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by ionised 8y ago
> It turns out, many of us well educated people don't really want to network or socialize with poorly educated people. Are you speaking for yourself here?
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by ionised 8y ago
State/publicly-owned assets were co-opted/stolen/gifted by oligarchs at after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Assets and funds that should have found their way into the public coffers were given away or 'sold off'
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by ionised 8y ago
> I never get very sad or angry, but I don't ever feel very happy either. That just sounds like the depression that was there before you started taking the SSRI. At least it describes my depression perfectly. Apathy. That's ho
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by ionised 8y ago
Hmm. And bailouts for repeatedly failing companies.
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by ionised 8y ago
https://nocable.org/news/whats-happened-in-the-three-months-...
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by ionised 8y ago
> Yet this is mainly a technology-oriented community (as far as I know) Besides your point, but I get the impression HN is mostly a money-oriented community these days.
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by ionised 8y ago
They've lobbied against my interests far more than that though.
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by ionised 8y ago
Which will never be how it works. You think the Chinese government will accept Google deliberately making it more difficult for them to surveill and imprison dissidents? You're out of your mind if you believe they would allow this in a
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by ionised 8y ago
That's a pretty pathetic and inconsequential win.
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by ionised 8y ago
> Googlers who oppose these kinds of projects should enthusiastically sign up to work on them, so they can have a chance at influencing the outcome. Incredibly naive in my opinion. Google is not a democracy, its a pulicly traded company.
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by ionised 8y ago
> it would be even sadder to continue missing out on the world's largest market. Is that sad though? Really? I'm not exactly tearing up at the thought.
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by ionised 8y ago
The growth and employment numbers were already rising when Trump became president, so how would his tax cuts be responsible for this? Plus, cuts in taxes for the wealthy have been tried numerous times before and not produced economic growth
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by ionised 8y ago
> it has a moral and fiscal obligation to make as much money as possible, in perpuitity. This is simply untrue. Also a 'moral obligation to make as much money as possible' is fucking hilarious.
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by ionised 8y ago
> So we should be blaming Brin and Page for this directly? I'm totally fine with that. I'd add Schmidt into the mix too. He's had the biggest had in turning Google into what it is.
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by ionised 8y ago
Is 'maximising your compensation' the only goal? Isn't maximising your earnings supposed to be a means to something greater, not an end in itself?
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by ionised 8y ago
> The countries we live in do lots of bad things but we can still be proud of our country I've always found the idea of 'being proud of your country' to be a strange one. Pretty much all of my country's accomplishment
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by ionised 8y ago
Nobody expected any better from Microsoft. That's a lost cause.
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How would Google profiting from a tightly controlled Chinese internet make it better?
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by ionised 8y ago
In human culture, when a company claims it supports a free and open internet but makes moves to support a closed, surveilled and censored internet, that is generally considered a dick move.
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by ionised 8y ago
> By leaving Google, one of the most powerful tech companies in the world, the engineers are lowering the mean moral compass of the engineering base. Good. It's not like a good, ethical developer is going to change things from the i
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by ionised 8y ago
Not with that attitude, no.
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by ionised 8y ago
Good to know, but I wasn't aware.
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by ionised 8y ago
Like I said above, economic reforms aren't really felt until at least a term after they were enacted. Obama's first term was feeling the effects of George W. Bush's administration (and later a financial crash to deal with, re
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Relative to what?
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by ionised 8y ago
The effects of economic policies of one president typically aren't felt until the term of the next president. The (specific and limited) growths you are seeing are a result of Obama-era policies. Trumps will start to show after he&#x27
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by ionised 8y ago
Read the rest of my post. The question stands, because the article doesn't specify whether it is talking about wages or wages in real terms . Someone mind explaining what these downvotes are for? All I asked was a question. This place
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by ionised 8y ago
Are real wages really up when inflation and cost of living, healthcare rises are factored in? Everything I've read suggests real wages have been stagnant since the 70's.
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> It's personally been very eye-opening for me over the past decade to see just how much the size of a country's economy can wielded as club to silence international opposition and how easily the international community goes al
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by ionised 8y ago
Most of them. And the ones I wouldn't pay for I wouldn't miss.
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by ionised 8y ago
I trust popular extentions that are open-source and have been well-reviewed far more than any advertiser or tracking network.

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