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California Lawmakers Advance Bill to Redefine and Protect Gig Workers(npr.org)
2 points by situational87 7y ago|0 comments
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by situational87 7y ago
We just admitted defeat in Afghanistan after 18 years of.. what was the mission again? Build a government? Build the Afghan National Army? We cut out both of those groups from peace talks with the Taliban this year. We tried to keep the tal
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Opioid talks at impasse; Purdue bankruptcy filing expected(apnews.com)
3 points by situational87 7y ago|0 comments
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Facebook under investigation by state attorneys general for antitrust violations(theverge.com)
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by situational87 7y ago
I used to travel a lot in the 80s and 90s in what was then called the third world. I'm starting to recognize more and more of the "things fall apart here" elements of these countries in the United States, and it's upsett
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by situational87 7y ago
Yes, but you're missing the half of the equation where everyone who is a senior employee gets granted or grants themselves large amounts of stock options, then decides to funnel this tax free hoard of wealth into stock buybacks. It&#x2
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by situational87 7y ago
If you're in the upper 5% or so that owns equities and options and special perks like 529 plans then you've been doing great over the past 10 years. For everyone else, this economy has been a nightmarish hellscape.
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Study: More land may be lost than gained from freshwater diversions(houmatoday.com)
1 points by situational87 7y ago|0 comments
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by situational87 7y ago
Coastlines are surging and eroding. Today. Right now. This is not a fictional problem.
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Google DeepMind Co-Founder Placed on Leave from AI Lab(bloomberg.com)
54 points by situational87 7y ago|19 comments
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by situational87 7y ago
The other possibility I don't see discussed often is they might simply be trying to become big and entrenched enough that bailouts of some variety (probably just endless tax breaks extracted at the local level) become mandatory for the
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by situational87 7y ago
I spent a good five years online browsing the web before they decided to start adding advertising to everything. I never agreed to that switch in the contract.
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by situational87 7y ago
I still remember using one of the earliest Encarta versions and seeing a tiny postage stamp sized video animate and play some half broken wav file for the first time. I remember it hitting me like a baseball bat: we can do VIDEOS on compute
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by situational87 7y ago
My god, this isn't rocket science bruh. The SEC used to prevent companies from listing that were obvious scams. They simply need to start doing their jobs again, it's not a tricky differentiation problem or moral quandry that we n
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by situational87 7y ago
Not sure that's better, when I was a college student living in poverty I was expected to buy $100-$300 books and at the end of the semester I would sell them back for $5-$20. Used pricing was never different than new, and the "17t
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by situational87 7y ago
This company is completely unlike the early days of Amazon or others who lost money, WeWork seems to have zero plan to ever make money or be profitable. It's just a ponzi scheme that is trying to push scam up and out to the IPO market.
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by situational87 7y ago
It still blows my mind that Andy Rubin made almost $100M for getting fired, when he should be in prison right now. It's becoming clear that there is no rule of law or even basic ethics among the elites. They don't even seem to try
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LIGO Detects First Neutron Star/Black Hole Collision
2 points by situational87 7y ago|1 comments
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by situational87 7y ago
Can we pretty please stop dragging all the smartest people in from psychology, mathematics, civil engineering, the carnival, astrobiology, submarine warfare, neurosurgery, and gene splicing in order to increase advertising engagement stats
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by situational87 7y ago
> Facebook has also begun internal changes that make itself harder to break up. The company has been knitting together the messaging systems of Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp and has reorganized the departments so that Facebo
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How Facebook Is Changing to Deal with Scrutiny of Its Power(nytimes.com)
1 points by situational87 7y ago|1 comments
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by situational87 7y ago
It's a logical extension of the ponzi scheme that exists in the venture capital/startup world in tech. The fact that so many startups fail is irrelevant to the early investors in these companies, as long as you get in at or before
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by situational87 7y ago
The pattern has been established clearly with Uber. All the investors need to get paid off, so force the IPO. Doesn't matter if there is zero profit and no plans to make profit long or short term. Gotta have our exit! The exit is the o
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by situational87 7y ago
From the photo I'm guessing you started your hiring process with: 1. Throw away any resumes from old people
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by situational87 7y ago
It's almost as if the IPO market has become a ponzi scheme.
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by situational87 7y ago
Yeah those damn poor people falsifying all those documents, that was the real problem all along! Can you believe some poor people even have running water and electricity?!?! The gall of these people is beyond the pale. Find better websites
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by situational87 7y ago
The SEC put a grand total of zero people in jail for the financial crisis. The SEC put a grand total of zero people in jail and fined Wells Fargo 22 hours worth of revenue after they blatantly committed fraud and stole from nearly every cus
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by situational87 7y ago
It's really bizarre to complain about how roads cost "too much" when we are now spending $1 Trillion per year on stock buybacks. A few executives and directors (who are already the richest humans that have ever lived) are add
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by situational87 7y ago
I think that's sort of the point of most nuclear weapons, to inflict massive damage and spread radiation where they land. Kind of hard to put that genie back in the bottle now. The history of Russia and the United States shows they are
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by situational87 7y ago
This is the old way of thinking, profitability doesn't seem to matter much anymore. The last two startups I worked for were (luckily) profitable and growing, but when the Series A investors found out about this they got very angry and

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