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by mfoy_ 9y ago
Honestly it literally sounds like that is the business model. "Let's build a platform that exploits desperate developers..."
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
Personally, they got me this holiday season because I originally signed up for Amazon Prime to watch American Gods... then since I had Prime I got free shipping...
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
The stigma is lessened, but not entirely gone... you can be "cool" despite playing D&D, but definitely not because of it.
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
Life is giant sand mandala.
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
Apple's _total_ revenue since 2000 has been less than 1.2T, and it's not like they provided no value. Calling it a "scam" in any capacity is already a stretch. Calling it a scam in "trillions" is utterly hype
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
Exactly. I had an old iPhone 3G that was working fine until Apple released an update that crippled it after I held on to it too long after their product line had moved on... I mean, to all those who might think "well, old phones be old
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
After my iPhone 3g's (not even 3G S) last update, it became noticeably slower. It became one of the main reasons I upgraded my phone. It never spontaneously rebooted, but it definitely became slow . I ended up getting a Samsung Gala
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
Or make the battery replaceable... It pains me that I effectively have to choose between replaceable batteries and IPXX ratings.... T_T
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
So much damage done to so many people in so many ways... ugh.
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
Oh but the beautiful pieces are half the fun! The "gems" are high-quality custom poker chips... so much fun to just play with them!
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
I don't know if there's a good resource such as TV tropes, but board games absolutely have tropes, usually in terms of mechanics. For example there is worker placement, card drafting, "coints" (coins are points), hidden
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
As one of the uninitiated... why?
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
Still he has a good point about not being able to open the window to reach out to hand papers / etc... I don't know how it works with "normal" trucks, but won't this mean having to get out of the vehicle to pay toll
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." Using statistics in bad faith is way too effective.
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
I mean, it's not hard to take a fact, take it out of context, and present it in a way that promotes some negative view of Islam.
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
How else can you read "consistent differences in merit between subpopulations" when the context is gender discrimination in employee performance reviews?
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
So in a company that uses stack-ranking: Damned if you do; damned if you don't.
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
I'm not going to go to great lengths to explain to you how you are missing the message. It's not about "factoring in" anything, or what the specific "subpopulation" at play is. GP used a lot of big fancy words
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
Even criminal cases don't need "iron clad" empirical evidence. Only "beyond a shadow of a reasonable doubt"... so like... 95%-ish.
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
So you're saying it's not the system, or at least not solely the system, and that the managers are almost certainly biased? I can appreciate that. It's almost certainly true. Most people are biased. The point of my comment
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
I think a simpler and better claim would be that: When managers are faced with stack ranking employees, they will often decide based on factors not purely related to the productivity or value of the employee. ---- That, and as an employee i
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
Maybe Uber is like an organizational Gaspode[1], in which so many bad ideas are all running amok at once that it all keeps working, somehow. [1]: https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Gaspode >is only still alive becaus
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
So your response can be summed up as "Well maybe the men are just better on average?"
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
I do think that Canada is more... open to suggestion than America. So perhaps he merely means that Canadians don't mind being guinea pigs for the greater good as much? Canada is more of a "social capitalism", as opposed to Am
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
I had the same thought! However, the article mentions at some point that the drugs were the "optimal treatment"... implying that the exact value/necessity of stenting is... a little... unclear? Maybe I misunderstand, but perh
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
Call me cynical, but: Anything that threatens the current way of life, the current status quo, or is representative of a school of thought that clashes with the aforementioned can cause cognitive dissonance. Simple as that. Many people don&
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
You're trying to make this article more of a social policy commentary than it is. Having a "life-long expensive disease" is like the inverse of Rule #12, where you've already lost the lottery. Now, this wouldn't eve
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
For a contrived example, let's make the following assumptions: 1) There is no inflation. 2) Your capital investments always return 5%. 3) Your salary is $100,000 and does not change. 4) You are able to save 50% of your income and inves
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
Arguing that "your career provides your wealth" isn't valid because "you use the money from your career to build your wealth" is like arguing "father provides my food" isn't valid because he actually
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
It will take you decades of saving to have the kind of capital that can show a return that's even remotely comparable with your salary.

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