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by badpun 1y ago
Preventing people from having children would be much more inhumane than forcing people to live in condos.
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by badpun 1y ago
A side note, but I don't think all homeless are helpable. Some just have some kind of self-destruction about them and are beyond helping, unless they really want to start living differently. I personally know one such guy - a combinati
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by badpun 1y ago
Median wealth of a Ferrari owner is not even seven figures. In other words - many people spend well beyond their means and burden themselves with debt in order to seem rich. Appearances can be deceiving.
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by badpun 1y ago
Right now, every responsible country that is even vaguely threatened by their neighbor has a concrete plan in place on how and where to evacaute their most valueable cultural artfacts, in an event of an invasion. And likewise, every serious
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by badpun 1y ago
Skin color's not a "specfic background" though. People with myriad of different backgrounds can be white or black or whatever. Skin color and background are at best correlated.
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by badpun 1y ago
In touristy places, tourism can easily be 10-20% of the GDP. That's not nothing.
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by badpun 1y ago
Let's hope he wants to make Steam his legacy, and, upon retirement, will put it in a trust that precludes profit maximization.
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by badpun 1y ago
A lot of people who are passionate about creative fields work jobs that are pretty mundane, e.g. painting drab environmental textures every day for the next iteration of Call of Duty, or cutesy barfy crap for the next Candy Crush Saga. The
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by badpun 1y ago
You should set the microwave to much lower power and let it heat for much longer, so that the heat gets to transfer evenly across the mass of the food. It even says so in the instruction manual. If you blast with full power, leave the food
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by badpun 1y ago
People give to charity what they don't need. If all businesses are expected to be charities, they cease to be profitable and thus cease to function, as no one will bankroll the initial investment required to set up a business without t
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by badpun 1y ago
Meetings often have agendas in the invite as well. The agenda will be revealing.
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by badpun 1y ago
US taxes incomes of their citizens globally, so, no matter where you reside, you're still subject to US tax legislation. The only way to get away from it is to renounciate US citizenship, which I imagine the rich may not be ready to do
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by badpun 1y ago
You’re essentially saying that rich people are above the law. If that’s the case, we should fix that first.
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by badpun 1y ago
Would you put your money into a business which put common good above your return on investment?
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by badpun 1y ago
That’s pretty standard in Europe too. It makes sense - what if the meetingd are about downsizing or outsourcing the team? The company and worker’s interested are often not alligned, so a layer of secrecy is warranted.
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by badpun 1y ago
If the standby gas capacity is needed to cover a majority of country's needs a few times a year, can it really be phased down?
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by badpun 1y ago
> I've only ever had one manager whose calendar was viewable by his team. Is this an American thing? Here in Europe, it seems common. How else can you schedule meetings if you can't see when everybody's free?
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by badpun 1y ago
> unauthorized weapons-grade uranium enrichment facility Who authorized Manhattan Project?
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by badpun 1y ago
It's not just city centers. E.g. whole lot of London is pre-car. And yes, you'll walk for little errands, but you'll also drive a lot for many other things, often including commute, taking children to school etc.
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by badpun 1y ago
In Europe, most of those places were built before cars existed (and certainly before they were popularized). Still, people overwhelmingly prefer to drive cars there.
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by badpun 1y ago
> When I entered the tech industry about a decade ago, it was a time of optimism. Ten (well, nine) years ago we already had the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The tech industry was already rotten to the core. Heck, you could say it was tha
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by badpun 1y ago
> One of the things that's consistent through history is the tyrants always lose in the end, even though they amass all the resources. Because the average person would rather die than support the tyrants. The history is mostly a str
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by badpun 1y ago
> You cannot manufacture microwave ovens, blenders, refrigerators and stoves in the US and Europe because nearly the entire supply chain for these products exists in China. Things are not quite as bad as that. There are multiple factorie
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by badpun 1y ago
The Soviet Union holds pretty much all the trophies in large-scale environment devastation.
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by badpun 1y ago
US manufacturing is more than half of China's. So, per capita, US actually manufactures more than China, at least when measured in dollars.
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by badpun 1y ago
A lot of badly managed companies (or just companies in stagnant industries) saw their stock prices stagnate or fall. Boeing and GE had large rises though (meteoric in case of GE).
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by badpun 1y ago
Boeing stock price still almost doubled in the past 10 years. Went up by hundreds of percent in the past two decades. GE stock is worth 40x what it was worth 40 years ago, when Jack Welsh took over management! These two seem like two very s
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by badpun 1y ago
> Being wealthy, white, and male all increased the odds that you were able to spend your endless summers PEEKing and POKing on an Apple IIe while other less fortunate people didn't have a computer or had to work. How do you figure b
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by badpun 1y ago
> I have found that more likely than not, nobody actually notices that you aren't working as hard as all the 10x developers that have no life and the people who imitate them. In my experience, people do notice, but there's not
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by badpun 1y ago
> I have been abused too many times. I've been in software for around two decades, many employers, and never have been abused. Can you specify what the abuse was about?

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