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by crumpets 8y ago
That revision is still clickbait. The US being the #1 producer of oil doesn’t say anything about usage. Example: a country could simultaneously be a low user while being a huge producer - Norway.
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by crumpets 8y ago
>Wealth inequality has been increasing for 40 years despite worker productivity rising. Nearly every metric shows the rungs to wealth being pulled away, and I'm the non logical one here? Yes, inequality increasing because the riches
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by crumpets 8y ago
>People don't join unions if they are going to be worse off materially. Of course they do. The difference is that they are tricked into thinking they won't be worse off by the union organizers pretending that it's unlikely
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by crumpets 8y ago
>The only way to solve the inherent adversity in the employer/employee relationship is to eliminate the employer/employee distinction. It has little to do with that. As long as there are managers, there will always been a tensi
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by crumpets 8y ago
>Green New Deal even though most of what the GND does would create tons of new jobs for electrical workers in the fields of solar and wind power Very possibly at the destruction of as many jobs in established industries. That's not
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by crumpets 8y ago
Legislators delivered it. It's not clear unions were a required interim for that to happen.
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by crumpets 8y ago
>Work less? Or work 8 hours a day, 40 hours a week? There are plenty of examples out there of people who think that is the bare minimum. Work less. There is no point in trying to put out anymore output than the bare minimum required if t
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by crumpets 8y ago
> "I'm being forced to support the only viable political party that wants to make anything whatsoever better" Wow, I can tell you evaluate statements in an unbiased manner. What happens when you realize the idea of "b
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by crumpets 8y ago
>I see folks outside the Bay asking why shouldn't they get paid the same as Bay area folks Pay has nothing to do with cost of living. That's a lie told by companies as a negotiating tactic. You don't magically make the com
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by crumpets 8y ago
> Why not take power that is available to you? Management certainly exercises every bit of power that they are able to. This isn't true. Management only exercises every bit of power once the relationship becomes hostile. There are t
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by crumpets 8y ago
I’m an American and I sure as hell don’t refer to my parents as my “extended family” even though I’m married with children.
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by crumpets 8y ago
Radio and tv are worthless for information on demand. The phone is still talking to other people. I can now travel into a city I’ve never been to, find directions to and make reservations at a popular restaurant, follow it up with direction
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by crumpets 8y ago
It’s what we collectively create, not bargain. There is nobody on the other side of society to “bargain” with.
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by crumpets 8y ago
Reread the comment you replied to and it’s parent, then decide if shitting all over the comment was still appropriate. Op’s very first sentence admitted how relatively privileged he/she was.
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by crumpets 8y ago
And how does that actively prevent people from using Spotify on their desktop?
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by crumpets 8y ago
That analogy isn’t good because apple doesn’t lose opportunity by charging itself the cut to use the store. There is no indication that apple is limited in how many developers it could take on. If apple had a limited number of apps and they
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by crumpets 8y ago
None of your comparisons are apt because desktops are not smartphones. An android phone is just as portable and has all of the same features as an Apple phone. The only day to day difference is having access to the apple ecosystem. It’s not
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by crumpets 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncontrolled_airspace
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by crumpets 8y ago
That's a problem with the government. Amazon isn't evading taxes. It's using standard government legislated tax deductions and rebates: http://www.newser.com/story/271410/amazon-banked-11b-in-prof...
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by crumpets 8y ago
>Corporate welfare is out of hand in this country. That's certainly one view. Another is that these are just breaks on excessive taxes by one government to compete with other governments that have sane corporate taxes in the first p
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by crumpets 8y ago
Not really. Hardware and machines that actually run algorithms are just an implementation detail. :)
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by crumpets 8y ago
Right, you’re treating the code as statically typed even when it’s not. In that case you never gain the advantage of dynamic languages. Thinking so strictly about what types a function will receive rules out making use of things like decora
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by crumpets 8y ago
Given that it’s required to sign up for online billing and most online services, I think your younger coworker either doesn’t understand how to set it up on his/her phone or was just straight up lying because the email address was emba
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by crumpets 8y ago
Sounds like some pretty vapid people you’re referring to. Any social connections worth having are to people intelligent enough to understand that not everyone lives on Facebook.
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by crumpets 8y ago
Oh, I’m sorry. I thought you were referring to the finance information on finance.google.com, not investor information about google itself. For the latter, companies are not required to release reports on their website in a timely manner. T
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by crumpets 8y ago
Maybe if github itself was open source people could make a lot of improvements to it to help other open source contributors. I don’t understand why we expect people writing a closed source system to fully grok open source.
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by crumpets 8y ago
There are tons of tools in the open source world that are incredible and free. The assumption that you have to spend money on tools does not apply to software at all unless you are working in a proprietary ecosystem. What is the paid versio
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by crumpets 8y ago
>This is mostly to ensure people keep trading. In a world were inside-info is commonplace, trading without it is just stupid. I find this line of reasoning hard to swallow. As an individual I have significantly less info than hedge funds
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by crumpets 8y ago
>If he could manipulate the exact time of its release he could leverage all sorts of things. There's already protection against him insider trading. Not sure what else "leverage all sorts of things" is.
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by crumpets 8y ago
Meh, stocks trade after hours immediately after release so this excuse leaves something to be desired. It also doesn't account for the before open releases.

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