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by anotherbrownguy 9y ago
I think the whole issue of "unequal pay" seems very made-up and political and does not make any sense at all, at least in any way anyone can do anything about it... bear with me while I try to explain it. Lets say there are differ
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by anotherbrownguy 9y ago
You should do it just because writing things helps you to see what you know with clarity.
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You should check out Israel's.
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by anotherbrownguy 9y ago
>I think the main difference is that there is a chain of people who profit from selling to their 'downlines' How is it different from 3rd party Apple resellers? >Apple sell a product that the majority of people like As does
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by anotherbrownguy 9y ago
>Same for the phones. Apple ain't expensive if you assume it is a quality product. Same with Herbalife.
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by anotherbrownguy 9y ago
>I've known people desperate enough to start selling that crap (as well as others-their friends-that have to buy it just due to friendship), so please stop spreading MLM scams. They offer 100% buyback for distributors for unopened p
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by anotherbrownguy 9y ago
>it just has to charge a battery (or some other means of energy storage) which is reliable. That's not true. Let's say you build your system with enough solar panels to fully charge batteries that lasts 3 days. And lets say sun
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by anotherbrownguy 9y ago
>What Thiel did was to tell people with deep enough pockets to see that it's possible to destroy someone for writing articles that they disagree with What Theil did was to show that to make sure justice is served when a rich entity
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by anotherbrownguy 9y ago
Isn't nuclear hysteria created mostly by American CleanTech industry? Solar is not a reliable source to begin with so you can't use it to power anything critical. It has to be combined with something like nuclear or fossil fuels t
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by anotherbrownguy 9y ago
Serving customers better is a means to an end (i.e. maximizing profits), not an end it itself.
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Just like when an English speaker says "soon" then.
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>Not only money, but ownership needs to be redistributed. Unfortunately, we have yet to find a solution for this old problem either. Ever heard of public companies and the stock market?
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How is that a bad thing? Why would you not want to increase profit?
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When it comes to some of these jobs, there seems to be a trope that the job market should be about "equal representation" which is complete nonsense but it is great for women because big companies want to present themselves as &qu
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by anotherbrownguy 9y ago
>Journalism — the historical counter to propaganda "The good old days", except that never existed. Journalism has always been the tool for the powerful to paint a positive picture of themselves to the general public via "
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by anotherbrownguy 9y ago
>already has substantial power over end-users As I have mentioned earlier, the only power they have is they can block access to specific site. They can't actually know or filter out what the user sees. >you are proposing to allow
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by anotherbrownguy 9y ago
>I use comcast or Nothing, there is no other option for me That is unfortunate... not the fact that you don't have an option... but the fact that you are on the side of the argument which denies you that option. I'm done here.
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by anotherbrownguy 9y ago
>They can? Yes. >How do they do that? Most people get their news from their Facebook newsfeed or their Google search results. Facebook can analyze and prioritize certain content over another. Google does the same. The best example of
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by anotherbrownguy 9y ago
I would love to be corrected and there is a lot of disinformation, at least from one side, but here is my understanding of the issue: Let's say an ISP A wants to cover a small area with 1000 potential users. So, lets say they allocate
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by anotherbrownguy 9y ago
THIS. It is very clear that if there is a "MASSIVE wave of anything", it is from the other side i.e. companies like Netflix, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter etc. They have made it an "internet freedom" issue when in
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The only good thing about this is that it will be an example for what to not waste money on.
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They are ideologically equivalent to their historical counterparts at their cores.
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- Too much boilerplate - Existing Java frameworks and libraries are difficult to obtain and maintain and difficult to work with (PHP libraries/frameworks are available in central repository - packagist, and are on github) - Not much di
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You assume that news has ever been accurate. I would argue that the "news" in the past was not more accurate. The revolution that has happened is that we are much better at detecting fake news. "A person said something? That&
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Most of the political "comedy" shows are like this. If you are not 100% brainwashed with their political agenda, they are painful to watch.
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That sentiment from Trump is not "recent". I quote this from the video I linked (which was when they withdrew from the Paris Accord): "I’m willing to immediately work with Democratic leaders to either negotiate our way back i
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Try rust for a while and you'll love Go.
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Now, download your government's budget, check the expenses in higher education and compare the taxes that all working Norwegians have to pay to support the education system (whether they go to school or not, have children or not) vs ta
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>Getting a degree does not preclude you from starting a business I would argue that it does. When you get a degree, you are mostly being guided into thinking patterns of academics i.e. the people who most likely did not pursue business..
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Clickbait. This is why people don't trust the media. Relevant quote (by Branson): “With climate change, it’s America first and our beautiful globe last, and that seems incredibly sad, I’ve got a feeling that the president is regretting

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