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by mrkstu 7y ago
Why is that a safe assumption? You're assuming that he wasn't, in fact, the best candidate that interviewed based on what? Since they didn't seriously consider him they may have left behind the best candidate available to the
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by mrkstu 7y ago
Considering past conspiracies to restrain information workers salaries, this may just be restoring some of the missed natural growth. The FAANG companies aren't having any problems keeping up with the Softbank funded companies.
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by mrkstu 7y ago
Humans will lose in short distances but a well conditioned athlete can win in a 20+ mile distance over a horse.
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by mrkstu 7y ago
That is probably enough info to ID him- you may want to edit that in case of unintended negative repercussions for him...
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by mrkstu 7y ago
I get bank statements, job offers, party invitations, and lately a bunch of lets say very questionable email verifications from euro 'dating' sites- I've identified the guy in the UK but its too much (and getting embarrassing
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by mrkstu 7y ago
There are multitudes of venues for political expression, why cannot the workplace be a refuge from that maelstrom?
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by mrkstu 7y ago
Similarly in my domain of computer networking, the best advice I received was 'be the packet' - i.e. visualize the steps/hops the packet would take through the network and where are the decisions about forwarding would happen
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by mrkstu 7y ago
When your differentiation is in your ecosystem how is this action independent of competitive pressure? Their customers are end users and the App Store is one (and how they've run it) of their best selling points. Your line of thought o
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by mrkstu 7y ago
While making sure the engine isn't cloud based or phones home.
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If they all follow Disney's pricing model, that would work, but everyone wants too big a slice of the pie.
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by mrkstu 7y ago
I don't think it bothered the Romans at all to be seen as a territorial expansionist empire.
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by mrkstu 7y ago
Here comes Johnny Cab: https://talkingpointz.com/johnny-cab/
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by mrkstu 7y ago
Yep. Two years in Australia wasn't enough for metric temperature units to become instinctive for me. Speed was easy, relatively. Even weight/height was alright, though Aussies tended to use imperial for those often anyway, includi
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by mrkstu 7y ago
"This scenario assumes that ITER will deliver on the promise of tokamak-based fusion. That isn’t guaranteed. Magnetic confinement fusion remains a scientific research problem rather than an engineering problem, and the engineering issu
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by mrkstu 7y ago
I assume you could do the gross structures eventually, but the real original neural state wouldn’t be there so not much point.
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by mrkstu 7y ago
My knowing-nothing coming in takeaway is that the 'wave' state of QM is more like an ocean wave than the two dimensional wave of a sine wave on a oscilloscope and 'interferes' similar to how wave encountering each other
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by mrkstu 7y ago
Except shale oil is light/sweet. Where we have excess refining capacity it heavy/sour, because of cutbacks with Venezuelan oil. Right now we're running out of capacity on light/sweet processing and may need to start expo
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by mrkstu 7y ago
The biggest difficulty is that many of the web 'accounts' I've created have been only ever accessed via my Google account- i.e. I effectively don't have an account there w/o my Google account. I assume Github and so
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by mrkstu 7y ago
Great question! The interesting thing is that President fought that war, in part, to fight for America’s highest value, freedom. So, in point of fact, China is treading upon the one area that is offensive to us almost unanimously, our fre
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by mrkstu 7y ago
Apple's Mac Pro is moving this direction with the new IO Card hosting the USB/thunderbolt/audio connections. These trends definitely come in waves.
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Seemed like a clear implication. Boycotts and cancel culture travel together at times but they are themselves orthogonal.
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by mrkstu 7y ago
This one cuts across partisan lines- and in fact conservatives/libertarians are more likely to be affected by corporate censorship nowadays, and more than happy to push back on obvious over-reach/kowtowing like this.
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by mrkstu 7y ago
No, very simply they are protesting censorship, which is the opposite of what you're implying. You are saying that boycotting is itself censorship- no, it is a tool, that can be used by many people, with many POVs, and like most tools
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by mrkstu 7y ago
He had a work visa for the US. What I'm saying isn't defending Saudi Arabia, rather, that Iran is the last example to use to make the point, since they are regularly getting away with the same/worse in a variety of consequenc
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by mrkstu 7y ago
In this situation it would add up to 'constructive dismissal' so he wouldn't necessarily lose any rights. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_dismissal
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by mrkstu 7y ago
I had a job where I put in longer hours than any other person on the team and was the most capable of handling the widest/diverse workload. My manager was obsessive about when I showed up at work- despite never missing a meeting. If I
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by mrkstu 7y ago
If Iran murdered an Iranian citizen in their own embassy in third country? No response at all except a shake of the head? Iran regularly kidnaps dual citizens when they come to Iran and hold them without formal charges, and many disappear&#
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by mrkstu 7y ago
In my experience they have been 'waffle' machines rather than pancake ones.
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Small geography/city states seem to be able to pull this off with more frequency. Singapore/Dubai both seem to function extremely smoothly despite the less than stellar political freedom.
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by mrkstu 7y ago
Pedantically the residents of England speak would be speaking Brittonic too minus cultural imperialism. Making up artificial delineations on arbitrary segmentation of time gets a bit wearying. Various cultures have their time in the sun and

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