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by whall6 5y ago
In Cambodia, people buy dirt to increase their property’s elevation so that their neighbor’s house floods when the monsoon comes. Then the neighbor has to pay for more dirt and so on throughout the whole neighborhood. It seems like the atta
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Contrast this with S&P ratings’ website. Just feels so much more human. Here’s their careers page. https://www.spglobal.com/en/careers/overview/
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Show me an actually good book and I will pay for it. Until then you can keep your pulp fiction and trashy romance novels.
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Ah but this is only true for people who’s competitive advantage is technology! For someone who is relatively better at ideating, I would argue the opposite is true.
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I’m curious why people are so obsessed with the dark web. Most of the hidden wiki links are broken and the ones that aren’t seem... fake
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What’s the point of Free Practice in formula 1?(quora.com)
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Forget foldable iPhones. I want a 3-D holographic phone that doesn’t even really exist physically.
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Hmm if it’s a question of mental capacity, I don’t really have anything to add. That’s a good point.
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I can’t really see how the value of employee contributions are capped at the least valuable thing they have the responsibility to do. As for the second part of your reply, I entirely agree. When employees catch the vision of the company as
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Here’s a counter argument: maybe Gloria doesn’t need to have defined tasks for every hour of every day, but it absolutely could not hurt for her to make proactive decisions that fill her time when she isn’t busy tending to Tony’s schedule.
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I want a dirt house
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> if online friendships were working for you, would you be reading this article? Ah man got me there
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Too much de-bogging huh?
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by whall6 6y ago
This is absolutely fascinating. You could use this picture to play the worlds hardest game of I Spy: I spy a construction worker with his hat on backwards
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Bad timing considering Apple just announced that they’re monetizing podcasts too.
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Imagine Mastodon was planning this all along. A card up their sleeves for increasing adoption. They named them toots (which is silly to begin with and likely captures attention) JUST so they could change it to posts and get more eyes on a h
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by whall6 6y ago
This has many parallels to the points that Nassim Taleb makes in his book Black Swan
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I was going to say... It’s hard to hate a man that lives in a one story house and drives a beater just because he has money.
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What if you are never given a chance to prove yourself? How long do you wait?
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Haha not to be political but why do people hate billionaires so much
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> ‘ Research from Oxford, Stanford and Berkeley has found that 85% of nature-based carbon offsets sold today are not “additional”’ I was imagining that this would be the case. I was reading about pine farms being paid to halt harvesting.
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Actually I just looked it up. They were named after a restaurant of the same name. I wonder if the restaurant got its name from this story though?
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Is this where the band Bombay Bicycle Club gets its name?
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Have you read through any of Facebook’s recent 10-Ks?
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I was thinking the same thing. Maybe he is in sales for this company.
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Let’s not forget the hell you go through when uninstalling Adobe products