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mattdotc
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Comment #41505982
Point taken. I'd still maintain that the stock buybacks are egregious and need to stop.
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Comment #41505888
Not sure where your 6% figure comes from, but you can easily find the 2023 Annual Report which states the following: > Adjusted operating profit margin (adjusted operating profit e…
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Comment #41505815
Watch for public statements from the union. A striking unit will generally inform the general public if they are looking for any show of support. No need to assume that a boycott i…
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Comment #41505785
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Comment #35471160
unhoused people were never prospective clients of the real estate industry, but of course this is irrelevant when you can just twist and contort someone else's argument to make it …
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Comment #26125193
You were complaining about being inaccurately quoted in press releases . Press releases are written by comms dept within a business, so if you have a complaint with how they're wri…
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Comment #26125029
You're supporting someone whose writings you don't read after he left in a big hissy fit because his editors tried to edit him. Got it. A lot of folks might soon be discovering why…
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Comment #26125008
Corporate communications is not journalism, so what's your point?
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Comment #19995092
>Those who don’t have paid subscriptions probably aren’t that interested in music in the first place. Or we run our own media streaming setup rather than pay Spotify $10/month. Spo…
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Comment #16099192
I've been thinking about replacing the hard drive and battery in mine for the past few years. The wheel-based iPods really did have the best UI for music in any device I've ever ow…
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Comment #15569432
TimesOpen is an engineer-driven blog. Its previous incarnation was self-hosted on a WordPress stack (separate from our main CMS), but for various reasons it was decided to re-platf…
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Comment #14054014
I understand and agree with your stance on the sense of entitlement that some people have regarding software purchases, but I feel like you might have missed one of the finer point…
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Comment #13881792
Total shot in the dark, but it wouldn't surprise me one bit if they licensed usage of the API to "Authorized Board Partners" for an extra fee.
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Comment #13880091
This is really cool. Thanks for writing it up. I have also felt for while that the tools are terribly designed/clunky. Maybe one day, hardware manufacturers will drop the cliche 'g…
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Comment #13879970
As I understand it, the plugin system is poorly documented, and it seemed like most of the popular ones were being maintained by one guy: https://github.com/josh4trunks/freenas-plu…
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Comment #13879940
Before rushing to upgrade, take note that they are abandoning the plugin system for, what I believe is, a docker-based approach for services. Don't quote me on that second part, bu…
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Comment #13531481
FWIW, I replaced my WiFi/Bluetooth adapter immediately upon receiving my 9343. I had been following the XPS13 developer edition forums for a while, and the adapter that shipped wit…
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Comment #13475896
Here's the caves.jpg fixed: http://imgur.com/a/WBqiL
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Comment #13340952
>One perfect layer That's the problem.
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Comment #13337918
My only regret about getting into his channel is that now I have seen all of his videos and I have to wait 7 days for each new one. His channel is great for more than just its cont…