rpmcmurdo

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by rpmcmurdo 5y ago
It's almost as if they have not heard of Second Life, or multi-player games. Facebook will, like CompuServe, AOL, Yahoo, etc fade away. They won't necessarily implode, but what was a hot trend will turn into a commodity nobody car
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by rpmcmurdo 5y ago
27 year San Francisco resident here. The government here is dysfunctional because that's what people voted for. The fact that people pay so much to live here says that people are willing to put up with a lot in exchange for living in a
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by rpmcmurdo 7y ago
Just wait until the scooter companies and operators get nailed with an injury class action lawsuit. A good friend was seriously injured on a rental scooter, going 2-3 mph, catapulted onto her face, ended up with brain damage and multiple fa
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by rpmcmurdo 7y ago
The irony is that the people complaining about this are the same ones who are gleefully sharing their personal details and narrative on social media, and Facebook in particular. The only difference between mass surveillance in the US and Ch
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by rpmcmurdo 7y ago
Capitalism is fine. WeWork is Trump scale criminal financial fraud. Adam Neumann should have gotten exactly zero dollars for leaving the company. The company is so broke it can't afford severance for regular workers, and this crook get
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by rpmcmurdo 7y ago
SF has always been expensive. When I moved here, my grandfather who was an actuary for an insurance company (i.e. walking financial database) told me that back in the 1930s, they had to pay 2-3x salary for people based there due to the high
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by rpmcmurdo 7y ago
While shitting all over those "little people" with their annoying obligations like mortgages, children and aging parents and whatnot, who wake up one morning to find out they have a huge tax bill on money they never made while the
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by rpmcmurdo 7y ago
I am from the east coast, and compared to where I grew up, the power grid is way more reliable. Where I grew up, the utilities were not undergrounded, and many neighborhoods were heavily forested. Whenever there was a big front of thunderst
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by rpmcmurdo 7y ago
Pilot here... This NYTimes article is a recommended read. The author discusses the role of pilots who lack good airmanship (pilot training outside the US relies much more on rote memorization versus learning to fly small planes and/or
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by rpmcmurdo 7y ago
I am curious what their hiring strategy was. I met someone who worked there a few weeks ago at a networking event. This was after most of the bad news had broken. Wow, was he drinking the Kool Aid. I felt like I was getting an Amway or Scie
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by rpmcmurdo 7y ago
Good! I come from a family that is split between A) secular/atheist people and B) deeply religious people from the South. Group A has done well, all have happy families, and are overall good people. Group B are, to put it nicely, unedu
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by rpmcmurdo 7y ago
Because the government can. Ask the Jews in Nazi Germany how "rights" worked for them. Prior to Hitler coming to power, Germany was the most advanced and liberalized society of its time.