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by devoply 8y ago
Wasn't really what I was getting at... which is more in the lines of the oil industry is going the way of the dinosaurs we need to found some new industries with its profit in ordr to survive the next century. However, since you want t
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by devoply 8y ago
Maybe they or their executives have some investments tied up in Pintrest. But yeah I hate landing on a Pintrest page for search results. It's like the mid-2000s all over again.
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by devoply 8y ago
Canada did the opposite. Canada takes all the oil money for granted and basically has not used it to innovate anything. Instead, it's been drained by a few supposed elite that run oil companies and their cronies. The future of the oil
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by devoply 8y ago
In theory yes in reality no. In cases of both China and the USA. Please cite any exceptions of where anything as such went to court. The reason being that it's very difficult to prove that your secrets were stolen. Sure you can sue com
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by devoply 8y ago
No thanks. The only issues that I have with moves like these is when they become Googlish and mandatory rather than optional. I use Alexa everyday. I like Alexa. I don't want to get rid of Alexa because it's prying, but I will.
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by devoply 8y ago
ah yes 4chan lite was supposed to turn out completely differently.
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by devoply 8y ago
In capitalism no one sheds any tears if you can't make a business work. If you won't someone else will. Probably in China or India. They'll happily read all your papers, develop a copy-cat cure and sell it for 100k maybe even
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by devoply 8y ago
Is there any solution to ban facebook from your android phone like you can from a browser like firefox through a facebook container? I would imagine something like a firewall that keeps your phone from being able to connect to URLs or IPs o
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by devoply 8y ago
So why Europe and not the East Asia? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_printing_in_East_As... I personally like the theory that it was constant war and conflict which propelled the scientific revolution. The nee
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by devoply 8y ago
You don't give any particularly good reasons for why you feel a certain way. You have a very specific product, a personal hygiene product so obviously if you no longer want to use it that's your prerogative but that does not negat
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by devoply 8y ago
what would it take to make that happen? what would it take to make this happen? it's funny people are happy to let creditors tax everyone at 20% (like a shitty credit card with a 2k limit is what's used to buy lattes), but bring u
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by devoply 8y ago
Okay. Your argument only becomes valid after the fact that all that money that would have been spent on things like coffee is retained. In most cases people would simply not have that money. Not to mention that if you have some guaranteed a
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by devoply 8y ago
And so what? That's 1800 tax on you per year. Say it was charged as something like a tax. Nothing that most people in the Western world would be effected significantly by.
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by devoply 8y ago
If you are 20 years old and you start putting away $5/day and have 500k in the bank at 60. Who can argue with that. In fact they should pass a law to make this mandatory on everyone. It would greatly improve the lives of literally ever
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by devoply 8y ago
The US first gives them cancer and then rushes into to cure it. But all it's got for a cure is snake oil. It makes billion selling that.
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by devoply 8y ago
America could initially freeze and then seize most of their assets in the US and even take control of most of them in Saudi Arabia as they did in Iraq. In fact it could probably claim a portion of those assets by accusing Saudis of causing
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by devoply 8y ago
Yes or you dress up genocide and usurping people's resources and pretend as if that's the case.
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by devoply 8y ago
> how critical the Saudi relationship is Yes I am sure many a tear would be shed in the ranks of American elites many of whom are Muslim, Arab businessmen if the US decided tomorrow that they did not like the Saudis anymore and no longer
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by devoply 8y ago
Not only that the US are big fans of "freedom" and regime change for the sake of "freedom" when people want to ditch the dollar.
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by devoply 8y ago
Nobody really understands or digs into the implications. They simply assume that if they are successful it's because they are great people while others are not great or as smart or hard working and that's why they suck. It's
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by devoply 8y ago
I think they are very difficult to breed hence why farming is not common. Indonesia a pretty poor country so labor and land should be cheap. Whatever you have to do to get them to breed... you could figure it out.
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by devoply 8y ago
> The lizards were selling for about $35,000 (500 million rupiah) each. Sounds to me like they should be farming these things. 100 animals is 3.5 million. Not a bad way to make money.
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by devoply 8y ago
Yes. It's called copyright and intellectual property. Literally the right to copy.
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by devoply 8y ago
The article amounts to little more than subversion in normal speech under surveillance, it's not as if Google can't read and make at least some limited sense of most of things you do or say during your interactions with it. You ca
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by devoply 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameralism_(psychology)#Issu...
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by devoply 8y ago
And it's a question as to whether any of these FAANG companies actually need to hire any H1Bs considering how much money they have. How many well paying jobs are they exporting for no good reason other than they want to keep more money
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by devoply 8y ago
You make it sound trivial but the fact is that you're hired to do a job. Most likely if you don't go find another job every 2 years then you will not be progressing because many companies will not give you more responsibility or m
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by devoply 8y ago
then i blame the government when things go wrong.
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by devoply 8y ago
Yes historically Chinese civilization has been highly hierarchical and authoritarian. Which has to do with their state craft, not something due to the will of the people. So much so that they used to completely mistreat people, like for ins
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by devoply 8y ago
Their God was invented by Marx, Mao, Fascism, and Capitalism. This has nothing to do with Confucianism or Buddhism or Taoism.

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