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by ehmish 13y ago
Many did give much wealth to the Gates foundation, but it would be far from most.The wealth divide seems to be a pretty real problem. Concentrating all the wealth of the world in a few people seems pretty sub-optimal, trials[ 1] of directly
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by ehmish 13y ago
Page views != profitable
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by ehmish 13y ago
It's interesting, if you consider the wealth disparity of SF to something like Cape Town I imagine it's something similar. As such it's hardly surprising that they've both got a problem with beggars and such. I can imagi
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by ehmish 13y ago
It depends, where I live, $200k a year is extremely affluent. I'd be interested to see the figures for those salaries adjusted for cost of living.
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by ehmish 13y ago
XMPP Syndication, (And with that interoperability), an increase of invasiveness of their ads (for those without adblock), the death of Google Reader, there's plenty more if you read up.
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by ehmish 13y ago
I disagree, It seems women get more rape threats than men, hence privacy would have a higher concern for them. As I've never had a rape threat directed at me, I'm far more relaxed about my privacy than I can imagine someone who ha
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by ehmish 13y ago
I take it you're getting at people avoiding thinking about the thought that race might be correlated with intelligence, lest they become an awful person. And it's a fair criticism. At the same time however, it has been noted that
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by ehmish 13y ago
I'm not too concerned if my "true self" dies, growth means change, and change can mean death of a previous "self"
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by ehmish 13y ago
Obesity yes, but being merely overweight isn't actually particularly bad for your health. http://www.iub.edu/~k536/images/patho/bmimortality.jpg Edit: this also looks relevant http://protonsfo
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by ehmish 13y ago
One problem I can see with Friedman's private courts/Rights Enforcement Agencies, is that if you have bigger and smaller REAs, a sufficiently big REA would be able to compel smaller REAs to ignore violations by the customers of th
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by ehmish 13y ago
Real gamer here (well I play games for fun, I would say that makes me real). I use FOSS AMD drivers, the default sound system for Ubuntu (I presume it's pulse) and the compositing gnome shell desktop environment. I am able to play Valv
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by ehmish 13y ago
"We all tend to overestimate the situational factors in our failures and overestimate the individual factors in our successes." I recall reading somewhere that attribution of the factors differed by culture, with the people in the