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by gph 10y ago
>via the long tail of trade policies being a disincentive to conflict and an incentive to work things out peacefully. Can you explain what you mean by long tail in these circumstances? I started taking a course on stats and understand ge
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by gph 10y ago
Good point, but to play devil's advocate the same general things were said about Twitter and other tech startups. Their main product doesn't have long term profitability, but just think of all that data they have! Surely they must
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by gph 10y ago
Isn't that exactly what Obama was trying for? I've never read any statements from the Obama administration that makes it seem like they find anything about this case justified or acceptable.
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by gph 10y ago
Plus it's not like Lynchburg is some tiny unheard of town. It's actually a decent sized city, and it's fairly well known for being home to Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. Not to mention the history both in Lynchburg
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by gph 10y ago
Why not? That's a genuine question, not trying to be a smartass. Would a company that raised that much money not be worth its value to be acquired? Edit: Looks like Instagram had raised 50m before being acquihired. Definitely a much di
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by gph 10y ago
>that by using the best available manufacturing techniques, they can double the world's battery production on 260,000 hours/week of labor. Mostly true, but to get a complete figure you might also factor in labor hours from upst
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by gph 10y ago
>Why does America have such a greater drug fascination than perhaps every other country? Just to throw out some random thoughts on this: -Historically a lot more expendable income, especially in the middle and working classes. The opport
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by gph 10y ago
>"The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer" I think typically when people say that they mean within their own country, not globally. And in some Western countries if we look at the very recent trend (last 10-20
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by gph 10y ago
>And yes, I take every opportunity when its relevant to mention a healthy diet. Potentially healthy diet. I don't mean to be pedantic here, and as someone who has adopted a keto diet I think it's far better than the standard am
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by gph 10y ago
Yes, I'm aware of what a keto diet is. OP never said anything about keto, and you happily skipped over the first item in his list (potatoes) just so you could cram in a spiel about keto. Edit: Just as a follow-up I seriously doubt we c
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by gph 10y ago
>(you can only get so big eating potatoes, broccoli and meat, it's the heavily processed stuff that is dangerous). That's about as handwavingly ignorant as the government nutritional guidelines. You can get as big as you want e
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by gph 10y ago
http://drshem.com/2012/11/15/cyberwarfare-and-hacktivism-in-... I guess the Arab Spring hacktivism didn't really amount to much, and the links to the U.S. on it are extremely tenuous, so I probably shoul
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by gph 10y ago
>For the wealthy, a high cost of living is a choice to live where they want. To an extent. I think some of them might not mind living in less expensive rural areas if they didn't need to be in proximity to their workplace or common
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by gph 10y ago
Sounds like someone reads SSC :)
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by gph 10y ago
I think the article would have been more interesting if it probed into why Russia so far appears to be winning at both recruiting talent and utilizing that talent. If Arab Spring is the type of offensive cyberthreat that the U.S. has create
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by gph 10y ago
>A lot of people on here are complaining about big pharma, but my generics cost like 2-3 bucks a month. I don't think GSK and Pfzier are exactly making bank off my mental conditions... Not that I disagree with most of your post, but
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by gph 10y ago
Silicon Valley has become a general reference to the Tech industry the same way Wall Street is for the Finance industry. That's just the way it is in the public consciousness now, no point in fighting it too much.
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by gph 10y ago
That's not really how it works. Tornadoes can form anywhere that enough warm humid air hits enough cold dry air. And that happens a lot in the Midwest/Plains region during certain times of year. Tornadoes would form there even if
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by gph 10y ago
Yea I get that, but you can extend that logic to just about every domain of life. Should they be allowed to buy all their employees the best mattresses available because a good night's sleep helps productivity? Should they pay for a na
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by gph 10y ago
You're right, I was using it as a catch-all term which I really shouldn't do. What I was trying to get at was the trend of rising costs of living with stagnant wages which a lot of people have been seeing for the past couple decad
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by gph 10y ago
Interesting, even if you give them the lunches it would be a huge stretch to say a fitness center and massages benefit the company. Sounds like a rule that is hard to impossible for the IRS to enforce. I hate rules like that, we ought to cr
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by gph 10y ago
Which does seem like sort of a loophole. Don't companies have to add perks over a certain amount to the employees pay so that it gets taxed? Wouldn't feeding an employee every day qualify? It would be sort of weird if we turn back
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by gph 10y ago
Perhaps, changing demographics is also a likely contributor. We have more poor people these days, both through immigration and growing income inequality/stagflation. Poor people can't invest are much time/money/energy in
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by gph 10y ago
But tornadoes are relatively minor in their path. If there's some bad luck the path will lead right through a populated area like Joplin, but even then it's not going to ravage an entire region to rubble. Plus if you live in torna
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by gph 10y ago
Yea, there aren't many places on this earth that don't see some sort of natural disaster. Maybe we'll all be living in the UK/Ireland, they don't seem to get hit by much.
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by gph 10y ago
You're correct, but I don't see how that has any relevance?
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by gph 10y ago
Yea, no one takes it too seriously for employment (which makes me wonder why they even do it most the time). I doubt I would have lost out on any jobs if I had bad credit, it probably wasn't really necessary for me to build up my credi
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by gph 10y ago
Not to mention it's mostly been recently that people/companies have started using Credit Scores outside the context of applying for a loan. And IMO they should stop using it outside that context. People shouldn't have to worr
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by gph 10y ago
Which is kind of scary given that most the major internet services (search, social media, news, etc.) are basing their entire business models around advertising. Would hate to see the state of the economy if that started to dry up.
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by gph 10y ago
I think something that might not always be mentioned is that voter turnout likely remains low because of the electoral college. I only bother voting if there is a referendum or local politician I care about. Neither was true in this electio

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