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by caoilte 5y ago
Much cheaper than nuclear
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by caoilte 5y ago
They could achieve good multiples by paying dividends. The question is whether they're wasting as much money trying to grow as they are saving by keeping their profits offshore (and not paying tax on them). I don't know, but at so
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by caoilte 5y ago
A home can't take credit card payments.
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by caoilte 5y ago
The false equivalence here between your house and your company platform is so ick.
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by caoilte 5y ago
Interestingly (I didn't know) the Chinese planes weren't even anywhere near Taiwan. This is an image of their route from Taiwan's defence ministry https://mobile.twitter.com/MoNDefense/status/1443975
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by caoilte 5y ago
No, you should confront and fix child prostitution. Your argument is entirely dismissive of the huge problem with trafficking of children. Why are China and the environment the only things you you care about? /s
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by caoilte 5y ago
This is unhelpful whataboutery. China isn't directly relevant. I could just as truthfully point out that the USA is a disgusting bully and that would be unhelpful too. We wouldn't think it reasonable if someone on trial for embezz
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by caoilte 5y ago
Congratulations on your success in life. I wasn't criticizing people like you (although this thread does seem to have hit a nerve). I was critizing the assumption that you are morally culpable (or indeed praise worthy) for how you run
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by caoilte 5y ago
Arguing over which part of late stage capitalism is morally questionable is a bit like arguing over the correct length of curl in your powdered wig. If they had gone public instead, Intuit could just as easily have bought up all the shares
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by caoilte 5y ago
Mailgun?
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by caoilte 5y ago
Me too. Bit I also haven't updated it in over a year in order to avoid the awful rewrite.
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by caoilte 5y ago
> Democracy should not be entertainment. Democracy should not be for profit. But why? If "democracy" isn't profitable or entertaining (and FWIW I agree those shouldn't be preconditions for quality democracy), then it
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by caoilte 5y ago
Spitting Image is made by ITV not the BBC.
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by caoilte 5y ago
I get your point, I was just trying to divert the conversation away from an unsubstantiated "domino theory" that seems to be grounded in hysterics and towards analysis of history, geography and geo-politics.
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by caoilte 5y ago
D'oh! Thank you sir
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by caoilte 5y ago
Putting aside my consternation that the spectator is capable of serious discussion (it recently published an article in defence of Greek neo-nazis), the fiction that until recently only the BBC could pull off "huge landmark period dram
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by caoilte 5y ago
I'm not aware of any Western European political dissidents who have had bank accounts cancelled, but it wouldn't surprise me if a fascist/racist like Tommy Robinson violated some hate speech law and had bank accounts he was r
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by caoilte 5y ago
Understandable given the media climate whipped up by the military industrial complex.
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by caoilte 5y ago
I found this to be a pretty good blog post summarizing China's geographical interests. https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/what-china-wan... Obviously they project soft power further, but it is based on
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by caoilte 5y ago
The opposite. My issues stopped when I created insane amounts of swap so it never ran out again.
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by caoilte 5y ago
Yup. And, "It will happen slowly at first. Then all at once."
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by caoilte 5y ago
This is fair. I wonder if that will require a new generation of corporation, though. And the current generation of corporate HQs don't look nearly defensible enough. Something more like the Tyrell Corporation Ziggurat will be needed.
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by caoilte 5y ago
It's just as easy to imagine this being most of San Jose because of drought. Or this being every corporate HQ because of the collapse of Western Capitalism in the face of global warming. I'm sure life will go on though.
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by caoilte 5y ago
Not sure Intel have escaped that fate yet. Ditto Boeing.
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by caoilte 5y ago
It's hard to prove that Amazon manipulated the USPS postbox (even though there is good evidence) but it's easy to prove that they violated the rules by setting up a postbox that was easy for them to manipulate and which they pract
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by caoilte 5y ago
Both sides are following a standard script. Do you really believe that the only thing did Amazon did wrong was removing some literature? That's just like nailing Capone for not paying his taxes. The union found something that stuck and
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by caoilte 5y ago
I don't think it's that at all. It's very easy to fire people in US. I think they are trying to hire cultists. The harder it is to get in the more people think they're special once they do and the less likely they are to
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by caoilte 5y ago
Keep searching and hang on to the ones who are funny and genuine. I've failed to get a job with an awesome recruiter and ended up getting placed with them for a different role 12 years later. None of them know tech but a few of them ar
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by caoilte 5y ago
I suspect most of us have had semi-competent recruitment agents doing the first stage filter for us. When I look at a CV ahead of a 2nd or 3rd stage interview I take it for granted that they are serious about the role and qualified for it.
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by caoilte 5y ago
Don't forget that western liberal democracies look pretty un-attractive at the moment. When the choice is between a raving loony geriatric dementia patient and Trump a lot of people think they'd be better off without.

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