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by omonra 14y ago
I wasn't going to upgrade to S4, but now that I read this rant, makes me want to go and get one. Every week some columnist gets on a soapbox and drones about how they are offended. Just read a good blog post about it: http://falkenblog.blo
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by omonra 14y ago
This news can only be made better by one thing - a patent issued for this invention.
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by omonra 14y ago
Why waste time blowing hot air (myth, shmyth) when we have facts at our disposal? http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/appsblog/2012/dec/04/io... Value of iOS purchases are about 5x those of Android: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/T
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by omonra 14y ago
I think this is a great policy - for the reason that government should provide same service to ALL citizens regardless of what phone they happen to own. Equality of access is paramount - other technical considerations are secondary. If they
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by omonra 14y ago
This is probably the first comment that made me wish I could downvote. Pure trolling
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by omonra 14y ago
"The other significant difference is that all these policies were completely opaque, not like you can find out how much Jews the university can accept this year. Officially, no such policy existed, but everyone knew it did." FYI, it was oft
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by omonra 14y ago
Ok - apologies, I must have misread it. It's just to me - discussing Soviet attempts at gamification without mentioning things like the law I described or placement of peasants back into serfdom (after they had been granted freedom 60 year
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by omonra 14y ago
Lies. Don't see the point to argue, just couldn't let someone lie through their teeth without calling them on it. But if anybody wants to understand that Stalin's USSR was pretty much a mirror image of Nazi Germany (they were evil to same d
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by omonra 14y ago
Author might want to learn about soviet laws about mandatory work & punishment for 'absenteeism' "On 8 January 1939, the government made clear that an unauthorized lateness of 20 minutes (or taking a break 20 minutes too long, or leavin
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by omonra 14y ago
They could also have subscribed to the New York Times and then realized that it doesn't solve the problem they have. Is Balanced better than NYT?
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by omonra 14y ago
But are they better or brighter than low-skilled immigrants?
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by omonra 14y ago
I guess it's just somewhat poor wording to call it 'conflict of interest'. Maybe the post would benefit from a disclaimer - "I happen to be a big proponent of remote work and even wrote a book about how great it is. So I bring a set of pre-
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by omonra 14y ago
Apologies - I included the citation because I just copied someone else's comment that I found appropriate. I felt bad not citing where it was from. With regard to your article - it does not analyze difference in hours worked. Perhaps someon
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by omonra 14y ago
You realize that to claim a gender gap, you have to compare apples to apples - same job, education level, hours worked between genders? And when all of this is tabulated, there is no gender gap. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505125_162-28246
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by omonra 14y ago
It has been mostly debunked - and is attributed to choices people make: Here is Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, explaining that the portion of the gender wage gap due to bias and prejudice is about 25% of the total gap. That is 75% of
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by omonra 14y ago
But he is encouraged and cheered - the valuation of his company vs Ford is precisely the indication of it. Nothing says "I believe in this guy" like actually putting money down & buying the company stock.
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by omonra 14y ago
I think it's telling that the blog post fails to link to the NYT article. Ie - if you really need to know what the public editor said, go google it. This is a painfully obvious PR war in which the truth is the first casualty.
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by omonra 14y ago
Yes, I mostly agree with you here. You meant 'contemporary' western civilization - hence my confusion.
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by omonra 14y ago
LIBOR was mostly manipulated down . See: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18671255 "At the onset of the financial crisis in September 2007 with the collapse of Northern Rock, liquidity concerns drew public scrutiny towards Libor. Barcl
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by omonra 14y ago
"The Western world was never that intellectual to begin with." Can you elaborate on that please? What time period are you referring to? Which civilizations were more intellectual in your view and how do you quantify it?
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by omonra 14y ago
I thought exactly the same thing. But then you find that apparently some very smart people to put (other people's) money into the business - and you're left scratching your head "what am I missing?"
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by omonra 14y ago
I think that most emails (probably all human relationships) can be described by the "who needs this more - sender or recipient?" paradigm (in the parlance of Seinfeld - who has the hand). An example - if a subordinate is emailing his boss,
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by omonra 14y ago
http://www.cunard.com/cruise-ships/queen-mary-2/
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by omonra 14y ago
Your suggestion is logical. Or we could just ascribe things to racism. The good professor thinks it's the latter.
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by omonra 14y ago
Don't forget - they're hiring software engineers! This is usually an indication on an imminent overhaul. Sometimes I wish there was a vote to indicate that article is completely devoid of substance and is just regurgitating facts we all kno
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by omonra 14y ago
I thought of the same thing. There is actually a term 'suicide epidemic' and it's happened in the past: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_epidemic The basic idea being that public coverage of a suicide may prompt others who are conside
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by omonra 14y ago
More to the point - someone actually called GS and asked to do this deal (reverse inquiry). So to label this as "scam" borders between disingenuous and libelous.
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by omonra 14y ago
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story described the bond deal as a sale to retail clients. According to a Goldman Sachs spokesperson, it was a "reverse inquiry" for a single institutional client. The company denies that it "made mone
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by omonra 14y ago
Right - I understand that this was a tangential point. But I just see it brought up consistently (that Instagram is getting worse because of decreasing average photo quality) - which I don't get.
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by omonra 14y ago
I actually don't get one point that I hear often and that's made in this article. Namely that Instagram used to have higher quality of photos. And now that it's more popular, the quality has gone down. But what does it matter to YOU, what

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