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Tohhou
13y ago
>What term would they prefer be used for someone that's acting bossy? Something entirely devoid of meaning so that it could never possibly hurt anyone's feelings for being someone who tells people what to do without leading by
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Tohhou
13y ago
>Was in response to your blanket assertion that technology changes so fast current knowledge will be useless in 15 years. What I meant was that some of what is useful now won't be useful in years to come not absolutely all technolog
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Just like my questions weren't arguments? I thought you saying that knowledge was timeless was related to older people (the topic) having knowledge. A person may understand principles but if they are not wiling to learn what a company
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Tohhou
13y ago
Get back to me in 15 years when ageism is no longer something people complain about. Won't happen. It will always be like this. People who refuse to adapt blame others instead of doing something about their own problems. If anything pe
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13y ago
>Obviously no-one is being hired to write x86 assembly. It's taught because it's relevant, important and timeless. Not everything is timeless. Not everything everyone specializes now will be timeless. Some knowledge will be use
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13y ago
I would argue that the number of people needed for older technology is finitely limited not that they are no longer needed. There may be demand for older technology, but the majority of new jobs won't be for older technology. >is co
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Tohhou
13y ago
>You're relying on make-believe scenario to argue a point. I live in a reality where technology is constantly changing, where people need to learn new things or get left behind in their usefulness. If they have years of experience i
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Tohhou
13y ago
>You're rebutting a straw man. >Ageism: people are not being hired because of their age only and not for any other reason. >The risk, by the way, is negligible for employees. What. Employees don't care that they might not
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Tohhou
13y ago
Competitive advantage isn't a real thing? You can hire anyone no matter what and be just as successful for sure?
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Tohhou
13y ago
>Who is claiming that first world women are an untapped source of cheap labor? In what field? The people who claim that women are discriminated against purely based on gender. If women really are being discriminated based on gender, and
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Tohhou
13y ago
>Myth : The highest paid are in the 30-40 age bracket. I'm not saying people are not paid money I'm saying older people will expect higher salaries based on their experience compared to younger people despite the direct value
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Tohhou
13y ago
And quite possibly starving themselves of nutrients which they need like I said. They might lose weight - muscle mass, but not body fat. Calories in calories out is incorrect. A person who accepts this as truth is setting themselves up for
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Tohhou
13y ago
Claims of age discrimination is like claims that there is untapped cheap labor in hiring women in first world countries. If the claims were true anyone could hire up all of the cheap labor and stomp their discriminating competitors. That do
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Tohhou
13y ago
~ nope ~ An overweight person can be eating caloric diet equal to a skinny person and not only not lose any fat, but also be painfully constantly hungry, and be technically starving themselves as their body leeches what it needs to run from
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Tohhou
13y ago
When everything is racism nothing is. For example, assuming Google is mainly white, mainly male, mainly white male when it's not. They go out of their way to ensure diversity in their organization.
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Tohhou
13y ago
I don't like his post because he needlessly implies Google engineers are malicious when it's obviously not the case. >staff are either incompetent, or racist. I hope for incompetence. Either is bad, but racism is much worse tha
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Tohhou
13y ago
I will explain it. Google wants personal identity attached to posts on Google+ people Google thinks that people will value what they say when they are not posting anonymously. Some engineer wrote a thing to try to catch obviously fake names
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Tohhou
13y ago
"Discriminate" because this was obviously intentional prejudicial racism! Of course it's not malicious. This guy is not good people.
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Tohhou
13y ago
I was talking more about large volumes of lower amount purchases. I understand that if your prices are high even with high volume it's worth it. Thank you for the details. Spreedly looks great.
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Tohhou
13y ago
Have you ever had to change gateways? They charge 2 cents on top of gateway fees - would it be substantial for you if you went direct to the gateway? I imagine less sales at higher prices it's worth it. Many lower price sales it would
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Tohhou
13y ago
It's better to be able to start from a clean slate in the future while still being able to support legacy versions if it is advantageous to do so. You are not smart enough to do it right the first time, because you cannot predict what
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Tohhou
13y ago
People's time is worth nothing and money is the only thing which matters and people who value their time more than some small amount of money don't deserve to be able to enjoy any games? >If the mechanic exists solely for gamep
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Tohhou
13y ago
Should all people in real sports be forced to use the same exact equipment because having a pay to win advance is unjustifiable there too? If a game is premium only, meaning it cannot be play for free, if people win in the game is that unju
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Tohhou
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Is every situation where money exchanges hands an abusive relationship? If the same gameplay mechanics existed but there was zero way to pay money and instead only spend time is it suddenly no longer abusive?
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Tohhou
13y ago
You are using "think of the children" argument were you not. Parents are the ones who should keep kids out of casinos not the state. There are parents who buy their kids scratch tickets. Even with the laws, you can't stop bad
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Tohhou
13y ago
That they are effective doesn't make them dark or evil! Makeup is effective at making people look more attractive than they would look without it that doesn't make makeup evil or dark.
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Tohhou
13y ago
>compulsive gamblers Very small percentage of the population. Please don't try to take away my liberties when you think you are smarter than everyone else. >think of the children >but there needs to be more effort to reduce th
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Tohhou
13y ago
>tricking people into doing things they wouldn't otherwise do Look at all of these people getting tricked into playing stupid match three games! Stupid sheep liking trash - that's a bug! They should like what I like! I have act
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13y ago
Consider a competitive game where someone who normally sucks buys a game which is awesome. He is able to have fun with all of the free players who are just good, and doesn't always win because he sucks. He's suddenly like a mini-b
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Tohhou
13y ago
If you spend $60 on a AAA game which makes you feel powerful is it less evil than spending once $2 in a F2P game which also makes you feel equally powerful? Is it only more evil once the user has spent more than $60 to feel powerful, or is
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