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by _dw7s 4y ago
> Pichai was asked, in a question that was highly rated by staffers on Google’s internal Dory system, why the company is “nickel-and-diming employees” by slashing travel and swag budgets at a time when “Google has record profits and huge
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by _dw7s 4y ago
> Why pay more when a machine can do the same cheaper ? Its pure capitalism. Why work more when the pay is the same? Its pure capitalism.
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by _dw7s 4y ago
> Healthcare in the US is definitely not driven by the free market. You're conflating 'capitalism' with 'free market'. You can have either without the other and OP was calling out 'capitalism' specifica
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by _dw7s 4y ago
Yes, because hiding information is definitely going to slow down the brain drain.
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by _dw7s 4y ago
I also get aggravated by the usage of 'late stage capitalism'. I very much prefer 'end stage capitalism' or 'terminal capitalism'.
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by _dw7s 4y ago
> Where is the war happening? It's happening at Putin's border. This is a defense war that Putin is leading. This is an unprovoked war of aggression. The mental gymnastics in this paragraph is astonishing. By this logic, Hitler
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by _dw7s 4y ago
The whole better off trope has been popularized by people like Hans Rosling in books like Factfulness. You can read reviews from experts to figure out what's wrong with it. But I've often seen these arguments in the context of &#x
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by _dw7s 4y ago
Obligatory 'How do delete all your data from Glassdoor' link https://help.glassdoor.com/s/privacyrequest?language=en_US
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by _dw7s 4y ago
Obligatory 'How do delete all your data from Glassdoor' link https://help.glassdoor.com/s/privacyrequest?language=en_US
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by _dw7s 4y ago
> Speaking of naive realism, what evidence? I'm not even asking what evidence was provided, but what could be provided at all. The onus is on the accuser to come up with evidence. Until then, the countless observers, the sheer numbe
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by _dw7s 4y ago
Leaving this here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decree_770 as someone who lived through that. Also check out this film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4_Months,_3_Weeks_and_2_Days about the reality
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by _dw7s 4y ago
> abysmal record of gay rights in communist systems I think things are more nuanced (and interesting) than that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism_and_LGBT_rights For example: > In 1962, the Czechoslovak So
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by _dw7s 4y ago
There are only 31 countries in the world that respect marriage equality. The fact that Cuba is going to be 32, in front of half of continental Europe is a good thing for Cuba. > This is the same communist party that put gay people in con
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by _dw7s 5y ago
It's literally hearsay. Quite literally. Again, is there any treaty, any memorandum, any pact or anything about NATO not expanding eastwards? Any trade agreement, any signed piece of paper between heads of state and representatives of
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by _dw7s 5y ago
That's straight up Russian propaganda, so beware. In his ideas, a sovereign nation signing a treaty is an 'existential threat' for Russia, which of course, makes any problem in Ukraine the 'west's fault'. NATO
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by _dw7s 5y ago
> That's a bit naive. They're not being naive. This is a deliberate effort to downplay the events. Always keep in mind that a war is often fought with different types of weapons, including information.
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by _dw7s 5y ago
Is it just me or… This whole recent 'staff engineer' bs is just a made-up concept to get some conference slots, write a book or two and basically talk about talking about working? I mean We've had 'staff' level engi
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by _dw7s 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn "The system was most useful in October 1972, when about 40,000 striking truck drivers blocked the access streets that converged towards Santiago. The strike was suppo
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by _dw7s 5y ago
unless it's wage theft. That's pretty much a constant for a lot of self respecting capitalists.
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by _dw7s 5y ago
So much doubt peddling, and disinformation spewed on these types of posts is astounding. I think we should permanently flag topics like these as they lead to repeated circular arguments about whether or not jan 6 was a big deal or if burnin
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by _dw7s 5y ago
https://vaers.hhs.gov/data/dataguide.html > When evaluating data from VAERS, it is important to note that for any reported event, no cause-and-effect relationship has been established. Reports of all possible associ
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by _dw7s 5y ago
He is smart and indeed an asshole. BUT not all of his arguments are always strong. I'd say most of his arguments are not. He's Seth Godin for cynics or Joe Rogan for finance bros. He's a pseudo-scientist who rode the 2007-200
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by _dw7s 5y ago
> as well as the purpose of life in general. That's unnecessarily condescending. > Work is good for the worker. That's some hardcore boomer logic right there.. > Because humans need a purpose in life. Work is work and job
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by _dw7s 5y ago
I agree with what you are saying. But US materiel could have come with or without an actual war declaration. Actually, war was declared by Germany on December 11, 1941, and the USSR was declared eligible for lend-lease aid on November 7, 19
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by _dw7s 5y ago
That's extremely debatable and a very US-centric point of view. The general consensus is that Hitler's single biggest error was the invasion of the Soviet Union.
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by _dw7s 5y ago
> I prefer to hire people who are EXCITED about the challenges they will face in the job. In this case your pipeline is optimized for hiring great actors.
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by _dw7s 5y ago
> PS: What if the method is applied to something, which has some real substance? And not on something pointless like the phrase you cited. The word 'propaganda' has a negative connotation. But there is 'good' propagan
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by _dw7s 5y ago
Spot on. I always ALWAYS ask about time off during interviews. But I don't ask the manager because I found they always try to stretch the truth or reframe shit. I just ask the individual contributors how much PTO they've taken in
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by _dw7s 5y ago
Reading hacker news comments today, I found out that: 1. this is fishy 2. she is a political operative for the dems 3. she has a liberal bias therefore this is all fishy and she cannot be trusted 4. she is rich and has some backing so she i