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by hwstar 11y ago
Ah yes, the flat tax. The thing talked about on AM conservative talk radio all the time. Flat taxes like sales taxes are regressive and hurt the poor. Take for example Mississippi which has sales taxes on food. Disgusting.
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Governor Brown vetoed AB1017. This would have prohibited employers from asking for salary history. It would have been interesting to see the reaction of employers if this has been signed by the governor.
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With the exception of sports and news, linear TV is dead. It doesn't matter if it comes from the cable company or an antenna. Once users get a taste of watching things on their schedule, they don't want to adhere to the broadcaste
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by hwstar 11y ago
Binding arbitration: An end-run around the 7th amendment to the us constitution by the corporates.
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California's unchecked veto power(sfchronicle.com)
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by hwstar 11y ago
Didn't Mark Twain say: History never repeats itself, but sometimes it rhymes?
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I suspect rampant age discrimination in the US keeps a lot of the 50+ crowd from working. Companies prefer younger employees who don't know that they are being taken advantage of, and that don't have a high health insurance cost.
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I'm not familiar with continental Europe's wiring practices, but here in the states, we use 15A and 20A breakers. The maximum number of outlets per circuit depends on what the circuit is servicing. The electrical code has gotten s
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by hwstar 11y ago
Any twin blade plug made in China will probably have pins of the same size. The reason is North America is the only one using the twin blade polarized plugs, all bets are off in the rest of the world. Also, the pins may be the same size so
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by hwstar 11y ago
Newer style NEMA 5-15 plugs are polarized. The neutral pin is larger than the live pin. You must have some very old 2 pin plugs, or you got hold of a plug made in China. The Chinese plugs have pins of the same size and are even more dangero
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by hwstar 11y ago
The only way out is to have a large cash cushion, investments, and passive income. Anyone having to depend a recurring paycheck in a first world country for food and shelter in the future is going to be worse off in the future. Why? Because
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by hwstar 11y ago
This is due to relentless cost-cutting by manufacturers supplying sockets to the large home improvement stores. When you can buy duplex receptacles for less than $1, this is what you get. If you invest in a Hubbell, Eagle, or other reputab
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That fuse is absolutely required. Plugs are daisy-chained in a loop with a 32A breaker (The so-called "ring-main"). Removing the fuse will cause lead burn up if there's a short circuit in the device. If you look at the leads
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by hwstar 11y ago
Don't walk barefoot in a dark room with BS1363 plugs prongs up on the floor.
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Cost cutting by laying off employees only goes so far. In the case of HP (Which was once a great company) the rot extends all the way to the top. It's going to take more than just layoffs to fix HP. I predict that there will be more la
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by hwstar 11y ago
It depends what you are developing. If you are doing programming for web applications, then possibly not (although, there probably are exceptions). If you are writing something like circuit simulation program, or a DSP-based control system
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Let's hope that the rich and powerful don't win. They could choose euthanasia for the unproductive.
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Removed. Sorry. I should have known better.
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The only solution working in this environment is to leave it as soon as possible. I'd rather be homeless than work in such an environment. What the MBA folk fail to understand is the driving the last gram of productivity out of employe
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by hwstar 11y ago
Privatization isn't bad provided that key corporations are answerable to more than just profit alone. This is the key aspect of a benefit corporation. A lot of what is wrong with large corporations is that they don't place any pr
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by hwstar 11y ago
This is why some corporations should be forcefully converted to benefit corporations which have more stakeholders than profit alone. Big Pharma, Insurance, and Utilities should be converted first.
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by hwstar 11y ago
We should be worried about Supply Side (Chicago) economics and Crony Capitalism.
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Let's be both blunt and frank: You really don't have any choice but to do as he asks or leave. Trying to play games to get him to leave could end up getting you fired. You might also want to look at your weaknesses and see if ther
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by hwstar 11y ago
No. The world isn't running out of problems to solve, but if we are not careful, we may not be allowed to take on the challenge and solve them. Either the rich will do this by force using their agents (e.g police, military, mercenaries
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by hwstar 11y ago
Absolutely spot on! Nobody talks about it, and it is a very important issue. In the US, the balance of employer/employee power is heavily tilted in the employer's favor.
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You are correct. It is going to suck living in a developed country unless you have enough money to be financially independent. Deflation is a very likely outcome as the standard of living in the first world countries will decrease, and we w
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by hwstar 11y ago
I have to disagree about the demographics. The job market will not improve. It will continue to deteriorate. China may have a growing middle class, but there are over 1 billion people in India and 1.1 billion people in Africa which have yet
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by hwstar 11y ago
I have to disagree. While we are at it, let's hope that Governor Brown also signs AB 1017 preventing employers from asking for salary history, and AB 465 preventing employers from requiring employees enter into binding arbitration. Emp
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I'm not trying to argue that the TPP isn't bad. It is. Nor am I trying to conceal the truth on anything regarding the mechanisms of government. I just wanted to state that there are ways to control the TPP should it get voted in.
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You can always decide to exit a treaty. If enough people voted in representatives willing to exit the treaty it would be done. The TPP isn't a real treaty as that requires a 2/3 vote in the Senate its what's known as a trade

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