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proximitysauce

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    Comment #23134171

    You don't have to "do your part". Your part is living a healthy life. Take whatever steps necessary to make that happen, even if that means cutting contact with your parents.

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    Comment #23134095

    That's kinda a crappy message to be spreading on Mother's Day for people who don't have parents (or aren't in contact with them) tbh.

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    Comment #23134059

    If you have a good relationship with your mother. If she was/is abusive and you're not comfortable talking to her, feel absolutely no guilt today.

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    Comment #23134040

    > As bad as your relationship is with your parents. Once they're gone, you're pretty much alone. Absolutely untrue. If your parents are toxic and damaging, you should cut them from…

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    Comment #22348829

    I find that I don't get very many "bad" hires. It's pretty easy to tell if someone is a good developer or not. In the rare case that someone bad slips through, it's easy enough to …

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    Comment #22343296

    If only people who agree to it make it through, then I'm not surprised the feedback is positive. What you're missing is all of the senior people who would never do this (which is a…

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    Comment #22336384

    > It doesn’t undermine the grandparent’s point that the BBC is a different kind of organisation to Fox News. I guess that depends on if you think making one of the worst pedophiles…

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    Comment #22336368

    I think it's important to understand that you're asking candidates to burn "social capital" by arranging those introductions. I've worked for pretty high end people (successful fou…

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    Comment #22331888

    In addition to all of the very dystopian examples given in this post, there are other non-technical, super-dystopian things that have been popping up as "trends" in the tech indust…

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    Comment #22331580

    Is there a downside to recognizing when the media deliberately deceives their audience? We should do more of that, not less. These media companies do not have your best interest at…

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    Comment #22331565

    I think you should reconsider including the BBC. They most definitely intentionally deceived people for a very long time with regard to Jimmy Savile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

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    Comment #22331537

    BBC doesn't belong on that list either. They covered for Jimmy Savile's pedophilia for decades . Fun fact: the head of the BBC left as their cover-up came to light after Savile's d…

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    Comment #22284135

    There's a difference between AWS and a tiny startup, the CEO of which is married to one of the top advisors of a the Buttigeig campaign. At this point, this conversation doesn't re…

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    Comment #22272730

    That's the definition of conflict of interest! You can't sell tech to the candidates and the election at the same time.

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    Comment #22258996

    The conflict of interest is what you're calling a "conspiracy theory". It's a known fact that there is conflict of interest between the Buttigieg campaign and Acronym/Shadow. That'…

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    Comment #22250764

    Are you saying that people who have a problem with this conflict of interest are the equivalent of flat earthers? That's not a viable position to take.

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    Comment #22248894

    Records filed by the estate on Friday indicate that Southern Country had $693,157 in assets when Mr. Epstein died on Aug. 10. Then, in mid-December, the estate transferred $15.5 mi…

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    Comment #22240761

    > If the AMP page doesn't have the content you want and the non-AMP page does, that is the publisher's problem and the search engine's problem for displaying an inferior page. Actu…

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    Comment #22231406

    It's not "faster" if I have to wait for the AMP site to load, then figure out where to tap in Google's UI to get the page I actually wanted to go to, then wait for it to load. Espe…

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    Comment #22229840

    There are other ways Google "leverages" its market share that are questionable. Look at the recent controversy about making all search results look like ads. They are also making i…

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    Comment #22185510

    Apple makes bad internet software. It’s ok at software that runs without any services but anything that requires internet access is a disaster. Even their “good” software is only g…

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    Comment #22173685

    That's incorrect. Most of those services were using collaborative filtering social data to drive their recommendations.

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    Comment #22173158

    I believe that they wanted to hire you. There were a ton of music recommendations available at the time. Every music service had them: Rhapsody, Yahoo! Music Unlimited, Last.fm, Mo…

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    Comment #22171200

    Spotify acquired Echo Nest in 2014. Spotify was already wildly successful at that point, and were latest in a long line of music streaming services that came before them. They also…

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    Comment #22147736

    I think the problem is that you're associating people calling out media bias and corruption with Trump. I explicitly said the white house has issues too. Major issues, tons of them…