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by hwstar 11y ago
If you will take care of your people, it is your people who will take care of your customers and the business will take care of itself -- Sam Walton
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by hwstar 11y ago
First off, I tend towards the left politically, but Dianne Feinstein is somewhat of a control freak. Maybe the switch to Jungle Primaries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonpartisan_blanket_primary will help resolve this
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by hwstar 11y ago
I like the idea of a minimum income, but there are issues to resolve. What stops landlords and businesses from profiteering on the $1000.00 monthly checks? In the case of landlords, what stops them from charging $1000.00 rent per person in
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by hwstar 11y ago
This is a really good idea. We should refarm 400-700MHz over the next 10 years and use it for Internet service. The broadcasters will eventually be forced out of business due to IPTV. Have you seen the kind of programming currently broadcas
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by hwstar 11y ago
And this is why you need to make sure that you can live without a paycheck for 6 months to a year. Everybody needs F.U. money. You never know when you will be shepherded into a room and asked for your badge. It can happen to anyone, and it
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by hwstar 11y ago
Rent will eventually servo to what the market will bear, and salaries play a big part. Remote jobs may be a easy around this linkage. If you can line in a small town where a significant portion of the residents are making low wages, you can
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by hwstar 11y ago
With the exception of PBS, most of the documentaries on Netflix are dumbed down shows from Ad-supported cable networks. Every time they break for ads, they have to go back and repeat half the information. This is annoying. They just don&#x2
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by hwstar 11y ago
Bring the European working time directive regulations to the US. No person shall work more than 48 hours per week averaged over a 6 week period. These regulations allow some crunch mode projects to occur, but not go on forever. I'm not
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by hwstar 11y ago
We cut the cord in 2008-- tired of paying for linear programming which consisted of 33% ads. We switched to Netflix soon thereafter, but now even Netflix isn't delivering the type of programming I like. I prefer good quality documentar
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by hwstar 11y ago
For profit entities will never stop trying to skirt regulation. It's one way to get ahead of your competition. We just need to make sure that there is adequate disincentive to do it. Uber is trying to do an end-run around employee laws
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by hwstar 11y ago
Yep, that's the entity I'm talking about. Unless the utilities decide to become more competitive, the only way to win in the long term is NOT to feed the energy you make back into the grid.
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by hwstar 11y ago
I have a 1kW solar panel battery storage system which I use to power my computers and servers. I installed it a couple of years ago to help mitigate the $0.37 kWh top tier rate that SDG&E charges. In California, a minimum charge was int
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by hwstar 11y ago
That's the correct attitude, and it illustrates a stark difference between American and European culture. In America, this would never be allowed happen. You would need to be able to start a business using your own resources, or you wi
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by hwstar 11y ago
Good luck with that unless California AB 465 passes and is signed by governor Brown and upheld in federal court. (Note: There is some concern AB 465 might not survive a federal court challenge as it might conflict with the Federal Arbitrati
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by hwstar 11y ago
Investors and banks are the root of the problem when it comes to non-competes. They insist that companies include these in all employee agreements. If you live in a state where non-competes are legal, and if you are a job candidate and the
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by hwstar 11y ago
Doing this on minimum wage isn't going to work as you can't live below your means at that income level. You do need to learn a trade, or profession (like Engineering) which allows you to save, then live below your means. There&#x2
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by hwstar 11y ago
Education and Healthcare: Two services which should not be offered by businesses seeking to make a profit. I think future generations will look back and ask: "What were they thinking?"
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by hwstar 11y ago
When you don't pay for it, and it's offered for free by a business out to make a profit, the problem is almost always the lack of clear and consise disclosure. There is no [Schumer Box]( https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by hwstar 11y ago
Open allocation at its best... We need more of this to counter the MBA/Business closed allocation model.
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The Factory of Ideas: Working at Bell Labs [video](youtube.com)
88 points by hwstar 11y ago|23 comments
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by hwstar 11y ago
My pet peeve of the US banking system: Why does an ACH transfer take 2-3 days in the US, yet in other developed countries, the transfer is instantaneous? Two words: vested interests. Banks in the US want the ACH system to remain slow to pre
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by hwstar 11y ago
Short term, the engineering job market in San Diego will be terrible as the laid off engineers flood the market. Hopefully some of these engineers will start their own small companies and this is where it gets interesting... There has been
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by hwstar 11y ago
Don't spit on the ground or chew gum, you will be caned (flogged).
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by hwstar 11y ago
Clickbait detector meter pegged and the meter movement is smoking.... This is right-wing propaganda at it's best. We don't want religion in government. If this comes to pass then let's add a gold cross to the center of the Am
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by hwstar 11y ago
This won't be fixed without a constitutional convention. Either a constitutional convention, or a state-invoked Article V convention would be necessary. Congress won't fix this as it attacks the source of campaign funding. We need
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by hwstar 11y ago
I have seen for myself how people in the UK live compared to the US as I have family in the UK and have been back to visit quite a bit.
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by hwstar 11y ago
If more people knew they could live a better life outside of the USA and the immigration policies were more open outside of America, the USA would experience mass emigration. The corporate-controlled media avoids comparing or discussing US
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Qualcomm preparing to lay off several thousand employees: tech website(reuters.com)
2 points by hwstar 11y ago|0 comments
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by hwstar 11y ago
Uh, No. NIMBYism and lack of policies to ensure enough low-income housing is planned and built. Techies can't rent low-income housing under normal circumstances. There must be low-income housing available in a city to ensure that there
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by hwstar 11y ago
Sounds like the company you went to work for knew exactly what they were doing. This sort of reminds me of the scene in Betelgeuse where the candy bar was dangled and drew the fly in. At this point it may be time to have a lawyer go over th

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