IanDrake

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by IanDrake 10y ago
Nope. Seriously though, I lived through not knowing any better and being surrounded by people who didn't know any better. I'm actually not criticizing poor people, I'm trying to explain their situation to people who were rais
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I am mindful. I'm speaking from the experience of being that ignorant person and being lucky enough to have a few people in my life that showed me the way.
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Exactly. It's not how much money you make anyway, it's how much you keep. It can be harder to keep more when you're living in one of the most expensive cities in the world and those expenses aren't tax deductible.
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Thank you for understanding my point. What other folk here fail to consider is that I was speaking from experience. I was that ignorant when I was young and I was surrounded by others who were also ignorant of the possibilities around them.
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The problem we have when thinking about poor people is that we think they're people just like us, but with no money. That's not the way to think about it. You would be astonished at their ignorance and, as an effect of that ingnor
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>For Republicans, who worry about state overreach and the government’s ability to oppress its citizens Note: I'm a Republican because I'm not a Democrat and there are no other viable parties. One thing I can tell you about the
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I agree with your initial sentiments, but your fianancial advice has me wondering how old you are. If you're not old enough to live through what happened in 2001/2008 then you have some serious blind spots. And I don't mean j
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by IanDrake 10y ago
Super cool. One issue... I was watching the flexbox video and modified the CSS code but the view layout didn't update. I clicked the save button thinking that would update the view, but then it had me sign up. After signing up, I en
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Just six. Is that enough for what you had in mind?
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I literally made a scene laughing at this while sitting in a hipster cafe complete with Edison light bulbs.
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This story has been playing out for a long time now. The plowshare, the printing press, textile mills, cars, etc... The plowshare replaced a team of people doing the work by hand. What happened to those people when the plowing "robot&
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by IanDrake 10y ago
Just having fun here, but: In a world where a skilled worker (such as yourself) resorts to that, who are your customers at the bar and how do they make money to pay their tab? And where is the robot bartender in this scenario?
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In a world where Snapchat just IPO'd, do you really want to ride the high horse on this one.
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Hmmm... He only inflated order numbers to investors, he didn't inflate revenue, per the article. So that could be looked at in two different ways. Investors could see a stagnant growth in revenue while orders increase and get scared o
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It's unclear to me what was gained by this? 1- He got a tax deduction: ok, but it's not like that money came back to him tax free somehow. 2- His company got inflated numbers: ok, but not revenue. They only inflated order numbers.
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If I were asked to write code on a white board, I would just say, "That would be like asking me to bench press in my business suit. I can do it, but the context is wrong and it won't be pleasant or productive. So, no. Let'
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by IanDrake 10y ago
This article strikes out at the end. The answer for the folks who have given up looking for a job isn't easier access to college as suggested. When someone drops out of high school it's not because they had too few choices to go t
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Thanks. I missed point 1 and 3. Point 2 has almost no value these days unless you don't have Hulu/Amazon/Netflix, which I guess some people don't. I watched commercial TV for the first time in a few years the other day a
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I don't see the value proposition here. Can anyone explain what I'm getting for $35 (over cheap or free alternatives)?
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>although the four decades he spent living in Switzerland to avoid Swedish taxes may also have something to do with it. This flies in the face of what we've been told about socialism. It looks like rich people do leave the country
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Ha! Yeah, I probably wouldn't take that bet...too short term. Long term...I might be right though, assuming a few things... 1) The product category goes main stream, which it hasn't even touched yet. 2) The government uses it as
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If they lose this case, this entire product category goes in the shitter. No one wants a government listening device in their house, which is essentially what this is if the government can issue a search warrant for recordings.
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by IanDrake 10y ago
Not agreeing the the OP here, but your assertion that "Half your country was \"made\" on the backs of slaves" is wrong. While slavory was a horrific practice in the US, GB, France, the Barbary states, etc... it has nothi
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The very second person is quite clearly a US citizen and is "terrified". His quote is the title of the post.
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Thanks for your revision. At the border you still have the right to a lawyer who can file a writ of habeas corpus. Then you must be charged or released.
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No, not indefinitely. Stop spreading these lies.
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It's hard to take people seriously when they're a US citizen but afraid to leave the country because of the travel ban. You're a US citizen... try to understand what that means and stop being acting like a victim...because yo
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Haha, right. That is how the article should have read.
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This is a really cool idea. I wonder if the play calling is a pure democracy or if they have an algo to make good play callers have more sway. They could do something like, for every play I vote for that wins, the results of that play add
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Probably not the best comparison. Reality is more like: - Kill your competition, literally. - Assassinate politicians that won't work with you. - Murder anyone in the press that speaks ill of you. - Pay off regulators that might inter

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