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by baursak 10y ago
> do you want me to continue naming people who come from hard positions with little to no money and the inner-city and made it on a grand scale? Yes, please continue. I'd like a large enough sample to dig into.
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> the ability and optimism to work your way up without limits Kind of like Trump did? Or the current generation of Walton family? Anyway, I thought this was short and to the point on this subject: https://brightside.me/ar
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> There is nothing Russia loves better than to dismiss claims against them because the US does it too - and the Russian public eats this "US double standard" up every time. They just see what Russia does as more explicit. There
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What difference does it make? They all report to the same person, and in the eyes of Russians it's all Federal US Government regardless of what three-letter acronym is acting as a front.
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I'd translate it as "wonderful".
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I'm not sure what your argument is. The original point was that rural and suburban infrastructure maintenance is more expensive per capita than urban infra maintenance. The fact that urban centers are paying for maintenance of suburb
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Housing is very far from free market, from zoning regulations to building codes to property taxes and school districts to rental regulations. Banking is also pretty much the opposite of it, from the Federal Reserve dependency to Fannie and
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This doesn't prove your original claim in any way.
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It's more subtle even for news-gathering. Here's a similar perspective from the Left: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPp69gKVe9o I highly recommend watching the whole thing.
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Plot twist: she knew you didn't have any luggage all along. That information is available to her when she pulls your info up on her computer.
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http://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cro...
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Industrialization of the North started with textiles. Which were due to cotton. Which was due to slave labor. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cro...
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And a record level incarceration rate.
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> Certainly jobs will be eliminated by automation. That's easy to see. But new jobs are always being created. The problem is that we don't know which jobs will be created, while the jobs being destroyed are tangible and exist r
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It's literally what's happening now too. Unless you think that, for example, Mr. Thomas F. Frist Jr., the largest individual shareholder of HCA, is personally providing healthcare to people.
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An alternative to UBI as you describe it is simply that people provide their own food, shelter, and medical care. As an example, current shareholders of Chipotle, Pulte Group, and Hospital Corporation of America are not anywhere near physic
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> I have yet to see UBI advocates resolve the inflationary problem short of re-implementing Soviet-style communism, yet they are unable to resolve the various problems with communism the same way the Soviets and others were unable to do
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> I worry because I am certain that the only way out of civil war is universal basic income (socialism) or cyberpunk-style fascism. Nitpick. UBI is not socialism. It's still capitalism.
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by baursak 10y ago
Remember kids, all Westerners are never migrants, immigrants, or God forbid, refugees. They're just expats.
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> "In an age when AI threatens to become widespread, humans would be useless, so there's a need to merge with machines, according to Musk." Useless for what? Working their jobs and feeding families? Sure, if we assume that
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I find it curious that it's only Europeans who are worried about Russia and their expansion threat, and the most loud about it are those who don't even have a common border with Russia. On the other hand, countries with a common b
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by baursak 10y ago
Straight from the horse's mouth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqD8lIdIMRo
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Did Musk ever present any evidence at all for his claim?
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by baursak 10y ago
Are you looking specifically for debates? Otherwise, I'd recommend reading "Understanding Power", which has ~450 pages of footnotes alone, to the point where they are not included in the book and published as a separate downl
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> From a business owner you're essentially saying "I achieved the tasks, things are stable. Now pay me less and I'll go do other things" Sounds like a better deal then "now I shall fill up the time with tasks I c
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by baursak 10y ago
Can you give some more details on how you do it? Do you go to work 5 days and leave office after 4 hours, or do you just work 3 days a week? Are you subjected to daily scrum status reports requirements? Etc.
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I'm not sure I understand your first paragraph coupled with the second one. Do you get paid to work 40 hours, but only work 20? Or do you get paid for only 20 hours of work? If it's latter, then the problem is that not many salari
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Killer robots trawling the skies and bringing nightmares to children. If that's not the purest depiction of terrorism, I don't know what is.
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- Afghanistan - Iraq - Pakistan How is this different from when the USSR bombed Afghanistan with the permission of Afghani government which the Soviets installed?
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Civilian lives? A more persuasive argument is that primarily it's a tool to be used when popular opinion at home would simply not allow another full-scale military adventure like Iraq or Afghanistan. Secondary consideration is saving U

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