were sexually aroused by female employees and how it was hard to concentrate and be productive when all they could think about was having sex with them. > The suit also claims that the com
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> Patriotism is both a wonderful and terrible thing I found that hypothesis widely accepted, without so much for it. Patriotism fuses core values like freedom or solidarity with a flag. That's why it is easier to pervert. Patriotism
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> The problem is lack of control over vital parts of state operations, leaving European countries at the mercy of a foreign company and government. This is a very valid point. > This doesn’t only weaken Europe’s ability to stop the US
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by kartan 9y ago
Thank you for sharing the video. It is well explained, and well balanced. I know how edited are nature documentaries. But I like them anyway. As the video says that makes it more a story, that makes it more interesting. The pictures with ca
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by kartan 9y ago
Installing "Windows 10 S" is like getting one of that ink printers that cost $40, but then you pay $60 for each ink cartridge. To minimize the impact, Microsoft allows for an upgrade to a real version of Windows. It is an smart mo
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"It is this last point that has been causing some political unrest in the US, and the rest of the Western world. As you undoubtedly know, China is very nearly the sole producer of all electronic goods. It would be very, very easy for t
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> What if they don't have the money? I don't know how it is in Japan. But in Spain, there is a fund, paid by all companies, that is used in this situation. It works like a mandatory insurance. If your company goes under, your e
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by kartan 10y ago
> This seems like the future of the gig economy. Same work load, less pay, less security, less employee power. The gig economy is just a big scam on taxpayers shoulders. Companies get the benefit of low paid workers and low or not-at-all
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by kartan 10y ago
> "regulations are supported both by groups that want the ostensible purpose of the regulation, and by groups that profit from undermining that purpose." Wikipedia Yes, we should stop the people that want to undermine the purpo
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This is one of the problems with monopolies, or maybe the bigger one. Once you are dominant in one business, search/mobile/messaging, you can take over other business without much effort. They are not news companies, they are not
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> Stop guessing languages Thank you. That is it. As the world goes global, who speaks what gets impossible to guess. I had a friend from Barcelona (Spain), that lives in Sweden, temporarily relocated to Shangai. To guess his preferred la
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I find that this article, even that it is interesting, it tries to shift blame again. United wanted four seats for their airline staff who had to cover an unstaffed flight at another location. And then decided to remove some of their custom
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Copyright is broken. * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk862BbjWx4
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> It's divisive and trivialises the accomplishments and struggles of people who aren't "geniuses". I agree. But I will add that it also devalues the hard work of "geniuses". The concept of "geniuses&quo
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I think that there is a lot of revisionism in the concept of "genius". Just look at the movie "Amadeus". It looks like Mozart genius is the envy of the mediocre Salieri. In fact, Salieri was an incredible composer himsel

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