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by dgzl 8y ago
> but until it is Federally acknowledged that all citizens have a right to drive I guess we're not applying the tenth amendment here? As in, we have rights not explicitly enumerated in the Bill of Rights.
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So you're saying instead of undoing the effects that cause outsourcing, we should equalize that same cost with tariffs? That sounds risky to me.
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I also don't see why you are being downvoted. America used to be talked about the same way China is talked about now. What other reasons can we find?
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by dgzl 8y ago
Brilliant comment, I've had this understand for a while myself. We can legislate ourselves to a higher standard of working/living, but the work then becomes a premium and will support fewer people, as outsourcing occurs, to automa
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by dgzl 8y ago
So essentially you're saying, between rising minimum wage, other government involvement, various economic reactions, competition between companies, and the customers desire for cheaper products drives production overseas? If American s
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by dgzl 8y ago
What are the biggest reasons companies send jobs overseas? It has always been my impression that companies do this because regulations in the US are too strict, and minimum wage is too high to support certain work.
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Once you're on the street, life becomes incredibly more difficult. Physical security, shelter, food, good hygiene, human relationships- everyone needs these things, yet a person's options absolutely dissolve when they're forc
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by dgzl 8y ago
I had the same experience in Chicago. Downtown apartments are worth the risk.
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by dgzl 8y ago
You're right, I suppose I should have said "because he's human", but I don't think this was a scam. Another point: he never once asked me for anything. Only after >30 minutes of conversation did I offer him a mea
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by dgzl 8y ago
I can't remember, but he says he grew up in Beaverton. He looked maybe 40-50 years old. In fact he did say his SSI was given due to some kind of illness he has.
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by dgzl 8y ago
I suppose you're right, however there are much less interesting stops between PDX and LV. So if you're say, hitchhiking, the chances of finding someone going your direction might be better than someone traveling on the East Coast.
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by dgzl 8y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if this was a scam, but I'm not convinced. Between my own experiences interacting with the homeless and scammers, seeing his fresh physical wounds (including staples in his head), and the weird amount of kn
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by dgzl 8y ago
> If you send someone half way across the country, it will be difficult to return. Nevada is actually very close to Oregon, and transportation to LV is quite cheap.
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by dgzl 8y ago
I'm from a small town in Oregon that sees a lot of nomadic traveling folk, either homeless or lifestyle (the PCT comes through the area, for instance), and the town is generally pretty receptive of these people. Growing up I would hang
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by dgzl 8y ago
I don't think throwing money and free services at women while we sit on our knees begging them to join us the best way to get them interested. I'm generally against equality of outcome, and support equality of opportunity, which t
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by dgzl 8y ago
You bring up very good points. I wonder if having more women in trade work would influence men to join.
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If trade school were truly competitive with college and University in terms of offerings, I don't imagine the Escalator Mechanic program would require more time or work than our lower and middle-class could afford.
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by dgzl 8y ago
Is a brighter screen what we want though? E-ink type screens are excellent in the sun, but lack gorgeous colors... And I'm almost ok with it.
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by dgzl 8y ago
Long lasting battery is the feature I appreciate most from a laptop. My T430 with the extended slice battery gives me 7-10 hours, and could probably get another 3+ if I swapped out the CD drive for the Power Bridge battery. Long live the Th
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by dgzl 8y ago
> Regardless, poor and rich are relative terms; it's a continuum. You can never be "poor" and you can never be "rich." You can only be poorER, or richER, than somebody else. But there will still always be someone
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by dgzl 8y ago
I moved around some last year, and locals I met in New Mexico and Illinois would swear that their local recycling organization simply throws away their recycling into the landfill.
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Jeff sure does love operating at scale.
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The program is complete: S3XY
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by dgzl 8y ago
> No, it's much more difficult to ban all pornography than it is to ban only child porn. One requires analyzing the content of photos and the other doesn't. Since it's easier to spot pornography in general than differentia
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by dgzl 8y ago
I seriously don't understand what connection you're trying to make. It might help if you were less sarcastic and more straight forward.
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The absurd reach is pretending that a company shouldn't take every measure possible in preventing its platform from hosting some of the most abusive and criminal content on the planet. What makes you think they're not more moral t
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by dgzl 8y ago
I imagine it would take careful and meticulous observation to differentiate between legal porn and almost-legal porn. Dissolving the platform of porn entirely would streamline this process and potentially be automated. Banning regular porn
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by dgzl 8y ago
No, that's not what I mean.
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It's not hard to see how a business might not want their paid advertisement sitting next to pornography hosted on the platform they're paying.
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Or maybe they don't want to subject their employees to having to police child pornography.

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