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by tenpies 8y ago
> Employees share responsibility for the success of a company so they should also have stake in the company. Exactly, so what is stopping them from using their salary to buy shares? If you believe you are doing such a good job that the
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by tenpies 8y ago
I still cannot believe that rational people believe that Trump said that literally. Even if you weren't watching and only got the media-spun version of events, the idea that the FSB is going to be watching live TV waiting for a litera
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by tenpies 8y ago
The other consideration is that it makes investors incentivized to get you to succeed (at least as far as salary is concerned). That could be a huge advantage if you manage to get the right investors. Of course I also wonder if it's o
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by tenpies 8y ago
The other side of this being that we want oil to be drilled in the jurisdictions with the best environmental protections. Grading aside, a barrel of oil from Alberta, Texas, Niger, Venezuela, or Norway all carry different environmental cos
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by tenpies 8y ago
Let's be honest, it's fairly simple. You submit all content to the Office of Film and Literature Classification and allow the Chief Censor to make the decisions. That's ultimately what the government wants. As one Kiwi told
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by tenpies 8y ago
And to be fair, the general consensus is that Trudeau has de-facto dissolved the US border since he came into power. It has been problematic for the cities and provinces who ultimately have to house/care for the people that the Federa
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by tenpies 8y ago
> Axios Well that certainly explains the clickbait and built-in opinion.
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by tenpies 8y ago
Not to mention that as we've seen with Twitter the rules don't really matter. The name of the game is selective enforcement and zero accountability because you can always blame the algo/users for not reporting enough.
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by tenpies 8y ago
And it's also really funny to see Google take the deliberate strategy of being a nanometer less evil than Facebook, just so the media doesn't probe too deeply into Google. It's like how McDonald's and Walmart take all
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by tenpies 8y ago
> merely allowing far-right dialogue online is essentially responsible for ease of radicalization The shooter was self described as an eco-fascist and claimed his motivation were two events covered widely by the mainstream media. He was
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by tenpies 8y ago
If no one had recorded anything, but a few months later Al-Qaeda released ground-level videos of the attacks happening, would we ban them then ?
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by tenpies 8y ago
Activists often try to get corporations to bend the proverbial knee and "have a discussion" which ultimately leads to "commit to training" which is code for "hire me or people very similar to me". A great examp
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by tenpies 8y ago
And yet Canadians cannot even sustain their population without a massive immigration safety net. Clearly it's not as smart, exceptional, or functional from a family perspective.
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by tenpies 8y ago
Could you flesh your comment out a bit more? How are they more insidious than Infowars? I am assuming the worst thing Infowars has done was claim that that one school shooting was a fake shooting and the survivors crisis actors. By con
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by tenpies 8y ago
It's cool until a religious politician takes power and slowly starts stacking things against people from other religions and atheists. Your data reveals that you attend the wrong religious building or no building at all. A few years
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by tenpies 8y ago
As my possibly-psychopathic, but well-intended manager once said: "the more you cost, the more we want to replace you". Other gems include: "I love when employees buy houses or have children. It means now they're tied d
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by tenpies 8y ago
While I agree, I think it's getting worst globally. Canada, for example, now has a $600 million budget item dedicated to "helping the media". There is no amount of process, bureaucracy, or impartiality that makes me think th
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by tenpies 8y ago
I had no idea Hacker News was so anti-gab. I guess we know which side of the free speech argument won.
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by tenpies 8y ago
I think the big difference is how oversensitive society is now. Before, your moderators just had to deal with outright illegal content, maybe a flame war or two (or just move the discussion to the flame war section). If you ran into anyth
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by tenpies 8y ago
I would say it's mostly politics hiding under the guise of intentional imprecision. For most of the English-speaking world, concentration camp brings back imagery of Nazi death camps. The literal definition is basically any camp where
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by tenpies 8y ago
Just curious, but how do you know that the church they prayed at supports the behaviour of their neighbours? It just strikes me as odd logic, like saying that because a thief goes to church to pray, that church must condone thievery.
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by tenpies 8y ago
Clothing is surprisingly easy once you've settled your sizes for that brand. Add free return shipping and it's almost more logical to order online since you save the time of going to the store and physically finding the item (whi
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by tenpies 8y ago
And 99% of the world would act in the same way if they had the luxury of that problem. I understand why Leftist populists love attributing some sort of exceptional immorality to the wealthy, but people act on incentives. Give them an ince
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by tenpies 8y ago
> youtube kids is keeping an entire generation of parents sane. Can we hold off on considering this a positive until we see how exactly this generation of kids that think Google is a benevolent babysitter/genie grow up? Parents have
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by tenpies 8y ago
Putting a lot of faith on the organization's leadership: it would befit them to treat it as anonymous, even if they have the capability of identifying posters. It would be an incredibly valuable window to honest feedback, although har
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by tenpies 8y ago
Jocko almost certainly has certain genetic mutations that allow him to get by on much less sleep. These mutations have been identified for a while now[1], but they also seem to result in a vulnerability to degenerative mental conditions la
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by tenpies 8y ago
It's not even cultural, there are huge demographic, economic, and social differences between Finland and the US. I always find it ironic when people prop up the Nordic countries as utopian, but completely ignore the price of these &qu
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by tenpies 8y ago
It's very hard for a cyclist to hit and run. On a bicycle, even when it's not your mistake, a mistake will usually end up killing or hurting the cyclist. It's not like a car where you can kill a non-trivial amount of people
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by tenpies 8y ago
> What irritates me is that its citizens are convinced that they are "the good guys" It will be interesting to see how well this ages. Looking at past iterations of global power(s), this era seems like one of the best. Sure,
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by tenpies 8y ago
Alternative thought: this is the way China does business, full stop. Who exactly was in council at the time would not have mattered because the media headline "Council torpedos Foxconn factory deal that would have created X thousand j

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