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Veelox
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When you hear someone say "I cannot find qualified workers" always add "at the price I am offering" because if they doubled or tripled the wage they offered, they could find a qualified person so it is a matter of price,
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8y ago
Rent, medical expenses, and college expenses have all out paced inflation so it is more important to fix the underlying issues in those markets than force employers to pay more.
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The same reason that landlords are entitled to expensive rent, doctors to high salaries, and colleges to high tuition. Its the market rate for those things. I would say there are much better second order effects from focusing on bringing pr
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8y ago
Hey, how about instead of requiring employers to pay more we reduce the cost housing, medicine, and schooling which are the biggest drains on people expenses.
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8y ago
Hey Peter, thanks for doing this What changes would you propose to the current immigration system?
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8y ago
Personally, I think 16 is way to young to be experimenting with drug. The effects are to powerful to give to an under-developed brain.
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8y ago
Looking at the article in depth I was able to find this quote > Fluharty questions the grounds for the separation of Maria and her children. She said her client walked up to the border and turned herself in to immigration authorities, wh
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8y ago
Point of fact, committing an illegal active in the US is grounds for having your children taken away. Committing an illegal activity is not grounds for deprivation of food, water, or shelter. When you make the assertion that "Entering
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My understanding is that if a family crosses the border illegally the children are separated from the parents. If instead they stop and the border and request entry then the families get to stay together. It is motivated in part because the
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You do realize that 80% of people worth >$1 million had parents that were not millionaires right?
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tl;dr Vaccines need to be kept at 2C-8C before they are used to be effective. This is a problem in Africa because power can be inconsistent and villages are remote. Two improvements have been developed. MetaFridge is a new fridge that can k
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>For example the Catholic Church doesn't support gay marriage or even condom use in AIDS torn Africa. It seems like your criticism is something along the lines of "I don't like the choices they make" which when it com
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"Heck MS gets more per Android phone for royalities than Google." Really? You got a citation for that?
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While the US is far from perfect, it doesn't risk your life or your freedom to speak poorly of the leader of your country as a US citizen. That same cannot be said about a citizen of China. That is the main reason I think it better tha
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I think you are underestimating how much easier high speed internet enabled downloading of software over buying a CD
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1 million dead in 15 years seems a lot higher than any other number I have seen. Do you have a citation for this?
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I think that if the government work to provide a lower UBI of say ~$750/month, healthcare, and also provide housing similar to military barracks available to everyone free of charge it would circumvent the instance increase in rent and
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8y ago
If you think the bubble is going to pop you should take out some options and you should be able to make a killing.
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I think you missed the best gem, under the Stay Tuned section > "Once in, we will provide expert timing advice to make sure tier 1 and limited offer tier 2 participants maximize immediate gains with a pre-planned pump to occur short
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:q
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I think you are being uncharitable to the point they made. Since there are accredited investors, if a bad guy tries to talk an un-accredited investor into buying into a dressed up Ponzi scheme it is a federal crime and thus can be investiga
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He address that in the article "Women are around 20% of CS majors, physics majors, engineering majors, etc – but almost half of math majors" ... "I was totally confused by this for a while until a commenter directed me to the
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> 37. (Henshaw's Law) One key to success in a mission is establishing clear lines of blame. I feel like this applies to a lot more than just spacecraft design.
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> That argument or some other one that is equally dumb on it's face but might work in a court of law > equally dumb I was defending why I think there is a 50% shot that Uber could make part B not apply. It seems like you think it
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The normal Uber workplace is the office where the app is developed, drivers never visit so they are not part of the normal work place. That argument or some other one that is equally dumb on it's face but might work in a court of law
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I appreciate the reasonable honest tone.
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I think that Uber/Lyft could pretty easily argue A. The driver has control over the quality/cleanliness of the car, amount of conversation, extra perks provided, and timeliness of arrival. While I agree element B would be difficul
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9y ago
TV advertising is very very targeted. If you don't think so, spend ten minutes each on commercials from Disney channel, the Food Network, ESPN, and CNBC. You will see very very different ads on each.
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I was able to purchase a $1,000 computer when I was 14 due to smart saving of my money. While it isn't possible for everyone, I did grow up in a middle/upper middle class family where it was possible.
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Would you really let your 10 year old watch porn?
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