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by jazzyk 11y ago
Most politicians and high-level executives are sociopaths (CEOs, etc. are politicians in all but name) So yeah, she is a lying sociopath, but so are most of the other candidates. Rather depressing.
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by jazzyk 11y ago
What about cars? No one ever pays sticker price, but some pay more than others. What about airline tickets? Some people pay more than others for the same class of seats, depending when purchased. Elastic pricing is not the problem. The prob
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Technical analysis is mostly useless for the kind of services financial advisors provide - namely long-term investing. Example: If, at some point, the advisor looking at Google, which just spiked 10% from $80 to $88/share, passed it ov
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Boredom != Idleness Boredom != Contemplation, Introspection, Reflection
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Look further down the article. It talks about spying on Petrobras. There is other evidence of spying on French and German companies (see my other post in this thread). I did misspeak on who the information was shared with. It was dissipated
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by jazzyk 11y ago
True, you have a point, there is no evidence that I am aware of - of this information dissipating to _private_ companies. Just like phone call records were improperly used to spy on unfaithful spouses (which was not disclosed by Snowden doc
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Yes, about a company losing business, but also about surveillance of foreign business entities (Brazil in this case) Also France (below), and yes, the information was shared: From http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/29&#
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Are you serious? The only "cleared" (using your term) people were NSA higher-ups - the very same people who spied on their own citizens. Snowden sent the docs not to any/all journalists, but to a carefully selected group of t
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by jazzyk 11y ago
There are more, but this is the best known instance, because Boeing lost a lot of money as a result. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/20/us-boeing-brazil-i... "Snowden's documents, many o
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by jazzyk 11y ago
I agree, but I can't help thinking that the sheer scale/shamelessness of corporate bribery is a recent phenomenon.
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Yup. Also comparisons with Assange.
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by jazzyk 11y ago
No, from the context of the post above mine, it is obvious that by "leaking indiscriminately" I meant to the general public. You are either lacking context comprehension skills or intentionally splitting hairs to make Snowden look
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This. It is amazing how many people don't know this (that he did not just leak everything indiscriminately).
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I know of plenty really worthy startups solving real business problems, who struggle to survive or went out of business, because they could not get more financing. And then you have investors throwing a lot of money at a laughable, trashy &
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by jazzyk 11y ago
I can confirm. Granted, Manhattan, where I tried to book an apartment, is a bit of a special location, but the pricing was not that much lower from the hotels.
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Who said anything about Obama? Not a fan either, but at least he speaks proper English.
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Affluent families also pay full tuition everywhere else, without getting special preferences. Long story short - most colleges are about quotas these days, not pure meritocracies. But at least there is an egalitarian thought behind minority
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by jazzyk 11y ago
I don't remember the exact numbers, but they got something like 300K or, so, he got 2.5 billion. They didn't think it was fair as they put a lot of work into it ( perfectly legal, though, he owned it)
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by jazzyk 11y ago
No, he wasn't the brightest bulb in the box. Perhaps not the caricature the liberal media made him out to be, but still - we have enough of his gaffes on record (people in Latin America speaking Latin, etc.)
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by jazzyk 11y ago
If he really is that sharp, he deserves an Oscar for best actor, ever. Fooled so many people, for so long... Listen, smart people don't go to Latin America and wonder if people there speak Latin. And smart people do NOT make so many te
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by jazzyk 11y ago
No, they want their kids to stay in the elite. Because elites, by definition, are small, they need to keep out everyone else. The goalposts are there just so that there is an illusion you or I can get in. And, on rare occasion we might - yo
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Harvard is quite public with the fact that they reserve 30% year for "legacies". They don't even bother with the veneer of meritocracy. Just keeping the unwashed peasants away, you know The Economist has had a couple of artic
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Couples have been hiring themselves for a while now :-) A lot of couples don't mind publishing their intimate scenes for the world to see. I'd rather young people watch other people in action than professional videos which seem to
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by jazzyk 11y ago
A lot. Even more by giving young men ANY access to women :-)
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Indeed, intimacy and passion for each other is beautiful, but it is hard for two complete strangers to fake it. Sex is great, but it is an order of magnitude better when it is an expression of love. It is like eating a hamburger vs a fancy
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Seriously? Downvotes for stating a fact (not opinion)?
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Ad 2. No, you omitted mother-child bonding during pregnancy, because it gives the mother an advantage. Also, breast-feeding is how nature intends it, milk formula (invented relatively recently) is a crutch. So it does give women an advantag
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by jazzyk 11y ago
>most don't really like working with men in the first place, they are more comfortable working with other women Something is awfully wrong with these women, if they like/don't like working with someone solely because of th
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Totally normal. Humans are born with it - it is part of the evolutionary process.
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by jazzyk 11y ago
>women are socialized to believe that conflict is unladylike Correction: _physical_ conflict is unladylike. My female friends often complain about conflicts with fellow _female_ workers. There are a lot of conflicts among high-school gir

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