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by sverige 8y ago
To avoid the risk of seeming to be prescriptive, I'll just say that I had a reasonably sound resume with mostly middle management experience in litigation, insurance, telephone technology, and operations. (Those fields seem unrelated e
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I suspect many people's exhaustion may come from the suppressed awareness that the work on which they're spending so much time and energy is ultimately futile, ephemeral, and perhaps even harmful. I felt the same way some years ag
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Right, it's about the health care industry, which includes insurance companies and other segments of the industry. It shows that health insurance CEOs are paid better than CEOs from other segments of the industry. It is in response to
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Health care insurance CEOs are paid well, and better than others in that system. [0] Insurance companies in general are generous with their CEOs. Total compensation for CEO of Allstate was $42 million in 2010 (last time I checked them). [0]
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You should see what kind of money the insurance execs blow on toys.
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53 Percent of Californians want to leave the state, according to new survey(m.sfgate.com)
6 points by sverige 8y ago|1 comments
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They won't. Much of the reason for their two-year missionary requirement is to solidify the "us vs. them" mentality at that critical age when young adults often abandon the faith they were raised with. The main strategy for g
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That's ancient sales wisdom, not anything new. MCI and AT&T perfected those techniques during the long distance wars in the 80s and 90s, and it was ancient sales wisdom back then. A corollary is that they are your family. That&#x27
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I apologize, it wasn't directed at you so much as the many critics of Hughes who accused him of causing his wife's suicide for almost the entirety of his life after that event. The other point is that certain details seem better u
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I don't mean to be rude, but I think it's very unfortunate that so many people think they have a right to intrude into the marriage of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, especially to pronounce judgments upon its terrible ending. It&#x2
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And really, X11 isn't that bad. Or at least xenocara on OpenBSD, which is what I'm most familiar with and which has addressed some of the more glaring problems.
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But "artificial intelligence" is a lot sexier than mere statistics.
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There's some interesting new stuff in that area on OpenBSD. https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20190128061321
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It's been my daily driver on desktop and laptop for eight years, and I've got a couple small servers running it for about six years. It just keeps getting better and more friendly as time goes on, too.
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The article says they're paying out PTO in California because it's required by law. My guess is the severance is to compensate employees in states where it's not required. They could decide to pay out PTO and take away the se
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So basically BuzzFeed could just do the math on the ten weeks of severance by subtracting each employee's PTO, calling the remainder 'severance.' I don't think they are obligated by law to pay any severance, though I cou
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Generally speaking, I oppose new regulations because they are very often overly burdensome and costly. But reversing these 'ancillary' regulations after years of negotiation with the concerned parties and reasonably predictable be
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I'm pretty sure they entered the field of politics long ago. It just wasn't publicly announced.
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But wait, back up a second to the cost of the superyacht itself, then the internet costs are piddling in that frame of reference. And I suspect that the cost of the superyacht is piddling for the kind of person who buys one. The 0.1% really
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I have wondered whether MtG wasn't just a clever way to prep an audience to buy into the Bitcoin, um, idea. There are lots of connections between the two, obviously, and I'm pretty sure years ago I heard someone propose that Richa
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Facebook's '10 Year Challenge' Is Just a Harmless Meme–Right?(wired.com)
3 points by sverige 8y ago|0 comments
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Except now the cartels have expanded into smuggling people (and the attendant unsavory side businesses), and may make more money from that than drugs. It may seem unnecessary, but there's a lot of real human suffering directly arising
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I don't know if that's completely true. I worked with a guy who was the boss for all the IT for Colombia's elections back in the late 90s and early 2000s. He told me stories about how they would secretly rent rooms in a hotel
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Especially in a country that is currently holding hundreds of thousands or maybe millions of its own citizens as political hostages. You don't have to be a foreigner to be subject to capricious arrest and imprisonment in China.
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Exports are one thing, addicts inside China are another. They still remember how Britain used opium addiction to control them. The Communist solution was to kill all the addicts after they took over.
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Spleen – Monospaced bitmap fonts(cambus.net)
1 points by sverige 8y ago|0 comments
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> The prolific commenters are molding the discussion in their image. ... In any case, there is a lack of diversity in general -- discussions are driven by the worldview of a few. The most interesting point to me in TFA was the 99.8 - 0.2
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If someone badmouths the product, they aren't satisfied. And even if they're engaged with it, odds are high they're looking for something better. Besides, the only reason engagement became a thing is because the way people ar
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So a politician doesn't have the right to block someone, but the private company can decide to block someone for posting comments addressed to the politician, because the private company is private but the politician has created a publ
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So they're public fora when someone wants to criticize a politician, but private companies with no duty to allow people to say unpopular things when the company wants to kick them off the platform. Got it. Also, does this mean all poli

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