Trundle

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by Trundle 10y ago
How do you think revenue is generated? People give you money because they rather have your good/service than the money. Selling something to someone is benefitting them.
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by Trundle 10y ago
Are the Koch brothers abnormally strong or something? The state is what gives anyone the ability to control that ridiculous amount of wealth. The idea that them being unchecked without state backing is a problem is laughable.
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by Trundle 10y ago
Why assume adblockers are bigger than the advertising industry? Adblocking will exist up until it's cheaper for large players to pay money to fix the problem, be that legal costs, development, or ransom to browser providers. Particular
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by Trundle 10y ago
So there's a lie being told to the rest of us that life is supposed to be reasonably fair and that we're supposed to work toward keeping it that way. Keeping that lie while many people are intentionally trying to subvert the conce
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by Trundle 10y ago
That both directions can seem like a good idea to a speculating outsider doesn't mean the decision is an arbitrary one. It means the deciding factors aren't something we're privy to.
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by Trundle 10y ago
An easy problem solved by restricting use in public locations, which we already do to an extent. However a person quietly poisoning themselves in isolation within their own home is still unnecessarily and unfairly affected by tyrannical sin
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by Trundle 10y ago
The entire reason we have our healthcare system is so that a long and high quality life is an option for the population. It seems pretty apparent to me that most people aren't optimising for either though. No reason to get paternalisti
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by Trundle 10y ago
For imported stuff definitely. I wouldn't want to have a coke habit here. Weed seems as cheap as anywhere else though.
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by Trundle 10y ago
It's better to be a big fish in a small pond than a bigger fish in the ocean.
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by Trundle 10y ago
Questioning a persons compassion because they hold a different opinion than you is low. There's no reason to believe they don't care. Their post doesn't say "Don't call the police, it's not worth the taxpayers
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by Trundle 10y ago
Pretty sure he signed up because he's a part owner of the cash gate company. If it was important to him to cash gate himself earlier he certainly had the means to implement a crude version of it.
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by Trundle 10y ago
Because we find discussing theory fun? What does "all that matters" mean? This is a recreational discussion that carries no practical weight.
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by Trundle 10y ago
When you denied corporations having personhood despite them having personhood in the eyes of the law, I assumed you were interested in discussing the concept from an ethics pov rather than a legal one. I'm sure the department of labor
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by Trundle 10y ago
The data they requested didn't have personhood either yet the discussion went straight to whether the corporation does. Why is that if ownership doesn't encompass property rights?
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by Trundle 10y ago
They are owned by people though and your wife's underwear drawer is not a person either.
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by Trundle 10y ago
Ambulance chasing would count as hustling.
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by Trundle 10y ago
Tolerance build up happens with all flavours.
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by Trundle 10y ago
There's nothing stopping them from doing that. Governments are sovereign, businesses and citizens are not. NYC is owned by the government. If you want access you play by their rules
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by Trundle 10y ago
"I don't want to blame it all on 9/11, but it certainly didn't help"
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by Trundle 10y ago
Definitely cultural as the other guy said. When I visit the US I imagine I get much the same experience as you but instead of "friendly" and "alert" my description would be more "intrusive" and "transparen
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by Trundle 10y ago
The characters were a little flat yes but it was an original story with a unique ending. VII was basically ANH2.0 when ANH was sufficiently good without being remade.
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by Trundle 10y ago
Money is just a trading medium. There are an awful lot of things that it can be traded for so there's an awful lot of people with different wants and values where "acquire money" is a necessary step. Those things can then mak
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by Trundle 10y ago
Artificially lowered apartment rent seems obviously flawed but how about just not artificially lowering supply? Surely these high prices should have a lot of developers chomping at the bit to turn low density accommodation in to high densit
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by Trundle 10y ago
To be a Hail Mary it'd need to be a last minute risky play wouldn't it? I was under the impression that Uber has been playing the "lose money on human drivers until we have robot drivers and market share" game since, if
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by Trundle 10y ago
Are there lock in withs ebay? Barrier to entry is certainly low.
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by Trundle 10y ago
It's not about being blame centric it's about accurately targeting a goal. Healthy or more importantly just healthier is near treated as some form of weird mysticism that needs to involve home made fruit smoothies and yoga in the
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by Trundle 10y ago
There's only hypocrisy if one is to assume the author doesn't start his projects with the mentality of "lets check out this guess that probably sucks".
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by Trundle 10y ago
It's a requirement for many jobs.
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by Trundle 10y ago
They're not without alternatives already though. In a changing environment to stay still is to fall behind.
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by Trundle 10y ago
Meeting the hype expectations of people who practically worship technological change is a pretty high and imo unreasonable bar for viable product. Personally I'm of the opinion that because we've been making tools for 2.5 million

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