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by cwhiz 6y ago
This is such absurd hyperbole. You would think Amazon is running American slave camps and kidnapping workers. By almost any account Amazon pays well and has good benefits.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
If only the entire site would do humanity a favor and go private. Giant build your own bubble cesspool full of bots, astroturfing, paid posts, and propaganda.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
No problem, just prevent selling.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
This is wild. Complains about having to read the Heroku documentation, and then goes through the steps to showcase how absurdly simple it is to deploy to Heroku with the CLI. It almost reads like an advertisement for Heroku. ...then goes
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by cwhiz 6y ago
I don’t know what market you’re in, but that’s not how it works in any market I’ve bought. The seller signs an agreement with their agent, and that agreement dictates the commission and fee structure. You, the buyer, don’t pay the commissio
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by cwhiz 6y ago
How are people feeling such financial pain? In the US we gave every adult over $3,000 in direct cash, and radically expanded unemployment benefits. In many states the unemployment checks were over $1,000/week for six months, then reduc
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by cwhiz 6y ago
15-20% of Americans don't own a smart phone. An additional X% don't religiously carry their phone around with them constantly, or at all. The plan required nearly every single smartphone owner in the country to voluntarily use th
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by cwhiz 6y ago
Taxpayers aren’t, but citizens are.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
A better example is the Bluetooth contact tracing from Apple and Google. Laughably flawed from the beginning, and yet hailed as an incredible innovation on this very forum. People prefer to believe positive news.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
The stimulus checks were essentially prepaid tax credits. If you weren’t eligible based on 2019 income, but you were eligible based on 2020, you’ll get the credits when you file your 2020 taxes.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
They amended the bills to continue paying $300 - $600 per week in additional unemployment on top of the state unemployment. Why would you subtract state unemployment? These people also paid federal taxes, so should we just subtract the fede
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by cwhiz 6y ago
$1,200 per person, and then $600 per person, and then $1,400 per person. Plus an additional $400-600 per week in unemployment benefits in addition to the amount states were already giving. Consider a hypothetical single person, living in Or
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by cwhiz 6y ago
"See, look, they knew it was dangerous but the MSM suppressed it." If you don't publish you feed conspiracy theorists. Better to transparently publish the information that you have.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
Continue to cower inside.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
This is straight out of those GI Joe voiceover videos. Give us the vaccine! We’re suspending use of the vaccine! https://youtu.be/DXFdPTaCtkc
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by cwhiz 6y ago
You're mixing up relevance and efficacy. Just because an ad is relevant doesn’t mean you’re more likely to buy. And it’s that second part, efficacy, that the ad industry can’t prove. To you, it’s obviously superior. But if it were obvi
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by cwhiz 6y ago
>I realize people will argue that they don't generate more revenue, but if that were true then how has this whole industry developed around them? If it were so obvious that targeted ads increase revenue, you’d think that the adverti
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by cwhiz 6y ago
Why do we have to be broadly in one of these categories? “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.” This should
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by cwhiz 6y ago
> No, I'm paid to work 40 hours per week regardless of the workload, as per my employment contract. That’s not salaried exempt. What you’re describing is closer to hourly pay. However, it’s not a perfect fit because hourly pay is 1.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
My stove has a power boil option for that. Do you typically use your kettle to boil water for cooking? I typically don’t even keep track of how long it takes to boil on the stove. I just do the rest of the prep work.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
Sure, but 27 minutes is such an absurd exaggeration. I can boil a liter of water on my electric kettle in 4-5 minutes. I rarely need a full liter, anyway, and I don’t always want the water at boiling temperature. It is typically under 2 min
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by cwhiz 6y ago
I’m sorry, but what? There are infinite electric kettles available. 27 minutes to boil water? Again, what? Seriously, have you ever been in North America? Just go into literally any big box retailer and find the 50 foot long shelves full of
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by cwhiz 6y ago
Nonsense. We had stable prices before the gambling functions were possible. The gambling functions of the market add nothing of value, and produce no economic output.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
>Cynical because it doesn't acknowledge the value that a well functioning and regulated financial system can create. You don’t need gambling to have a well functioning financial system. The price of goods at Walmart is not based on
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by cwhiz 6y ago
What’s happening is that the masses now have access to do the same absurd gambling that the “experts” have been doing for a century. The only way out is to remove the gambling functions from the market. But then that would require that trad
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by cwhiz 6y ago
I would say it gets about as much hate as any other Ponzi scam. It's just that other Ponzi scams aren't as wildly popular. But then again, other scams aren't causing global economic and environmental damage.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
A single Bitcoin represents 100,000,000 satoshi. Bitcoin is not scarce. We could stop mining today, and do a X:1 split every few years to keep inflation in check. Mining is all about greed.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
Halting all trading is the only way to prevent market manipulation.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
Those rules are arbitrary, and arbitrarily enforced.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
How delusional are these parents? Your son fails practically every class for four years, and is truant about half the time. And the parents think the school is to blame? How about you reflect on the awful job you’ve done raising this boy? Y

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