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by markdown 4y ago
Any employee who left after our bank screwed us, despite knowing they'd get paid within a week, is a person I wouldn't anywhere near my business anyway. > It’s not necessarily about the finances of the employees, it’s about the
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by markdown 4y ago
If you know your boss got screwed by his bank, but that you can bank on being paid within a week, then you'd stay, wouldn't you. I'm under the impression that every American adult has a credit card, so I don't understand
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by markdown 4y ago
LOL, Silicon Valley tech workers aren't living hand to mouth, and they have credit cards. They'll survive a week without pay.
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by markdown 4y ago
> Social networks could go hands off for moderation and allow plugable moderation engines Just imagine the bubbles. Bubbles everywhere.
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by markdown 4y ago
Airdrop fails randomly at least 50% of the time I use it. And this experience is pretty consistent across over a decade of use with macbooks, mac minis, iphones (right up to the current 14) and tablets for an entire family. It's just g
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by markdown 4y ago
One would hope so. Ideally, the people of the future will have progressed beyond the relative savagery of me and my peers and look upon us with disdain. Perhaps for how much I enjoy a good steak, or for the genital mutilation of our boys.
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by markdown 4y ago
> If you ban legacy, then you lose needed donations. If you lose donations, then costs go up for everyone else. LOL they don't need any more donations.
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by markdown 4y ago
Looks like he was a rabid racist and eugenecist. Glad to see that modern Caltech has progressed.
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by markdown 4y ago
I don't think you see this bacteria in the Ohio climate.
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by markdown 4y ago
> The privatization of the mines in particular was wildly successful. We're talking about government services here. Of course a mine will be more profitable in private hands.
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by markdown 4y ago
With authenticator apps, if you lose your phone, you lose access to everything. Your life is fucked. With SMS, you just get a new sim (free in my country). Basically authenticator apps create a much bigger problem than getting hacked, and t
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by markdown 4y ago
A "family farm" isn't just about ownership. It denotes a type of small owner-operator farm. The GP has leased their land to someone else, so it's no longer their "family farm", and it isn't a "family&
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by markdown 4y ago
Me too. How else am I to know how I'm supposed to react to the news?
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by markdown 4y ago
> The gentleman who rents our family farm It isn't your family farm anymore. In fact it's nobody's family farm. It's just farmland.
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by markdown 4y ago
Covid19 is gone. We need Covid20 to get Amazon stock up again.
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by markdown 4y ago
Try again? They don't need nudging to try again. This isn't something they ever stop trying.
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by markdown 4y ago
I don't know if it's mentioned in this paywalled article, but a few years ago Chinese police came to Fiji and arrested 77 people they claimed were Chinese criminals. They put them on a chartered plane and flew them back to China.
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by markdown 4y ago
> You scare investors. You don't realize how unlike manufacturing, services are extremely easy to move to another country. And why even start manufacturing in this regime, when plenty of saner countries are nearby? You have it backw
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by markdown 4y ago
So your answer is... "Thanos did nothing wrong"? Shall we all wait for covid20 to wipe out enough people that the housing supply overwhelms demand and prices drop?
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by markdown 4y ago
How many Olympic swimming pools?
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by markdown 4y ago
> providing exceptions only at very high salary ranges And of course you would fall in this demographic, amirite? Fuck the poor, don't mess with the salaries of the rich. > building tons of extra housing and bankrupting private e
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by markdown 4y ago
It's good to remind people what UFO really means. I've heard some ridiculous things from very popular American podcaster Joe Rogan recently.
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by markdown 4y ago
Surely the appropriate response is to release some "weather" balloons from Taiwan.
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by markdown 4y ago
The US Department of Attack budget for 2023 is $1.9 trillion dollars. A couple of missiles is petty cash.
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by markdown 4y ago
> The main issue right now is that all the flight schools are booked up Why is this?
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by markdown 4y ago
I'm upset that they're misrepresenting these works as being protected in order to make a sale to people who don't know better. It's a scam.
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by markdown 4y ago
This is the kind of thinking that brought the world to it's knees in 2020.
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by markdown 4y ago
I'm talking about millions of old photos and art that have had their copyright expire. Getty sells them for $500 a pop. Eg: https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/illustration/people-and-t... This isn't a ph
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by markdown 4y ago
A lot of it is public domain photos that they pretend they own the copyright for.
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by markdown 4y ago
> Some also wear automatically inflated life jackets but as a kayaker I don’t trust them. Do you trust them as an adult? Or in some other context? What about kayaking makes you distrust them? Should I, a non-kayaker, trust them?

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