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by salesguy222 9y ago
I'm not sure of the percentages, but I would say many scientists feel pressure to publish "new groundbreaking results that fit a lofty hypothesis" This situation is a little different because their hypothesis actually wasn&#x
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by salesguy222 9y ago
I'm glad it resonated, my friend, because unfortunately I really find myself in the same boat. Perhaps we should all put on an incessantly optimistic and politically agnostic mask at all times, but I increasingly find myself unable to
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by salesguy222 9y ago
As the other reply to you stated, I'm afraid we can't stand it, but also can't execute change. Elect new blood to state and federal government? They are bought out and/or go Benedict Arnold. Activism? Sometimes it works,
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by salesguy222 9y ago
You most likely work for a company that hasn't yet been overrun by the corporate world's version of "career politicians" who are there to leech a paycheck at all costs. They often blame others while finding very sneaky a
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by salesguy222 9y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_govern... Moody's downgraded on June 2 2011... or should I say at least "changed outlook to negative"
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by salesguy222 9y ago
Slightly off-topic, but in 2011 when Moody's downgraded the US credit rating, we all were saying "well, Moody's is feeling a bit moody". The US continued to struggle in fits and spurts in some industries. But lately, it
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by salesguy222 9y ago
In addition to what the poster below me said, they treated certain employees as second class citizens and played a lot of shell games involving overtime and even salary. Basically they weren't very forthcoming to their Bulgarians when
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by salesguy222 9y ago
Milosevic and Tudjman were nationalistic idiots who LITEALLY conspired together to start the war. It was agreed upon. Banque Franco Yugoslave was jointly owned by them- they started the war so that they could raid state assets from it under
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by salesguy222 9y ago
And yet, because of the prevailing attitude of the poster to whom you are replying, this is probably how law enforcement will remain. "THEY GET WHAT THEY DESERVE" is an easy and natural philosophy to have, until it happens to you
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by salesguy222 9y ago
There's this really interesting assertion in Weight of Chains 2 by Boris Malagurski: Serbia (Yugoslavia) before the Balkan Wars had an excellent education system that produced many scholars in the diaspora still today. The West/NA
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by salesguy222 9y ago
Haha wow, meanwhile at Oracle, having our commissions miscalculated by a team of experts is a feature, not a bug. And somehow those miscalculations are NEVER in our favor, and always result in delayed payment. It's like working for Cry
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by salesguy222 9y ago
I would like to reply tangentially to your comment: I have just been fired by my boss for pretty much no reason other than cost cutting and "I wasn't one of the guys" I brought in plenty of revenue and profit for 3 years. But
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by salesguy222 9y ago
Sadly I can only agree with you my friend! A businessman probably shouldn't be judged by the success of his customers. You can sell the horse some directions to the nearest watering hole, but you can't be judged on its drinking ab
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by salesguy222 9y ago
This poor guy actually did get fleeced. Sure, there are people who aren't very technical and don't have any MVP to speak of, but most of those people know to stop before they've blown through $50,000 and have shredded their l
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by salesguy222 9y ago
I appreciate your comment and I mean absolutely no ill will by my response, but in my opinion, $400 a year (or ~$1 a day) is not even remotely close to a reasonable price, for two reasons: 1) my friends and I write to each other every day w
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by salesguy222 9y ago
Haha, awesome thought that you've brought up here. I bet we will start to see title inflation as a result as well- that is to say, it is not that more highly skilled quants will be hired, but rather run-of-the-mill employees will be br
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by salesguy222 9y ago
The former PM of Kosovo, Ramush Haradinaj, had 9 witnesses against him killed while he was on trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia in the Hague. It is a growing trend for extrajudicial killings to occur at the hands o
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by salesguy222 9y ago
My apologies, won't happen again!
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by salesguy222 9y ago
Of course the answer is that 18 year olds shouldn't be strapping themselves up with debt. And it should be dischargable. But of course, we are living in a country that is controled by fabulously wealthy and powerful individuals and the
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by salesguy222 9y ago
I would say there is a major difference between local property owners paying reasonable sums for children to become literate (k-12)... and a nation paying highly unreasonable and ballooning sums of money so that a functional literate adult
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by salesguy222 9y ago
Nuking Mars' polar ice caps is a good place to start. It will force greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere, which will promote the raising of temperatures and formation of liquid water. Then maybe people will want to live there- the res
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by salesguy222 9y ago
Haha "vague but interesting". Isn't it amazing how big of a disconnect there is between "people who are capable of identifying/executing on big ideas" (aka Tim and his manager).... and "the projects that b
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by salesguy222 9y ago
Pedantry is fine by me when accurate and done in the spirit of learning more nuance about a subject :)
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by salesguy222 9y ago
A distributed file sharing system (later known as the Internet) was Tim Behrners Lee's side project at CERN for a while too :) He was only allowed to take his 20% project to 100% after his manager wrote up a justification XD
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by salesguy222 9y ago
Local home builders and government permit issuers have formed a racket mafia around it. You can only build in/live in homes that are "up to code", which they've written to be compatible with only the types of homes that
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by salesguy222 9y ago
If true, which this probably is, this is absolutely pig disgusting. Local police forces are literally legalized mafias, and they lack pretty much all preventive oversight. Their thirst for tax money and control of the local populace is so e
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by salesguy222 9y ago
Anytime, friend. Perhaps you would be interested in "sales engineering", which deals more with the ingest of customer information and needs, and outputs a configuration (from you) that will solve technically whatever challenges th
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by salesguy222 9y ago
Haha my pleasure! That's what we do. Especially for inside sales. Outside sales is mostly the same thing, unless you have great accounts. Only difference is you sit at your house and not your desk. And you also do fake travel and bill
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by salesguy222 9y ago
Could not have said it better myself.
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by salesguy222 9y ago
Profession: Sales (software and hardware) at a massive IT conglomerate Day consists of sitting at a desk waiting for a customer to ask for something. Otherwise I play games and wait to get fired. Collect random commission checks and salary

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