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by sgustard 7y ago
What do you have to do to get a job where you could be liable for $179M for "violating employment contracts"? The mind boggles. I hope they had free soda at least.
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by sgustard 7y ago
Amen. I feel like no one remembers the days of Mapquest where you'd click "next tile" and then watch the page reload just to scroll a few miles north, then repeat.
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by sgustard 7y ago
I've never taken a job in 20 years because of money and I don't advise anyone to do that. I choose a company for culture, the people I work with, the kinds of projects, and quality of life. Also a desire to ship things and not spe
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by sgustard 7y ago
Is the mattress industry significantly different from furniture in general? In terms of rarity of purchase, huge markups, cheap raw materials, different brands at every store, and so on? Back when I listened to the radio, there were literal
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by sgustard 7y ago
I have had a few (3 or 4) LED bulbs of a reputable brand fail. To their credit, after one email to support a new package of bulbs has arrived at no charge. So no milking their revenue stream in that case.
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by sgustard 7y ago
People should learn not to go outside if they're not labelled.
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by sgustard 7y ago
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/01/world/asia/china-coronavi...
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by sgustard 7y ago
I've been told by friends in China that modern cities like Beijing shut down these markets years ago. It's still a holdover from the huge migration from rural to urban environments, and a cultural preference for eating wild meats,
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by sgustard 7y ago
> "Lessig’s defamation suit covers a September 2019 article titled “A Harvard Professor Doubles Down: If You Take Epstein’s Money, Do It in Secret.” He claims the headline misrepresents his interview, where he condemns the donation,
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by sgustard 7y ago
Garbage collectors have always existed. That's not true for shocking videos. Youtube and other social networks need to be held accountable for creating the incentive to produce such content in the first place. The impact on their own e
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by sgustard 7y ago
IMDB has an extensive schema. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071853
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by sgustard 7y ago
The issue with the word is that implies something that if left unchecked will cause disaster. So 100k people per year have left, and yet "California’s population still grew by about 2 million over this period". I really don't
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by sgustard 7y ago
This article argues that segregation is prevalent in Houston. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/gray-matters/article/...
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by sgustard 7y ago
There are two kinds of people in the world. Nuanced people that I personally know, and some strawman that I just made up.
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by sgustard 7y ago
Typing option-return between the two blocks works for me.
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by sgustard 7y ago
To clarify, the paper studied "air quality in the vicinity of Wall Street".
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by sgustard 7y ago
Many PC laptop keyboards have full-size keys for all four arrows. Tiny keys for a feature I use so frequently is user-hostile, whether it's 2 or 4 of them.
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by sgustard 7y ago
As an experiment, use the word "guys" to refer to an organization (if you have one) in your company that is 80% female. "Let's ask the marketing guys about this one." Does it sound strange? If it does, then the term
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by sgustard 7y ago
Well the Reuters article says it's a US company, as does https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/musical-ly .
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by sgustard 7y ago
Are we acknowledging a difference between the Nest device he warns about (which is sold as a surveillance device) and, say, an Amazon Echo? (Which the headline mentions as equally problematic, but the body of the article doesn't mentio
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by sgustard 7y ago
Google "free tax filing" and these organizations all promise free tax filing on the first page: IRS, eFile, FreeTaxUSA, TurboTax, H&R Block, TaxAct, and others. Intuit's not the top organic or paid slot. Are all of these
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by sgustard 7y ago
Topics like "who should we hire" are relevant to the business, and that overrides politics. Obviously topics like "what business should we be in," "what countries should we sell to," "what customers do we
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by sgustard 7y ago
I work at an oil company in Houston and if I expressed a shred of progressive thought I would be run out of town. Maybe this place is more your speed?
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by sgustard 7y ago
So I just did that search and the first hit is this; can you explain what I should be looking for? https://www.amazon.com/Ashley-Book-Knots-Clifford-W/dp/03850...
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by sgustard 7y ago
Oklahoma quakes peaked at over 1000 magnitude 3 quakes in 2015, so you're not that far off. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009–19_Oklahoma_earthquake_sw...
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by sgustard 7y ago
But the Domino's site didn't have "labels on forms," it was a whole goofy animated game where you'd drag ingredients on a pizza to order. There's no way to make that accessible without building a whole separate
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by sgustard 7y ago
On a slightly larger scale, 1.2 million people were displaced to build the Three Gorges dam.
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But we aren't "ensuring" privacy; we're inventing whole new forms of privacy. There has never been a private and secure channel to communicate with thousands of strangers across the world. Simply acting like this brand n
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In response to this, schools will continue to devalue the importance of test scores, and lean more on the interview, essay, "personality" and "well-roundedness" of the candidates. Make the process more subjective so that
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As a data point, China's "hacker army" has 50k-100k people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_cyberwarfare

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