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by treehau5 9y ago
More convenient, better experience, better search, better customer support, better shipping, more reviews, etc. etc. I know this is a dead horse here but Etsy needs to go back to it's roots or die. I would use eBay or alibaba before Et
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by treehau5 9y ago
People, not businesses.
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by treehau5 9y ago
Yes, but having a LinkedIn can only help.
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by treehau5 9y ago
They take the DNC list and subsequent enforcement very seriously. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/media-resources/do-not-call-... source: work at place with large call center. Avoiding DNC fines is among one of
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by treehau5 9y ago
Just got back from Europe. Can't stand those 1 and 2€ pieces. The worst part is when we got back to change our leftover euros back to dollars, the bank wouldn't take the coins. Now I have a stack of them sitting on my dresser.
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by treehau5 9y ago
> Asking people to reduce the noise level is straight up a horrible idea. It's about as horrible as an idea as the open office was. Forcing everyone to be in a compromised position when they feel like they can't get work done i
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by treehau5 9y ago
> I wouldn't criticise cooks for not describing taste by the molecular contents of their ingredients. Now theres a good analogy.
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by treehau5 9y ago
As an aside, we often talk about the coming "labor apocalypse" with automation and AI, and yet, Walmart is the single largest killer of jobs across the country, hands down. Think of how many small retailers, groceries, electronics
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by treehau5 9y ago
This entire thread is why I love gofmt so much. I haven't thought about this useless bullshit for years.
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by treehau5 9y ago
How else do you think they can afford to pay for the licenses?
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by treehau5 9y ago
> Voting with your dollars is a pale shadow of your actual voice in a democratic society. Reality speaks otherwise. Money gives you a voice. That's why lobbying exists.
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by treehau5 9y ago
https://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/flushes.h...
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by treehau5 9y ago
Need to watch this show. Didn't get it until I watched a clip with more context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwuckTkE7T4 Just can't get pass all the language. It doesn't bug me too much, but when your TV
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by treehau5 9y ago
What if the people didn't purchase products or services from these said corporations who do these awful things? Ultimately it always comes back to us and our complacency. We would like for things to be different, but we like our conv
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by treehau5 9y ago
Bullshit. nobody wanted open floor plans, or if they did, they had immediate buyers remorse. Open floor plans became a fad that turned into a way for cheap ass companies to slash costs and brag about it on linkedin about how trendy they w
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by treehau5 9y ago
> Go pretty much failed at any wide adoption at Google Interesting, first time I am hearing this claim. Do you have any good sources for this? Most of the Google engineers I know of speak highly of Go.
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by treehau5 9y ago
https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_cre... I differ a bit, but the idea that we are shoving only one type of skill set over another is what he touches on. He argues a lot for creativity how it&#x27
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by treehau5 9y ago
I hear what you are saying. I am challenging the assertion that intelligence has 'types'. The 'type' of intelligence (or in my terms, the more dominant expression of your intelligence) is largely geared by your early upb
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by treehau5 9y ago
I agree that there must be jobs, but with one important and subtle distinction. There should always be jobs for anyone willing to work . The difference is it leaves out the subtle dehumanization implied in your response (and I know it was
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by treehau5 9y ago
extremely frustrating. Internet service is getting worse this in country, not better, sadly. The only lucky ones are those who live in competitive markets (lol) and those who had google fiber break some ground. The anti-competitiveness is g
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by treehau5 9y ago
I think Rob Pike half-heartedly mentions in a couple of the twilight videos introducing Go that Ken and he got together to conceptualize go after he walked into the office one day and got tired of a google server binary taking ~40 minutes t
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by treehau5 9y ago
Might as well slather banner ads all over this post at this point.
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by treehau5 9y ago
Beautiful story. That's all I can say.
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by treehau5 9y ago
> The whole notion of a virtual / reality divide is a farce It clearly isn't when so many think otherwise. Otherwise, you wouldn't need to call it "virtual reality", you could just simply call it "reality&qu
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by treehau5 9y ago
The analogy doesn't really work -- the physical buildings still exist in nature. Many physical buildings try to incorporate natural elements.
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by treehau5 9y ago
> Capitalism is the normal mode of human interaction There is simply no evidence available to support this claim, and this is only recent human history. Capitalism is the normal mode of human interaction in our own limited scope of histo
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by treehau5 9y ago
Yes, and in a scenario where you can calculate the baseline pie of money of which profit-seeking actors can ration, you would almost be forced down this route to ensure a fair market, otherwise different markets will cannibalize each other.
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by treehau5 9y ago
One could argue if we went to basic income, we wouldn't need these artificially inflated costs that come as a result of an uncontrollable capitalistic greed to feed shareholders and corporate executives exorbitant amounts of profits. M
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by treehau5 9y ago
Speaking for Costco -- No, because they treat their employees well, provide good benefits and pay, and don't view their employees as just another cost to slash in order to increase shareholder value and corporate bonuses. Basically the
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by treehau5 9y ago
Correct language usage is not a previous -> current generational issue. We are witnessing the dumbing down of culture or in other words: Idiocracy is becoming a documentary.

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