Why “Attract” is being discussed
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> After retiring from the Baltimore Ravens, John Urschel said he looked forward to being known as "that mathematician who used to play football." > A paper called “On the Growth…
by aanet · Oct 8, 2026
Working at other places. There used to be a thing called competition - where you'd pay more to attract people to leave elsewhere. Now companies stifle this and collaborate to ar…
by Jcampuzano2 · Oct 8, 2026
A labor shortage has a temporary effect of creating an upward pressure on the 900 jobs, but there’s a ceiling and the long term effects are complex. I may have to pay 900 jobs 1…
by darth_avocado · Oct 8, 2026
Oh man, the state of dress up games is a personal pet peeve of mine, poor onboarding tutorials is just one problem. The art direction is often simply atrocious, proper game loop…
by purpleflashing · Oct 8, 2026
Then they finally shut the thing down just in time to make sure that it couldn't attract any kind of exodus of unhappy users from Twitter or Facebook.
by leoc · Oct 8, 2026
I happen to agree with you that individual companies hoarding high-performers and keeping them useless is a dumb strategy and that it should have been targeted by anti-trust. I…
by nathannecro · Oct 8, 2026
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Attract may refer to:Physical attractiveness, personal features considered aesthetically pleasing or beautiful Interpersonal attraction, a part of social psychology Attract mode, in video gaming Read more on Wikipedia