officemonkey

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by officemonkey 8y ago
I Beresheet the bed.
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Chicago was extremely fortunate to also have Dick Buckley, who had great pipes and an encyclopedic knowledge of traditional jazz. The likes of these men will never be seen again.
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by officemonkey 8y ago
You do have to enter additional information when signing in from a new browser.
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The US had been destroying chemical weapons for decades, due to treaty obligations. Thinking is not knowing.
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Disrupting the business model means sucking the juice out of everything. I got a package delivered by Amazon. It was "left in a secure location" according to the Amazon delivery driver. Turns out it was delivered at 9 pm, left out
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by officemonkey 8y ago
"We would need to essentially rebuild our entire network in Louisville to provide the great service that Google Fiber is known for, and that's just not the right business decision for us." In other words, "we fucked up a
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The RPG game "Traveller" [sic] has a method for creating fictional worlds using a variety of dice rolls. The original game was created in the early 80s, but the multiple editions since have created system of remarkable depth. One
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by officemonkey 8y ago
Let's generalize: I do feel that companies should have a social and moral responsibility to their users. Sadly, companies only have a social and moral responsibility to their shareholders. It's one of the reasons why corporations
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by officemonkey 8y ago
If Facebook knowingly refused to refund improper transactions, THEY are the ones committing fraud. Plain, old, "screw you, Facebook user" fraud.
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by officemonkey 8y ago
I would argue that an ereader that simply displays ebooks is less of a "screen" than a smartphone. But I read 90 books a year on an ereader, so perhaps I'm biased.
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I honestly think it has a lot to do with mass media and advertising. There are some people who just can't handle near-constant and well-crafted messages to consume and buy. One anecdote was a woman I know who (when someone cleaned out
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by officemonkey 8y ago
It sounds like more people should be interested in regulatory reform. I'm a huge fan of refactoring regulations once the problems they've been made to fix have been solved. The problem is most "bodies of laws" are so com
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by officemonkey 8y ago
On the other hand, hotels are innovating on improving the customer experience too. The Hilton App is easier to use than their actual website. I am able to check-in and check-out without talking to anyone. I can use a digital key on my phone
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by officemonkey 8y ago
I was appalled that the the existing taxi system (essentially a protected monopoly) wouldn't immediately create an Uber/Lyft app when ride-sharing first appeared. Then I realized that building such a thing would only benefit drive
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They have to follow the commander's legal orders. Whether they agreed or not should be immaterial.
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Work stoppage followed by collective bargaining. They were literally the only three persons who could do the work. Ground control had to negotiate. OTOH, it could have been the commander's sole decision, which means it wasn't a st
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by officemonkey 8y ago
You may find happiness living in a less dense environment. I live in a residential neighborhood among adults who seldom subwoof at any time, much less at midnight.
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Many people who have jobs in urban areas have to deal with long commutes on top of a standard work week. I'm one of those rare people who will happily go to bed at 9 pm every night. My favorite job was when I teleworked from 6 AM - Noo
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In the original "Traveller" RPG (we called them the "little black books") you could get killed during character generation! The game also had a fairly deadly combat system; often the only way to "win" was not t
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If you're going to gamble this way, you better be right, because if you're wrong, you're fired. Forgiveness will always be given for a "great success."
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Or the reviews. If somebody is reviewing books I have zero interest in (eg: super partisan politics, superhero comic books) then I'm likely to unfriend them on Goodreads. One of my middle-aged male friends was really into Young Adult r
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I think I would do this for my friends, even without Facebook. The problem is when I have to spend emotional labor tending to people I haven't seen since high school.
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by officemonkey 8y ago
My favorite social network is the one I have on Goodreads. I love to see what my friends (who are readers) are reading. I also have found a bunch of people whose book tastes are similar to mine. Everyone is interested in the same goal: find
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I know people hate on unions, but unions are supposed to negotiate two things: wages and working conditions. Negotiating working conditions with a union-enforced contract gets rid of mickey mouse management, and establishes a process for wo
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It all depends on the metro area. That seems a little high for Chicago.
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Wow, it's only been 18 years since Blue Mountain Arts being sold to Excite@Home for $780M. If you recall, Blue Mountain Arts made 3/4 of a billion dollars in 1999 for it's "ecard" business, a business that literally
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The author, Dorothy Thompson, was a key journalist and personality who encouraged the U.S. entry into WW2. The book "Those Angry Days" by Lynne Olson describes the struggle between the interventionists and the isolationists.
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There was also a rapidly-maturing Reddit waiting in the wings. If you have a moat, you can weather the storm after a design snafu. If you don't? @Jack, you dead.
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Technology isn't the issue. Technology gave me an ereader that lasts for a week on a single charge and lets me carry around a couple hundred books. It's a large part of the reason why I'm reading 80 books a year. How creators
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Habits are formed over time. I began reading "books" again in 2010, after a 10 year lapse of mostly not reading books. At first, the best I could do was 15 books a year. It took me three years before I "leveled up" to &q

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