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by thisisit 1y ago
There are exceedingly high expectations on the employer side as well. Companies want to do more with very less. Sometimes you can find really under paying job adverts like beginner positions asking people to know front end, back end and eve
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The mental gymnastic of a MAGA supporter. Shocked by the guy who wouldn't accept that he was wrong about the weather and drew a new path with a sharpie. These guys don't like the weather for Chrissake and blame the "other sid
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Turkey is a good example here. Erdogan had also fired the Central Bank Chief when he refused to lower the interest rates: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48891658 and then kept firing: https://www.reut
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I agree. Sometimes people don’t know how to deliver bad news. When I was laid off I appeared stoic throughout the conversation. Because lots of people were laid off so there was no point to discuss “why”. The only question was severance. Bu
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I am always confused by this narrative. People extolling the virtues of old media organization as if those people weren't toeing the government line and were cold robots with no bias. It is the rise of media org like Fox news where the
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I don't think the writer is aware how regular business cycle works. It starts off with some companies in a particular industry generating great margins. Slowly more companies start joining the industry and there are still great margins
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The 2nd order effect is that nearly every creator will be sponsored by NordVPN - as the market expands. As well as not being able to identify legitimate vs illegitimate uses. So, I guess mission achieved!?
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There is no need to treat vaccine scepticism as something special. Most of the denialism is rooted in the logic of "truth of the world is what you can see and observe". This worked fine for centuries but once there was rapid progr
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This sounds like a version of "HN hates X and I am tired of it". In last 10 years or so I have been reading HN, X has been crypto, Musk/Tesla and many more. So, as much I get the frustration comments like these don't rea
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Another smoke and mirror argument. The “majority” government which decided that these agencies should get tax payers money was there till 6 months ago. So, it has not been “awhile”.
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Well, that leads to another narrative trick called “see these are examples of how big government doesn’t work and the other side asking for increased government and hospitals are socialist and going to waste your tax dollars or give to free
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People who keep parroting this take are the most hypocritical bunch I have ever seen. Because if the premise is true then when these institutions existed then those were also voted by taxpayers to exist, right? But that time these “taxpayer
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I think this will be even more consolidated in the future. Or mostly duopoly in many markets. Food delivery is capital intensive. It is unlikely that new players enter the market.
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> He hasn't done anything illegal and, if he does, his own staff and the courts will prevent him from doing it. Then you must be living under a rock. He is a convicted felon who knowingly broke the law, his people who should fulfil
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How long will this "Nothing to see move on. He's just blustering" excuse is going to be used before people realize that this guy will try that even if it is illegal? With the what has happened to immigration and birthright ci
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U.S. measles cases reach 33-year high as outbreaks spread(washingtonpost.com)
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> Zadani in NYC Zadani? You mean Mamdani? RW often promise one shot "obvious" fix - build the wall, deportation - which the unnamed "they" aren't doing because of vested interest. People don't want complex a
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I honestly don't get this take. It treats US as special outlier. Right wing populists have won elections in many countries. While in other places RW populism is finding some foothold. Truth is people all over the world are frustrated b
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Exactly my thoughts after listening to founders saying he crushes all the interviews.
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It seems you are not up to date on Bangalore (India). The unit economy of taxis has gotten out of hand. People now prefer bike taxis. Those were banned recently and reportedly that is causing even the Auto Rickshaw costs to spiral. > If
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This is just intellectually dishonest. Its like you have never heard of US surveillance programs. US Intelligence agencies collect a lot of data about people. Especially the ones who write about "Death to America" on their social
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That some bad faith arguments especially when your starting point is what RFK says about "safety". Vaccines provide acquired immunity. And that happens only with a weakened or killed antigen. With everyone being different that mea
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Spoken like a developer who doesn't understand how real world works. > Using this as a tool to signal can be a huge time saver. But not taking the code output as "truth" is what the engineer meant. Lavingia didn't pro
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Strip mined for what exactly? There are two parts to this. People are feeling frustrated and left behind. Its not only the US. Its nearly everywhere. COVID certainly didn't help. That is what is giving rise to right and far right parti
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>most taxpayers wouldn’t choose How do you know that? Tax paying is a larger subset of people who voted in this election because migrants also pay taxes. The popular vote count was 49.8%. So, however you want to dice it "most taxpay
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> the response to COVID (Masking, vaccine mandates, etc) This is something which I find quite saddening. The ire seemed to be directed at "scientists". The funny/sad part happens whenever you try to concede and say - Lets
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> you think it's bleak that one's research now has to be profitable rather than being subsidized by people paying taxes? I honestly don't understand why people don't get this - Government is not supposed to be "p
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> However, deep scientific cultural do roots exist here and won’t be stamped out by some fearmongering So, cutting off real funding is now considered "fearmongering"? Sure, scientists wont move and decades of research goes down
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The CYA industry for you. Something goes wrong, blame the consultants.

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