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by zippothrowaway 2y ago
DEI = Don Jr, Ivanka and Eric. Was always so, even back on the TV show.
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by zippothrowaway 2y ago
That's still not the total! It can be done. Marriott show the total including taxes. Mind you, this was as a result of a legal settlement, so they get no credit.
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by zippothrowaway 2y ago
Counterpoint: I don't know anyone who could answer "no" truthfully. Maybe it's because I am in an older age group? You're right there are lots of people who can answer "no". However, it's also possibl
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by zippothrowaway 2y ago
I'm not running for office so I can say this. Their fellows are idiots and fools. I know it's not a winning strategy to point this out. But it doesn't stop it being true.
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by zippothrowaway 2y ago
And what if it's an emergency? Some compromises are not worth making when it could kill you. Note this law is actually working as designed - they want pro-choice people to leave their state so they can entrench their power there.
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by zippothrowaway 2y ago
Or do what they do in the UK. For all of these, make them 'mini-roundabouts' which is literally a dot painted on the center of the road. You follow the rules of the roundabout without building one. Works just as efficiently as a f
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by zippothrowaway 2y ago
Or the employee agreement you sign includes a notice period of 6 months from either side. I think you're right that negotiated gardening leave will happen but I can also see companies baking in the gardening leave at the start of emplo
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by zippothrowaway 2y ago
'A “policy-making position,” according to the final rule, is a business’ president, CEO or equivalent, or any other person with “policy-making authority” for the business similar to a corporate officer with policy-making authority. The
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by zippothrowaway 2y ago
And, they didn't rush this. They've been working on it since they got elected. It's perfectly reasonable that it took some time to get done.
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by zippothrowaway 2y ago
Doesn't this mean the end of 'at-will' for anyone that a company wants to cover with a non-compete? At present a company can have their cake and eat it, giving you one day notice of end of employment but then enforcing a non-
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by zippothrowaway 2y ago
Yes it can. Sawstop, like a lot of other companies, abuse the patent process by filing multiple continuations with the exact same specification. They then let the patent office take its time granting some of them, and claim a 'patent t
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by zippothrowaway 3y ago
It's an in-joke in the British gaming industry. Hassabis started out working for Pete 'Project Milo' Molyneux and learned how to hype himself very obviously from him (see the Edge article linked above). It's working out
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by zippothrowaway 3y ago
Demis "Infinite Polygon Engine" Hassabis? Please. Once a charlatan, always a charlatan.
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by zippothrowaway 3y ago
The point is not that people were wrong but they were wrong because they had knee-jerk, lazy takes that should be disparaged. I also know that the some of the people making these kind of takes have already pivoted to another knee-jerk, lazy
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by zippothrowaway 3y ago
No ability to search previous chats.
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by zippothrowaway 3y ago
I've always been suspicious of any announcement from Demis Hassabis since way back in his video game days when he did a monthly article in Edge magainze about the game he was developing. "Infinite Polygons" became a running j
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by zippothrowaway 3y ago
Outside pressure is 300 x atmosphere so a difference of 299 atmospheres. Increasing to 2 internally makes a difference of...298 atmospheres.
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by zippothrowaway 4y ago
Question: You’re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, it’s crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly