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by mrleiter 8y ago
Well, you would have to read it and make up your mind.
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by mrleiter 8y ago
That's exactly what I said.
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Not saying that I support this, but it gives an interesting touch to the creation of Adam in the Bible. In Genesis 2,7 it says:"Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of li
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by mrleiter 8y ago
Amongst other things I study Philosophy and find it fascinating. It can really open your mind to a variety of subjects, whether it is maths, physics, business or law. Doesn't matter. There is a whole area dedicated to technology [1]. I
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by mrleiter 8y ago
The GDPR gets so much hate because it hits so many businesses where it hurts: data. GDPR "simply" gives you guidelines on how you can handle data from people within the EU. And that that data cannot be handled so liberally as it h
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Can insider trading be committed without trading?(arxiv.org)
2 points by mrleiter 8y ago|0 comments
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The Moat Map(stratechery.com)
82 points by mrleiter 8y ago|9 comments
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by mrleiter 8y ago
Yes, this. A lot of recruiting goes through LinkedIn.
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I am a remote executive recruiting contractor. Applied through a job listing. They liked me. They hired me. Now I look for senior and executive people online, remotely.
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by mrleiter 8y ago
I went on holiday there for one week, an as a person from Western Europe, the manifestation of wealth inequality was abhorrent sometimes. So many homeless people that are not taken care of, generally dirty, expensive public transit that not
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by mrleiter 8y ago
I have almost no knowledge of patent law, but calling this a troll case seems a bit naive. If it comes down to market confusion, than probably this won't stick, because as mrw34 said - nobody buys a truck for it's look, or at leas
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by mrleiter 8y ago
I would agree in regards to SEC filings, but I'm not sure this comes from an SEC filing? Also, do you have to state median pay in such a filing?
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by mrleiter 8y ago
Totally possible. I am not acquainted with the regulatory statutes regarding who you may or can count as FTE in such a statistic. But sure sounds like a feasible strategy to prop up median pay.
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by mrleiter 8y ago
Just a quick reminder what median means in this case: You have a finite set of wages/pay - and $197,000 should be in the middle of this set. Meaning that half the wages at Alphabet are below, the other half above this wage. It is a rat
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by mrleiter 8y ago
That is true. Thank you for adding this very relevant viewpoint! Walter Benjamin also saw this not as something negative, but rather something neutral, even positive.
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by mrleiter 8y ago
There is a wonderful documentary about a quite famous and "successful" art forger on Netflix https://www.netflix.com/title/80015279 (Beltracchi) There is also F for Fake, by Orson Welles, but I cannot seem to
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by mrleiter 8y ago
Thanks! :)
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by mrleiter 8y ago
I tried getting into western classical music several times, but always aborted. I find it really difficult, as it is so diverse and complex, yet beautiful and satisfying at the same time. Its vastness is astonishing and is the main reason w
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by mrleiter 8y ago
I am aware that this has been posted several times already, but I do believe that under the current events it is a solid and informative reminder of the faulty argument around "I've got nothing to hide".
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'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy (2007)(papers.ssrn.com)
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No, you see - with an actor in a commercial, the other party clearly knows the affiliation with the company and the statements made are advertisement. Of course if they lie, and not just exaggerate, the company can be sued for other reasons
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by mrleiter 8y ago
If it can be proven that LendEDU or any other student loan company profited from their statements, this is a picture case of wire fraud. 18 U.S.C. §1343 [1] for reference, states that "whoever devised or intended to devise any scheme o
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by mrleiter 8y ago
It is easier to sell a story of a wunderkind than of some 42 year old person who has 20+ years of experience and (hard) work. It keeps alive the idea of "anything is possible". Of course that is true, but the probability of that t
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by mrleiter 8y ago
To seek prestige runs far deeper in our minds than one would think. It comes from a place of uncertainty and fear. There is an interesting theory called "social comparison" [1], which states that one way to define ourselves is to
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A journalism student who found out she won a Pulitzer in class(cjr.org)
614 points by mrleiter 9y ago|101 comments
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Ask HN: Blogging platforms for non-technical people?
7 points by mrleiter 9y ago|3 comments
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by mrleiter 9y ago
Thank you!
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by mrleiter 9y ago
I currently do not have one by myself, but you can see some of it from Google Maps street view: https://goo.gl/maps/rXx5DKRT4K12 It's this one: https://imgur.com/a/afZgOZ2 Naturally it has be
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by mrleiter 9y ago
Back in the 50s, my great grandfather built the house where my mother and my grandmother grew up in all by himself. It took him 6 years, but he had no help. He started digging into the ground with a shovel. He was a carpenter and bricklayer
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by mrleiter 9y ago
My legal two cents: 1.) What 18 U.S.C. §2701 et seq. actually now says is that if you are a service provider in the US, you must have a backup of any record of your customers in the US. So if you use a cloud service that is situated outside

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