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by bomb199 9y ago
The wealthier are paying a lower percent of their wealth/income, it's just they make so much more than the masses it doesn't matter. Should think of the marginal utility of their funds. If a $20,000 a year person pays $5,000
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by bomb199 9y ago
Especially all the renters, which is almost the entire Millenial generation.
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by bomb199 9y ago
I'd like to think if our main form of transport was horses, we'd have solved this problem.
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by bomb199 9y ago
That's what libertarians want so desperately though. Because in their mind, they'll be the gilded elite in the boom-bust cycle. If it wasn't for the nasty government, all the hard-working brilliant libertarians would be billi
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by bomb199 9y ago
Hopefully Harvard isn't too progressive: https://cyber.harvard.edu/publications/2017/08/mediacloud
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by bomb199 9y ago
I'm really upset Peakcoin isn't a coin meant to quickly transfer money out of failing coin markets.
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by bomb199 9y ago
What productive use? It would just go to another bet to try and make money. The stock market is not about giving companies capital anymore, it's about concentrating funds to the back accounts of the right people.
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by bomb199 9y ago
So if you edit the Kernel on your version of Ubuntu, then Canonical should be held responsible? That seems like a crazy thought process. You're running software that modifies Window's internal functionality. The vendor knows it&#x
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by bomb199 9y ago
Reads to me like "We've significantly reduced the quality of life for our employees, but greatly increased profits!" More part-time contractors who don't have steady work and fewer FTEs who are on constant call.
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by bomb199 9y ago
> trained in cybersecurity I don't think I've ever met anyone in cybersecurity who was "trained in cybersecurity". At least not anyone useful. They're all developers first.
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by bomb199 9y ago
I read it the same as you, except I hate that line of reasoning to hand-wave things away. Let us assume a perfectly rational market... should preface all of these statements. That way it triggers us appropriately like "Assume an infini
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by bomb199 9y ago
If you want to get promoted, your managers need to approve of you. At the top, sometimes it's the CEO/Owner/Chairman needs to approve of you. Easiest way is to speak their language. Unfortunately their language is often gibbe
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by bomb199 9y ago
" to help overcome the biases of the establishment mainstream media " Trump won BECAUSE of the biases of the establishment media. https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2016/11/04/study-top-n...
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by bomb199 9y ago
People aren't arguing against Conservative values though. They're arguing against the Republican party. How can you negotiate with a group of people that don't argue in good faith? For example, the Democrats compromised on de
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by bomb199 9y ago
I find this line of thinking pervasive among criticisms of all kinds of developers. Especially in video game forums! "If they did it, then our game dev can too!" Like large programs are just some kind of widget you can just move f
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by bomb199 9y ago
Honestly, I think the biggest driver is the type of developers you find now. With Open-Source being such a large area for almost every CS student and budding developer - the normal work environment is becoming very Linux-heavy. A natural re