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by Altay- 11y ago
These sort of comments always annoy me. If you work at declining companies like Yahoo, HP, etc you should already consider your job lost. Just show up for the paycheck while planning your next move. This has to be what >90% of people a
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by Altay- 11y ago
Your blurb seems to contradict it self. It claims we need stimulus then it says the West & Japan tried this already and it hasn't worked. Maybe we need to allow the free market to function. Who cares if house prices drom from $250,
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by Altay- 11y ago
I have yet to see a TV that is actually smart. What passes for Smart TVs today are a joke. The menus suck and the remote controls are even more unwieldy than 'dumb' TV remotes. Until we get a TV that boots to an Android home scre
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by Altay- 11y ago
I'm subscribed to Jacobin and the writing style certainly feels as though they are preaching to the choir rather than trying to persuade anyone.
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by Altay- 11y ago
If you don't think intelligence is heritable, you're delusional. Its quite easy to see in the field -- I bet the smartest kids in your class, I'm talking about the naturally quick learners not the hardest working, also have n
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by Altay- 11y ago
The writing quality was a lacking overall. I actually found that uplifting, I'm not a great writer but if VICE is willing to publish this story, I shouldn't be as self conscious about my own work!
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by Altay- 11y ago
We are in the midst of a financial boom today: The great exodus of the upper working class from the suburbs back into tier-1 city cores. I don't know what will prove to be the best way to capitalize on this shift, but here's my gu
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by Altay- 11y ago
Any interest bearing instrument includes risk. To put it another way: On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone [or any investment] drops to zero.
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by Altay- 11y ago
Most people move their desktop as often as they move the rest of their furniture. For college students who dorm, there are small form factor cases that can still support full size GPUs and CPUs.
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by Altay- 11y ago
In other news, fire is hot...
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by Altay- 11y ago
The most shocking part of this story is that HP still employs 300,000+ people...
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by Altay- 11y ago
I don't think that's a fair comparison. AOL didn't initially position itself as a portal. It positioned itself as an ISP with a portal. Had AOL built itself as a web portal like Yahoo from the start it may very well have stay
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by Altay- 11y ago
Important people use Twitter. Teens and grandmothers use Facebook.
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by Altay- 11y ago
Is there an opportunity here? I regularly 'digitize' old media for archival purposes. If a lot of Netflix DVDs are truly not available anywhere else, I would consider simply ripping them, storing them online and sharing them via p
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by Altay- 11y ago
I think its safe to say we've reached peak monthly-subscription-startup...
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by Altay- 11y ago
My company cannot afford benefits at the moment. It may one day, but not today. I very much like its existence. It should not be a company's job to take care of an employees general welfare. Other developed countries seem to have a mor
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by Altay- 11y ago
Banking allows us to get mortgages. "Finance" gives us 2% down payment mortgages which are than packaged and sold to Japanese pension funds with currency and interest rate hedges mixed in... which then go on to screw everyone invo
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by Altay- 11y ago
Here's a non-pdf version without some of the padding: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vgjC5VeySpjqzcHj1_4_-5MN... Side note: Google should whip up a google doc only url shortner... so people know its a do
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by Altay- 11y ago
Reasonable how? Nuclear power is insanely expensive and no private investor would fund a nuclear project without a myriad of government assistance in the form of insurance guarantees, subsidized loans, etc. The time horizon for a nuclear pl
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by Altay- 11y ago
I believe you are making yourself upset by arguing from the point of the ideal. Its not a matter of meritocracy vs basic income. Its the current welfare state vs basic income. People like you and I are already paying loads of money to the
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by Altay- 11y ago
And you're not accounting for the price of the bottle relative to the cost of the water/syrup.
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by Altay- 11y ago
That's the whole point of inflation. Remember, wages are 'sticky' in that workers don't like getting their pay cut. So economists invented a way to rob them while giving them nominal wage raises!
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by Altay- 11y ago
I thought this was going to be an article about batteries and the quote would be attributed to Elon Musk or some other tech billionaire. I was pleasantly surprised.
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by Altay- 12y ago
If you want to see just how irrelevant E-Commerce is, just look at your neighborhood Apple Store. Their products are the sort that could easily be purchased online -- commodity technology products aimed at the supposedly tech savvy. The onl
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by Altay- 12y ago
E-commerce makes up ~6.40% of US retail sales. Its certainly shaken up the landscape, but 'crush' is overstating the case...