thewileyone

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by thewileyone 3y ago
On a trip to Spain, I bought a container of saffron in Toledo for USD100 for my mom. Lasted her for years. Tremendous markup along the trade route.
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by thewileyone 3y ago
You buy a car but now you move your TV in it. The car manufacturer prohibits you because you didn't buy their truck and sues you for it. This cannot be allowed to become the norm.
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by thewileyone 3y ago
Worked for a CEO who prided himself in making quick decisions, almost of all them damaging to the company, and would make fun of those who took a moment to think, like me. Although he intensely disliked me, I was the longest tenured Head o
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by thewileyone 3y ago
Probably couldn't brand and limited access to multiple parts of the car. Imagine only being able to use Apple Tires+ and nothing else.
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by thewileyone 3y ago
It's not a defect, it's the Apple Crack feature. Wait till you see the next version. /s
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by thewileyone 3y ago
Huawei was targeted because they refused to allow backdoors in their switches and phones that the 5 Eyes could exploit.
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by thewileyone 3y ago
Why is this article timing out for me on Firefox and in South East Asia? EDIT: It was the CloudFlare DNS issue. NVM.
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by thewileyone 3y ago
But but but I love my walled garden ...
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by thewileyone 3y ago
Google is laying off 1000 in Singapore. Lazada and Shopee, online marketplaces, are also reporting double-digit percentage layoffs. For one of them, more than 50% of the C-suite was let go.
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by thewileyone 3y ago
A family member of a senator or congressman must perish in an accident before any legislation will occur.
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by thewileyone 3y ago
> Whatever happened to Boeing's "Engineering Excellence" ? Management by accounting ... cost of paying death settlement is cheaper than building a proper airplane.
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by thewileyone 3y ago
Using a similar logic, deleting the pirated content absolves you of the action as well.
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by thewileyone 3y ago
By the same logic, if you just delete the content, then you're not stealing anymore.
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by thewileyone 3y ago
Yeah, not revisionism. Google had better search quality for tech users but Altavista, Lycos, Yahoo, AskJeeves, Excite, Inktomi etc had a better results for general users. So tech users adopted Google and when asked by non-techie friends w
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by thewileyone 3y ago
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-ki... Rolling Stone said it best
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by thewileyone 3y ago
Look at composition of the HR recruitment team from all angles ... that's usually a clue.
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by thewileyone 3y ago
My degree was in computer engineering, not software, so when I started out, I got into QA/Testing. Looking back, that was a good way to start in the field because you're thrown into a shallow end of the pool and it allows you to
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by thewileyone 3y ago
Things that annoy me about working in the office: 1. Commuting. This is a life-suck and no amount of great furniture and food makes up for sitting in traffic for 2 hours a day. 2. Meetings. When you're in the office, there's jus
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by thewileyone 3y ago
If I heard the name "Devon Rodriguez", I'd ask who that was. I'd recall "Subway Portrait Guy" but only after a moment. Yeah, he's good but he's not great as the reviewer pointed out: he's just p
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by thewileyone 3y ago
My Nokia Lumia 1020 bricked. I still miss the Metro UI and the phone features.
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by thewileyone 3y ago
The American Revolution was led by rich landowners who didn't want to pay more taxes and the poor masses were roped into going along with it. In contrast, the French Revolution was led by intellectuals and demagogues against cruel and
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by thewileyone 3y ago
The NED is also responsible for many "softer" incidents around the world like the Hong Kong protests.
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by thewileyone 3y ago
A lot talk about the CIA's overseas actions, but what about the crack epidemic it inflicted on Americans to fund the Contras?
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by thewileyone 3y ago
> In it, CIA spokesman and podcast host Walter Trosin cites the claims of agency historians that the majority of the CIA’s clandestine activities in its history “bolstered” popularly elected governments. Still means the CIA interfered in
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by thewileyone 3y ago
No, no it's a new innovation that Apple created, but already exists.
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by thewileyone 3y ago
I've seen firsthand, as a non-Indian, what caste discrimination does in a corporate environment. Qualified and hard working lower caste co-workers never get promoted but got all the work to support weak higher caste managers and their
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by thewileyone 3y ago
So much projection when the US accuses China of backdoors ...
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by thewileyone 3y ago
"leadership is leadership wherever you go" Not all CEOs are built the same. Only a minority are able to cross industries successfully, the majority fail miserably. This is because elements that drives success are different betwe
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by thewileyone 3y ago
I've seen this firsthand at a multinational bank with Indian co-workers. I discovered this when, out of frustration, I commented to a co-worker that a certain VP and his line managers were being idiotic and wonder why some of the more
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by thewileyone 3y ago
I had cable modem when DSL was being pushed by all the telcos. On my street, everyone switched over to DSL and I think I was the sole cable modem user and the access point was right in front of my house. I was getting regular speeds of 1M

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