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by throwaway667555 5y ago
This can be solved by NYPL having a silent policy to replace presumed-stolen books after X time passes. This spending mustn't be so large that it nixes the no-late-fee policy, I suppose.
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by throwaway667555 5y ago
This is a 7 hour feeding window
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by throwaway667555 5y ago
This argument is so tiring... if we all agreed to change the word “serverless” to idk “xirverous” it would have a pretty clear meaning and clear distinctions from “server” and “local to the machine”. Xirverous technologies are an innovative
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by throwaway667555 5y ago
>no reason You’re stating a conclusion here, but you’re skipping the argument. People who disagree with you have perfectly valid concerns. Your conclusion might be correct (for the sake of argument) but you provided 0 support for your co
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by throwaway667555 6y ago
I don’t see the assets on their balance sheets? I.e, they’re being expensed. Our disagreement is about the definition of intangible asset. Under current regulations, intangible assets are understated versus reality. This is my point.
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by throwaway667555 6y ago
As always, regulators will distort language to suit their wealthy captors.
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by throwaway667555 6y ago
Adding one thing: in the past, mega-companies spent money on tangible assets which were depreciated over time as they produced income. Now mega-companies spend money on intangible assets but they can expense immediately, so tax is deferred
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by throwaway667555 6y ago
Did you know what poly was before clicking? Did you know Google has hundreds of branded product offerings, so say 12 closures per year is something like 2%, i.e. a 25 year median horizon (=1/.02/2)? https://developers.g
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by throwaway667555 6y ago
Also why doesn't balance mean "now you've earned an extra hour or two mid-day for yoga, 0 judgement"? I call it the "retail-worker mentality" when I point it out in friends. It isn't meant to deride retail
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by throwaway667555 6y ago
Any reasonable person understands that "compensation includes food stipend of $8000" in a contract means they get $8000 if they're home. Clearly GP is referring to less cut-and-dry scenarios, i.e., nearly all scenarios in thi
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by throwaway667555 6y ago
No, we shouldn't rethink independence. We should build back better.
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by throwaway667555 6y ago
For this to be true, then it must be true that trial-run promotions very frequently fail, so they keep the person in the role they perform best in. I think that's not the case. I think trial-run promotions lead to promotions about equa
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by throwaway667555 6y ago
This is mild exploitation widespread in employment, and I think you're identifying with the exploiter. It's not the rewards up front, it's the rewards as-you-go. Or it's the rewards at the end of the previous rank. Alway
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by throwaway667555 6y ago
Your sentence is a bit of a mindf**, I appreciate it. It reduces the quoted text to near-gibberish.
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by throwaway667555 6y ago
Maybe you're forgetting how creepy it was when it first happened, back when cellphone cameras were just maturing past the potato phase? I remember the feeling of shock and invasion when one day, suddenly Facebook's computer starte
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by throwaway667555 6y ago
I admire that and wish more employees looked after their interests, too, so that the commons weren't so poisoned with corporation-morality rather than humanity-morality. Practically speaking, I think giving The Guardian or some pro-uni
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by throwaway667555 6y ago
Kathryn Spiers did a man-in-the-middle attack on company property, like how some ISPs used to insert their own popups into HTML crossing their wires. Google tracked Spiers down and fired her for it, 100% justified. Separately, Google's
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by throwaway667555 6y ago
I'd agree if this redline didn't require several departments to sign off costing $x million. Internal developers, internal security ops, legal, and C-suite coordinating these departments. Also Google is very special in that their
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by throwaway667555 6y ago
Upon re-reading, I too wonder if Google means they'll rootkit any employee phone that comes onto company property. I hope they only rootkit phones with proprietary data on them. Also, super important context: Of all the companies in th
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by throwaway667555 6y ago
Some details of an offer & acceptance of employment are trivial and not worth spoiling good will. Me: "Hey manager, can I make an expense report for this work phone?" No matter the response, I'm ok with it, because I make
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by throwaway667555 6y ago
The person redlined a contract instead of spending +$2000/yr (out of a likely $250,000+ salary) on a second personal phone. Such short-sidedness is a bad trait in an employee. Second, their protest is laudable. But their decision was c