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by gph 9y ago
I'm sorry but that sounds ridiculous, do you have actual experience with this sort of thing? I don't, but I'd be pretty blown away if a supply chain logistics expert came in here and said that groceries cost less in rural loc
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by gph 9y ago
What makes you think these people wouldn't already have jobs as engineers and technicians if they were capable of that? It even mentions in the article that the one lady lives down the road from her nephew who has a nice house with tru
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by gph 9y ago
Oh their conscious alright... conscious that they want to add more for everything their side supports while cutting everything the other side supports. Of course after all the political theater this usually ends up with them adding what the
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by gph 9y ago
Hmmm, I get what you're saying but I still don't feel like that can be a global solution for everyone. At least not until we live in a post-scarcity society of some sort where we can all get paid from some software we wrote.
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by gph 9y ago
Thank you. It seems like a lot of people try to reason in an egoless manner, but all they end up doing is transferring their ego-driven hang-ups onto their concept of a universal objective viewpoint.
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by gph 9y ago
That might work for the OP or someone who is capable of earning enough to set up systems to make a passive income. But that's not a global solution to the problem. We can't all be lazy rent seeking drains on society.
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by gph 9y ago
Yea sorry, meant civil law. Murder is kind of hard to use as an example because there's typically really strong moral and cultural understandings that you shouldn't be doing that. But lets think of a more nuanced example. Lets say
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by gph 9y ago
Well that is sort of a common law view of things. But most countries practice case law, which means if somethings not explicitly illegal then it must be legal. So I don't think circumventing the law is seen the same way as it would ove
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by gph 9y ago
Like I said below, the study this is based on started in 1940. Hence the 'old-school' New England.
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by gph 9y ago
Remember also that the dataset they are using began back in the 1940s when the towns demographics would have been much farther skewed towards English/Anglo-Saxon. And while they've included more participants over the course of the
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by gph 9y ago
Depends on the area. I think in parts of Maine where there's a strong Quebecois influence there's definitely a meaningful distinction. There's other areas, especially in rural communities, where a specific European country ha
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by gph 9y ago
Framingham, MA is old school New England. I wouldn't be surprised if 75+% of the participants are of direct English/Anglo-Saxon descent, even though the article describes it as "European" descent.
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by gph 9y ago
Honestly I don't mind too much. At this point I just want significant punishment for those who allow massive data leaks so there's a reasonable deterrent for other companies. Something needs to happen to make these executives take
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by gph 9y ago
Not that it changes your point, but I'd put the percent impacted a lot lower than 90%. There's a large underclass of people who don't even have a bank account let alone a credit account of any type. A lot of poor people still
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by gph 9y ago
Folks might also be interested in the effort to bring back the American Chestnut tree; https://www.acf.org/ It was similarly taken out by a fungus brought over from the old world. They are attempting to backbreed in resista
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by gph 9y ago
No one is saying the vetting process should be done away with. They are saying it should be reformed to not be so god damn stupid. There's like 50 wall of text posts in here that don't seem to be understanding that
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by gph 9y ago
>I don't feel bad making a wisecrack since there isn't a substantive story about this on the handful of news outlets I checked. What does that have to do with anything? And the story was broken by NHK, what other news sources w
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by gph 9y ago
And really it's hard to determine what differentiates the data between DC and Baltimore for a lot of tech jobs. The ranking calls it Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, so that probably means Fort Meade and a lot of other tech jobs that might b
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by gph 9y ago
Cash is an asset. Undoubtedly they own offices/real estate in multiple locations. The corporate entity might even own some of it's own shares. There's probably a lot of mundane things that count as assets, I'm sure if yo
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by gph 9y ago
>It's all a guess until the end, and even then we're often not sure. Look at anti-depressants. We still don't know how a lot of those work but prescribe them to millions of people regardless. How do you think they determin
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by gph 9y ago
An Eight-ball is an eighth of an ounce, and it's still one of the most popular ways of asking for coke. It's not really dying out as much as you say.
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by gph 9y ago
>The United States of America spent a hundred years building up a global leadership position. President Trump has effectively destroyed it in a mere four months. I'm no Trump fan, but the slide in American global leadership has been
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by gph 9y ago
>arbitrarily-imposed taxes Isn't a progressive tax system basically the opposite of an arbitrarily defined system? Perhaps you can quibble over where each progressive quantile is delineated, but a system defined by raising taxes on
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by gph 9y ago
Gotta love these kinds of comments. Meaningless pandering to the pitchforks. Seriously, what are you even suggesting? That the FBI sniff out anyone planning to be a patent troll, then arrest them before they can even commit their crime? Dru
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by gph 9y ago
Article title is misleading you, this isn't about American-based car companies it's about the cars Americans drive including Honda/Toyota/BMW/etc.
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by gph 9y ago
But tying it to an employer allows for group rate bargaining with the insurance company. I'm no expert in insurance, but I imagine there's very few instances where an individual will be able to negotiate a better rate for comparab
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by gph 9y ago
Just like a new generation of engineers doing math on computers would give us flying cars?
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by gph 9y ago
We're pretty good at mass producing bombs. Hasn't ended civilization yet. Dropping a bunch of plastic eating enzymes won't be more effective...
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by gph 9y ago
>they are in all likelihood no longer upside down. You clearly don't live in a non-metro area.
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by gph 9y ago
I think there's a bit of a squeeze area where people who work hard at jobs that pay between 30k and 50k (or even higher depending on the area) can find themselves basically paycheck to paycheck. And it's not all down to making bad

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