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by kevmo 7y ago
Here are at least 3 different companies: Messenger (which was Beluga) Oculus Facebook I'm pretty sure this message board can keep this list going.
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by kevmo 7y ago
Let's start by breaking up Facebook.
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by kevmo 7y ago
Out of fairness, I urge everyone to give Kenneth a chance to respond before judging him. Separately: Humans do their best work when they are collaborating with one another. I have worked in many different organizational formats, but I have
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by kevmo 7y ago
Nice.
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by kevmo 7y ago
Don't forget that he's also a WWE Hall of Famer. https://www.wwe.com/superstars/donald-trump
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Bernie Sanders 404 Page(berniesanders.com)
43 points by kevmo 7y ago|22 comments
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by kevmo 8y ago
Google/Alphabet needs to be broken up.
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by kevmo 8y ago
How much longer until GoFundMe becomes America's leading healthcare provider?
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by kevmo 8y ago
"But we need to do X first!" is not a good reason to not do Y, a different-but-still-good thing. All of these companies need to be broken up, and the Department of Justice Anti-Trust division has enough employees to do it. These m
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by kevmo 8y ago
I published a piece on debt in America last week and touched in the subject of medical debt. When you look at it from a broader perspective, most Americans are in a financially dire situation. 42% sounds lower than I would have expected. Am
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by kevmo 8y ago
Has this author read much Bukowski? He talks about the hideousness of alcoholism routinely. Post Office, his auto-biographical debut novel, ends with him quitting the post office to write full-time after his former lover and long-time frien
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by kevmo 8y ago
Bullshit Jobs, a 2018 book by David Graeber, discusses this phenomenon pretty extensively and calls for more research. His rudimentary theory is that people who aren't contributing to society know that they aren't, and it makes th
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by kevmo 8y ago
What really blows my mind about this is that we are talking about New York City . NYC is absolutely stuffed with America's best talent. Amazon needs NYC so much more than NYC needs Amazon. The entire HQ2 shakedown was always just Amaz
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by kevmo 8y ago
This is just a face-saving op-ed by a guy who wants to run for President. The fact that they only gave him an hour's notice shows just how gullible he was and how little respect Amazon had for him in the first place. All of those thing
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by kevmo 8y ago
This is the real national emergency.
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TL;DR Do your part and plant some plants, people.
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It is incredibly disappointing to me that the USA didn't do this decades ago. The USA basically won the space race... then decided to chill out for 50 years. I understand that perhaps we did not want to continue to fund NASA at such a
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by kevmo 8y ago
I recently learned that there is a name for this phenomenon where our reality is being increasingly digitized and financialized - "surveillance capitalism". Surveillance capitalism is a novel market form and a specific logic of c
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by kevmo 8y ago
When I worked in San Francisco, my employer gave everyone fitbits and held weekly "most steps" competitions. I wore mine for three days before realizing the device was telling my company which hours I was most active. Needless to
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by kevmo 8y ago
I don't do embedded systems, but as a self-respecting software engineer, I am intending to develop proficiency in C/C++ over this next year. Does anybody have any recommended books/courses/projects?
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by kevmo 8y ago
I live about a mile away from the area where these monkeys like to hang out and go kayaking in Silver River State Park. I always immediately head the other way if I see them. Everyone who frequents the area is warned to avoid them. The guy
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by kevmo 8y ago
Propaganda by Ed Bernays and Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann are two great books on the subject, as well.
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Bangladesh slows internet ahead of election(thenews.com.pk)
2 points by kevmo 8y ago|0 comments
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by kevmo 8y ago
Forcing/enticing people to incur debts they can't pay off is a time-honored colonialist tactic for gaining control of land.
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USA added to list of most dangerous countries for journalists(nbcnews.com)
78 points by kevmo 8y ago|43 comments
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by kevmo 8y ago
I've been using DuckDuckGo as my default. I mostly only use google for news search now. No complaints.
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Why Record $1.465T Student Loan Debt Could Test US Economy(fortune.com)
1 points by kevmo 8y ago|0 comments
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by kevmo 8y ago
> We shouldn't be surprised that this sort of thing happens from time to time. It happens all the time. You just hear about it one time out of every thousand. The history of industry is littered with these kinds of intentional, know
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by kevmo 8y ago
The National Park Service is probably the best agency in the entire American federal government. I have been to about 45 different states, and NPS-administered properties represent the most consistently positive contact I've ever had w
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by kevmo 8y ago
I feel that way with pretty much every CSS library that has at least 1,000 stars on GitHub.

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