missingcolours

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by missingcolours 8y ago
Title seems misleading. Per the article it seems they demand email confirmation, but merely offer to access your email for you in order to accomplish that. (This is not a defense of Facebook's actions here)
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by missingcolours 8y ago
In 2012 there was a significant increase in income and sales taxes which were phased in over several years: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_California_Proposition_...
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by missingcolours 8y ago
Expensive downtown and cheap in the neighborhoods, so no, but it's far less clear to me that the neighborhoods will rebound in the way that the downtown area has (nearly all of Detroit's non-gentrified areas are overwhelmingly bla
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by missingcolours 8y ago
For anyone who wants to read more about this claim it's most commonly referred to as the "success sequence".
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by missingcolours 8y ago
Endeavoring to solve all of our transportation problems in a single rail line seems like the underlying issue. If HSR had been built successfully and fairly directly, on or under budget, it would have been much easier to muster political su
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by missingcolours 8y ago
A key lesson I learned with our first child was "just about everything gets easier once you leave the hospital", so with our second we prioritized GTFOing ASAP. It was a good decision.
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by missingcolours 8y ago
> Or they cut the service level so maybe the table will be wiped down before you sit there and maybe the garbage will be taken out before it gets so full you can't throw stuff in there. Anecdotally, this seems like a common route fo
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by missingcolours 8y ago
The thing about this is that people are bad at objectively analyzing contributions, especially their own. Some aspects of value to an employer/manager include your regular work output quantity and quality, ability to learn new skills q
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by missingcolours 9y ago
Both your numerator and your divisor are incorrect. The 2 million number is "creating and supporting", i.e. not direct Apple employees. The 123k number is "full-time equivalent", i.e. "total number of hours worked b
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by missingcolours 9y ago
I did some research a few years ago and HP had one of the higher revenue streams per capita in the entire state. There's lots of money in the city government, but not a lot of results, which points you toward the underlying problems.