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Trump defends 'absolute right' to share 'facts' with Russia - BBC News

The US president responds to accusations he shared classified material about IS with Russia.

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Not Hotdog - Product Hunt

Not Hotdog - An app that shows if your food is a hotdog 🌭. (iPhone, Funny, and Tech) Discover 2 alternatives like Hot Dog Pizza and Heads Up! Hot Dogs

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Hasnain says:

I haven't seen the latest episode yet but now I really want to. Especially since it made it on ProductHunt.

"What would you say if I told you there is an app on the market that tell you if you have a hotdog or not a hotdog. It is very good and I don't want to work on it any more. You can hire someone else."

Posted on 2017-05-15T22:24:34+0000

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Hi, I read that you've dealt with with impostor...

duckswearhats said: Hi, I read that you've dealt with with impostor syndrome in the past, and I'm really struggling with that right now. I'm in a good place and my friends are going through a lot, and...

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Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update, just don't

You know what really surprised me about this whole WannaCry ransomware problem? No, not how quickly it spread. Not the breadth of organisations it took offline either and no, not even that so many of them hadn't applied a critical patch that landed a couple of months earlier. It was

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Hasnain says:

"A full system of monitoring and surveillance will be built in cities from Peshawar to Karachi, with 24 hour video recordings on roads and busy marketplaces for law and order. A national fibreoptic backbone will be built for the country not only for internet traffic, but also terrestrial distribution of broadcast TV, which will cooperate with Chinese media in the “dissemination of Chinese culture”."

Posted on 2017-05-15T15:32:40+0000

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Signing Away the Right to Get a New Job

Noncompete clauses, once for top executives, are spreading across the labor landscape — making it tougher for Americans to get a raise.

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The man trap

Traditional ideas of masculinity persist in the workplace, even though men are now expected to do more of the household chores – and work longer hours. Emily Bobrow investigates the trials of modern manhood

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Hasnain says:

This is a fairly interesting read that covers a lot of topics, relating from societal expectations, marriage, working, to masculinity.

I don't agree with all of it but it's still worth a read

Posted on 2017-05-14T18:50:31+0000

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Hasnain says:

"The norm in South Korea is to call your colleagues or superiors not by their given names but by their positions. It’s the same for addressing your older friends or siblings, your teacher or any person on the street. So if your family name is Johnson and you were to be hired in a Korean company as a manager, your co-workers would call you “Johnson-boojang.” To get the attention of your older female friend, you would call for “eunni,” or “older sister.”"

Posted on 2017-05-14T18:13:30+0000