LitFan

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by LitFan 8y ago
Lowering profits means reduced shareholder value and a lower market capitalization. Every company is interested in providing as much value to shareholders as possible. I don't know all the ins and outs, but I believe public trading and
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by LitFan 8y ago
Why is this downvoted? The only way to make this change is for people to boycott the service.
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by LitFan 8y ago
As a society we've decided that we do, because we are. The shoddy treatment of Amazon's employees has been publicized repeatedly for years. The issue is that while the average person is lead to believe the notion that they can wor
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by LitFan 8y ago
If a lawyer were to consistently lose cases as a result of not maintaining their knowledge of the law, they would not be disbarred (they would just lose clients). If a lawyer were to consistently act illegally as a result of not keeping up
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by LitFan 8y ago
"All that long" is relative, but it took this guy a while to do it out loud. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Harper 89 days at ~16 hours per day works out to ~5 seconds per number
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by LitFan 8y ago
Society has decided that having children is important, and individuals, companies, and governments encourage that activity by providing benefits like these.
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by LitFan 8y ago
Your hormone levels and how your body responds to different types of calories can be changed by changing your diet. There's also the fact that muscles burn fat whereas fat begets fat storage. I believe metabolism does slow year over ye
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by LitFan 9y ago
You're absolutely right. There was only one mention of cloth diapers anywhere in here, and it was quickly dismissed by "they are difficult to clean without a machine". Nothing about how cost effective they can be, and then we
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by LitFan 9y ago
Is this opinion only for web advertising? Extending this to integrated advertising in movies - I'd rather see a character driving a Ford truck or drinking a can of coke than see an extra 15-30 seconds at the start of the movie watching
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by LitFan 9y ago
Replying to the lowest level comment because this is the one where you call it out specifically. These subsidies aren't driven by an outcry from the population, they're driven by groups of companies lobbying the government. Car co
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by LitFan 9y ago
I believe that relationship and marriage counsellors are treating symptoms rather than the root cause. This is anecdotal, but: I attended family counselling with multiple counsellors for many years, I found those sessions helped only for as
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by LitFan 10y ago
The suggestion was to set up a fake job opportunity, and to collect real references - an attempt to find out who gave a mixed reference.