canadian_voter

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by canadian_voter 9y ago
Bonus points: Instead of employees use contractors, and instead of making capital investments make your contractors do it. Just make sure you can change the terms of service at any time, without consultation. Externalize all your costs, kee
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by canadian_voter 9y ago
For example, they thought that if they had a 2/3 chance of winning, they should win practically every time and thought it was unfair when they lost Like that time I lost my entire squad in X-Com because they all kept missing their 80
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by canadian_voter 9y ago
One time quarterly hit vs ongoing expense. Same amount of good press, but much cheaper.
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by canadian_voter 9y ago
One guest, after spending time at Dynamicland, held up his smartphone and shouted, “This thing is a prison!” Holy crap. This is really, really cool. Actual magic. But most importantly — programs are real. You touch them. You see them eve
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by canadian_voter 9y ago
I highly recommend the 2017 Massey Lecture that deals with genocide and the history of human rights. It's called In Search of a Better World by human rights lawyer Payam Akhavan. Listen to the whole thing for free[1] or check out the
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by canadian_voter 9y ago
If it's not an app, yup. I'd have actually read the article if had been titled: You won't believe how I increased sales by 10% with this one simple trick.
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by canadian_voter 9y ago
> That bad guy student (Ambrose?) has no motivation beyond just being a deliberate antagonist Ambrose is a bully. You've never met a bully? "The researchers found that children who bullied were often motivated by a desire to in
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by canadian_voter 9y ago
At best, this is a way to sweep unaccountable decision-making under the carpet of "the software said so". Quite likely, though, is that such products will make society a living hell for everyone until these practices are entrench
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by canadian_voter 9y ago
And little things, like if you're in a relationship, how often do you do the laundry and dishes? I've been in a relationship for 3 years. I do literally all of the dishes, all of the cooking, all of my own laundry and my GFs lau
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by canadian_voter 9y ago
Even hate speech is free speech. Is it? Really? Many people disagree. Many countries[0] have laws against hate speech. In Canada, for example: > it is a criminal act to "advocate or promote genocide" — to call for, support, e
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by canadian_voter 9y ago
"I think we'd better get downstairs before those kids get engrossed with those damned beasts again." Just then they heard the children calling, "Daddy, Mommy, come quick -quick!" They went downstairs in the
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by canadian_voter 9y ago
Quite right! There should be laws against the poor reproducing. Perhaps a tax on children? Or some sort of permit system? Maybe a one child policy, exceptions only for the rich? Or just take away the children of the poor if they're irr
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by canadian_voter 9y ago
Bingo. Marriage is a responsibility, but it also provides rights. A system that financially punishes marriage is cruel.
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by canadian_voter 9y ago
They might want to look into not being married. Wow. Just wow. For some people, marriage is more than a financial arrangement. They'd also save a bundle by not having kids. Maybe they should sell one of them, it would help pay for th
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by canadian_voter 9y ago
It is possible to make one’s ledger and contacts private, but many users overlook these options ... I'm sorry, what? The default is to make all of my transactions public? What the absolute living f---.
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by canadian_voter 9y ago
1. Capitalism is very simple. Okay ...? 2. Capitalism as an economic system is essentially defined as the process of private expropriation of public wealth. My economics textbook defined capitalism as "A system for reallocating sca
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by canadian_voter 9y ago
capitalism isn't a ideology at all. ideology, noun 1. a system of ideas and ideals, especially one that forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy [capitalism is] an economic system that enables people to choose how
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by canadian_voter 9y ago
I wrote a bot that automatically comments on HN when certain topics appear. -- This post has been automatically generated and may not reflect the opinion of the poster.
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by canadian_voter 9y ago
I have this great idea for printing out the top news stories for reading offline. You could print them off early morning and have them waiting for people at train stations, coffee shops, hotels, etc. If it really takes off, people might eve
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by canadian_voter 9y ago
> Many currently profitable conventional farming methods would become uneconomical if their true costs were incorporated into market pricing. Direct financial subsidies, and failure to include costs of depleting soil fertility and export
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by canadian_voter 9y ago
Indeed. Less a love letter than a cheap porn adaptation, IMHO. As a long-time GITS fan, the new movie was a complete disappointment. It added nothing new or interesting, and dropped almost all of the philosophical content of the original. I
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by canadian_voter 9y ago
Oh man, and I bet you were really eager looking to! Kept looking at everyone who came your way with an expectant smile? I would totally have mistaken you for a sales person.
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by canadian_voter 9y ago
I showed up my first day in a suit ... and thinks I'm a salesman as they had an issue with salespeople crashing the place. If I see someone with a suit, clipboard and lanyard, I run the other way. Especially if they have good hair.
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by canadian_voter 9y ago
Friend of mine just got a new tech job with one of those boring old Fortune 100 companies. Wore a suit to the interview; the interviewer told him to dress it down for the job. So he wore slacks, a belt and a button up shirt on the first day
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by canadian_voter 9y ago
https://i2.wp.com/www.sopitas.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05... Courtesy Tineye[0] [0] https://www.tineye.com/search/c9d37d27e89b6836f417109fc993ff...
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by canadian_voter 9y ago
One tech savvy friend was called in for questioning and told that he was going to be blamed for everything and that they had enough information to prove it was him even if it wasn’t. He was going to be expelled unless he had any informatio
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by canadian_voter 9y ago
I don't see it as a matter of absolute scarcity. In the book, drinking water for the poor is scarce, but the upper middle class has access to fountains and gardens, etc. If you think of it as a matter of control, it makes more sense. I
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by canadian_voter 9y ago
Give people a long leash, but when they're way off to the end of the bell-curve of normality throw them a life-line. Hello User. We've noticed you've been spending more time on StackOverflow than 99% of our other users. May
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by canadian_voter 9y ago
I'll save you the time to check: that image of the trash is not from yesterday's rally.[0] [0] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2765426/Climate-chan...
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by canadian_voter 9y ago
Off the top of my head: Tab doesn't work, I'll have to investigate how to make it work properly. You mean for auto-complete? I think I had to do this under dotspacemacs/user-config: (define-key evil-insert-state-map (kb

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