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by dventimi 2y ago
I don't know how many people there are who won't take care of public property, but whatever it is I doubt it's 1 in 3.
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by dventimi 2y ago
I haven't used Lyft in awhile but as an Uber rider what I can tell you is, if that company has a similar policy, it hasn't worked for me. The quality and cleanliness of the vehicle, and the quality of the driving, has been vastl
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by dventimi 2y ago
I do. It'll be easier to keep the fleet on a cleaning schedule, and won't be left to the whims of individuals.
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by dventimi 2y ago
Because they're mostly a vast array of reference docs with just one simple tutorial that barely scratches the surface? https://www.php.net/manual/en/index.php
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by dventimi 2y ago
Perhaps some of the people who get into this thought of it (mistakenly) as a job specialization that doesn't have a power-law distribution in income, such as a dentist or a software engineer.
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by dventimi 2y ago
Which is pathetic because almost certainly this person is neither wealthy nor powerful.
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by dventimi 2y ago
Again with the made up quotes. No one in this thread has said, "if it wasn't for the US, these people would be living in a democracy." Anyway, you don't know that these are the only two options. You don't know that
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by dventimi 2y ago
> It's not an internal conflict if the USSR is already supporting one side, is it? Yes, it's still an internal political conflict. > Sorry, but "which I believe it did" holds no weight with me. Suit yourself.
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by dventimi 2y ago
It sounds like you want more than what typical Scandinavians have. Put another way, it sounds like you want income inequality, with you on the winning side.
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by dventimi 2y ago
Nobody in America works harder than the poor.
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by dventimi 2y ago
I'm with you every step of the way up until the cracks about intellectual capability. I'm not persuaded that knowledge economies like California and New York have a higher concentration of intellectual capability than boring Iowa
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by dventimi 2y ago
> So the US should sit back as the USSR does it? Do what exactly? > Is it wrong for the US to support on side of a conflict? That's a question of morality. A question of personal preference is, "Would you prefer the U
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by dventimi 2y ago
> The Arbez coup was an attempt to prevent the USDR from gaining a foothold there. [sic] Rubbish, but even if it were true, so what? Who gave the US the right to decide what happens in other nations? > The Brother Sam operation di
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by dventimi 2y ago
I was looking at companies like those described here, some of whom went from rapid growth straight to the the rubbish bin. https://fortune.com/longform/failed-unicorn-startups-billion... Whatever the reason, the outcom
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by dventimi 2y ago
As I said, I could be mistaken and I'm willing to defer to your expertise. What I'm trying to understand is this. Is it possible for a company--say a tech unicorn--to have a high gross margin and a low COGS, and yet pay some of it
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by dventimi 2y ago
> what was a good alternative? Not support coups d'etat against democratically-elected leaders? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by dventimi 2y ago
Testify
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by dventimi 2y ago
I'm sure this is just a coincidence: https://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2024/01/04/califor...
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by dventimi 2y ago
As someone who isn't in law, medicine, or finance but must from time to time pay for legal services, medical care, and financial advice, I'm not happy there are lawyers, finance people, and doctors who make $500k. I'm doubly
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by dventimi 2y ago
I don't know about that. If a tech company categorizes its software engineers as R&D, my understanding (which could be flawed) is that typically would be CapEx but not COGS. In that case, high engineering salaries wouldn't b
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by dventimi 2y ago
What refreshing candor!
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by dventimi 2y ago
Was Uribe center-left or far-right? It seems like was both at different times. In any case, viewed by this outsider from thousands of miles away, Colombian politics looks fluid enough that labels lose distinction. The one constant seems
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by dventimi 2y ago
I'm willing to accept a lot of the blame, but that stops at the border. I may not have much political influence in America where I live, but I'm pretty sure I have no political influence in Russia.
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by dventimi 2y ago
> There's not really anything the average person can do to influence this policy, so by saying "of every American", the blame is diluted across the population, instead of held directly against those responsible. Assign f
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by dventimi 2y ago
Honestly, I was confused by that myself.
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by dventimi 2y ago
> when they say anti-leftist it feels like a justification I wrote "anti-leftist" to be descriptive, not normative. If it wasn't clear, I aim to criticize American policy, not to praise it.
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by dventimi 2y ago
Take a guess.
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by dventimi 2y ago
Yes. That's why I wrote, "Through at least two administrations". Personally, I consider the scale of injustice in Latin America alone at the hands of U.S. policy to be vast and unsparing in the culpability it lays at th
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by dventimi 2y ago
Are there anti-leftist militarists in Colombia who are centrist?
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by dventimi 2y ago
> "Paramilitary organizations have very close ties with the far-right politicians here." Does that make it more likely those paramilitary organizations are on the left, or on the right?

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