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721.
by fiblye 8y ago
And nobody is getting by on $15 in or near NYC. It's nowhere near the minimum wage needed to survive.
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by fiblye 8y ago
Foxconn is a Taiwanese company. They'd be unable to export things from their Chinese factories, but I doubt it'd affect them much.
723.
by fiblye 8y ago
$19 is basically minimum wage in the NYC area. If even that.
724.
by fiblye 8y ago
I'd like to see a source on this info. But it's definitely wrong. 4 years in college isn't enough to triple your vocabulary. And the average fluent speaker uses far more than 10000 words. In my second language, I'm sligh
725.
by fiblye 8y ago
I can think of no other country that says "license and registration, please" before playing a game or sport of any sort. South Korea is undeniably dystopian and backwards in this situation.
726.
by fiblye 8y ago
Really interesting article. It's seeming like the more we learn about other life, the more we realize not much separates humans but a couple of thumbs and some decent dexterity. I wonder if someday we'll reach a point where we rec
727.
by fiblye 8y ago
Well, the natives in those three countries were pretty much wiped out. Their descendants are still not doing so well compared to the descendants of those who came to exploit the land.
728.
by fiblye 8y ago
I could see it being much faster than that. As someone working in automation, a lot of our recent work is involved with automating tech and car manufacturing in Vietnam. I could easily see a shift away from textiles and into more advanced m
729.
by fiblye 8y ago
And the year after that will be the year of the Linux desktop.
730.
by fiblye 8y ago
I find myself enjoying 80s/90s games that I'd never played before over the typical major release these days. Some new major releases really are excellent, but the quantity is far lower than it was 20-30 years ago, likely mostly du
731.
by fiblye 8y ago
Japan's got some pretty strong privacy laws. Strong to the point that it's not permissible to take pictures of random people without their consent and especially not OK to publish them publicly. None of these people look particula
732.
by fiblye 8y ago
It also very much depends on your situation. If you're a single young tech worker, SF is great. If you've got kids or you're not working in tech, SF is the kind of place most people will actively avoid.
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by fiblye 8y ago
The point is people are getting more for less elsewhere. For people working normal jobs, California wages don't even begin to cover California costs.
734.
by fiblye 8y ago
Furthermore, a society that relies on digital payments is a society that would collapse with a week long blackout. A couple targeted power plant attacks would be enough to completely destroy the economy. That's terrifying.
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by fiblye 8y ago
>They will not bite a human unless picked up by one The scary thing is that's pretty much how you know that an animal is rabid: animals that would avoid people completely will now bite them.
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by fiblye 8y ago
I've had bats slip into my house late at night several times. They're cute little fuzzballs when I see them outside flapping around far away from me , but hearing a "pittpittpittpattpatt" whirling above your head at nig
737.
by fiblye 8y ago
> It said that while the bulk of the tax increases were at the high end of the income spectrum, many individuals and couples with incomes in the 180k-500k range could see significant tax increases, too. It's amazing that a non-insig
738.
by fiblye 8y ago
The Wall Street Journal also likes to frame $260,000 and $650,000 incomes as typical Americans struggling to get by (originally posted on WSJ regarding Obama-era tax increases): http://i.imgur.com/bdgZa.jpg It's hard t
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by fiblye 8y ago
In Asia, house value is like car value. People want to buy brand new ones, and the minute it's used, it's worthless. People can live in their old house as long as they want to, but young people would prefer a clean new house free
740.
by fiblye 8y ago
The whole ad campaign this company runs is void of any info. I'm not surprised that their website is the same. I was pissed when their flashing (soundless) screamer ads made it through my ad filters and they had no info beyond the comp
741.
by fiblye 8y ago
I get this on my own computer that I've been using for 6 years on a static IP. It happens at least once a month, sometimes several times. Each time they ask for a phone number confirmation when no phone number is linked to the account
742.
by fiblye 8y ago
The US was also in a different hemisphere while the rest of the world was ravaged by 2 massive wars that destroyed everything they had, letting the US take the reigns of the world economy for a very long time. Without WW1 and WW2 helping to
743.
by fiblye 8y ago
If that happens, then the herd will just move on.
744.
by fiblye 8y ago
In terms of environmental sustainability, chicken is the best value of any meat. It's about as an efficient feed:meat ratio as you can get, their waste is reusable, and they're certainly not going extinct. The moral problem, thoug
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by fiblye 8y ago
Screaming is useful for warning something about something that's obviously going to negatively affect them. Like walking in in front of a train, or how cheating will make them fail a course because the screaming person will be the one
746.
by fiblye 8y ago
Throughout every single year of my schooling, there was at least one teacher who would always tell us that we were without a doubt the worst class they'd ever seen in their life and they were quitting next year. Are kids getting worse?
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by fiblye 8y ago
>If you do cocaine you can practice harm reduction by washing in acetone, and if you have it available, cloraform. I'm gonna be real with you. A product that's washed like that, especially by an amateur at home (e.g. you or me)
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by fiblye 8y ago
Both major US parties are headed towards their own extreme, highly skewed views of reality. People deeply rooted in each side think it's only the other side that's crazy. And the media megacorps are playing this up hard, really tr
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by fiblye 8y ago
So does this only affect ground temperatures in a localized area? Because if Kansas gets 0.24 degrees warmer but the greenhouse gas reductions result in Greenland not melting off into the ocean, it seems like a clearly worthwhile tradeoff.
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by fiblye 8y ago
And few of those people discovered the game by scrolling through steam. Most found it through a youtube playthrough, word of mouth, and "word of mouth" (i.e. how all content is marketed these days)

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