friedButter

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by friedButter 8y ago
I suspect they will still be available on TPB and friends
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by friedButter 8y ago
Women get pregnant more than men, but get charged the same medical insurance rates. Women take maternity leave more than men, but legally you cannot pay women less. How come in scenarios where women cost more, it is mandated that men and
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by friedButter 8y ago
A male pretending to be a female has an edge over males,females and females pretending to be male when applying for jobs.. Atleast in an unscientific study by interviewing.io
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by friedButter 8y ago
How is it splitting the difference when the choices are 1) men pay more or 2) men and women pay the same ?
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by friedButter 8y ago
Usually its considered OK to discriminate against a historically privileged class...
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by friedButter 8y ago
> And given the city's population and usage of plastic, the chokes are quite severe during the monsoon (rainy season) when it rains heavily Didnt the city even flood 2-3 days after the ban, when the govt was in full enforcement mode
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by friedButter 8y ago
> In that point of view, it seems a rather unfair complaint Regulations arent necessarily designed to be "fair" though.. if GDPR is written in a way that manufacturers need to recall all stock and update phones, its cost is pa
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by friedButter 8y ago
Why even support EU users though with all the GDPR overhead? Unless you are a multinational who doesnt care about GDPR overheads, best not to target the EU market isnt it?
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by friedButter 8y ago
Why doesnt EU instead implement a continent wide firewall and allow access to only GDPR compliant sites
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by friedButter 8y ago
There are a bunch of subsidies\welfare programs available for female children alone... Its much cheaper to raise a female child than to raise a male child, and dowry is no longer mandatory, it largely comes into play when you're tryin
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by friedButter 8y ago
These countries seem so easy compared to US where it can take 20+ years for a residency if you're from India, and you need to live on annual visa renewals until that time
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by friedButter 8y ago
So, basically eBay with buzzwords?
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by friedButter 8y ago
>While I acknowledge it's not a totally fair comparison, I find it interesting that you could replace "55" with "90+" and "Amazon blue collar workers" with "Lower level financiers and consultants o
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by friedButter 8y ago
Netflix does this too
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by friedButter 9y ago
But 9 women can give birth to one baby per month on average
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by friedButter 9y ago
> given that it's not just the U.S. that doesn't want new members in the nuclear club, but the entire world, including NATO and the UN Everyone, as per the comment I replied to
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by friedButter 9y ago
> It's that our political system and domestic behavior, however dysfunctional, is still more stable, and we have some experience holding onto nukes without using them, having muddled our way (luckily) through the Cold War Isnt US th
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by friedButter 9y ago
>Why can America get Npower and nukes but SA can't? Mostly cause America got Nukes first
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by friedButter 9y ago
So, this is somewhat misleading (or I didnt read the full thing) * Uber already allows you to pay by cash or use a credit card and put in the OTP after your trip * The PayTM concept is largely due to a discrepancy in regulations, money can
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by friedButter 9y ago
> e-mail taking a week or more to make it across the Atlantic Any reading material behind this? Really interesting, would like to read up on what caused such a delay
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by friedButter 9y ago
> In the Governet you'd still be censored Only for stuff that would be illegal in offline life as well... anything that you're allowed to do in offline life, under whatever extent of freedom of expression is permitted by your
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by friedButter 9y ago
They should consider partitioning the internet into 2 parts: 1) Public access internet, where everything is regulated by the hosting company 2) Restricted access internet where everything uploaded in linked to a real life ID and the uploade
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by friedButter 9y ago
git commit -a -m "Commit" && git push 90% of the time, all you need :)
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by friedButter 9y ago
>Employees shall have the right to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in other concerted activities for the purpose of col
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by friedButter 9y ago
They support equality of outcome, not equality of opportunity
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by friedButter 9y ago
>You can seek diversity in step 1 and be completely merit-based on step 2. What are your feelings on blocking all non diverse applications in step one and allowing only diversity candidates to proceed to step 2?
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by friedButter 9y ago
Interesting.. thanks I didnt realize employment was so heavily regulated in US
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by friedButter 9y ago
Shouldnt employers have the right to refuse to negotiate with a union and instead hire non union employees if any are available?
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by friedButter 9y ago
> there is nothing stopping the free market from abusing or killing people if the incentives align that way. If we decide we are better than that as a society, regulation is needed Well, thats true. Any "thing" stopping the fre
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by friedButter 9y ago
These guys tried it out, I'll leave the interpretation of the conclusion to the reader http://blog.interviewing.io/we-built-voice-modulation-to-mas... (yes, its inconclusive, but) > for technical ability, it appeare

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