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kork__on Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees

Because I don't want to starve.

kork__on Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees

Socialism has only been tried in third world hell holes like Russia and succeeded so far beyond expectations it ended up being called the second world.

A first world country going socialist would be the equivalent of increasing GDP by between 50 to 500%.

kork__on CERN suspends physicist after his science-and-gender talk

High energy physics is a dead end field where people impress each other with how intelligent they are by producing ever more unverifiable results.

kork__on CERN suspends physicist after his science-and-gender talk

And Rosa Parks primary motivation was that she was black and denied a seat.

Since when does motivation make someones point invalid?

kork__on CERN suspends physicist after his science-and-gender talk

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kork__on Sales engagement startup Apollo says its massive contacts database was stolen

The details usually are that that someone left ssh wide open, someone else had a look at the logs and though 'Gee I don't think we should have anyone logging in from Belarus', and hiring competent people with enough resources would have prevented this.