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by privacypoller 8y ago
yeah - I sold Amazon @ $120 and was a genius for a short period.
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by privacypoller 8y ago
selling luxury consumer goods that at best are "nice to have" - you need to look deeper than "oil = bad" if you truly want to assess the impact of a company. It just seems you're more concerned with 1984 than with b
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by privacypoller 8y ago
>> What's wrong with having UBI for 2 years and then suddenly having it cut off? re: Ontario's cancelled "experiment" - the recipient they talked to felt she had been "betrayed" and "wasn't goin
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by privacypoller 8y ago
That's absolutely what it is at the core. The problem with it's application has been proven over and over again; the very wealthy have the means and motivation to avoid it while the burden falls on the same segment of the populati
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by privacypoller 8y ago
They're addressed by established process and routine - 2 things machines do better than us. Can a machine monitor braking or perform the current brake check - absolutely. Could we shift the responsibility of check the load tie-down to
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by privacypoller 8y ago
This is generally seen as the path to full automation - you can couple autonomous "easy" highway driving with a remote driver taking over for the final mile. How long until we have aircraft doing the same thing ? ;)
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by privacypoller 8y ago
I believe that you truly hold this attitude now, but your response could literally be the preface for every "our incredible journey" post ever published.
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by privacypoller 8y ago
don't forget Archer - though technically not "filmed"
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by privacypoller 8y ago
Not sure what jurisdiction you're in, but I'm in Canada where we generally have good teachers. The problem we're experiencing is a curriculum that we feel is becoming easier over time and shifting away from core fundamentals.
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by privacypoller 8y ago
>> 2) High levels of impostor syndrome. I felt this, but was surprised that while there were a few genuine genius-level people in my program, the vast majority spent most of the effort trying to look like a genius but were far from it
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by privacypoller 8y ago
Requiring a PhD to teach serves the same purpose as requiring a degree to apply for a job: an arbitrary but easy to apply filter. While PhDs are research-oriented, in reality you can end up in a research or pedagogy track depending on (a) w
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by privacypoller 8y ago
Same here. I encountered a lot of students, especially international, who were in grad school because it was a socially acceptable alternative to going home and getting a job.
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by privacypoller 8y ago
Culture is a difficult component to define, much less manage. Everybody thinks they're consciously pursuing major initiatives to build culture but the vast majority are just consuming the culture that emerges and then reinforcing it wi
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by privacypoller 8y ago
If you're going to fail though, this is a setup for a spectacular explosion!
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by privacypoller 8y ago
I do something similar but I think it's far more likely that a cheap webcam is positioned where it can view the keypad of those who don't screen it well. I always throw in a few "phantom" keypresses when entering a pin f
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by privacypoller 8y ago
and then in the same breath state this is "adopting a more precise definition of the term". These comments are like arguing with my six year old.
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by privacypoller 8y ago
I agree with your points - each step of processing feed material leaks some of the efficiencies gained by harvesting at lower levels. Generally the benefits from chaining production come from the lower level consuming the waste products of
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by privacypoller 8y ago
Except my days are not oranges where I'm trying to squeeze every last drop of juice out of them, leaving nothing but pulp, peel and seeds before I throw them in the green bin. Life is most certainly a marathon where pace of play is far
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by privacypoller 8y ago
if he died there why would you remove him?
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by privacypoller 8y ago
>> If mobile phones adopted Web technologies Sigh. I must be old. I've already lived through 2 major initiatives to do just this first with Palm OS and more recently FireFox OS. We all see the benefit from a developer standpoint
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by privacypoller 8y ago
you should read all of Jimmy's stuff, or better yet support him. His writing has only gotten better over the years and if you're a adventure/sim/IF gaming buff (which I'm not) it's even better. He recently fini
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by privacypoller 8y ago
It's a bit of a dated analogy now, but if you put it in perspective of the early 80's it was truly revolutionary. Could you imagine that restaurant menu today? Gordon Ramsey would be swearing with the spit flying if your establish
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by privacypoller 8y ago
Amazon had better improve its customer service offering, or ramp up its partner network if it wants to win big "enterprisy" clients like government then. The HN crowd may look at the Oracles and IBMs as super-expensive dinosaurs,
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by privacypoller 8y ago
you obviously didn't read the indictment. The claims are not some vague image found in his browser cache, but Gigs of graphic and disturbing content with metadata (i.e. titles) that clearly indicate it as CP. I realize these claims !=
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by privacypoller 8y ago
If you look at the indictment it details that they found encrypted files on his computer, then used a password obtained from his cell phone to decrypt the files. If this is a setup, it's beautifully orchestrated.
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by privacypoller 8y ago
>> I don't believe royalties are paid at the pad but rather further down the line That's not true in any regime I'm aware of. Ownership and royalties are accounted for at the zone, which is well before the wellhead, let
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by privacypoller 8y ago
4. after receiving a paddling from the CEO the correct response is "thank you sir! may I have another?"
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by privacypoller 8y ago
I too am a man, white and aged 26-35. For too long my opinions and demands have not been heard by marketers. Finally I can influence the scent of laundry detergent and have freshly cleaned clothing that smells of fox hunting, barber shops a
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by privacypoller 8y ago
>> laundry industry is outdated and commodified This tends to be the opening salvo for many of this type of "target market X for segment Y" - why do you think this is true? What's outdated, the way we do laundry, or th
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by privacypoller 8y ago
not saying I agree with these, but here's a couple of reasons: * prison is part punishment - lose your freedom as a consequence of your crimes. Most probably relate to this. * prison is to protect society from the individual - for non-

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