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by ponker 6y ago
That’s messed up. IANAL but don’t think that the outcome in the US would have been the same.
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by ponker 6y ago
Huh. I stand corrected. Was your lawsuit about a bad review?
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by ponker 6y ago
Why should my employer make permanent improvements to my own house? That would only make sense in a lifetime employment kind of situation. If I have Ethernet run in my house that's going to be usable for 10+ years. Not going to be at m
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by ponker 6y ago
For 5 superstars I can imagine an “abundance of talent” as a random event. But for 50 it’s not — it’s a culture that for some reason has created the conditions for these superstars to emerge and it’s worth analyzing what those conditions ar
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by ponker 6y ago
It's because money cannot manufacture good writing. There are reliable processes by which a holder of capital can turn $10 million into good production and $100 million into great production, and you can parallelize this as much as you
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by ponker 6y ago
A dentist can only sue you for a bad review if the statements are untrue, and harm his reputation. The email doesn't include the name of the bad guy, and even if it did, if the statements are true, then there is no lawsuit to be had. S
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by ponker 6y ago
That wouldn't answer the question. Searching a song that you remember from the past is nothing like listening to a song on YouTube and then immediately trying to sing it back to Google.
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by ponker 6y ago
Nobody likes to date people who are trashing all their exes but one is fine.
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by ponker 6y ago
What legal liability? A lot of people especially here in the US are always invoking liability. What series of legal events do you imagine being initiated by the posting of this email?
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by ponker 6y ago
Employee salaries are a huge expense because housing near San Francisco or New York City or wherever is expensive, so you have to pay those salaries to get people to sign up. If you can hire someone in Arkansas (who frankly would rather kee
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by ponker 6y ago
If you intend to work from home then of course hire an electrician (or low voltage contractor, don't even need an electrician) to run an Ethernet cable! If you won't invest $500 in your WFH setup you're missing the forest for
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by ponker 6y ago
How about Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. I'd call him a productive critical employee.
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by ponker 6y ago
For a large commerical real estate deal, the termination fee is always negotiated as part of the lease contract.
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by ponker 6y ago
The Internet has exposed the fact that human brains are like unpatched Windows 98. Hacking in and causing mayhem is very simple, not everyone can do it but the knowledge on how to do so is widely available. Advertisers, Trump, Zuckerberg, e
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by ponker 6y ago
Most high reliability software is still waterfall. It's usually not service-delivered software since people who need high reliability software need it to run locally.
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by ponker 6y ago
Valley is full of bro’s talking about how they are the Jobs and the nerd they found is the Wozniak. Why not go up to an even more successful founder?
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by ponker 6y ago
Why would you be paranoid? If the US is Rome then the “Fall” has been happening for multiple decades now. No Rome stays “Rome” forever so I don’t know why people work themselves into a tizzy over the fact that it’s happening.
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by ponker 6y ago
Does it matter? The city is now safe.
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by ponker 6y ago
All these devices look so beautiful until you add the unsightly power cords.
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by ponker 6y ago
This is for Facebook's ad targeting. They want advertisers to be able to advertise to 21-24 year old women in California.
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by ponker 6y ago
When I'm looking at my contacts in Google Docs or Slack or whatever it's critical to have the names there. If it was bigchungus12@gmail.com and db23423@exxon.com it would be very annoying.
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by ponker 6y ago
Most people want to know right away if they won the Nobel Prize. Besides Doris Lessing I can’t imagine any of them being too put out by the phone call.
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by ponker 6y ago
What percent of Snapchat engineers got hired by impressing Evan Spiegel.
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by ponker 6y ago
Totally agree with Nadella. I think the world will settle into two modes of work and people will find the right one for them. Mine will be in an office. I need to be in physical proximity to my colleagues to have a satisfying work life.
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by ponker 6y ago
Ankle monitors should be a government expense, except intentional damage.
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by ponker 6y ago
Ankle monitors works for me, with cutting off the ankle monitor earning a one way ticket to remand. Seems like we have the technology to do away with cash bail.
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by ponker 6y ago
Car designs too. Companies just want stuff that is easy to move at low risk... only the luxury companies take risks because nobody is going to buy a $200K car that looks like a turd.
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by ponker 6y ago
Interesting points but I’ve never seen a comment like this anywhere but downvoted to oblivion.
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by ponker 6y ago
Isn’t it illegal to fill your gas in NJ?
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by ponker 6y ago
You could institute a restocking fee on any returns.

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