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by fiesycal 13y ago
The dot-com bubble was late 90s very early 2000s. The established dates of birth for the baby boomer generation are from 1946-1964. In the year 2000 this puts the age range of the baby boomers from 36-54 years old. That means none of the ba
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by fiesycal 13y ago
Of course there's a difference. But in the case of morals who gets to decide? How do we know who is 'colour-blind' so to speak? NB I'm not disagreeing necessarily with your assessment that it was an abuse of power. I&#x2
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by fiesycal 13y ago
I'm interested to hear your reasoning for why it counts. Also at what point (age differential, position differential, gender differential) is it no longer unfair or immoral and why. Could we not argue that any sort of imbalance in a re
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by fiesycal 13y ago
Honest question which companies? Which companies that currently pay workers minimum wage are able to move overseas? Mcdonalds, Walmart etc cannot move their service jobs overseas.
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by fiesycal 14y ago
Because you shouldn't be accessing an unauthorised system? If someone unlawfully entered your house shouldn't they be punished for doing that not only if they take something?
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by fiesycal 14y ago
The argument is that the cost of extracting the energy and transforming it into a usable source does not match the cost it does to the environment once that energy is used. That's what the carbon tax is for. It's for the carbon (pollutants)
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by fiesycal 14y ago
How can you say the model no longer works? The model just doesn't fit your view. There's no requirement to provide live streaming online. In any case they do have online streaming if you have a cable subscription, I've heard it could be a b
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by fiesycal 14y ago
Your analogy wasn't very clear. What I'm saying is if they have no way of making money off it what taxes do they owe? If you buy shares in a company that goes bust but you still have the paper should you pay taxes on that if the IRS decides
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by fiesycal 14y ago
The piece is on loan to the museum but they aren't making any money from the loan. They also can't sell it as the previous poster said because it's illegal. Why should they pay tax on something that wont provide monetary benefit unless it i
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by fiesycal 15y ago
I agree with your point but I think using Ashton Kutcher as your example was misplaced. Ashton Kutcher has been investing for a while now and he also started a Biomedical Engineering degree before dropping out^, so I think his fundamental g
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by fiesycal 15y ago
How is superannuation (I'm assuming you mean the Australian version) a Ponzi scheme? People have to put their own money into Super plus employers make a mandatory contribution. Super is different to retirement benefits (which are tax payer
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What happens when computers stop shrinking?(salon.com)
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by fiesycal 15y ago
I'm just curious how bankers and the like value industries. Do they value them by the total sum of all company valuations, total sum of all company revenues or total sum of all company profits? Or something entirely different? If anyone in
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Paul Graham: The World's 7 Most Powerful Entrepreneurs(forbes.com)
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by fiesycal 15y ago
I'm fairly sure you have to either have British citizenship or citizenship in one of the Commonwealth nations to be knighted. Otherwise you receive an honorary knighthood. Also some Commonwealth nations don't allow their citizens to receive
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by fiesycal 15y ago
Something tells me the North Korean Generals aren't about to take orders from a 20 year old.
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Commbank Kaching: The future of mobile payments.(commbank.com.au)
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CEO Says Sony Developing New Kind of TV(online.wsj.com)
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The 10 college majors with the lowest unemployment rates(news.yahoo.com)
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The Social Graph as Crude Oil (forbes.com)
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by fiesycal 15y ago
Are you suggesting an engineering degree or computer science degree etc. don't teach critical thinking and problem solving skills? I'd concede that better communication skills should be taught.
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One Google Books To Rule Them All?(theawl.com)
2 points by fiesycal 15y ago|0 comments
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Voices of finance: computer programmer at a trading company(guardian.co.uk)
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by fiesycal 15y ago
You can't just blame Wall Street for everything. I never suggested consumers were more responsible I just said that heaping 100% of the blame on Wall Street is ridiculous. Yes consumer debt was on the rise before the financial crisis: http
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by fiesycal 15y ago
"Through the repayments announced Wednesday, as well as dividends and interest, taxpayers have recovered about $244 billion of the $245 billion in TARP funds disbursed to banks, the Treasury said. The Treasury currently estimates that bank
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by fiesycal 15y ago
You should read this http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870426150457620... 99% of TARP has been repaid already. That's more than you can say about regular people paying back their credit card debts due to limitless spending.
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Why the Outside World Hates Wall Street – And What to Do About It(mergersandinquisitions.com)
1 points by fiesycal 15y ago|0 comments
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Steve Jobs' last big project: The next iPhone(news.cnet.com)
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by fiesycal 15y ago
This game seems loaded as in the message behind it. That's fine but I think its slightly misleading. I paid off registration but later I still got charged 1.5k for my car not being registered. Also is it me or for the maths question no matt
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How much is a Nobel prize worth?(theaustralian.com.au)
1 points by fiesycal 15y ago|0 comments

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