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by lbatx 7y ago
Well, if you want any further insight into the CEO, check out Toptal's investment page: https://www.toptal.com/investors . He minces no words and comes off quite aggressively. Very much a "my way or the highway&quo
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by lbatx 7y ago
So the plastic lining inside the can (1) uses as much plastic as a plastic bottle and (2) is as damaging to the environment? Since the answer to both of those questions is no, it's more than a PR move.
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by lbatx 7y ago
If someone is murdered now (evening of August 13th) and their body is discovered tomorrow at 7am, does that mean they were murdered at 7am? If I call my friend at 7:30am and tell him, does that mean the person was murdered at 7:30am?
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by lbatx 7y ago
>The only reason people go underground to sell exploits is for the money. Not reputation? Not the thrill of it? Not hatred of Apple? Not plain maliciousness?
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by lbatx 7y ago
I'm not saying it's best practice. I'm just describing some things I've seen.
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by lbatx 7y ago
I'm sure that's some of it, but it's also a result of lists being pulled ahead of time. Imagine you have 100,000 subs and 10,000 of them are going to get promotion A and then another 15,000 (with some overlap) promotion B. Of
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by lbatx 7y ago
This is a great description. There's also the corollary which is "PR is printing what other people want, journalism is printing what some people don't want". Those people will of course see you as biased.
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by lbatx 7y ago
It's certainly flawed, but providing all of the assets creates a different class of problems. Both approaches have pros and cons, plus the original comment I replied to passed it off as a solution to the problem at hand, which it'
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by lbatx 7y ago
Many sites use dozens of domains. Some (probably most) are ads, tracking, and the like. But much of it is stuff needed to run the site. I don't think there is a reasonable set of defaults other than things not on an ad blocker blacklis
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by lbatx 7y ago
There's a huge difference between biased or inaccurate coverage and flat out made up stories. The NYT publishes very few of the latter. Fake news sites publish 100% of the latter. That's a pretty significant difference.
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by lbatx 7y ago
> Extensions should be able to have their permissions limited by domain (e.g. to customize YouTube or Reddit) at a minimum. This seems like a good idea until you realize that the behavior you might want to modify is coming from a differe
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by lbatx 7y ago
Umm, yes. Or more properly, English plus hand gestures. We're not talking about defending a doctoral thesis here. We're talking about getting around, shopping, and eating. Every subway station has signage in English. You can point
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by lbatx 7y ago
Umm, kemiller2002 perfectly described the justice system of the good ole US of A. Once a prosecutor wants to get you, they stack all kinds of charges together to take your 1 year crime and make it a total of 10 years in prison, so you'
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by lbatx 7y ago
I realize you are being somewhat facetious, but calling your (presumably unlawful) market manipulation tool EnhancedOrderManager isn't really the answer. Not building the unlawful tool is.
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by lbatx 7y ago
> far more demanding than most other jobs And you've just made my point for me. "Most" other jobs. It's not the most difficult, most physical, most dangerous. Where are the people saying people in job "X" ca
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by lbatx 7y ago
There are a lot of awful jobs. Roofer in Phoenix in the summer, for example. No, I don't think people are being too lenient -- it's a bit more subtle than that. There are many physically demanding jobs, some as much or more so tha
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by lbatx 7y ago
1. Is it really too much to believe that someone with a physically demanding job might be in good enough condition to do something else after work? I'm pretty sure folks in all sorts of physical jobs have physical hobbies as well. You
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by lbatx 7y ago
If you paid the $30, you might be considered to be on the Pro plan. I (like others in this thread) received an email stating that Pro service will continue uninterrupted, and no action is required on my part.
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by lbatx 7y ago
No, travel insurance is not. They don't even ask health questions. The cost is based on the cost of your trip, and can be as little as $50-$100 for a decent plan on a $5k trip, and about $500 for a year.
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by lbatx 7y ago
Strictly speaking, their operations are not tax funded. Their operating budget comes from selling postage. There's a whole complicated discussion about their pension, which apparently gets some Federal funding, but day-to-day they are
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by lbatx 7y ago
The USPS is most certainly a government organization. It's mentioned in the Constitution. (that's the first clue). Where people get confused is that it's called a "independent agency" which simply means it doesn&#x2
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by lbatx 7y ago
Agreed. What's funny is that people now think Microsoft is this warm and fuzzy thing. They used to be far worse than they are today. For example, Microsoft Excel is nothing less than Microsoft's successful attempt to destroy Lotus
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by lbatx 7y ago
> If your agile ceremonies end up being all about giving management control -- if your story points are used to tell management how much work is getting done, if management is using the daily standup to make sure people are on-task inste
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by lbatx 8y ago
That would not be true (at least in Las Vegas). For one, the vast majority of customers of Strip casinos are tourists. For another, a casino's quarterly results can be significantly influenced by a small handful of players -- if a play
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by lbatx 8y ago
Until IT departments get infinite resources (that is, never) there will always be a need for these JFDI solutions. Some group will always go starved for attention and have to cobble together their own solutions. IT backlogs are always longe
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by lbatx 8y ago
That would be weird, but "he's not a great investor" is taken out of context from "he's not a great investor in the way people think". The way it would be said is "he's not a great investor in the way
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by lbatx 8y ago
While the specific examples provided don't provide immediate value, one should not overlook the value of the "Badge of Seriousness". Perhaps the receptionist job at such a firm should be looked at as less of a receptionist jo
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by lbatx 9y ago
This is, of course, a brilliant comment. Well stated. The only thing I can add is perhaps a corollary to this, which is "nothing causes a business to fail more than solving a non-existent problem" which is what Juicero did.
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by lbatx 9y ago
Sure, but why are they gangsters? Because it's illegal. If it were legal, they wouldn't be called gangsters, they'd be called Heroin Distributors, LLC. Who's really the root cause of the problem here? I'd argue the
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by lbatx 9y ago
> When you are charged with a crime, even if you can prove your innocence, generally your day to day life suffers great harm that can be considered a punishment for daring to do what ever got you charged with the crime in the first place

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