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by T2_t2 8y ago
Bad coding.
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by T2_t2 8y ago
> UBI is not a long term solution As computer programmers, I think the one thing it teaches is that nothing is a/the solution. I remember when the default version of rails was going to require like 7 technologies to be able to do th
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by T2_t2 8y ago
You have $100 - you buy a house worth $500. House goes up 3%, it is now worth $515. You invested $100, and have $115 in equity. Growth 15%. (that is ignoring other costs, obviously - just an attempt to explain the maths). That is the power
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by T2_t2 9y ago
> look at bigger items like health care, housing, and education Indeed. Question is, what will a dollar buy you? We have more treatments for illness, we have more educational options, more and more. There is no silver bullet to be sure,
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by T2_t2 9y ago
> Would you rather live in a world with no smartphones where you afford a house/apartment How rich are your poor? That may seem a silly question, but are poor people really buying houses? Did they ever? You seem to be talking about
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by T2_t2 9y ago
> The poor never occupied prime (at the time) real estate Couldn't agree more! That's the irony. For many cities, crime kept the richer people further away from the inner city, where many jobs are/were. In places like Lond
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by T2_t2 9y ago
As a fellow non-American, it took me years the realise there is no America. It is the Unites STATES of America, where the states are all very, very different. As an example, last I looked the GDP per capita in San Francisco is $48K, whereas
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by T2_t2 9y ago
That is the same everywhere - worse in places like London.
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by T2_t2 9y ago
Except they also had less. This is the ... I'm not sure of the right word, paradox? duality? ... anyway, the problem/benefit of globalisation, that it leads to cheaper stuff. We all have more today, even on less money. Thought exp
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by T2_t2 9y ago
Off topic: Is it RSI or tennis elbow? I got really bad tennis elbow from my Macbook (my theory is the copy paste using a key four in from bottom left rather than the corner key of a windows computer is the issue, as it changes the position
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by T2_t2 9y ago
I worry more about this blending of life, work and passion into one miasma that is supposed to be consistent and all-encompassing, all the time. Used to be, we had a work life, a private life, friends and activities that more or less never
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by T2_t2 9y ago
> There's no real solution to this problem. I disagree, There IS a solution, but no one likes it. Segway: Football aka Soccer had a problem back in the day. Games became (more?) boring because teams would go up a goal, and just pla
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by T2_t2 9y ago
It depends on the mix of roles in a company I guess, but animal farm comes to mind here: all worker-owners are equal (but some are more equal than others). What happens when the company expands? Do the new employees get equal shares? But th
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by T2_t2 9y ago
When it comes to happiness, it is really interesting the choices people make. Thought experiment: in an ideal world, what is the preference that leads to 100/0 split in career choice? By that I mean in an ideal world, by how much does
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by T2_t2 9y ago
This is one of those areas where anecdata is misleading. http://www.firstmet.com/dating-blog/online-dating-money-fact... And this stays true after finding someone: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/n
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by T2_t2 9y ago
You speak Viking. I'll be eternally jealous! I think being from a small nation with such an odd history is awesome. I think Icelandic will preserve itself because the Icelandic people seem stubbornly determined while also pragmatic. Be
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by T2_t2 9y ago
The problem is Twitter as a company, not as a concept. Twitter as company has destroyed the third party ecosystem that could have been INVALUABLE here. Twitter the company wants to be all things to all people. But the ruler of the kingdom s
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by T2_t2 9y ago
So after all that, we're back to "you are not the right customer". The key to business is to charge an amount that gets the customers you want. Ironically, cheaper customers are almost always more work, fullstop let alone per
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by T2_t2 9y ago
Look at all the free advice it elicited. What would it have cost to have people make all the comments on this thread? I reckon this post has accrued its value already.
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by T2_t2 9y ago
Margin and volume are the key to advertising. Coca cola needs to sell a lot of extra coke to make a return, and they do. At the other end, car companies. You only need to move a tiny fraction of people left or right on a $20K purchase to ju
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by T2_t2 9y ago
Your advice from your first sentence holds true, and extrapolating too wildly is unwise. MAYBE driverless cars become a reality and quickly at that. MAYBE that makes drivers in the west redundant just as fast. But worldwide? I think people
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by T2_t2 9y ago
Are China & India really the issue? I mean, McDonalds only just committed to automation of ordering at a minimum wage much higher than that in China or India. I think we over estimate where and by how much automation will strike. Poor t
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by T2_t2 9y ago
I have no idea what the correct answer is, but as this is one of those questions that matters, OP probably needs proper proper advice from someone you trust in the know. If, for whatever reason, getting proper advice is not something you ca
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by T2_t2 9y ago
> - too many illnesses (I guess 10% of top common health problems, covering 90% of all problems) I think this is probably the easy thing to fix when it comes to searching, as you could pretty much leave out the common diagnoses as they&#
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by T2_t2 9y ago
Isn't the rebuttal your post the heart of the whole current, I'm not even sure how to describe it, "listen" movement: your experience won't be the same as anyone else's? I wonder why that doesn't extend to
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by T2_t2 9y ago
Well played! How on earth did you find that? and why did Google return the other one? In any case, THANKS!
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by T2_t2 9y ago
Just to clarify: 1. You believe that Damore's lawyers withdrew the claim because the NLRB said they wouldn't pursue it. Is that a correct assessment? That's the timeline AFAICT anyway. Does that make the memo a public stateme
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by T2_t2 9y ago
You seem to understand this better than me, so can you explain a few things to me I find (as a non-American) confusing? > The NLRB turned down Damore's complaint Can you explain where you got this idea from? Not this article, becaus
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by T2_t2 9y ago
This is just a weird argument to me - the argument about ability. I don't think, in any western country - which for point of reference I'm taking as any country Israel or above on this list https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by T2_t2 9y ago
Don't over extrapolate this one instance to a rule. I think what was interesting was the testing. An audience that is mostly, say, pensioners, will likely have a very different result than a site that has as its first claim: "Meme

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