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by cam_l 10y ago
Absolutely, I think this question is much better dealt with bluntness.. call their bluff. "Is this a salary negotiation? Lets talk about what I am worth."
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by cam_l 10y ago
Removing the debt protections for the industry (ie. allowing students to default) would be the surest way to limit the proclivity of institutions to offer bad investments to students.
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by cam_l 10y ago
You actually pay more taxes if you do not choose the private option. Though private insurance is generally more expensive. Over the years since it was introduced, there was an exodus of sorts from public to private due to this incentive. It
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by cam_l 10y ago
True. But corporates seems to survive with majority cooperation and occasional defection. Perhaps there does need to be some mechanism to 'tat' the 'tits' who defect. My take is that the major obstacle workers face in ne
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by cam_l 10y ago
Fully agree.. but I wonder what would happen if unions started to take a leaf out of the 'no poaching' corporate playbook and simply unionised secretly. Collective bargaining via synchronised individual bargaining, where everyone
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by cam_l 10y ago
Design / creativity is unfortunately not valued, but it is a value add. It is a reason to choose between you and the other guy, but not to pay you more. No one cares about the money spent or the money saved in business.. just on the pr
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by cam_l 10y ago
..and it doubles as a heater!
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by cam_l 10y ago
"A big part of the web is paid by ads." But is it the good part?
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by cam_l 10y ago
Exactly what I was thinking when reading this story. And not only was each step along the way to the pencil a result of direct and carefully planned action, the side effect of pencils from rail cars is only made possible at all because penc
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by cam_l 10y ago
One thing I find with google Inbox which makes it indispensable on mobile is the ability to schedule times for notifications for individual addresses, groups and/or folders. Weekly, hourly, never.. whatever.
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by cam_l 10y ago
D. All of the above.
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by cam_l 10y ago
Judgement is subtractive. We are only as wise as our weakest deductive link.
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by cam_l 10y ago
Are you offended by the idea of safe spaces? (you have no right to this) Are you offended by people acting on their ideas? (you have no right to this) Are you offended by people acting on their ideas impacting other people? (you have no rig
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by cam_l 10y ago
"The relationship you have with a corporation can easily be replaced unlike the relationship you have with your government." That was exactly my (counter)point. Your argument is theoretical, but in practice often the relationship
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by cam_l 10y ago
Agree.. Why is it when a public org makes a decision on your behalf it is paternalism, but when a company decides to put 10-15 teaspoons of sugar in almost every drink you have access to, it is choice?
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by cam_l 10y ago
What I find hilarious about this is there is no functional difference between the fake columns on mcmansions, and the fake columns on an architect designed neo classical building built on the properly proportioned 9 square palladian grid. B
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by cam_l 10y ago
Another way of looking at what you are saying is, there is no problem with doping in sport.. there is a problem with competition. Competition is the 'con' which makes most sport worth watching (and hence paying for / advertis
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by cam_l 10y ago
Eventually.. eventually, we will drop the A too.
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by cam_l 10y ago
"This is my question to you: if you don't model it, how can you go about trying to answer the question?" (brian Cox) Yeah, validate or refute is not a reasonable representation of the truth. The more accurate question is mode
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by cam_l 10y ago
Or worse yet, vice versa.. waterpistol toting apple fanboi drug cartels.
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by cam_l 10y ago
Sun, wind, views.. And by views i don't mean distant views, i mean not looking into another apart 10 metres away.Even ignoring these crucial environmental factors, structurally at 50 stories the efficiency ratios drop down significantl
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by cam_l 10y ago
Did you read the article you posted? Your mind seems rather easily boggled. tldr: jill stein is not an anti-vaxxer, quite the opposite, and is primarily concerned with the perceived corrupting influence of lobbying on the FDA.
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by cam_l 10y ago
Well, I never said that it was not, although I think the mix is somewhat different between private and public. Speculation and failed products might be reduced with public funding, but procurement costs might be increased, for example. Anyw
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by cam_l 10y ago
"How do you avoid waste? How do you avoid kickbacks and corruption and pork-barelling?" This is often brought up in relation to public vs private funding. But private funding is also massively wasteful and also involves a lot of p
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by cam_l 10y ago
This argument and counter is just so damn meta.. But, seriously, people were never interested in facts. They were only ever interested in the status that comes with them.
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by cam_l 10y ago
If you want to be different you could always try out the Aussie version.. 'youse'
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by cam_l 10y ago
"I don't think it's a different type of design." For some reason whenever I see articles like this on design, I think of conway's law. See, broadly, design is a process of questioning and understanding. This process
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by cam_l 10y ago
I wasn't necessarily disagreeing with most of your previous points, just prompting you to step back and see the bare logic of your argument. Your thoughts (and to a certain extent mine) about what is acceptable and what is not is infor
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by cam_l 10y ago
Seems to me you two are arguing (as so many seem to on HN) at cross purposes. One is saying "this is the way the world works", the other is saying "this is the way the world should work". You can acknowledge one, and str
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by cam_l 10y ago
Can't quite tell if you are being sarcastic.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_bailout_referendum,_20...

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