hackunomatter

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by hackunomatter 9y ago
Well, if he has a rock-solid benign explanation, why doesn't he come on the stand and testify?
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by hackunomatter 9y ago
Google owns a chunk of Uber, so I'm not sure they'd want to wipe out their investment?
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by hackunomatter 9y ago
So... paying to level up is not 'cheating', but using a bot is? I don't think the distinction is as stark as Niantec would like one to believe.
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by hackunomatter 9y ago
I think, basically, Uber will pay some $$$ to make the lawsuit go away and "license" Waymo's tech (which they already had, courtesy Mr. Lewandowski, but now will legally have it).
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by hackunomatter 9y ago
The theory behind Kopi Luwak was that the civets knew which (coffee) berries were perfectly ripe, so ate them; in the process, pooping out the seeds (coffee beans). Once humans found this out, now civets are kept in cavity and fed just coff
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by hackunomatter 9y ago
So you can track the bike as the thief rides away with it? :D
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by hackunomatter 9y ago
2 blocks from where I live... dammit! So close, and yet so far...
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by hackunomatter 9y ago
Sounds like pump-and-dump to me. From what I could gather (albeit I'm not very familiar with financial engineering): the Chinese stock market is hot, and P/E of 100 is not uncommon. In other words: P = 100 x E. Suppose you are a c
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by hackunomatter 9y ago
Just see SF's white-hot realestate market. I can only wonder what the hell is going on: so many houses are going for up to 50% above asking!
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by hackunomatter 9y ago
From the article: > 3MB of those being the CSS/script
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by hackunomatter 9y ago
A judicious use of xargs, curl and grep would have done it in 1 line in Linux. I looked at your PowerShell code; that does look a bit complicated compared to what Linux offers.
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by hackunomatter 9y ago
Because in the end it was performance based. If your performance was good, you could continue to work from home. So you could have fired the low performers directly (if you wanted to) without going through this whole WFH drama.
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by hackunomatter 9y ago
Just search around in HN for, say, "Yahoo core business", in the last couple of years. Here's one story: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2015/12/03/yaho...
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by hackunomatter 9y ago
Yahoo, for long, had a market cap much below the value of all of its assets (including $BABA). One reason why it was undervalued was because the market didn't believe that they could dispose of their $BABA assets without incurring a hu
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by hackunomatter 9y ago
FTA: > Collectively, the five are among the biggest investors in research and development on the planet. According to their earnings reports, they are on track to spend more than $60 billion this year on research and development. By comp
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by hackunomatter 9y ago
Yes. Most people forget these details and just hate on "Oh noes! Working from home was banned!!".
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by hackunomatter 9y ago
Yahoo's policy affected about 180 people. That's about 1.5% of the company. Of those 180, about 60 were allowed to WFH. "Firing" 120 people in such a convoluted way is stupid. But the Internet continues to believe in stu
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by hackunomatter 9y ago
You can keep finding tenuous connections, but in the end, there's no proof. It's all speculation, with assumptions, biased interpretations, etc. When you don't want to accept the obvious, it's easy to just keep scratch
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by hackunomatter 9y ago
She's still in the Army. Her ability to talk freely is very limited right now. Only when she's discharged will she be able to talk.
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by hackunomatter 9y ago
At $5B for 12,000 employees, that works out to about $400,000 a pop. Each employee could have been given an apartment in many parts of the country... :-) I'm not criticizing, just admiring the cost.
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by hackunomatter 9y ago
If you have to travel, then would you rather spend the 15 hours in Economy class or First class?
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by hackunomatter 9y ago
The investigation is ongoing, and the results will be announced by the end of the month. You are already passing judgment that they should not be held accountable, when you don't have any facts either! All I'm saying is that if
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by hackunomatter 9y ago
> Since it doesn't seem that Graves or Thuan did anything wrong Wait, what? Did you read the article? If Fowler reported her problems to Thuan himself, then he most certainly bears responsibility, and needs to answer for that. Sa
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by hackunomatter 9y ago
That is assuming they're telling the truth. Won't be the first time a business blames "overpaid labor" for its woes.
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by hackunomatter 9y ago
I like to say (not sure if it's original or not), "anyone who says 'money doesn't buy happiness' has never traveled First Class". I got bumped into FC once, and it. was. amazing. Especially on a long haul fli
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by hackunomatter 9y ago
> They own their house and spend about $25,000 per year In the Bay Area, this is a multi-million-dollar ordeal in itself :-(
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by hackunomatter 9y ago
Typically you get 2 weeks of vacation a year. That's 4% of the cost. Not a significant amount. As for work outside store hours: sure, there is some. But it's not a restaurant where you have to sterilize everything in the kitchen.
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by hackunomatter 9y ago
I never bought this "minimum wage increase destroyed us" story when it came out. The minimum wage increased from $11.05/hr to $12.25/hr. That's an increase of $1.20/hr. They claim this will cost them an additi
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by hackunomatter 9y ago
They _are_ giving a 1 year notice.