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If you had $0 in shares of this company but the cash, would you now to choose to purchase $100,000 in shares?

It's good. I'll randomly drop into lower lobbies to help out lower levels. Have had the occasional griefer but by and large the community…

> Speak to HR before going to fair work. Try and get everything in writing, particularly from your manager. If he's PIP'd, HR is already…

> You are in IT, it takes what, a couple phone calls to your recruiters to set up some interviews? This is not the same job market as 12…

> Also after that in a discussion I have been told I am always late where as I usually have been reporting at 9:15-9:20 for the last 6…

It is a movie that basically invokes despair the whole way through -- kind of like Dunkirk. Definitely very depressing subject matter :(

You just configure your DNS on your device (router or PC - depends what you're trying to do) using Getflix's DNS settings, update the…

I still have my getflix sub from one of the very old subs -- still works on Netflix for US-only! 100% was just a punt back in the day, but…

Ah, so just a total non-sequitur. Good one.

You make it sound like he’s some benevolent force doing that out of good will. Ukraine’s access to Starlink was funded by US aid and…

I’ve bought it, because I think Isaacson did a solid job of showing Jobs as a fundamentally flawed human (a giant, narcissistic dick)…

Neither my comment nor the parent are abusive towards Musk? How fragile are you?

Glad you are here to defend the poor, defenseless American oligarchs.

> his tweets. They're called *posts* now, not tweets. Twitter and tweets are dead because daddy fetishises the letter x.

Purchased on Paypal and was voided twice with no reason - no history of an order in my account and nothing debited on Paypal. Tried to…

Would be looking at second hand rather than new. Jayco Swan & Eagles are at about the right price point, can pick them up with AC/heater…

No - not even sure how you've managed to infer that. "Third party" in this case simply means a buying agent, i.e. a person willing to…

Close again but not really the cigar - Nobody posits they’ll go down on this basis alone, however it is another upward pressure being…

There was also upward pressure on raw materials, which drove the price of new builds. Naturally this makes existing dwellings an attractive…

> So should we ban foreign investors from being able to invest? Why? It won’t make a difference when local investors will just end up…

The housing market is more complex than that & it's disingenuous to point to this as if it's evidence that foreign investment doesn't…

> Signed a manager that calls when performance is not being met and keeps logs I'm laughing at this level of micromanagement. What sort of…

Oh no, 30 minutes - heavens, no. If you're working with people that spend their time concentrating on solo tasks, I'll give you the hot tip…

> It's mostly the sending back and forth of verbose messages over a periods of hours or days for something that could have been resolved in…

> its about being able to discuss things on the fly, as they happen As a knowledge worker, this is the *most* painful part of an office…

> Our office is supposed to have a certain amount of people in each day just so it's not a ghost town. Yeah, this is a pretty silly…

> ... with only either Monday or Friday being one of the WFH days - not both. Kind of an odd set of requirements, why?

> Your worldview is going to starve many third-world countries that rely on raising their own meat. That's not the natural conclusion of…

Cochineal is in red dye, and that's a reasonable description of it. Sometimes it's just best not to know the detail - castoreum is a type…

> Bird flu is the real pandemic: C19 was just practice Certainly seems like a hub of well informed content from which we can & should learn…