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by shard 5y ago
> I don’t see a reason why just a name would not be good enough as opposed to the mug shot itself. Name overlap, misspellings, alternate spellings, fake names, aliases, nicknames, no names. Let me bust out what, by this time, is an old t
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by shard 5y ago
That's the problem, I have nearly 100 tabs open because I am not done with them .
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by shard 5y ago
I caught the flu two years in a row, about 15 year ago. Just unlucky, I guess. Never had the flu before that. Each of those two times laid me out for two weeks straight, just completely miserable, couldn't even sleep lying down because
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by shard 5y ago
Chinese scientists figured out that most colds, flu, and other respiratory illnesses spread through aerosols back in 2003 during the SARS outbreak, if I understand this article correctly: https://www.wired.com/story/the
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by shard 5y ago
Finding loopholes seems like it's perfectly aligned with the hacker ethos. We cheer when we read about the guy who figured out how to always win at Press Your Luck, the guy who gamed the lotto system to greatly increase his odds, the g
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by shard 5y ago
I find #2 and #3 more relevant the higher you move in the hierarchy. For #3, to me it's about how well you can move up levels of abstraction: If you are working on features, can you develop a product-level view? If you are working on p
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by shard 5y ago
Tax evasion should be prosecuted, but I believe most of the time I read about these companies and taxes, it's about tax avoidance, such as the source article for this thread.
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by shard 5y ago
I think the distinction is more like: those with combat drill practice and those with actual combat experience.
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by shard 5y ago
Very cute story, although I was hoping by the end of the story that SCP-5031 would be fully rehabilitated and inducted into SCP as an operative or something. It'd be cruel to continue to imprison this sentient being who has learned not
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by shard 5y ago
Yes, I recall using the phrase "burned out from work" over 20 years ago. Maybe m0llusk is thinking of the phrase "cracked out"?
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Of course, any house totally shielded with a Faraday cage would look extra suspicious and thus receive closer scrutiny. You'd need most of the house to be non-shielded to act as a honeypot while maintaining a small shielded section of
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by shard 5y ago
Sounds like the perfect scenario for the creation of torture farms.
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And similar to the French Laundry menu, there are many indicators that a lot of thought has been placed into this menu and is thus a high end restaurant. You can see many of the techniques mentioned in the article: removing the money symbol
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by shard 5y ago
That's a good point about paper menus wrapping around to the high end. Another thing to note would be the difference between the paper menus. At the low end, you have thin and flimsy paper being used, possibly tri-folded as they are al
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by shard 5y ago
Yes, and this is exactly Marcus Holmes's point.
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Certainly there's nothing new under the sun. The difference is the degree in which these people are prominent in media and the zeitgeist, to the point where they make a comfortable living from this work.
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by shard 5y ago
That's no different than actors and singers, who act out situations scripted by their publicists and managers who understand how to market their products. Regardless, we are talking about the kind of product that's being sold, whi
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by shard 5y ago
Yes, we can "circle back" in a few years and "touch base" with him to see if he still feels the same.
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by shard 5y ago
The other replies to your comment don't seem to address your fundamental point that the Kardashians and their kind are in a different category than other celebrities. Their skills are not acting or singing or sports, but rather generat
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by shard 5y ago
Some accounts of Bill Gates: Allen writes in Idea Man that Gates “thrived on conflict” and “would demean people and force them to defend their positions.” https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_850292 Gates was famous
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by shard 5y ago
I'm not aware of any studies, but there are several articles on the content moderators. Some effects mentioned were: - people develop severe anxiety while still in training, and continue to struggle with trauma symptoms long after they
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by shard 5y ago
I think Zhu is saying that he was fired because of his Asian management style. His partner's management style was not described, so it could be that his partner's style aligns better with what the VCs are used to.
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by shard 5y ago
Dressing appropriately is short-hand for "I speak your language. I understand cultural norms and can adhere to them. I won't embarrass you in front of your peers and clients." If you don't dress appropriately, they will
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by shard 5y ago
I think there are nuances beyond just the type of clothing. I would guess that the CEO of Western Digital was wearing clothes that were well-fitting, of a modern cut and style that showed he was aware of trends, and of a quality that indica
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by shard 5y ago
I think it's good that the reporter is showing multiple viewpoints. Rarely is there one canonical view in situations like this. The implications here are that the Iterable board member had a personal discussion with a decision maker at
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by shard 5y ago
Hard to get a grip on exactly what proportion of tech leaders are consensus builders versus alpha tech bros, but there is a trope of the highly opinionated leaders who rules tyrant-like, for example Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Steve
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by shard 5y ago
> China has shown no interest that I know of in spying on non-Chinese citizens I believe China has kept tabs on 2 groups of non-Chinese citizens: 1. foreign nationals within China borders, and 2. foreign nationals who are ethnically Chin
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by shard 5y ago
That's very interesting. Do you have any links to some independent reporting regarding this?
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by shard 5y ago
Not sure where you are located, but I was able to get a local sole-proprietor jeweler to custom design a ring based on my specs to fit the diamond I had. I am in Southern California.
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by shard 5y ago
From a status signaling point of view, it's the difference between a real van Gogh and a reproduction from Dafen Village.

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