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Maybe Gates had the conversion program installed and Manafort did not?

Exactly. From the article, "Frees up cash flow" simply means frees up funds for company use that would otherwise have been given to the suppliers. What happens when that money gets invested and returns are not made within the year pay back the suppliers? They are playing a dangerous game.

Stretching 4 hours might be easier than you think. In my experience I do only about 4-6 hours of focused work per day anyway, during my 7.5 hour work day.

Other than that, learn to live well below your means. Look into the FIRE community (Financial Independence Retire Early) to get an idea of how to reduce your expenses. Many people live beyond their means. A good first step is ridding yourself of a car, TV subscription, and cell phone (if extreme like me).

403 forbidden.

http://archive.is/uZczA

But don't corporations have a moral responsibility to limit our purchases on these things? wink

There are about 250 work days in a year in Baden-Württemberg, excluding weekends and public holidays. Of those I was missing for 34 days for vacations, being sick and doing home office. On 11 days I used public transportation, on 5 days a car. That leaves 200 days on which I cycled to work.

Wish we had this here.

Maybe young women just don't like video games?

Perhaps this can be a contributing factor as well. Problem is, I mentioned this in my original statement. Did you not see? Doesn't have to be either-or, you know.

discover why older MEN seem to spend less time in these pursuits than younger men

Maybe they got jobs, had children, etc. Just speaking from experience. As an adult I have less time for games nowadays.

You're misrepresenting my statement... Increasingly anti-male != completely anti-male.

demonstrate that society is "anti-male" rather than "less aggressively pro-male than it used to be."

Call it whatever you'd like... it can still be a contributing factor. Also, I never claimed society was anti-male, only increasingly so.

This paper is interesting but I don't think it really gets at the core of the issue. It associates the decline of young men in the workforce with so-called "leisure luxuries" such as video games. The paper even admits that, "For other groups - younger women, older men and older women - recreational computer is not a leisure luxury."

I would like to submit a complimentary hypothesis. While it may be true that young males are more interested in video games, video games are not necessarily the cause of the decline of younger males in the workforce. Perhaps games are simply a tool of escapism, utilized by a demoralized section of the population (young males). This could explain why young females are not influenced as drastically by the same leisure luxury. As with anything, the underlying reason behind young male decline in the work force could be a variety of things (e.g. males have more interest in games compared to young females or are more addiction prone to game than young females), but I believe that the case for escapism in young males in a society which is increasingly anti-male is a strong one to explain them seeking refuge in video games.

Isn't it illegal to offer a "store credit" instead of a refund in cases where IC forgot my items and I paid debit? Seems like a really shady way to bring customers back.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the whole concept of online ordering but the IC UI forces users into choices that benefit IC by default.

Why not create an alternative platform where papers can be published for free, by the authors, instead of stealing them and publishing them like warez?

Being hated on the basis of something one says is a good heuristic for me, as a free speech advocate, to decide whether or not I respect someone for their courage. So long as someone says something they think is important. Perhaps you do not agree with their journalistic methods but you're attacking the messenger and not the idea presented.

If you watched the whole thing you'd see the context of each interview.

Twitter loves Trump.

Hidden camera investigations[1] into Twitter employees suggest otherwise.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64gTjdUrDFQ

When I see Mark I feel queasy just looking at him. People don't like to have their privacy violated, even if it is a result of them willingly giving up their information.

They're not slaves proper so it wouldn't be nearly as destructive. More like a healthy correction in the market.

The southern agricultural economy suffered greatly after slavery ended. I think America will adjust to this some how, without starving.

Automation can fix this moving forward but ultimately the lost crops are a result of a bad business decision by the farmers to rely on an an undocumented underpaid labor force without thinking there would ever be any repercussions.

Reminds me of Black Mirror episode where everyone is rated by the number of stars they receive and are obsessed with the likes or dislikes. 0 stars end up in a dungeon even if they've broken no laws. Very cypberpunk/dystopian.

The scary truth about doctors is they frequently misdiagnose. When I was healthy each diagnosis was pretty accurate "you're fine". Then I had a real catastrophe and was mistreated by the medical community. Till this day I suffer and I'm still not content with their diagnosis. Don't put too much faith in them to save you.

Then I will exit my home with a scrambler mask.

At least 30 million Russians died under communism. The exact number will never be known. It is more probable that he would have died there.

In my case I wash outer garments once per month (button down shirts, pants, etc). But I wash under garments weekly: white t-shirts, underwear, long underwear (esp in winter). They protect my outer clothes so get washed more frequently. I hang up my button-downs immediately when I get home. I don't like having to wash and iron a shirt every week, which does not get dirty anyway. I'm not sure if I'm the only one who does this but I would imagine they did huge batches of clothes back then that got dirtier more often, to save time, and didn't really wash their "Sunday best" as frequently.

Science isn't perfectly absolved after all many of us including computer "scientists" work closely with industry that affects global warming.

In Japan they have been drinking turmeric tea for ages. This is an easy option for you if you'd like to try it out.

The solution he's proposing is good because GPS is an accurate model for finding an exact location on Earth. Prior to GPS humans came up with models for describing specific locations by abstracting land mass into regions and sub regions and so on until we finally arrive at a person's house number or box. Why did not Africa? This is a question I ask myself but I guess it doesn't matter in the end as we should all soon be moving to GPS in the future anyway. This would be a difficult jump for Africa to make but it might actually be easier starting with a blank slate that they have. Imagine trying to move the USA to a GPS based system? Unlike Canada our zip codes alone are not accurate enough to find a precise mailbox location. We still require street number and street name. If we made the move to GPS, our legacy systems would still need to be supported, whereas Africa never had these legacy systems in the first place.