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by piokoch 8y ago
I guess such employers strategy is taught at business schools. My ISP or mobile operator also gives much better offer to a new customer as compared to the existing one. The question is if it works, that is if people indeed prefer stability
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I am not sure I understand the way Fair Housing Act is enforced. Facebook allows ads targeting. This is how it earns money. Apparently some people decided that they want to advertise houses to white Christians population, which is illegal i
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True, the problem is that replacing carriages with cars was a benefit for society, destroying local press is not.
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"Today we’re announcing a ban on praise, support and representation of white nationalism and separatism on Facebook and Instagram" First of all, why white nationalism, how about black or yellow nationalism, are they ok? Second thi
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Hmm, I don't even know what "white nationalist" mean. Nationalism is often confused with chauvinism. The difference is rather important. Nationalism is a natural and mostly positive attitude: a person lives at some place (cou
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I don't know to what extent the movie "Social Network" is based on facts, but if it is a true picture of Mark Zuckerberg, then that's what is happening is not a surprise. He cheated guys who employed him (to create socia
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by piokoch 8y ago
So, from what I read, it seems that rather large number of MPs pushed the wrong button. I guess that more and more MPs would confess that "wrong button" was pressed since European Parliament election is just around the corner (end
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by piokoch 8y ago
Yup, for me EU democracy looks like Roman Republic democracy at the turn of eras. People living at the times of First Triumvirate ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Triumvirate ) also thought that they live in democra
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I am curious how this will affect Brexit. At some point it looked like public opinion in UK leaned against it. Right now it seems that EU is ready to pass any law which is pushed by a powerful lobby, even if this law is not the most well-th
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The problem is the EU approach to GDPR enforcement. Fines are so huge that probably MS lawyer team decided not to take chances for something that does not bring revenue - some developers might cry on Twitter or Facebook for a week or two, b
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Yup, the side effect is that customers of a given startup often get abandon with "it was great journey for us, you have one month to get your toys somewhere else" note.
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Reading this made me speechless. One thing is that the same story repeats again (I am only curious if someone is playing against CLO now as "The Big Short" guys did.) But this... "They buy a little of the debt of risky compan
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I went through that article and I can't figure out what is the Iranian authorities motivation to persecute those people, what are they going to gain? From the article it seems that there is a group of passionate eco-activists which sud
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Unrelated, but interesting in this context: Michael Burry, one of the guys who predicted 2007 housing bubble (and made good money thanks to that), is investing in water. Looks like he might be right again.
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"The use of Bootstrap and the spread of templates made Web Design boring." Frankly, as a user I don't complain. GUI consistency has a great value for me. Crawling through the fancy artistic designs is fun until I just want to
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"BTW they are only opposing to article 13 because Putin asked them to do so" I am really curious why Putin would care about that? How this law affects Russia?
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This might really catch-up. From what I've read (could be obviously wrong, as many reports we get from the "wild" east) that for people in China it is important to be able to show their position in the society - that's o
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Is EU going to survive all this? Brexit. This absurd regulation. Eurozone debts problems (Italy situation is far from being stable). This could be a hot summer for EU, especially if Euro parliament will be full of EU-hostile MPs.
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by piokoch 8y ago
In the first place it is sad that "emojis", "emoticons", etc. are so broadly used. It only shows how writing skills are deteriorating. Mark Twain or Hemingway didn't need emojis to express sadness or humor.
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I think soon or later we will need some kind of public institution that will do this sort of scans; all those unsecured IoT printers, vacuum cleaners, fridges, abandoned servers, Synology servers, etc. would become a real threat at some poi
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EU slowly starts to resemble old monarchies, detached from reality, "solving" problems that does not exists and totally missing important issues like Euro currency zone crisis, immigration crisis, lack of common and cohesive polic
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I am really amazed how much people in India are able to achieve without spending tons of money. India Mars mission costed less then production of a fiction movie "Gravity". My sister in law needed a cancer cure Herceptine, which i
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I didn't know that it is legal to force someone to resign from being able to go to the court. I thought that right to use court to defend ones right is a right that cannot be revoked by some agreement. For me it looks as if someone wou
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"Condé Nast is considering charging advertisers a premium for access to those subscribers, said Chris Mitchell, chief business officer for Condé Nast’s culture division, which includes the New Yorker, Wired and Vanity Fair." This
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I am always wondering to what extent logo and company name matter. Google has rather boring logo yet they are successful. I guess that many people who heard for the first time about mobile apps framework Xamarin thought "hmm, this must
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When I've started reading the article I had to double check I am not on some parody site like "The Onion" that tries to ridicule SV startups community. "The company spent millions of dollars raised from investors [...] o
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Sounds promising, unfortunately it seems that currently it does not really work. "The problem was that the experiments also found that the patient's immune system was fighting the virus and effectively removing it from the body wi
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Pretty interesting. One thing that bothers me is "The way our economies are organised means wealth is increasingly and unfairly concentrated among a privileged few while millions of people are barely subsisting". I don't full
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Any idea why Flutter uses Dart language which is rather obscure. Wouldn't Java or JavaScript be the better choice in terms of adoption?
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I am not sure why hard exit is going to be "catastrophic". There are many countries outside EU doing just fine and doing business with EU countries. Plus nothing stops UK from signing bilateral trade deals with EU countries and I

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