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by sct202 7y ago
A lot of jobs exist to cover some broken process that could be fixed but costs way more or requires a lot change to actually fix versus throwing a body at the problem. Then things bloat a little bit, but in my opinion there's a lot of
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by sct202 7y ago
No one has to listen to the CCP. The CCP acts offended by everything.
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by sct202 7y ago
It's basically what a lot of consumer goods companies are now. All the products are made and mostly designed in China, and then the US HQ does all the sales, marketing, and funneling product requirements back to China.
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by sct202 7y ago
Part of the reason behind restrained increases to med school spots is because traditionally they tried to get very close to full placement to residencies. In recent years, med school attendance has grown much faster than residencies, and th
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by sct202 7y ago
Using the demographics of just the passengers is misleading because there's basically 1 staff per 2 passengers. Most of the staff are 20-40s.
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by sct202 7y ago
I personally don't think laying people off during a zoom meeting is that bad in itself; like, there are limited other options and all of them could go horribly wrong in their own way. I think that it's really the execution issues
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by sct202 7y ago
I wonder if Amazon is throwing Zapolsky under the bus.
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by sct202 7y ago
With so many users and groups imagine how many people need billing support, general support, or have issues with harassment.
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by sct202 7y ago
Worst case with meat shortages, they'll just have to eat the corn and soy they were feeding to the animals or process the grains into grain based meat substitutes. In general grain production is very automated so there won't be as
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by sct202 7y ago
They're ruining so much goodwill that they've built up over the years by cheaping out on customer support that even customer hostile companies like Comcast do better.
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by sct202 7y ago
I don't know why they can't just hire a bunch of people to take care of stuff like this, like this is so ridiculous that I'm pretty sure someone could make a successful start-up to pay Googlers to enter internal tickets on be
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by sct202 7y ago
The purpose of random testing or testing of more people who have exposure but no symptoms would be to limit household spread by separating people from their households or having the households act differently knowing that they'll be co
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by sct202 7y ago
Taiwan's government has been pretty open, since the government in power has been trying to contrast themselves from China and HK's governments which have issues with transparency. They have an English status page https:/&#x2
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by sct202 7y ago
I definitely know more people laid off this week than last week. No one was really sure how much business they could sustain with this whole thing going on, and now that there's been a full week and a partial week employers are startin
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by sct202 7y ago
Hospitals can't even get enough masks and other PPE, I'm not so sure that Amazon would be able to source a reliable supply even if they wanted to.
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by sct202 7y ago
Dang it seems like the circuit breaker gets hit every other day now.
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by sct202 7y ago
There was already a lot of uncertainty over everything. Supply from overseas is all delayed. Production at home delayed because of supply issues and probably quarantine measures. Demand at home is all over the place because people are prepa
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by sct202 7y ago
I used Imperfect Produce for a while and I'm not sure if it's actually helping that much. A lot of the produce didn't actually look different and they had a pretty consistent rotation of products which implied to me that it m
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by sct202 7y ago
How does it make any sense that DoorDash has a valuation of $13b when Grubhub is only worth $4b with a similar market share? DD has been discounting so heavily that they can't obviously sustain that after the VC money turns off.
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by sct202 7y ago
It's interesting that a lot of the largest industrial regions (Europe, East Asia, Eastern USA) are in the same temperate woodland land type.
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by sct202 7y ago
If it makes you feel any better, I live in an area that was built with a mix of SFHs and low rise apartment/condo buildings. The SFH are all $1m+ while condo prices range from $160k for a studio to $500k+ for a new 3-4 bedroom. If you
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by sct202 7y ago
There's also low scale review fraud like my sister bought a pet cam and gave it a 3 star review, and the seller started to offer escalating offers for her to remove or increase the rating from full refund, another camera, refund + free
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by sct202 7y ago
Are TAG programs a big thing in middle school? At the schools I went to TAG programs in elementary school automatically tracked you into the honors classes in middle school and then high school, but a lot of kids who weren't in TAG fun
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by sct202 7y ago
And then the company falls apart when you get a real competitor and the divisions are too busy attacking each other.
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by sct202 7y ago
A Chinese company owns Media.net which is one of the largest AdSense competitors.
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by sct202 7y ago
I hate the open office plans with no view blockers or ones that are too low that peoples eyes peek over. It's so distracting to see movement or peoples eyes that I now deliberately lower my chair as far as it goes so that the tiny shor
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by sct202 7y ago
The CTO is a former Googler SWE.
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by sct202 7y ago
Even the simplest CRUDs will have problems when you have 1681 users who must use it and you can't just bounce out the ones who don't get it and chalk it up to bad user fit.
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by sct202 7y ago
Do you think that Pete is so stupid to publicly pay a company to rig a caucus for him when caucus voting is literally public with a paper trail?
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by sct202 7y ago
Users could be misconfigured so that they have access to enter data for the wrong precinct or their backend could have gotten super messed up if some of their keys/ID's started to mismatch or fall out of sync due to a bug that onl

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