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It's not a long term rental, it's an limited rental, and the rental period is determined by the "landlord", solely at their discretion. We've all become digital serfs, digiserf, if you will.
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You are wrong. Corporations have more rights than individuals, and they have less responsibility. We as a society have decided that Corporations are more important than the individual and we made that determination because of jobs. We mus
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Where I live people cycle and walk on old country roads all the time. I am a cyclist and have no issue sharing the road, but I find myself starting to hate the cyclists and pedestrians because none of them seem to have any idea that when t
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You need to look at the terpene profile of the CBD, the wrong terpene profile can actually energize you. Also CBD in small doses can be energizing as well.
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I had crippling panic attacks for almost 10 years, doctors, drugs, nothing helped, I quit one job before I got fired due to poor performance because of my panic attacks. High doses of L-Ascorbic acid eliminated my panic attacks. I slowly w
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Unless it's a really small company the job has been graded, which means that they already know the title and level of the job and the salary range that has been approved. When they ask for the number I always respond by saying, "P
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When will it be possible to reverse, in humans, the inability to synthesize vitamin C (L-ascorbic acid), it's due to a mutations in the L-gulono-γ-lactone oxidase (GLO) gene which codes for the enzyme responsible for catalyzing the las
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Frankly doing an SAP installation with no customization is no different than using a SaaS platform, there are a lot of options, but no code customizations. All the processes had become "unique" over time, not because the company w
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Censorship and surveillance kills enthusiasm and entrepreneurial spirit. China is about to put the clamps on what is driving their success and growth, it was only a matter of time. Totalitarianism will always kill itself.
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Netflix is as agile as they come. AT&T needs a crooked FCC to pass laws in order to make their exiting business model viable, and they have something everyone needs Internet and Cell phone, and they are basically only 1 of 4 players.
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It would be helpful to have a voting system, list all the requested title and allow subscribers to vote, with both up and down votes.
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It's even worse. In order to do business U.S. companies had to partner with a Chinese company, and U.S. compnay willingly transfered their IP to their Chinese partner, their Chinese partner then transferred that IP to their partner. t
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In order to do business in China you need to partner with a Chinese company, that Chinese company has another partner, it's the Chinese Government. Everything you share with your partner is automatically shared with the Government and
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Best practices = minimally acceptable If everyone is doing it. how can it possible make you the best?
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I've been at 4 startups, ground floor at 2, executive level at 3. You know the answer to this, talk to your most friendly board member/investor. If he's not receptive to trying an experiment, it's doubtful anyone else
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9y ago
If diesel is less refined than gasoline how is it possible that it could produce less* pollution, than gasoline? Diesel has always been an illusion to me, like turning lead into gold.
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I actually spoke to them because people at my company were using Grammerly, and every bit of data that was typed into a browser is going right to them and they in fact do have a sub-license to the content. It's not joke. Any company t
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All tech companies need to re-think manufacturing in China, it was always a risky proposition, but not, you'll really be handing your IP over to the Chinese Government, and they'll be collecting IP from every company. It's ti
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I single out tech/data because of the insidiousness nature of the situation. Take a look at the Terms of service for Grammerly as an example: By uploading or entering any User Content, you give Grammarly (and those it works with) a non
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I absolutely believe that you should be able to advertise to someone looking for your service, but that doesn't mean if I'm offering advice in a forum that you as an advertiser should get my name, IP, email, browsing habits etc. s
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Advertisers have succeeded for years and years using Billboard, Radio, TV, Newspaper, and magazines with very limited viewer demographics. I don't understand why we've decided as a society that the advertisers DESERVE all the
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Paranoia
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You know how many plane crashes are not the fault of human error? Very few. I have a friend that investigates planet crashes. He’s told me that between pilot error, human error, hubris, flying when conditions are too dangerous, poorly
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Since all Chinese companies are partially owned by the Chinese Government, and ultimately controlled by the Chinese Govrrment they all should be blocked from purchasing anything in the U.S. we would never sell anything to the Russ
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what you can't email your mom pictures? IF she can use Facebook she can read email
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Didn't Zuck take the idea for Facebook from someone else and then run with it?
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We still allow Flouride in toothpaste and we actively put it in drinking water, and I believe it’s worse than lead.
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I’m with Linus Pauling, and his belief that an L-Ascorbic Acid deficiency is the cause of heart disease.
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I've been a UNIX user since 1984, I've been using Apple as my personal hardware since about '87 I jumped from Mac OS due to cost of Apple Hardware, last year. I can't justify spending $3K for hardware that if it weighed
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I was the CTO for a large, Fortune 100 company. When I first took over the position I would regularly get requirements documents for internal projects that were 3 or 400 hundred pages. The project team would dutifully carry out the require
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