Powerofmene

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by Powerofmene 9y ago
I wonder what is going to happen in 10years to SF if the housing prices continue to rise? If the housing market is out of reach for the “tech elite” then tech companies will not be able to continue to thrive without workers to fill vacanci
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by Powerofmene 9y ago
- Equifax did not mean to mislead consumers by only providing a portion of the information that was accessed by the hackers. Why do companies think that when they are caught being less than forthright that their explanations will be seen as
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by Powerofmene 9y ago
This is a huge pendulum swing from our present state of massive regulations. The writer forgets a number of things that should be taken into account. People are much more transient and as such do not know their neighbors the way they did i
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by Powerofmene 9y ago
I think Nathan makes a very good point. There are some people who are still on the rise w creativity and personal/professional growth. As a result of our own biases we focus so much attention on age over product (or product potential)
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by Powerofmene 9y ago
Until fraud and deceit stop being the go to business method, accountability will not deter this type of behavior. Just as we see with big pharma and here in banking, when the income from fraud far exceeds the penalty, these business method
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by Powerofmene 9y ago
I do not pe sonally spend very much time on FB because I stay very busy. With what little free time I do have, I am simply not interested in the political rankings and flame wars nor am I interested in the million sponsored postings that a
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by Powerofmene 9y ago
I meant....accessible to anyone qualified does not equal a good choice for everyone who is qualified.
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by Powerofmene 9y ago
And then when we have a change in control in our governments administration the rules also change, as does the formula for calculating this rating. We will have a never ending target you cannot hit regardless of how much you try....just wh
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by Powerofmene 9y ago
And of course the damage to the vehicle....”smash and grab.” While a side window may not be too costly, what if it is raining and interior damaged, etc. These costs to higher end vehicles could be quite costly.
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by Powerofmene 9y ago
I understand but it is not currently used to determine things like who may have a right to attend college or ..... it is the “trust level” determination based on the aggregate information compiled that really scares me.
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by Powerofmene 9y ago
And 4) people who cannot have children for some physical reason (infertility etc)
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by Powerofmene 9y ago
There are so many factors that come into play when deciding to have a child w cost of living being just one of the many. In areas where people are delaying having a family only after establishing their career, people consider: reduction to
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by Powerofmene 9y ago
But not all stimulants etc are used for performance enhancement, etc. There are many legitimate uses so like anything else, there would have to be exceptions to “the rule.”
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by Powerofmene 9y ago
And on the flip side, in the states that use lottery funds to provide college for all graduates with a specific GPA.....we are seeing a tremendous number of students losing their scholarships for poor grades or simply delaying entering the
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by Powerofmene 9y ago
This is scary to think about. Imagine if private companies provided our government information and the totality of our communications and purchases, or even content of private conversations or prescriptions that you filled determined a “tr
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by Powerofmene 9y ago
The cost to insurance companies is crazy if they just smash and grab. The loss of valuable work product to businesses is far higher.
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by Powerofmene 9y ago
I think this is becoming an exceedingly difficult market. Profit relatively small apparently and a number of competitors who are not retaining customers over the initial VC funded starter prices.
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by Powerofmene 9y ago
Not profitable yet and spends the lion’s share of its 15% take from sales on advertising. Rapid growth the key but given the prices mentioned I am not surprised that they have such growth. The real question is repeat customers or customer
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by Powerofmene 9y ago
This article is spot on but misses two important points: 1) as customers are driven to the more convenient urgent care clinics such as The Little Clinic or Minute Clinic, they are losing the long-term consistency of medical review and care
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by Powerofmene 9y ago
This article could be summed up with: start talking WITH your children at a young age and continue to do that throughout their life and you will know more than you would find via snooping. Invasion of privacy will damage your relationship
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by Powerofmene 9y ago
This article is ripe with good points but it misses one huge point, many if not most, hugely successful businesses make decisions that are not in the best interest of humanity. We need look no further than the insurance industry which make
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by Powerofmene 9y ago
Deny them all because they tend to be obtrusive and when I did allow a select few, they were frequently of little value or importance. Since denying them all I get more done and am not subjected to frequent interruptions.
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by Powerofmene 9y ago
I don’t like the spammy apps but I do think there are good smaller businesses who need some of these services. I guess the challenge is finding the balance between helping small businesses and cutting down on the spammers.
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by Powerofmene 9y ago
Seems that the bigger companies are getting the more they focus on shutting businesses out of economical ways of becoming more efficient where technology is concerned. Many of these smaller businesses are simply developing a means for the
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by Powerofmene 9y ago
Would the breach appear worse if her degree was in CS or not? Seems the HN community is trying to correlate her degree to the breach and this is virtually impossible. Her MFA did not cause the breach nor is their an identifiable correla
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by Powerofmene 9y ago
In some states the collection of the fee is not relevant. All that is relevant in these states is that you do or do not have a alicense to practice and that you were conducting work that is typically conducted by an attorney and you are pro
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by Powerofmene 9y ago
Shopify has a seven day window from charge authorization to shipment. I think you are stretching the bounds of what Shopify has been known to allow. I think this is either a severe miscommunication between you and Shopify on what you are
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by Powerofmene 9y ago
I cannot address the legalities but I will say that it is suspect. There was recently a thread where we talked about being able to access the internet anonymously because of the tracking done by Facebook, Amazon, and other sites/retail
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by Powerofmene 9y ago
It does but that is not necessarily a lesson that needs to be learned by those who are poor. If you read the thread here about those of us who have had to clean out our aging parents home it is amazing how much stuff they have that they ho
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by Powerofmene 9y ago
I don't argue against things that don't exist (time machine). And you are missing my point, most people who are poor do not have a credit card. There options are few and far between. What I am suggesting by education is financia

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