ADuckOnQuack

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by ADuckOnQuack 3y ago
"Loyalty" has been dead for decades, just look at that many accounts of successful teams and people that have been laid off in the last year alone. The same exact stories of hard working and dedicated people being laid off on a wh
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by ADuckOnQuack 3y ago
According to FBI data, crime is actually decreasing year on year in almost every metric despite police dereliction of duty. Ironically this is creating a stronger case for further police budget cuts and moving that money towards non-tradi
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by ADuckOnQuack 3y ago
Tim Tok has been struggling with a massive problem where many creators that actually start to get big on the platform end up migrating to YouTube anyway because their pay sucks compared to YouTube, the same goes for instagram and every othe
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by ADuckOnQuack 3y ago
Your link is dead... but the idea that the "vast majority" of Palestinians support a group that was elected way back in 2004, then immediately dismantled elections violently attacks any dissenters is laughable, Palestinians were b
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by ADuckOnQuack 3y ago
The incentive is probably to get their profit margin up to the maximum 15-20% https://www.propublica.org/article/cigna-pxdx-medical-health...
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by ADuckOnQuack 3y ago
While there may be trends none of the examples you cite are new, the only thing these trends definitively reflect is that society is changing, which is to be expected. 1) Feudal Society was overwhelmingly debt based with serfs in debt for l
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by ADuckOnQuack 4y ago
The "expectation" of tips making up the rest is really just an expectation from the business that you will needlessly subsidize their payroll, in all 50 states the employer is mandated to always pay the minimum wage even if zero t
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by ADuckOnQuack 4y ago
Do you tip the janitors of each place you frequent? What makes wait staff any more deserving of a living wage than other occupations? Realistically tipping is just a subsidy for corporations who choose to take more profit instead of pay a l
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by ADuckOnQuack 4y ago
The government regularly uses taxpayer funds to bail out or support failing private corporations anyway, so it's already our problem when private companies go into debt, why not force out the profit-seeking middle man?
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by ADuckOnQuack 4y ago
My understanding is the supposed "attack" happened 25 miles away from the airport and over an hour after the last tweet from the elonjet account. It's also suspicious that the LAPD came forward saying no police were ever call
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by ADuckOnQuack 4y ago
You know that “quiet quitting” just means doing the absolute requirements of your job and nothing more above and beyond right? What cause could you use? “Employee only works exact amount of hours as required in employment contract and com
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by ADuckOnQuack 4y ago
> Since you'd get more pay without these protections, you can save the excess for a rainy day. It sounds like you are speaking from a position of extreme privilege, more than 165 million Americans (over half) do not have a spare ~$4
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by ADuckOnQuack 4y ago
You should show pricing somewhere without requiring a sign up/login. Maybe it’s just how your site renders on mobile but I could not find pricing without signing up.
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by ADuckOnQuack 4y ago
Cloudflare has guides on several different approaches for preventing access from non-cloudflare IP addresses[1], I’m pretty sure they also direct you to this information as part of the setup process for new domains. For paying customers who
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by ADuckOnQuack 4y ago
Why not target the individual with the most influence in the organization, the highest C-level executive responsible for overseeing the operation? The threat of punishment for oversight failures on high level executives will naturally resul
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by ADuckOnQuack 5y ago
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by ADuckOnQuack 5y ago
Do go in on Monday, if you don’t you are unable to defend yourself. Do just close your computer right now and go to bed. If a manager has unreasonable deadlines and other staff are not doing their jobs that’s on them, and it. Absolutely is
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by ADuckOnQuack 5y ago
This doesn’t make sense, hydrogen fuel cells are essentially batteries/an energy store, and it takes a large amount of electricity to produce the hydrogen. Hydrogen fuel cells are closer in relation to lithium ion batteries or gasoline
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by ADuckOnQuack 5y ago
I recently stumbled across this custom uBlock filter from another HN commenter, if you use uBlock origin this filter completely removes that annoying “feature” on google. google.com##div[id^="eob_"]
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by ADuckOnQuack 5y ago
AFAIK there is no country who forces a company to host anything they do not wish to (with exceptions to government/political entities in some countries), if any company decides they do not want to be associated with something/some
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by ADuckOnQuack 5y ago
“DevOps” is currently a hot buzzword in the industry, many non-technical people in management hear about DevOps and how it’s good but do not understand what it is. They proceed to conflate DevOps culture as a position or individual skill an
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by ADuckOnQuack 5y ago
You could store the phone number in hashed form and require the user to enter their phone number for the one-time text every time they log in, if the hashed phone number matches the hash you have stored for the user account, then send the v