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by fred_durst 12y ago
The reality of labor replacement is that low skill workers are likely to be the very last group to be replaced. The reason for that is how low they are paid and how expensive physical manufacturing and upkeep of machines are. Middle managem
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by fred_durst 12y ago
The machine still has an equivalent annual cost to compare to the workers salaries. Some things that you now have to pay for with machine labor compared to human labor below: 1. Up front payments: Parents and schools subsidized the manufact
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by fred_durst 12y ago
Those are valid points. I'll only address one point below, because I see a lot of your reasoning as being that all technological advancement is a net good, which I feel is often the divide between those who are for and against anti-agi
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by fred_durst 12y ago
Sorry, Swift's stock price is more about the horror show that is Swift's corporate governance. Especially CEO Jerry Moyes. The very fact that he'll keep his job after this dismal lack of forecasting is an example of how much
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by fred_durst 12y ago
> Every time someone dies, a wealth of unique life experience and personality is lost, permanently. - Every time a person dies, their life is passed on through those they have connected with and influenced. Their influence on the world
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by fred_durst 12y ago
No. Not at all. In fact things like pollution and war will likely get a lot worse. I'm shocked people can even publicly admit they support this type of selfish behavior.
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by fred_durst 12y ago
A choice to screw over the generations that come after them.
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by fred_durst 12y ago
> Larry's concern for his own health People died to make room for Larry. For him to try and cheat the system when it's his turn is the ultimate act of disrespect. So no, that isn't good enough.
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by fred_durst 12y ago
http://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/ soooo many charts
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by fred_durst 12y ago
Wow, just wow.
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by fred_durst 12y ago
So you don't think that people will become less motivated to work if they know that at any time the rug can be pulled out beneath them?
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by fred_durst 12y ago
Considering that I currently live in Seattle, have lived in SF and Oakland recently, grew up around Boston and work with a group out of Miami, I probably have pretty good idea of how warped it is in the Bay Area. Nice charts tho.
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by fred_durst 12y ago
"Squander"... many US citizens see the actions of Silicon Valley and the entire tech VC culture as grossly immoral and unethical. Maybe you have yet to realize that all your actions in the US will only make rich families richer an
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by fred_durst 12y ago
Because news already traveled like wildfire. Its just didn't make it out to the people who weren't actually involved as often as it does now.
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by fred_durst 12y ago
Yes, that is absolutely true and valid. Indeed the rental push is national and a great point. That said, to compare the rental increase in Oakland, or the Bay in general, is a far stretch from the national average. And the reason for that i
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by fred_durst 12y ago
c) Yeah, what assholes deciding to write books for a living. Fuck them. Should have written HFT algos instead.
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by fred_durst 12y ago
The really important part of my quote you missed was > But that doesn't matter because the market is so competitive the new landlord wouldn't rent to you anyway.
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by fred_durst 12y ago
As I said above, what does any of this have to do with the article at hand? This article was not about adoption or competition. If I were being defensive I would have tried to explain all the things I like about Firefox OS, or talked about
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by fred_durst 12y ago
There is this funny thing about progress that I think about sometimes. Most old people I've spoken too say that things were better when they were young. They also say that things are easier now. Sometimes I wonder if that is the discon
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by fred_durst 12y ago
The reason being that they get more and more expensive the longer they take to pay back. That's the clever part. States would probably rather just use other money to kill the loans faster. Remember the interest compounds over time. Loo
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by fred_durst 12y ago
Let's try to see it from another human perspective. You've been living in Oakland for the last 10 years. You work at a local place making $15/hr. You have built up a lot of friends and enjoy your life. Suddenly the tech boom
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by fred_durst 12y ago
Here's some more info on CABs and the effect they are having now, and how much damage they are likely to do to the future of the US http://patimes.org/poor-decision-worse-capital-appreciation-...
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by fred_durst 12y ago
This is an article about designing and developing for Firefox OS. This is not an article about competing with Android and others. Discussion about which is a better option for the consumer is a very valid discussion and is important to the
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by fred_durst 12y ago
Funny you should mention that. It is the top thread right now on the dev-gaia mailing list. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.gaia/QP7...
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by fred_durst 12y ago
This thread was originally about someone telling their experience with the phone that Firefox OS is developed and tested against . This was an article about developing Firefox OS which is done on the device discussed in the start of the
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by fred_durst 12y ago
But what does any of that have to do with the process of designing and developing Firefox OS? You also just kind of seem like an astroturfer. Android was not mentioned anywhere in that article as far as I could tell. Why are you posting tha
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by fred_durst 12y ago
> And by age 28, 41 percent of white men born into low-income families had criminal convictions, compared with 49 percent of the black men from similar backgrounds. Both of those numbers are insanely high. Especially when you realize t
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by fred_durst 12y ago
I've been building my ZTE Open since pretty close to its initially release. I also use it as my daily device. Also, I think this is your 3rd time(in my recent memory) derailing a Firefox OS thread to talk about how there are no phones
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by fred_durst 12y ago
That is correct. That is why I said it was the "base rate". The example was to illustrate what the employment opportunity would look like if an employer of a developer had to pay an hourly rate with overtime pay, instead of being
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by fred_durst 12y ago
Indeed. If the authors stop by, consider changing the message to something more like "Your browser does no appear to support a couple things required to play this presentation(WebGL, Web Audio etc). The latest versions of several brows

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