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digbyloftus
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Comment #11092879
Thanks! I'll be sure to do so.
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Comment #11092707
Should probably go with "if" instead of "when" ;) Actual question, do you have much Australian based business and do you see yourselves needing account managers there (here) in the…
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Comment #11080700
Let's dispel once and for all with this fiction that Apple/Google/Facebook doesn't know what they're doing. They know exactly what they're doing. Apple/Google/Facebook is undertaki…
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Comment #11077917
They do
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Comment #11063837
You don't support people not giving their work away for free? I could understand the privacy argument but "some people can't afford that businesses product so fuck that business" s…
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Comment #11056526
Cities make it easier for kids to go outside and be kids. The need for car transport that RcouF1uZ4gsC brings up applies to kids as much as adults. It limits who they can interact …
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Comment #11051708
Of course it is. Why wouldn't it be? They can fire him for any or no reason and it's completely ethical. They don't owe him employment.
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Comment #11050634
Oh yes, all of those bitcoin accepting services.
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Comment #11047012
It seems to have worked in the sense that not being out at night is a good way to not get punched while out at night. It's basically the most invasive form of keeping safe and one …
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Comment #10993295
Writing a public letter to a business (of which you are not a customer) as if your problems are theirs to fix, is one of the most textbook example of "exaggerated sense of one's ow…
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Comment #10992418
These fuckwits had advanced warning of the blizzard and still parked in a way to hinder emergency response capabilities. How you can paint them as innocent people who were fucked o…
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Comment #10971008
What? That's the least critical hedging comment they could have possibly made. "some say it's dumb" is their extreme negative? Really?
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Comment #10970662
I didn't see anything dystopian about it. Bad behaviour just like the rest of morality is relative if it exists at all. I certainly don't think the ability to sanction behaviour is…
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Comment #10970484
It works both ways, anonymous money prevents people from choosing not to accept your own money as much as it does the other way around. It makes the transaction purely about the mo…
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Comment #10960826
Is it as important that kids clothing fits precisely though? I mean, evidently it is to you but I would I would have thought parents would be happy that the kids look decent enough…
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Comment #10951725
We haven't "made life better" since we learned how to make fire, seems odd to think we'd start now. Making shit and making life better are two distinct things. Economic production …
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Comment #10938101
>The California-based private-hire company had urged its users to oppose suggestions that had included a ban on apps being able to show where their nearby available vehicles were. …
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Comment #10936412
A bank isn't likely to have $1.2 mil total let alone in $100s.
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Comment #10935661
Corporations are just collections of humans, which do pay taxes. The idea that they're a separate entity that is pulling one over us silly humans is ridiculous.
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Comment #10928892
Statistical mean would seem like a poor choice in determining average in that case then.
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Comment #10928861
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co . >The effect of this decision has been to eliminate aptitude tests from the hiring process. During the intervening years, the…
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Comment #10928421
The article specifically says it's about knowing the customers needs and that technical skill can just be bought/acquired. How you got "we think companies struggle to move up the s…
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Comment #10927463
Is Dropbox really consumer tech? I would have thought businesses would make up the vast majority of their revenue.
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Comment #10923551
Other countries are catching up in overweight and obesity but there's rarely data on BMI levels above that. Anecdotally it does seem like the US has much higher rates of super obes…
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Comment #10923345
>Do you really think Tom Cruise deserves that much money for what he does? People want to, and agree to, give him that money. What other measure of 'deserve' could there possibly b…