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by rexreed 5y ago
The article says that deforestation peaked 30-40 years ago. "Global forest loss peaked in the 1980s – losing an area half the size of India. Since then, deforestation has slowed. In fact, many countries have now reversed the long-ter
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by rexreed 5y ago
Are you ready to stop using palm oil? https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/topics/palm-oil
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by rexreed 5y ago
I imagine they must know how much it costs to work with you, so why would revealing the prices cause them to stop working with you?
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by rexreed 5y ago
On your site, is there a reason why you hide the pricing and make it so that you have to get a demo to get it? Do you price every customer differently? Is there a reason for no price or cost transparency? That suggests that you're eith
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by rexreed 5y ago
Nerds are often not the buyers or the decision-makers. Marketing is oriented to people who have authority to make buying decisions, not the technical implementers. This is why nerds are often stuck with dealing with the crap that the C-leve
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by rexreed 5y ago
That's certainly the easy way. But that only applies to news and internet chatter and social media blather -- stuff that's fairly easy to tune out. I've already tuned those out. But the lies and BS are much more than just wha
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by rexreed 5y ago
Yes, of course there's bullshit everywhere. But what can you do with that knowledge exactly? Knowing that something is fallacious and full of BS doesn't give you some advantage. It makes it worse. Knowing that the system is full
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by rexreed 5y ago
That's because this article was written by a company that ghost writes articles for tech companies for content marketing purposes. Paddle.com is the beneficiary of this content, and HSG is the marketing company that wrote this article.
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by rexreed 5y ago
The article was "ghost written". Meaning that if you're a founder who has no time or ability to write but want to put out content, HSG will do all / much / some of the writing for you under your name and also promot
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by rexreed 5y ago
Where specifically in Northern Europe do you suggest? What is the visa situation and cost of living? I'm assuming any mobility will be difficult in COVID era.
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by rexreed 5y ago
Government contractors and suppliers or all sorts were / still are milking the golden cow that is Afghanistan / Syria / Iraq / wherever as much as they can. Cynically they don't care much for the mission, but rather
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by rexreed 5y ago
Or Peter Thiel using his personal relationship with the Trump admin to make his crony Kratsios the US Federal CTO and Undersecretary of Defense with a huge budget, who then pumps Gov money to Thiel investments (Palantir, Scale, and others),
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by rexreed 5y ago
It's worse when the VCs put their own people specifically in positions of control in the government to funnel deals to their portfolio companies, and then those people in positions of control leave to then work for those portfolio comp
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by rexreed 5y ago
This is also the case with government contracting. Just like how VCs ignore most pitches that come in cold through the "front" door, so too does the government ignore most responses to solicitations. 90% of deals go to those who a
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by rexreed 5y ago
Suggested alternate title: "I didn't know how to write about my sister's death, so I used big data-powered autocomplete to do it for me". I am as nonplussed about this as if the author bought a stock condolence card from
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by rexreed 5y ago
The "AI" doesn't "know" anything. GPT-3 is a big data version of autocomplete. Just has a much bigger database and longer training than any autocomplete on your phone. But it's the same idea. There's no &q
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by rexreed 5y ago
A Title change might be good too, because like others, I thought it was Google Docs snitching on a downloader. A possibly more accurate title would be: "Activist raided by London police after downloading docs found on Google Search&quo
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by rexreed 5y ago
Actual frauds/impostors are sociopaths who don't care how they are perceived by others, and as such, wouldn't suffer from a syndrome where the person is at internal conflict in how they perceive themselves vs. how others perc
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by rexreed 5y ago
And... now it's ruined for everyone. When someone does bother to sit down and write a personal email or compose a personal video or record a personal audio greeting, it will be difficult to distinguish it from the faked kind. Fake sinc
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by rexreed 5y ago
Not that many decades ago, we were referring to cities as being the next "Detroit of X". Will we be cringing a few decades from now to similar tropes regarding Silicon Valley? Don't be the next Silicon Valley of anything. Be
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by rexreed 5y ago
Facebook's entire business model is completely dependent on mining your personal data for the benefit of advertisers. There is no other major component to their business. From that perspective alone, it would be utter lunacy to belie
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by rexreed 5y ago
Sounds like the common understanding about location of work is about to change / already changed and is no longer a common understanding. The benefits of getting stuff in writing.
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by rexreed 5y ago
As non-legally binding contracts, can employers force employees to sign them? If they can, then would they have force of law? If not, then how can employers enforce non-competition, non-solicitation, non-disparagement, and non-disclosure cl
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by rexreed 5y ago
If employers have the right to make arbitrary compensation changes for future work, they they should lose any rights to enforce non-competition clauses in employee agreements. Non-competition introduces asymmetric decision-making since the
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by rexreed 5y ago
"With the understanding that" is not a legal framework. Anything that's key to the understanding of a contract needs to be in a contract. Implicit "I always thought that" doesn't hold water. If I entered into a
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by rexreed 5y ago
If Location is in the contract, and location should be considered an aspect of compensation, then its value should be int he contract and location itself should be an element of compensation. Base pay: $X Location pay: $Y Benefits: $ Option
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by rexreed 5y ago
Does this mean employee agreements are up for renegotiating? Salary / compensation for work is the key element to an employee agreement. If employers can change compensation at will without employee consent then the employee agreement
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by rexreed 5y ago
Would these fires really not have started without PG&E as the most proximate source? The Mendocino Fire Complex, the largest in CA history, was sparked by lightning. Another fire was started by someone sparking it by hitting a metal spi
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by rexreed 5y ago
I've been saying this since 2016. This is especially the case with Google apps, which across the board are decaying in usability and functionality. When I said that a few years ago, I was scorned. I think everyone is slowly coming to
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Amazon third-party sellers reportedly hound customers who leave bad reviews(gizmodo.com)
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