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by mjparrott 7y ago
So $860 or so per month to own a car. “Included in your lease” doesn’t mean you don’t pay for it by the way.
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by mjparrott 7y ago
So because it is the same attitude it is dismissed? What’s the point of this argument?
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by mjparrott 7y ago
How much is the total cost of owning a car in Chicago? Including gas, parking, insurance, maintenance and consumables, depreciation/lease, etc?
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by mjparrott 7y ago
Same experience here, also in Chicago. I take the bus now it’s much cheaper.
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by mjparrott 7y ago
Which way are things trending where you are today? The cost to surveil is going down at a tremendous rate so it is just a matter of time before someone decides to pay to surveil you and then sell their insights or take advantage of them. I
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by mjparrott 7y ago
Is it just me, or do all of the "personalized music services" only take a few next songs until they are playing you Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift or mumble rap? These things just converge towards popularity.
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by mjparrott 7y ago
$8.6M for Cisco? What's the point? That is insignificant for them.
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by mjparrott 7y ago
Financial positions are not exclusively a function of your skillset. Your accreditations also matter (e.g. degrees or certifications). Wealth also begets wealth so if you have connections you can actually get a job without any skillset (not
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by mjparrott 7y ago
I didn't mean it that way. I meant to say that if you are asking yourself "what can I do to improve my situation" sometimes the answer is to invest in yourself! It isn't meant to be judgemental or to suggest there aren&#
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by mjparrott 7y ago
The ultimate "f&#$ it" move. It's true ... your thoughts, words and actions are all going to be documented and preserved to be later audited and evaluated into perpetuity. The train is too far down the tracks to do anythi
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by mjparrott 7y ago
Yes, this was my first job as an 'employee' of a staffing company. They took $11/hour and gave me $7/hour to re-package and re-palletize boxes of P&G products. Literally we would open a box of 4 shampoo bottles, take
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by mjparrott 7y ago
Getting out of the hole of "surviving to the next month" requires a few years of developing and investing in yourself to build a valued skillset. It's very hard to do when you don't have a clue about what that path can b
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by mjparrott 7y ago
There are nice places to live that aren't on a postcard
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by mjparrott 7y ago
Yes, this. Voatz is holding a lot of power here and I can only imagine how well their solution is implemented. Do state or local governments even understand what they do?
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by mjparrott 7y ago
It seems undemocratic to hide behind “proprietary technology” to describe the vote counting process. It’s a public process.
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by mjparrott 7y ago
Anyone else thinking of George bringing the book into the bathroom at the book store, and getting flagged by every book store in New York? haha
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by mjparrott 7y ago
Do grades matter? The point is demonstrating that you understand the content. MBA programs have pass/fail grading that oftentimes is not allowed to be released. If you fail a class, you should be able to take it again and if you pass,
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by mjparrott 7y ago
If the financial penalty was high enough they would increase budgets. There is no accountability for losing customers personal information. If you can make a strong business case behind the average risk a company takes on it would help this
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by mjparrott 7y ago
"Nothing to hide" is the worst argument possible on the subject
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by mjparrott 7y ago
It is not zero-sum. You can increase safety while keeping privacy. Putting airbags in cars makes us safer without losing privacy (to any meaningful degree). Even if there is a relationship curve, you can shift the curve or jump between them
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by mjparrott 7y ago
Too late Photos are everywhere, the software will only get to be more accessible. You can't put this back in the box.
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by mjparrott 7y ago
Potential moral of the story: use an iPhone and major cellular provider or else you'll pay for the savings by having terrible customer support and experience
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by mjparrott 7y ago
You can make a google form that accepts the same information and then stores it in a sheet. You put a link to the form on your phone. Easy, free, integrated solution.
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by mjparrott 7y ago
Is this Austria or North Korea? I’m appalled by this idea.
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by mjparrott 7y ago
Putting 2 innocent people through systems designed to assume they are guilty is worse than 1 guilty person being able to be anonymous. Look at what the TSA has done. They’ve wasted so much time and created a massive invasion of physical pri
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by mjparrott 8y ago
I must be tired and reading this incorrectly. 1992-2001: +112 b tons / year 2003-2008: +82 b tons / year Prior to 2012: -84 b tons / year 2012-2018: -241 b tons / year It flipped from positive to negative somewhere betwe
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by mjparrott 8y ago
Haha THIS is spot on. Sure, 1 person's address isn't the end of the world ... but 500,000,000 people's information in 1 incident is class action material