lisasays

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by lisasays 3y ago
High fees and days/weeks wait times for international wire transfers are common knowledge - check at almost any bank. Because the fundamental task at hand is only partially about transferring money. In reality, it's mostly about
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Saturn Adds 62 More Moons to Its Count(nytimes.com)
3 points by lisasays 3y ago|3 comments
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by lisasays 3y ago
Agreed - this idea that one gets "quickly" promoted, if it all; or even that management wants you to perform "at a higher level" (that is, to be sticking your nose in their beeswax) -- is at odds with widely observable
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Societal cost of ‘forever chemicals’ about $17.5T across global economy(theguardian.com)
6 points by lisasays 3y ago|1 comments
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by lisasays 3y ago
Ponzi schemes are indeed revolutionary improvements for those who benefit form them.
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by lisasays 3y ago
People who take ownership and initiative for the things they work on get quickly promoted. I can tell you from experience as a human being -- and having given many, many friends a shoulder to cry on over the years, in regard to this very
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by lisasays 3y ago
Oh, I do believe tech itself is also a factor. From the physical conditions (sitting, screens - and the ridiculous office spaces) to the intellectual churn (constantly having to learn, and feign excitement about new technologies that, para
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by lisasays 3y ago
Actually, it's just a fill word. That doesn't actually have the passive-aggressive import that some people like to write attention-grabbing articles (and to conduct seminars on "violence-free communication" no less) cla
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by lisasays 3y ago
This is quite normal in fact. However all the other stuff certainly counts as "work" also. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
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by lisasays 3y ago
Actually it's pretty straightforward - as with current guidelines for other form of accessibility. Doesn't mean there won't be badly crafted guidelines, abuse (especially via litigation), etc. As with everything. But the bas
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by lisasays 3y ago
It's called predatory acquisition. And it's specifically designed to look "fair" and hence more palatable to the overly credulous.
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by lisasays 3y ago
Shall we try applying some basic logic to the above? Not every bike needs to fit all weight classes. Not every toilet seat on the plane ... you get the idea.
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by lisasays 3y ago
No - 1 in however many will take the test once , get lucky a few times, and test at 4 deviations above the mean. In reality -- if they were to take the take the test a few more times, they'd quickly regress (closer) to the mean -- at
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by lisasays 3y ago
Well, well. Having hung out with Thiel at Stanford, Tan must have had some idea about the nature of his true character. So how could he possibly have expected the experience of working under him to be any any way fun or positive? As the
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by lisasays 3y ago
My spin would be: "This is how companies kneecap employees, by forcing them to think this way." "But how could this ever be possible, in a field with high salaries and a permanent shortage of skilled workers?", you ask.
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by lisasays 3y ago
Spending all day, chewing through one clickbait-y link after another - desperate seeking the next endorphin rush. Like a rat, in cage, in some professor's deranged behavioral experiment.
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by lisasays 3y ago
No bike will support a 400lb person. And this you know from ... the laws of physics? Seriously, please explain why it is physically impossible to design a bike that can support people in that weight range.
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by lisasays 3y ago
As if government labor agencies have any clue as to how to find (let alone create) jobs for people. (To be fair, let's not say "no clue". But overall their ability to help folks actually find jobs seems quite marginal).
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by lisasays 3y ago
Here's a good place to start: https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html https://www.sqlite.org/quirks.html Full-scale RDBMSs, especially Postgres, have lots of goodies that either SQLlite doesn't ha
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by lisasays 3y ago
SQLite is great for its scope - but not in the same class as a full-fledged RDBMS.
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by lisasays 3y ago
"Other guests included the leadership of the far-right populist Alternative für Deutschland party (AfD) and high-ranking members of the far-left Die Linke. Guests were served champagne and caviar, according to reports.", per the a
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Ex-German chancellor criticised for attending event at Russian embassy(theguardian.com)
2 points by lisasays 3y ago|1 comments
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Greed, eugenics, and gambles: Malcolm Harris on the deadly toll of SV capitalism(theguardian.com)
11 points by lisasays 3y ago|1 comments
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by lisasays 3y ago
Actually it is, and very substantially so -- in the sense that you left on your own terms rather than getting fired or laid off. Except for the burning out part. Which unfortunately seems to be the natural cost of spending any amount of ti
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by lisasays 3y ago
By this logic, Netflix shouldn't be Netflix (or in its current market position) either.
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by lisasays 3y ago
It's not supposed to make sense. Rather, it's done to satisfy whatever piques shareholder anxiety of the current moment.
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by lisasays 3y ago
The content is not worth paying for because it's been designed from the ground up to sell ads. Some of it is, but the vast bulk of it clearly was not. You knew that of course. I'd strongly consider paying for YT if it were an i
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by lisasays 3y ago
It is basically, and you're supposed to get the "hint". But the way it's structured - at least on paper, there's supposed to be some way in which you can pass the "test" and endure an extra run of gaslight
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by lisasays 3y ago
PMs and other management may feel like this is a win in the short term, but it isn't sustainable long term. You're saying they were aware of the Adderall abuse as it was happening? Or just that they saw all these stellar high pe
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by lisasays 3y ago
It was a "Russian influence" story by every narrative I remember. But hey, you can remember it any way you want. It's a free country after all.

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