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by ArtDev 10y ago
Ok, so I was a skeptic. However, some of the results here are shocking. There is no good reason for it at all. Blatant sexism.. which appears to be the only explanation. (I am a white dude that believes that the workplace should be based on
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Women in Elite Jobs Face Stubborn Pay Gap(wsj.com)
1 points by ArtDev 10y ago|2 comments
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by ArtDev 10y ago
Incorrect. More people speak English in India than any other country in the world. English is the global language (for now), like it or not.
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by ArtDev 10y ago
Someone downvoted me! Hey I am white too. However, I don't have a shred of conservatism and I am pretty sure my racial bias is minimal, if at all.
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by ArtDev 10y ago
At the end of WW2 Indonesia needed an official language. Instead of picking Javanese, they picked a language spoken by relatively few people because of its simplicity. Indonesians are all bi or trilingual. Indonesian is the worlds simplest
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by ArtDev 10y ago
The common language of the world should be Indonesian. Currently the world language is English though. Learning other languages is not difficult. There is no reason to not learn a new a language.
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by ArtDev 10y ago
English borrows heavily from other languages. For example Hawaiian Pidgin uses many words that don't have a clear English equivalent. This seems like it is a common occurrence in other places. American English will keep evolving thanks
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by ArtDev 10y ago
Though I wish the world language was Indonesian (high learnability) its not. The British empire was the largest spanning empire in world history. English is the world language, like it or not. The country with the highest number of English
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by ArtDev 10y ago
Even if minimum wage was 1$ a day, companies would try to make as much as possible. Its the same as outsourcing the drive through to a remote call center (already happening). The difference, machines aren't subsidized by taxpayers.
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by ArtDev 10y ago
This proves what we already know about many white folks and Obama.
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Doctored Obama photos to get white people to support conservative politics(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by ArtDev 10y ago|3 comments
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by ArtDev 10y ago
In this story, I learned that generic drugs are never exactly the same: http://fortune.com/2013/05/15/dirty-medicine/ This company was fraudulently claiming that the drug profile of their generics was id
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by ArtDev 10y ago
From personal experience, countries with extreme income distributions have a wide host of problems; from political unstability and civil wars to poverty and disease. Almost all third-world countries are like this.
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How America Picks Its Next Move in the South China Sea(nationalinterest.org)
1 points by ArtDev 10y ago|0 comments
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by ArtDev 10y ago
I will stick with GitLab.
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by ArtDev 10y ago
A reminder why I avoid Apple products like the plague.
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Apple Ends Support for QuickTime for Windows; New Vulnerabilities Announced(us-cert.gov)
1 points by ArtDev 10y ago|1 comments
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Prominent Democratic Consultants Sign Up to Defeat Single Payer in Colorado(theintercept.com)
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by ArtDev 10y ago
Helping the police sounds noble but it is only making a bad situation much much worse: https://sexliesducttape.me/2016/03/31/a-pocket-guide-to-deal... Get the police out of the picture and then maybe these pe
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by ArtDev 10y ago
An anesthesiologist in the US is the highest paid profession, period. They earn more than surgeons. They should be responsible and liable for their mistakes.
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by ArtDev 10y ago
Summary: ----- BiTMICRO Networks Inc. (of Fremont, California) paid some workers as little as $1.66 per hour after importing them from the Philippines on H1-B visas. "We continue to see a pattern of U.S. companies misusing foreign work
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Silicon Valley tech firm must pay Filipinos $160K in back wages(globalnation.inquirer.net)
2 points by ArtDev 10y ago|1 comments
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Outlaw Chinese Steel(huffingtonpost.com)
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by ArtDev 10y ago
Giving up is a very poor plan. Dead trees make wildfires much much worse. California wildfires are terrible as it is.
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by ArtDev 10y ago
On an unrelated note, the best comment reply ever: "Why do you assume that the experts missed a plan that some random guy on the Internet came up with in 30 seconds?"
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Flaws in Samsung’s ‘Smart’ Home Let Hackers Unlock Doors and Set Off Fire Alarms(wired.com)
3 points by ArtDev 10y ago|0 comments
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by ArtDev 10y ago
H+ anyone? Really one of the best scifi shows no one has heard about. https://www.youtube.com/user/HplusDigitalSeries
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by ArtDev 10y ago
It makes a ton of sense. This is how it works in Oregon. The $100 comes out of what you owe in taxes.
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by ArtDev 10y ago
So, this is already how it works in Oregon. Maybe you could point that out?
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by ArtDev 10y ago
Oh, this is scary. Drupal and Wordpress rely on Imagemagik. The amounts to a huge amount of the internet as a whole.

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