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by magduf 7y ago
>My theory is that open space is extremely helpful to certain types of people, and those traits coincidentally overlap with the people calling the shots at a lot of companies. Sociable upper managerial-types probably value being able to
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The solution seems pretty simple to me: get rid of the HR and recruiters, at least as having much power in deciding who to interview. That's the hiring manager's job. He knows what kind of person he's looking for, so let hi
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>But in theory courts and military can stop him. The voters can also stop him. Instead, Turkish voters not only re-elected him multiple times, they even voted in one special election to give him even more power. The Turkish people are g
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My claim was correct. At any point in time, the fares ARE exactly the same. If you don't believe that, then you're a moron because you're flat out wrong. I can't put it any nicer than that. When you buy a ticket, the
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>It's also worth noting that every corporate IT department I've ever seen installs antivirus software on employee machines, so it must be good for something? Yes, it absolutely is good for something. Antivirus software is exce
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Are you trying to counter the previous post, or support it?
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>fact that the price paid by the person in 17C (aisle) can be quite different from that paid by the person in 17D (also aisle). The original claim was "We do row-by-row because, generally, people with higher status and/or fares
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>One thing that would be interesting to know -- high rises can use a ton of energy to heat & cool. Sure, but how does that compare to the energy needed for lots of smaller buildings, which can provide the same floor space to the same
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>Google, for example, sought to forbid political discussion at work until the National Labor Relations Board forced them to allow such discussions. Why is this the NLRB's business? As I recall, the controversy at Google was because
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>Or perhaps people would avoid working at places with such laws, as they tend to do currently with other economies that have strict laws that make it hard to do business. I have no problem with that. Let them leave. Suppose we set a max
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While I agree that I haven't found any 100% good companies, I have yet to see a company where any low-level engineer has any real input at all and can actually make any kind of difference as far as ethics. If you work up into manageme
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>There's been less progress in surgery, where hellish hours are considered part of the journey. This is really a bad thing, because women are generally superior to men at tasks involving fine motor skills.
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>I think we should consider developer Morale when it comes to legacy systems - it’s hard to hire and a lot of people want to leave if they’re stuck with them. Basically. Some systems/languages just don't have many people on th
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It should have been pretty obvious that this plane was a turkey and that building more of them was just throwing good money after bad. Meanwhile, they could have been producing more planes that don't have problems, and actually sell, e
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They should have paused all building of the 737MAX long ago, and switched to other models. The 777 in particular seems to at least have a stellar reputation still.
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>Boeing should not be selling a plane into a market that don't cover markets natural variant in pilots and airlines. That's like selling a car only F1 drivers can safely drive to the general public ( and crucially without telli
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That's because European Aldi's gets their chicken from Europe, while American Aldi's gets their chicken from America. They don't ship chicken across the Atlantic. The root issue isn't Aldi's, it's the qua
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You want me to pay for a Windows license to run a Windows VM on Linux, all just so I can back up an iPhone? I don't have to do any of this crap with an Android phone.
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>Not for the kind of racist xenophobic "ideas" that the world has long moved on from. This is factually incorrect. The election of Trump in the US and the rise of far-right political parties in the EU disproves this notion. I
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Florida may have a larger population, but they're not nearly as productive, probably because FL is a popular place for retirees to move to. Retired people don't contribute much to GDP.
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>Look, I like I lot of things about Germany, but the supermarkets here are a joke. There's more product variety in a single Whole Foods in America than there is in the entire combined inventory of all German supermarkets. You'v
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Sounds like Catalonia would be better off separating from Spain since then they could establish their own reputation instead of being dragged down by the rest of the country's poor reputation.
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Why is this downmodded? It's true, at least in America: the people who buy these cars new don't care if they still work 10 years later, because they don't keep them that long. The people who buy cars intending to keep them
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by magduf 7y ago
It's not surprising that Republicans would say similar things. Republicans don't have that much appeal to young voters anyway (at least not ones into video games), nor are they looking for that vote. The Dems are the ones trying
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>(1) is precisely my concern. Death is the last great leveller. What happens when the rich become exempt? I think then they become gods ... on no basis then other than their ability to hoard coins. What exactly is the problem here? If y
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>Yeah right. What on earth would motivate them to prolong everybody’s life? 1) Profit 2) What makes you think they can keep it secret? >But even if your hoped for outcome did come to pass what happens wrt world population? In case you
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By most accounts, and historians generally agree, George Washington really was a great President.
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I normally try to refrain from too-direct political discussion here too, but I feel I need to comment on this: Stuff like this is why we have Trump as President: because the Democrats somehow just can't keep from shooting themselves in
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No, you end up with everyone living to 150, and having longer, healthier lifespans in general.
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Exactly; the bunkers aren't helping anyone and are a complete waste. But advancing medical research can have all kinds of great by-products; look at all the technologies that came from pouring money into the Apollo program. Even if t

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