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by adamsea 8y ago
Mmmm if you don’t work and make money in the US you’ll be in a bad way, and since the majority of employers have the conditions described, and most job seekers have little negotiating leverage on these issues, the choice to sign the employm
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by adamsea 8y ago
> This is exactly the kind of emotional appeals the GP is complaining about. According to the book “Emotional Intelligence” rational thought and emotion are two sides of the same coin.
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by adamsea 8y ago
Ummm if cub porn is what I think it is and it is frowned upon which it sounds like it is then imho I suggest not using a community-specific euphemism as the euphemism implicitly grants it a place and status within your community.
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by adamsea 8y ago
> And you can view the US Government in a similar fashion, except exchange corporate profits for power. The difference is that however flawed or imperfect it might be our government does have a democratic and representative system intend
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by adamsea 8y ago
Source?
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by adamsea 8y ago
I would respectfully disagree. Introduce enough noise into the system and the cost of verification becomes so high that doing so is unrealistic for many or most people. Also, on first glance the app looks great, well-polished, and the UX of
907.
by adamsea 8y ago
I would go even further and add -- "over-the-top" or "showboating" relative to what? I think it's more that the consensus style of much business communication, technical documentation, and academic literature is ver
908.
by adamsea 8y ago
Living things are machines, they're just incredibly sophisticated biological ones ;)
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by adamsea 8y ago
We love Web Design. Web Design is our life. Web Design is vital. We must capitolize Web Design every time we say Web Design. Capitalize on Web Design today!
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by adamsea 8y ago
> No one with a straight face can tell me women in entry level tech programs are not incredibly favored. All my below average coder friends that are women got awesome jobs with high salaries extremely easily. Yes, I talk with them and th
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by adamsea 8y ago
Well, considering how the U.S. (where I live) spends about 1 trillion + on war or war-related stuff each year, and, considering all the people in the country with crappy jobs that can't pay the bills, seems like shifting even say $500
912.
by adamsea 8y ago
If the law applys to everyone then wouldn’t that one particular part of the playing field be even?
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by adamsea 8y ago
Yeah, it's not as if America is like some episode of 'Star Trek' where one group of a planet's inhabitants consider themselves superior because their skin is of one particular hue, and historically have used that as an e
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by adamsea 8y ago
The flip side is say, those, who, because there was no safety net, did not or were not able to turn their lives around the way you did and fell on really, really hard times - who didn't make it.
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by adamsea 8y ago
> "she gets a whole bunch of joy from the job which is invisibly priced into compensation" This is a pretty naive statement.
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by adamsea 8y ago
Mmm I would say art is a necessity but it’s economics are weird - winner-take-all, etc. I say it is a me necessity because it is impossible (and perhaps a contradiction in terms) to imagine a human culture or society which had absolutely no
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by adamsea 8y ago
What geographies?
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by adamsea 8y ago
> no particular reason except some ideological one ... You make ideology sound like a bad thing. Depends on the particular beliefs of the ideology, no? After all the “free market” (for lack of a better term) beliefs in your post are an i
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by adamsea 8y ago
Who watches the watcher?
920.
by adamsea 8y ago
It’s not how many words you know, it’s how you use them.
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by adamsea 8y ago
Similar accessibility problems already exist with the current interface of keyboard, mouse, and screen. If you have a physical disability making it impossible for you to type, use a mouse, or, are blind or colorblind, you require specialize
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by adamsea 8y ago
I certainly agree a business model can do those things, and sometimes does. I could see companies such as Patagonia, who have a strong reputation for prioritizing sustainability, potentially being interested in a service like that. It seems
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by adamsea 8y ago
Is your app eventually meant to turn a profit, and if so how? Or, are you doing this on a nonprofit basis and planning to keep it as such?
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by adamsea 8y ago
Millions of people depend on the Great Lakes for their supply of fresh water. Water scarcity is already a problem, that would make it worse.
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by adamsea 8y ago
There is not only one kind of "action" available to take.
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by adamsea 8y ago
Gustaf, without being too facetious, I think a startup to incentivize landowners to use forest land for carbon removal instead of beef would be called "donating to a politician's election campaign." : ). The reason I make the
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by adamsea 8y ago
> “Dieting may be the most helpful analogy here.” Considering the massive flimflam industry around dieting, deceptive food company practices to make unhealthy food seem healthy, and the proliferation of ‘food deserts’ or parts of the cou
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by adamsea 8y ago
There are stupid people in all walks of life. Or, people who do things because that’s how they’ve been done and they don’t want to rock the boat and that’s what their paycheck depends on.
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by adamsea 8y ago
Sometimes yes and sometimes no.
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by adamsea 8y ago
Best? Who is better, Yo Yo Ma or Wayne Shorter? Bob Dylan or Paul Mcartney or Stevie Wonder? Or Bjork? Ai Wewei or Banksy or Stan Lee? Stephen King or Salman Rushdie? Sorry for getting snippy, but my Point is, art, especially of all things,

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