xboxnolifes

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by xboxnolifes 4y ago
Not the person you replied to, but I would 100% stop working. Even when I find things I want to do (not work), those rarely last more than a month, usually a week. Anything that expects me to wake up at the same time every day, or working f
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by xboxnolifes 4y ago
I don't ask about culture because even if I did, I wouldn't believe it unless I saw it. There is no incentive for people with bad culture to be truthful. And even then, I'd rather ask the people I'd be working with, not
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by xboxnolifes 4y ago
Yeah, it's kind of weird. Apparently they went through with the auction all the way past bidding, and then decided they didn't want to sell. The auction had no legally binding agreement that could prevent this, but they seemed to
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by xboxnolifes 4y ago
Arrogance (un-humility / not appreciating your own limits) is not the only reason one may reject advice. Unless the person giving the advise is already respected/revered for their knowledge by the person receiving the advice, then
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by xboxnolifes 4y ago
> Is it an artefact of US health insurance that you can typically claim a 'check-up' per year (so why not even if not needed, you paid for it) The point of a yearly checkup is because, at population scale, people can't k
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by xboxnolifes 4y ago
I must stink, because I get most of my rejections at the HR stage. But I also have no idea what to ask during them either. They always give their 10 minute spiel about what the company is, ask me to give my own 5-10 minute spiel about my wo
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by xboxnolifes 4y ago
I think it's improbable that an org would set such a blatantly unreachable KPI. It's not subtle in any way and would not hold up to challenging.
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by xboxnolifes 4y ago
Everybody in my extended-family sees these jobs like this, and none of them are in tech. They are in construction, and office work, and health care, and wood working, and farming. Warehouse, retail, fast food, wait-staff, etc, are all seen
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by xboxnolifes 4y ago
The civilization Aristotle existed in also only lasted a few centuries. Seems like not much has changed.
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by xboxnolifes 4y ago
Sounds like your consumer protection laws could do with some updating.
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by xboxnolifes 4y ago
I'm generally against making regulations that introduce mandatory middlemen, unless absolutely necessary. It entrenches a type on company into a field while generally failing to allow them to be optimized away if a better solution is l
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by xboxnolifes 4y ago
This sounds like a much more roundabout way to handle making a law that requires cancellations to give refunds within a timely manner.
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by xboxnolifes 4y ago
> the concept is that a warrant, is court appointed permission to violate legal rights for the scope of the investigation. it should be very simple, if it is determined you need a warrant for search and sieze data,property, statements et
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by xboxnolifes 4y ago
> Overall, the whole article is so surreal - is this actual reality in US? Within my bubble, I would say yes. Most parents I know seems to not let their kids go unsupervised (by them or some other parent) until around 13-16. I also grew
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by xboxnolifes 4y ago
To advise those about to enter into employment/contract/other with said company. It would cause harm to the company indirectly, but the intent was not to harm the company, but instead to help those about to interact with them. You
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by xboxnolifes 4y ago
The point is that there hasn't been a failure. The fact that there is a response and planning happening before a grid failure noticably affecting people suggests the policies and plans are working.
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by xboxnolifes 4y ago
Self driving cars would be easy if all cars were self driving, all roads were designed for self driving cars, roads did not degrade, there are no pedestrians, no cyclists, trash or other obstructions could appear on the road, weather did no
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by xboxnolifes 4y ago
They're called roadways, not carways.
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by xboxnolifes 4y ago
It's just a chat app. You've probably used IRC, or Slack, or Teams. It's really not different from Slack in most ways in the context of your complaints. The main difference, IMO, is that slack servers are generally pretty sma
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by xboxnolifes 4y ago
> BMI is a terrible measure of obesity for outliers That's basically tautological. Outliers are outliers because they don't fit the model.
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by xboxnolifes 4y ago
Hobbies aren't about the payoff, they are about the process. May as well ask "why do you do things you enjoy"?
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by xboxnolifes 4y ago
How is that a complaint about GraphQL when the common alternative, REST, was basically designed to map 1:1 API resources to database tables. Each endpoint is a resource, and every resource is almost always either most of a table or a simp
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by xboxnolifes 4y ago
The difference between printing money and taxing money is almost nil in many cases. Both increase availability of government funds while reducing the purchasing power of citizens. Printing money is just fewer steps. Playing my own critic th
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by xboxnolifes 4y ago
You're assuming you're not already in the worst possible filter bubble: advertising incentivized curation.
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by xboxnolifes 4y ago
"Just run them better" is not a plan of action. As with all things, incentives breed outcomes. What actions would you take to improve public-funded outcomes here?
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by xboxnolifes 4y ago
That's why there are quite a few people who don't consider some of such fields sciences. I have half a heart to agree with that stance. That's not to say those fields don't have value, but science is the process of build
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by xboxnolifes 4y ago
You can defer capital gains tax on the sale of property if the sale is used to purchase another property.
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by xboxnolifes 4y ago
Its not click bait, the contents are what the title claim to be.
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by xboxnolifes 4y ago
By putting the intended audience in the title, you grab their attention more.
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by xboxnolifes 4y ago
> Fist, a misconception, there is no such thing as "free" time (opportunity cost: whatever you do means you're not doing something else in that same time that might benefit you more). "Free" doesn't only ref

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