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   by dba7dba 10y ago

   Few years ago I visited someone in a suburb of Seoul. He lived in a new, massive apartment complex with dozens of 25-story high rise buildings. What really struck me was the parking situation. The entire complex does not allow any cars on
2. 662.▲
   by dba7dba 10y ago

   Freedom?
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   by dba7dba 10y ago

   The referendum was about staying or leaving EU. Nothing else. And politicians are elected with elections, not polling for a reason.
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   by dba7dba 10y ago

   No sir I'm not.
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   by dba7dba 10y ago

   There's elite in every group of people. N Korea has elites. This vote wasn't against or for specific elite people. The Brexit vote won because more people believed the current system is bad for them. Btw, people keep saying half o
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   by dba7dba 10y ago

   I doubt most of the Britons voting for exit worried about trillions of global equites getting wiped out, as most are not affected by it in daily life.
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   by dba7dba 10y ago

   First, many many people make $34k/year in US. But do they feel like they can control their life and destiny? I doubt it. And yes let's say I make $100,000/year. Would I or most others be happy with it? Surprisingly, no. They
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   by dba7dba 10y ago

   In one year 160k asylum seekers? Wow... Sweden benefit system won't survive it. A lot of those refugees need MORE service too.
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   by dba7dba 10y ago

   So is US newspapers.
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    by dba7dba 10y ago

    > I blame the greed of the elites for (potentially) killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. Greed is a powerful addiction. The elites won't stop trying to concentrate more and more wealth at the top, even when they know it wil
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    by dba7dba 10y ago

    IMHO, the opportunity was taken away by Merkel, not the older English population. Merkel welcomed migrants/refugees into Germany which ultimately meant EU due to no border control. This opened the flood gate and increased the fear fact
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    by dba7dba 10y ago

    Freedom to study, live and work anywhere in EU for European was an incredible privilege and liberating. Unfortunately no one had thought of millions of non-Europeans actually getting into EU in such a short time as it has last 2 years.
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    by dba7dba 10y ago

    Great Britain sounds fine to me.
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    by dba7dba 10y ago

    Giving people freedom of self determination was in. At least for oppressed people. And it seems like UK people exercised that freedom.
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    by dba7dba 10y ago

    Passive aggressive.
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    by dba7dba 10y ago

    > US/UK/France are particularly bad in this, constantly getting involved in all sorts of international diatribes while rarely (if ever) actually picking up the tab when things go to hell. To be fair, US got dragged into open co
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    by dba7dba 10y ago

    1) Racial superiority or tribal instinct aside, my question is, how is it going to be paid for? Helping the refugees/migrants integrate will cost a lot of money. Legal representation for them initially. Initial housing. Schooling. Esse
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    by dba7dba 10y ago

    Why be a racist? jk. There's a reason Samsung seems to be not that great as a software shop. I wrote up a long post on HN almost 2 years ago (God, it's been 2 years!!). I'm reposting the link here. https://news.yco
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    by dba7dba 10y ago

    Look up 'bjørn nyland tesla'. It's most watched vlog about Tesla S by someone who lives in Norway. He used to live in Oslo but also lived in the very far northern part of Norway. He offers very detailed reviews of Tesla. Beau
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    by dba7dba 10y ago

    That is a screw up.
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    by dba7dba 10y ago

    I'm mostly concerned about waking up 8000 workers middle of the night, and making them work the following 12 hours, because of screw up by someone above them. And the fact that the American Apple executive admires it with the terms of
22. 682.▲
    by dba7dba 10y ago

    > extremely non-competitive US corporate tax rate I'm hearing actual tax rate in real life is not that high, because of all loopholes used by the corporations.
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    by dba7dba 10y ago

    > “The speed and flexibility is breathtaking,” the executive said. “There’s no American plant that can match that.” Extreme sugar coating with MBA lingos of forced labor camp. I am GLAD there's no such American plant.
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    by dba7dba 10y ago

    > so that Apple can make their own custom chips Apple doesn't make chips or anything else imo. They outsource it. Just to be accurate.
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    by dba7dba 10y ago

    I know of 2 ex-coworkers who live{d} on Oahu while working full time for a tech shop. It was possible only because they were able to get full time remote positions at employers based out of California.
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    by dba7dba 10y ago

    We shouldn't be talking about government paying basic income. We should talk about millionaires and billionaires paying living wage to everyone working in their home and every employee in their companies that they share ownership in. T
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    by dba7dba 10y ago

    We need to ensure Living Wage is paid.
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    by dba7dba 10y ago

    I force my friends to use Gchat when the chat is turning into long conversation and I want to type on my PC keyboard instead of my cell. But I'm not sad Google missed out with Gchat. One less product Google dominates with means some ot
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    by dba7dba 10y ago

    Same here, using google apps mostly. Tried real hard to switch to linux but couldn't because of video edit requirements for family video. That was few years ago.
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    by dba7dba 10y ago

    Smartphone is basically Chromebook, just in smaller form factor.