synicalx

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by synicalx 10y ago
All car leasing schemes are expensive in the long run, this one seems to fall in the middle ground - less upfront costs than most, more expensive ongoing. But the cost and repayment method is all quite clear, anyone with a few minutes and a
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by synicalx 10y ago
A ponzi scheme is completely different to Uber so comparing the two isn't helpful. Uber is comparable to working as an freelance/indy contractor, in fact it's almost exactly the same. Uber has always been clear about how it w
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by synicalx 10y ago
I think there's enough readily available information on how Uber operates for want-to-be drivers to make an informed decision on whether or not they should 'work' for Uber.
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by synicalx 10y ago
One thing the article doesn't touch on is the 'why'. What's the motivation behind this? There's a, I want to say similar but its sort of not, community/town in my state called Coober Pedy where a good number of
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by synicalx 10y ago
I see this sort of nonsense ALL THE TIME. Most of the work I do/have done is at non-tech companies, so no one above the 'team leader' level is even remotely technical. Any sort of security that costs time or money becomes eit
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by synicalx 10y ago
Cutting a defence budget is never going to be helpful especially by such a large amount - you're going to lose jobs, lives, security, and given how widely US troops are deployed you're going to lose even more stability in many par
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by synicalx 10y ago
They need that meat in their profit margin to accelerate the Sell Out and Bro Down steps of their business plan.
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by synicalx 10y ago
To sum this up, dude DoS'ed a hospital, got in trouble for it, feels that getting in trouble for breaking the law is something that doesn't apply to him and thus refuses to eat food for a while, and tries to make the lives of ever
729.
by synicalx 10y ago
Free publicity maybe? In any case though, the whole thing is a bit weird...
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by synicalx 10y ago
So no one's ever been assaulted/raped/murdered by a taxi driver?
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by synicalx 10y ago
But how does having 'credentials' mean that they're publishing real news? All that does is give the Government control over who can and can't publish news, and you cannot possibly argue that this is a good thing in any w
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by synicalx 10y ago
Kids are great, future of humanity and all that (at least some of them), but I cannot wrap my head around why businesses should have to fund them directly. I could understand subsidising this in some other way - maybe tax breaks/refund
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by synicalx 10y ago
I really want to hear the logic behind this, I love gymnastics.
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by synicalx 10y ago
I think 20 weeks is a good balance, verging on generous. 52 weeks is great and all, but what does the employer get out of it? And more importantly why is paying for babies the responsibility of employers? It seems like this is a problem bei
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by synicalx 10y ago
Funny you should mention that experience you had at an MS store, that what I THOUGHT it was going to be like but when I ended up buying myself a SB it was the exact opposite. I guess each store is going to be different, I remember when the
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by synicalx 10y ago
> took most of the load of our hands Hehehehe, that's what condoms are for right?
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by synicalx 10y ago
Next up they'll be asking Monica Lewinsky and Bono what they think of it.
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by synicalx 10y ago
Does make me wonder why people ever bother to get married. I mean it makes sense if you want/have kids I suppose, but if you don't then marriage really doesn't offer any benefit and winds up being a HUGE financial disadvantag
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by synicalx 10y ago
Amen. Not sure if it's the same in the US, but in Australia women can nick half or more (tends to be 60%) of your stuff (including superannuation) even if you're NOT married through the joys and wonders of a de facto relationship.
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by synicalx 10y ago
That's two people out of an entire industry though, not a great sample size. And it could be argued that for all his marketing expertise and long drawn out pauses, Steve really just had a brilliant set of products to sell. My experienc
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by synicalx 10y ago
I'm yet to hear the term "growth hacking" used outside of a joke.
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by synicalx 10y ago
If you really want to get your tinfoil hat on though, what's to say the firewall isn't all part of it?
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by synicalx 10y ago
I was being a little facetious there, there's probably enough vacant space in Northern Africa to power a bit more than Sicily. But I think you've hit the nail on the head there - why would anyone want to spend a disproportionate a
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by synicalx 10y ago
I reckon the Dell laptop you're referring to is the old XPS 'Developer Edition'. I used one at work and it was ok, didn't have any driver issues from memory, but they no longer sell them to the public with Ubuntu. It was
745.
by synicalx 10y ago
Hopefully people also don't like the idea of their lights participating in a DDoS.
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by synicalx 10y ago
Maybe, just maybe, if we filled the entirety of Northern Africa with solar farms and somehow found a way to prevent them all getting covered in sand, damaged by animals, crapped on by animals, stolen, shot at, sabotaged, and used as both a
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by synicalx 10y ago
Because societal evolution can be directly measured by how quickly you can buy your pizza pockets, and also how few other members of society you have to interact with while doing so?
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by synicalx 10y ago
Nope, get back on narrative! If it involves tracking me it's dystopian and literally 1984, especially if I've voluntarily signed myself up to be tracked
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by synicalx 10y ago
I'm dumb, you're going to have to be a bit more explicit here and tell me how Uber knowing my rough location for a few minutes leads to election fraud, or whatever else it is you seem to think is undermining democracy here.
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by synicalx 10y ago
I'm having a hard time reconciling what your problem with this actually is. Firstly you seem to be implying that Uber is going to track you indefinitely (because reasons), and that their dangerous mass-murdering drivers will use this t

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