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pwinnski
4y ago
Accenture handles immigration paperwork so large companies don't have to, among other things.
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You don't know me nor the men I've talked to. I have had deep meaningful conversations about fears and vulnerability with many men, and they almost never involved physical safety. Conversations about shame, and emotional pain,
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4y ago
Like many things, this seems to reflect a difference in philosophy. Personal story: I grew up poor, living on the cheapest possible option for everything, and no option at all for many things. Then I wasn't poor anymore. So I would spe
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Absolutely! I don't know of any company offering bundles in which every product is consider the best in its class, and even bundles that start with credible claims seem to quickly fall behind in quality.
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> I'd suspect that men and women have similar safety concerns, but men are just more likely to lie about it on surveys. Talk to more women, I'd say. I have been scared in my life, and I have known many men I would describe as b
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4y ago
Context matters, and in this case the context includes several references you glossed over, the category under which this was published, and oh yeah, the fact that one of the prime selling points for EVs is helping the environment by elimin
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4y ago
You may not feel safe , but "safer" is a comparison word, and I'm not sure on what basis you claim to feel as unsafe as a woman would in the same situation.
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Moving the goalposts from sexual harassment to violent crime doesn't change reality. I don't know any men who fear violent crime every time they step foot out of the house, unless they are actively involved in a lifestyle that ten
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Which is great! You only had to exert a bunch of extra effort, and it sounds like you've enjoyed the results. Now read some stories from women who've also made that extra effort and then some, having more experience and knowledge
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Why would "economics" be the sole, or driving, factor, without anybody in the room to say "Hey, roughly 50% of the potential market is not going to use any charging location they deem unsafe, and in fact if we don't work
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In one sense, you're clearly correct. Most people living rough aren't doing so because there are no homes available for them to live in, so given that our kids aren't generally homeless, clearly they're living with paren
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Oof, so many things wrong with this tweet, starting with the fact that the chart doesn't address the claim of the the image to which he's responding. The claim is that all of those things could be afford on a single income. The ch
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The market shifted toward more FPS games because of Doom, yes. But also, modern FPS games don't copy Doom slavishly. Initially browsers were, in fact, copies of Mosaic, but over time they've branched out somewhat. This seems note-
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Right, so instead of competing on quality, the established player can put out a vastly inferior product that ticks enough checkboxes and rely on the cost savings and easy of bundling to gain market share, pushing the superior competitor who
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If you're selling luxury goods, then sure, exercise your imaginary "moral imperative" all you want. When you're selling something people need to survive, like food or medicine, your moral imperative runs in the other dir
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At Google, developers were the product, not overhead. As such, they were supported lavishly, with meals and massages, at a level not previously seen, at least not in career available to people who weren't fifth-generation Ivy grads. An
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The "explanation" confuses correlation with causation. It is true that during the pandemic, with two stimulus checks from Trump and one from Biden, average savings increased, and many companies saw that as an excuse to raise price
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If you consider "motive, means, and opportunity" then your question seems to be, essentially, "the motive should have been there in 2019, why now?" and the answer is that the means have become stronger through increased
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> So copyright infringement. Really a poor argument against Apples policies. >> A poor argument? To me, as a final user, it's the greatest one. >> I agree, regulators shouldn't exist. So you don't want regulato
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> Netflix had insanely good revenue when they started out and there wasn’t much competition. I'm really curious about when you think this was, and what you mean. They started out shipping DVDs at a loss and took a very long time t
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Closed offices > cubicles > open desks, the treatment like cattle began once we stopped having closed offices.
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Lets expand the judiciary, then. We can shrink the TSA to offset.
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I had an extended back-and-forth in which I asked ChatGPT how to undo mistakenly marking a message as junk in Messages on iOS. It gave me a 7-step answer that was completely wrong. Then I said no, you can't do that, it apologized and g
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Yes! Whether there are 250k open positions at suitably-high levels is less clear, but there are more than twice that many open positions. Of course, people used to making $300k+ might balk at positions offering half that or even less, but t
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He was the only good part of that show, but he was really good.
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The difference is that thanks to court documents, we know the truth in this case, and we know that they knew the truth even while lying. What you are describing is not true, and any and all court documents do and would demonstrate that. W
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I refer to Tesla's practice of releasing videos after Tesla crashes in an attempt to discredit the drivers involved, which came as quite a surprise to the drivers, who didn't realize that the cameras on the car they bought would r
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I certainly did not have "The US military pulls a Musk, releasing footage to prove the other party is lying or mistaken" on my bingo card for 2023.
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Okay, looking at David Lichtman, Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Credit Officer, let's see. https://finance.yahoo.com/screener/insider/LICHTMAN%20DAVID%... . In 2023: Sold $917k on Jan 19, $594k on F
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That is a fascinating definition of propaganda. So if I'm involved in state and want to ensure that the free press in my country spreads my message, all I need to do is ensure that there's no direct private coordination between my
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