pillowkusis

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by pillowkusis 10y ago
I think it's important to note that the 30% increase claim comes from PageFair ( https://pagefair.com/blog/2017/adblockreport/ ), which is a company that helps other companies bypass adblocker and still ha
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by pillowkusis 10y ago
the most common goverments free of (obvious) ccorruption are democracies. a senator CAN be corrupt, but often doesn't want to -- because if discovered to be corrupt, he would lose office. The people have control over voting him in or o
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by pillowkusis 10y ago
It's not just difficult, it's a bad idea for you. If you know your company will be successful enough to give you your paycheck for the entire duration you stay there (10-15yrs seems like a reasonable maximum), then you should acti
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by pillowkusis 10y ago
I've been feeling the same way. Having millions of people and billions of dollars blindly dumped into index funds leaves me uneasy. Many view index funds as a "7% return machine". The conventional wisdom is "buy and hold
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by pillowkusis 10y ago
you seem concerned with animal welfare, or at least the minimization of suffering; how do you justify willfully killing animals (which undoubtedly creates suffering)?
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by pillowkusis 10y ago
I've tried the beyond burger[0], which is similar in that they're both trying to be meatless meat burgers. I don't know if they taste anything alike. The beyond burger was interesting. It was the closest to a meat patty I&#x2
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by pillowkusis 10y ago
not a very helpful comment, is it? Is there a single director in hollywood who DOESN'T want to make a great film? They go around intentionally producing garbage? Even if they're not putting 100% into their craft I think every dire
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by pillowkusis 10y ago
say the candidate wants 150 but would take as low as 120. so she writes down 120. she's actually worth 150. the company is willing to hire her at up to 150. But instead, they say 130. She gets hired at 125 as a result. If they had nego
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by pillowkusis 10y ago
you still have a strong incentive to lie, do you not? Since the final salary is the average of the two numbers, employers want to go as low as they can and prospects want to go as high as they can. in fact, this system punishes honesty even
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by pillowkusis 10y ago
Do you have evidence of this? I would imagine censoring mainstream dissident speech would be quite a controversy...
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by pillowkusis 10y ago
As far as I know, there is no evidence to suggest that a gender gap exists for the same skill level in the same region performing the same job. Does anyone have evidence for this? And if not, the "gender pay gap" seems like a tota
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by pillowkusis 10y ago
I've never known your work until just recently Pieter, but your writing is elegant and powerful. I will remember it when it's my turn to follow you. I can imagine no worse fate than contracting alzheimer's disease, and its a