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by ojbyrne 3y ago
I think if you work at a company that recently laid off 21k people, you are less likely to feel comfortable saying you need help with doing your job.
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Just googling around a bit, I suspect this is the real source of the quote, not Napoleon.
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As far as the US is concerned, nobody has good memories about the last time that was tried: https://www.cato.org/commentary/remembering-nixons-wage-pric...
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I did not sigh at your mistake, I sighed at the over-prevalence of IPAs.
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I once worked on a team, in house at a company, where we were tasked with developing a prototype, in a scripting language with a well-known web framework. Meanwhile another team at a consulting company, was tasked with developing the final
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No mint?
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I also found the Preakness kind of crazy. Perhaps the most crazy part of it was that it's in a really sketch part of Baltimore (Pimlico), and there's a whole cordon of police from the light rail station to the track making sure th
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I’ve never had a Heineken that wasn’t skunky.
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Pretty sure it’s an IPA. Sigh
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I read a book in the early 90s ( https://www.librarything.com/work/184088/reviews/17020402 ) that suggested that the authority of a given article, book, etc should be based on the number of times it was cited i
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The Binge Purge(vulture.com)
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I think a lot of people spend time on LinkedIn these days. And GitHub.
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45234/the-emperor-of-...
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If you’re comparing the Quest 2 to the Vision Pro, it seems more like 2x as good for 5x the price.
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“Less bloody” is nowhere close to true. World War II casualties: 70-85 million https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties World War I casualties: 40 million https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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Well, 1 master and 7 slaves.
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They still use L, M and P (though the P is now Hack). Not sure about the A.
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I had a significant amount of equity. Take most of the numbers with a grain of salt.
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I think the price was expected, what was disappointing (at least to me) was "available early next year."
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The article talks a lot about a similar Thai initiative.
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It is in the first paragraph of the article. https://oeis.org/
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By the point of “It is being so wrapped up in yourself and your own goals that you cannot accept the fact that your goals are not more important that those of everyone around you.” I couldn’t help but think of the expression “Pot…Kettle…Bla
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I was going to say that, but a little googling showed me the word “cop” is not of American origin.
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Sure it fits with the narrative, but the narrative is pretty poor. This article was just published recently, and it cherry-picks a graph from even before the economist article that coined the “techlash” world. Poor research and poor writin
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“In 2017, Google wrote a paper” - there’s the singularity right there.
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The top graph (Gallup 2017 Business & Industry Ranking Net Positive Scores) is 6 years old. 2022 results can be found here: https://news.gallup.com/poll/12748/business-industry-sector-... Computer Industry is
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Concept2 is pretty well the standard: https://shop.concept2.com/indoor-rowers/298-model-d-with-pm5...
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It should probably say “modern American cop novel.”
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I have always thought that the big kickback for engineers is getting skills on your resume for the next job. "Resume-driven development" basically.
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> Being homeless in that country is pretty hard core in the winter. Which is a reason that sheltering people there is not a nice to have; you either shelter them or you collect their dead bodies in the morning The article is from a Canad

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