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3. Whar do you mean? Example: https://www.amazon.com/LG-Electronics-70UK6570PUB-70-Inch-Ul...
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Captchas don't provide context.
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They could still be freemium, or could use less targeted advertising. Would it be a catastrophe if Mark Zuckerberg only made $20B off Facebook instead of $40B? Also, today, privacy conscious users are cut off from the main forums of discour
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No. The government is sovereign; no one can prosecute the government. Only individual scapegoats can be prosecuted.
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It can't be criminal because corporations can't go to jail. The only punishment you can apply to corporation is to take a little bit of its money, but not so much that it declares bankruptcy and gives all its assets to a new corpo
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It's clearly dishonest and wrong. It's also sneaky and smart.
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Or when the Senate gets a Democrat majority
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Right, this is just an election gimmick.
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That's the meme, but it's not true. Look at Trump's abuse of tax law, just to pick a popular example. Or Hollywood accounting, a classic example.
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This is campaign nonsense. It's a partisan bill sponsored by the minority party, not a serious proposal.
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None of those places have Prop 13 or California's environmental rules, so why can't they build appropriate density?
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Not sure why you were downvoted. I agree that the average popular person will get more out of physics doing things they can (re)discover themselves, like Archimedes work on bouyancy and Newton's work on optics. Too many folks are stuck
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Not everyone can afford thousands of dollars for tutoring. But forums and MOOCs are good.
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The Feynman lectures were specially designed for creme de la creme undergrads who already did a course in physics in high school. They are a terrible way for a noob to try to learn. Also strange that the author warns against exotic topics
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To the average pop reader's digest human experience, they are pretty close. Sure, it's interesting to know that GPS is affected by time dilation, but the hours spent on thought experiments on intergalactic travel are a distraction
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Is life a right?
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There's no customer service contract.
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Because it's cheaper for the company if you just give up and get help elsewhere. They have barriers in place to impede your attempt to cancel your subscription
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Can mods fix the grammatical abomination that is the title?
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Not everyone is a digital packrat and compulsive organizer.
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Yahoo was paying engineers half or less compared to FAANG. It illustrates that by that time (2011), Yahoo was on hospice.
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Why is pay in rupees great? Dollars can be changed to rupees at a bank, yes?
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Are those senior folks less skilled in relevant areas, or does something makes them unable to renegotiate or change jobs?
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At a bank, the salespeople and analysts are called Vice Presidents. It's just a name.
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The best time to buy is after a dip in the price.
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The problem is malware, not the porn.
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Why do you keep giving him screen time when you can see it is hurting him?
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Nah, they are just using different apps.
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Right, but there is no stigma against Facebook, the stigma is against "old people" and wherever they happen to be.
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Do you have a source for that extraordinary claim that Facebook was designed from the outset to make people unhappy, and that people use Facebook more when they are made unhappy?
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