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by alvah 6y ago
"It is not a human right to earn a living." The UNCHR has begged to differ since 1948. Article 23 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: "Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and
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by alvah 6y ago
"Among other differences, for example, a German President is personally liable for the financial obligations of their company. If the company goes bankrupt, so does he." Not really. Directors are not generally held liable for debt
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by alvah 6y ago
Many (if not most) people have "picked a team" so to speak, and they want to be correct. If Sweden's way proves to be better in the long run, many of those people will have been wrong. Nobody wants to be proven wrong, hence t
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by alvah 7y ago
So we just need to build our own Google or YouTube? That shouldn't be too hard /sarc
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by alvah 7y ago
"They were also one of the first few countries to ban return flights to and from mainland China, having announced the suspension from Feb. 1, 2020, slightly more than a week after the country's first cases of Covid-19 were found.&
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by alvah 7y ago
If the whole situation wasn't so serious, it would be hilarious just how badly-timed the oil price war was!
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by alvah 7y ago
Where have you been hiding since 2016, that you expect Trump's words to be very carefully weighted?
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by alvah 7y ago
There's an arms race in the SEO tools market, to have the largest / most frequently updated / most accurate backlinks database. Ahrefs have used the claim that their bot is the most active (apart from Googlebot) in their mark
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by alvah 7y ago
Absolutely. SEO is content & links. Good (valuable to the searcher) content earns links (over time), low quality content needs various tactics of increasing dodginess to gain links.
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by alvah 7y ago
Your last paragraph doesn't negate the value of SEO. IMO you still need good product / good content / some reason for people to visit your site for long-term success, but if 10 others have an offering (of any quality) in the
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by alvah 7y ago
"I'm going to buy a car that's safer for pedestrians / other cars in a collision, but less safe for my family" said one person ever.
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by alvah 7y ago
There are over 5 minutes of ads at the start of every Joe Rogan podcast, as well as others throughout. One analyst suggests Rogan has acheived a net worth over $1bn based on the number of downloads & estimated advertising revenue based
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by alvah 7y ago
"Honestly, it seems rather over the top legalism." In Australia? I can hardly believe it /sarc
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by alvah 7y ago
The theory of capitalism is that the means of production are privately owned (as opposed to government owned). What you're talking about is part of economic theory, not the same as capitalism at all.
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by alvah 7y ago
"thrifty/crafty like Scottish people" This stereotype hasn't been true for at least a generation.
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by alvah 7y ago
"A current driver/transit-rider might choose to bike 15 miles each way only if on an e-bike." This is absolutely the case for me - an e-bike makes the difference between my 27km commute being viable in a sensible time frame,
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by alvah 7y ago
"the next time they need Verizon's cooperation to resolve an issue" According to the Cloudflare post, they didn't get Verizon's cooperation to fix a partly-Verizon-caused issue this time, so what do they have to los
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by alvah 7y ago
SEO can take months to move the needle, especially on a new domain. If the client needs results faster than this, the standard advice seems to be PPC & SEO for the first 6 months, then reduce / eliminate PPC as the organic traffic
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by alvah 7y ago
Are you sure nobody specifically buys or leases a car to do Uber / Lyft gigs?
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by alvah 8y ago
They could have had "check for AoA disagree" as part of the pre-flight checklist though - I read somewhere that in at least 1 of the MAX crashes, the AoA vanes disagreed on the ground before departure.
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by alvah 8y ago
The first 777 crash was at Heathrow in 2008, I don't recall reading anything about foul play there.
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by alvah 8y ago
By "a price on carbon" you presumably mean "a tax on CO2", aka simultaneously making everything a little more expensive for current voters, and making government dependent on yet another sin tax? Not particularly good po
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by alvah 8y ago
Because the risk of default is not binary, it's on a sliding scale. If the banks are not allowed to charge enough interest to cover the risk of default, the loan will not be made.
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by alvah 8y ago
"Look at Jacob Nielsen for an example" Indeed - my copy of his "Designing Web Usability" was published in 2000, and the OP is basically a re-statement of the principles in this book.
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by alvah 9y ago
"..calling them a public threat because their riders exceed speed limits and disobey traffic laws by riding the wrong way on streets and on sidewalks. This reasoning is faulty: Do Lee, a researcher at CUNY Graduate Center and organizer
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by alvah 9y ago
I'm not convinced it's as black and white as that. Look at the example given (Rocket Ismail). Not to pick on an individual, but he doesn't seem to be taking responsibility for any of his losses, even with the supposed "h
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by alvah 9y ago
Can confirm. I didn't bother going to a dentist for about 3 years in my late teens / early twenties (due to complacency as my childhood dentist in the UK was the laziest man alive & just sent me home every year saying "yo
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by alvah 9y ago
"My takeaway is that teeth are very stubborn and don't like to be moved quickly. And that once moved, they really want to go back to the way they were. There is a lot of new tech, but you've gotta find the right ortho. I shop
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by alvah 9y ago
Land in Australian capital cites is expensive, but home construction costs are not. We built 307m2 with a decent builder in Perth for AUD$250k a few years ago, if anything construction prices have softened since then.
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by alvah 9y ago
He actually has a point, though it was poorly made. The Omega 3: Omega 6 ratio of grass fed & grain fed beef are vastly different. If you subscribe to any of the ancestral diet theories, the difference in ratios is enough to make grass

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