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by aisengard 8y ago
I'd personally add one - if you're an early enough employee, you can have a hand in personally shaping the culture of the company around you. I suppose this can fit into "work a certain way".
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by aisengard 8y ago
Nice try, Elon.
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by aisengard 8y ago
The "ethics in game journalism" was basically a weaselword for what they really wanted - women out of gaming. It's a lot like how "economic anxiety" elected Trump - it's a way to excuse people's inexcusabl
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by aisengard 8y ago
This is not really true. Sales tax is almost always a tack-on. Netflix can very easily advertise the same prices, and then when sales tax gets added on in your credit card statement they can just throw up their hands and say "the gover
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by aisengard 8y ago
I mean, this is essentially how the House of Representatives works.
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by aisengard 8y ago
You've done this before with friends and family?
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by aisengard 8y ago
Mixing money and family/friends sounds like it will end horribly. What happens when you don't break even and you need to fire people?
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by aisengard 8y ago
In this simulation you have a kid. What roommate is going to be okay rooming with a little kid? Then you have to consider safety concerns. Are you okay with your kid living in the same place as some stranger? "Just get a roommate"
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by aisengard 8y ago
> So what you end up with in this demo is a race against unsustainably high costs because you arbitrarily can't remove them. Actually sounds pretty realistic to me. People tend not to have as much agency as we like to think.
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by aisengard 8y ago
Huh, looks like nothing happened. What do you know? Turns out, white men have always been the most protected class of them all, and any change to that paradigm feels like an assault. The onus is on the formerly-protected class to think outs
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by aisengard 8y ago
The expansion of global trade has done more to stop nuclear war than anything else. You don't want to nuke the guy who gives you all your soybeans.
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by aisengard 8y ago
Or maybe because women are the most extreme example? Women are not a minority - they are ~51% of the population. When most of your population is treated like a second-class minority, well, that's kind of a big crisis. And yes, it helps
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by aisengard 8y ago
People are so incredibly desperate to attribute things to people who haven't really done anything. I hate Cuomo too, but I'm not going to descend into nonsense peddling in order to fight him. It only serves to undermine any actual
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by aisengard 8y ago
One big problem is that we've created a culture where there is literally nothing else other than labor and productivity, literally for productivity's sake. So when we run out of meaningful, productive jobs for everyone, people get
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by aisengard 8y ago
So think of it this way, how would you feel if a socialist government took over and decided that your 401k is fair game for extra taxation? But it's _your_ money, capitalism promised you! "Boohoo", you should have thought of
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by aisengard 8y ago
Everyone who has to work a day job to pay the bills (and get health insurance) is working class. We have far more in common, financially, with each other than we do with the financially independent.
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by aisengard 8y ago
The true measure of wealth should be, are you financially independent? Meaning, could you never do wage work again in your life and never have to worry about money? By my calculations that would be in the area of a few million dollars, inve
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by aisengard 9y ago
Someone has to provide necessities to society. In absence of government directly providing it, we force companies to do it. What you want is, essentially, socialism, with a little bit of the market carved out for market capitalism. Sounds g
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by aisengard 9y ago
That's not a good analogy to something like Uber, because there's no profit motive. What you described is essentially a government works program, which is a great idea! But that's not what anyone seems to be talking about.
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by aisengard 9y ago
Actually, the public has been convinced that regulation on ISPs is a good thing , and that repealing that regulation without replacing it with anything is a bad thing . And I think that's a pretty fair thing to think.
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by aisengard 9y ago
Because the "bloated bureaucracy" is providing vital services to its citizenry, boosting the state's economy and underlying workforce, and therefore boosting the taxes they ultimately pay, hence the fact of NY/CA taxpaye
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by aisengard 9y ago
Agreed that private universities should pay better, but like in any capitalist society they will only pay as much as they need to. In this case, and especially in the absence of graduate student unions (which the GOP also seem primed to do
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by aisengard 9y ago
"This was a very futile and stupid gesture on that employee's part." Doesn't look like it to me. You're talking and thinking about it, aren't you?
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by aisengard 9y ago
Essentially, they are giving people the opportunity to transfer out 55% of their account balances. In exchange, your account is deleted and you waive the right to the remaining 45%. If you don't cash out, then they are claiming that yo
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by aisengard 10y ago
A big difference is that drinking soda has no effect on the person next to you. Another difference is that drinking soda occasionally likely has as much effect on your overall health as occasionally eating ice cream or a candy bar, which is
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by aisengard 10y ago
But he wouldn't have been convicted without that evidence. It doesn't matter if he can't prove his innocence, the job of the prosecutor is to prove guilt.