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by frandroid 6y ago
Look up Quantitative Easing, since 2008
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by frandroid 6y ago
It was neither the "left" (get real) nor the "right" who were pushing for globalization, but multinational corporations. They happen to be on the political right because their goal was to reduce workers' wages and u
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by frandroid 6y ago
The problem was not lack of skilled labour here, though it is now, but rather the high cost of that skilled labour here, then and now. You can let in a skilled worker from Czechia or Romania but the expected wage here will be much higher t
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by frandroid 6y ago
> If Apple et. al. wanted to pay 'American wages' for most of that activity, then major clusters of those skills would develop here. They would, but you're still talking about a 10-20 year gap. First for masses of people
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by frandroid 6y ago
> "mixed fractions" I strongly disagree. Being able to bring two quotients to the same denominator, so that you can compare apples and oranges on the fruit scale, is a essential skill at not getting screwed by The Man. This i
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by frandroid 6y ago
You had me until the very end...
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by frandroid 6y ago
It's not that black people believe every single cop is bad, it's that they MUST assume that a cop can do bad things to them. America is truly a police state for Black people. It doesn't matter if 90% of cops are good, if 10
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by frandroid 6y ago
> Want to switch majors? Gotta drop out, take the exam again and restart your university life. Damn.
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by frandroid 6y ago
The style is very reminiscent from The Register's BOFH line of stories (though without the mischieviousness)--now those are mostly fiction, but they're amusing nonetheless...
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by frandroid 6y ago
One of the most endearing xkcd strips. A bit lightbulb moment when I figured this out in my life.
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by frandroid 6y ago
Since the story has been posted umpteenth times, this is what should be posted these days. Very entertaining, thanks!
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by frandroid 6y ago
That's what you call a self-solving problem. You don't want to work for these companies. :)
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by frandroid 6y ago
Possibly the second largest donated item ever, after the aircraft carrier Russia "donated" to India (I think it was in need of $2B worth of repairs...)
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by frandroid 6y ago
I keep my bottle of hing in another bottle.
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by frandroid 6y ago
fragrant and spicy
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by frandroid 6y ago
I always have two cards on file with my registrar, but this year I had to cancel one card and the other one expired. Thankfully I was on top of my emails but I came within a month of losing my domains, which all kind of renew around the sa
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by frandroid 6y ago
But how can we create billionaires like Carlos Slim and Naguib Sawiris in every country without cellphone companies?
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by frandroid 6y ago
The ethanol plants are already in the greenwashing business so it makes sense to go all-in. :)
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by frandroid 6y ago
It's at war with Amazon, and it's able to produce an ROI which exceeds the cost of borrowing anyway.
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by frandroid 6y ago
That's still a vastly different question than "should the government own all of Walmart's debt," as the previous spelling was inferring.
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by frandroid 6y ago
Morricone re-scoring Star Wars would have been interesting :D
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by frandroid 6y ago
How about the first half? Shostakovich?
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by frandroid 6y ago
Morricone scored most of the films that Elio Petri and Gian Maria Volonté made together... that's another iconic film partnership that Morricone was part of, though less centrally in this case.
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by frandroid 6y ago
> Usually slaves and masters are of the same race. Not for the last 500 years.
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by frandroid 6y ago
There were eras where slavery had little to do with race (see: the Roman Republic and Empire) but the history of slavery in the last half-millennium had everything to do with race; it is the edifice on which white supremacy was built. You&#
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by frandroid 6y ago
Meanwhile, Turkey flooded the oldest continually-inhabited settlement in the world, Hasankeyf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasankeyf A true loss to world heritage.
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by frandroid 6y ago
https://www.gaia.com/article/turkish-archaeologists-find-sit... Turkish Archaeologists Find Site Much Older Than Göbekli Tepe
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by frandroid 6y ago
It's a Google backdoor for your team to add more tracking etc. The important point is that it's a backdoor for marketing (and adtech) teams to get around developer/security requirements. At some point, someone on those tea
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by frandroid 6y ago
I can think of a few cases. For example, an app monitoring memory usage in other apps. Or an app made to intercept certain types of calls from other apps. (A music scrobbler, for example.)
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by frandroid 6y ago
In spite of the current remote-work revolution allegedly happening, most companies still want an office with workings coming physically so developers can be tracked and teams can bond and share knowledge. You'll be able to hire an Ind

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