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Comment · 7 years ago
Cool, so does this mean Apple will let contractors park in the front lot or Google contractors actually get perks???
Comment · 7 years ago
I don't speak for her and neither should you. No one should want someone else to take individual risks to defend your or anyone else's opinions that you claim they represent.
Comment · 7 years ago
It is between her and her country which from all indications she loves, respects, and tries to do exactly what they ask of her while positively promoting their companies and technology.
Comment · 7 years ago
She does not want this made public. This post is in no one's interest other than whoever tried to get her arrested. The situation was resolved. This post is an attempt to use an archive of a past incident to harass and get her further into trouble. Please flag this shit.
Comment · 7 years ago
And what would a substantive comment look like for this article? There is nothing anyone can say other than pure speculation and concerns of caution.
Comment · 7 years ago
Its OK... Chinese Vampires hop, so we can totally escape them. No big apocalypse.
Comment · 7 years ago
Honestly the toys they made are good, however they are all app/cloud connected. I hope the tracks keep working...
Comment · 7 years ago
Be like motivational speaker Matt Foley - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv2VIEY9-A8

In all seriousness, it is cool as long as you have another place that is home. Traveling for a living gets too much after awhile.

Comment · 7 years ago
Norway has public tax records. This is one of the potential flaws of an otherwise, kinda cool openness. You can't be rich and have a 'normal' life. You have money in Norway, you have to have walls, staff, etc. just to have a bit of safety.
Comment · 7 years ago
It is stupid to blame Obama or Trump even for the current state of Obamacare.

The parties involved right now are resulting in a much worse than medicare solution as it is similar to the three wolves one sheep version of democracy (which is the whole premise of libertarian concerns about democratic socialism). It is an attempt to obfuscate the otherwise obvious corruption and theft that is healthcare. Here the wolves are the AMA(doctors), insurers, pharma, and the politicians claiming to want to solve healthcare. The AMA and insurers have insane billing policies based on assuming inept doctors and corrupt patients.

Most insurance today is just passing on the discounted (actual) price on to the insured co-pay or deductible. They cover very little normal costs of medicine nor do they provide any actual services for their premium.

The main reason we don't have universal medicaid/medicare is similar to why the IRS doesn't do electronic filing themselves. Billions of dollars of middleman and tens of thousands of otherwise worthless jobs are on the line.

We need a private/public system. It will initially look costly and it will suck (differently) for doctors and hospitals. However, in five to ten years the costs will stabilize and insurance and other services will be more honest as they will have real competition.

Also, he should try to just fly back to the UK for non-emergency issues. Most foreign friends I have just keep insurance in their home countries as it costs usually 100-200 a year. A $1k flight back to see your family is cheaper than any surgery in the US.

Comment · 7 years ago
Finally we can 'zoom and enhance' anything! It will be great for tv shows and movies.

Better productivity? Man my eyes die a bit each time I zoom in on EDAs. I can't imagine editing docs this way...

Comment · 7 years ago
This isn't that. This is like google maps indoors for walking around malls and is no where near accurate for anything else.

For inventory you could use decawave, but it would be pricey.

Comment · 8 years ago
Sorry, that was my point by approaching the 'truth' from both directions.

They were already in the class or network of people. They knew they were going to be 'doing that work' because they were already recruited into that world long before university. It has nothing to do with their degree other than a passing qualification that they were expected to receive and in many cases the school just hands them no matter what their grades really were.

The degree is a technicality to their position and I am saying that the example you gave while interesting is not normal for anyone planning to work for a living.

I worked peripherally to publishing and am quite familiar with the situation. We had $1 million plus commission sales people 'of the right sort'. Did they know what the tech they sold did or have any real sales skills? Did it matter?

Comment · 8 years ago
That is like saying all kids should play basketball because they could get into the NBA. There are always lucky rich people. A ton of Microsoft and Amazon VPs have local MBA degrees. Does that mean that my Seattle City MBA will make me $1 million a year?

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