jomamaxx

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by jomamaxx 10y ago
That's great, you managed to keep yourself the lowest growth area in the world, while the rest of the world is gaining wealth by leaps and bounds. Everyone else is opening up, Europe is hiding in the closet. Wallonian farmers will pay
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
A corporation cannot sue a government for getting into a specific business normally. It's a tricky thing: company ABC invests $1B in some industry in some country - and then that country comes along and invests $2B in a national compan
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
There's a difference between liability in causing accidents - and support/warranty. Think about it: some guy changes the suspension on his car, making it super tight, puts racing wheels on - and then claims an issue on 'warra
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
That's actually a brilliant point. But I'll bet their response would be to protect themselves and nobody else 'in the name of national security'.
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"It's our responsibility to choose and support products that respect our rights and empower us. Vote with your feet." I think you mean 'wallet'. But it's hard for consumers when as individuals they have little
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"Now they come with software and a prohibition against customer modification or repair." This is not entirely unreasonable, they can probably justify it some way, of course it's probably just a away go guarantee their service
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
You don't own your iPhone, your music, your car, your house ... Even though you paid for them ... I have a new toaster for sale. Must use my electricity, nobody else's :)
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
Back in the day, comedy and art had a lot of curmudgeon, sardonic characters, losers etc.. Try reading 'Andy Capp'. They just don't allow such zaniness anymore. Everyone has to be happy and PC. Think Annie Potts in Ghostbuste
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
The Fed is technically a privately owned entity, which is really a caba of banks (banks in the US 'own shares' in the Fed and basically run the show). It's at arms length form congress - as it should be - for monetary operati
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
Sure - but it's rare. Think about all the big companies you know. None of them - except banks/insurance are really in the city. Look at Twitter, they almost got there, now dwindling. I've worked at a few startups, and visited
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
I'm not sure if that's it. Google employees are worth much more per-capita than most bank employees - and banks stay in the city - due to the networking (and prestige?) nature of the industry. I think it also has to do with isolat
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Pats dump MS Surface (a good notice to us nerds on complexity)(businessinsider.com)
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"Conscientious" is one of the 'big five' character traits, somewhat different than attention to detail. Though I think I understand exactly what you are trying to say an wholeheartedly agree. "Conscientious" pe
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
A production is only as good as it's training and docs. I would go a step further: 'Training and Docs ARE the Product'. Having bad docs is like selling a car without wheels -> It's not a car :), rather, not a thing th
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
" than to simply cop to the fact that they are aggressively and overly supporting Donald Trump." This is hard to swallow. There is nothing in Wiki/Assange past behaviour that would indicate they would like to support Trump. U
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
He may have a vendetta against Clinton, but it's not a thing against 'Democrats' per-sey. And despite his 'vendetta' I have no doubt that he would release anti-Trump bits if he had them. Wikipedia - whatever it&#x27
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
'a rich history of corruption'. I agree cops can be corrupt, but they are just people. There are a lot of police officers in America, I suggest they are a lot less corrupt than almost any other institution. The problem I guess i
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
I am not a cop, I don't know any cops, and none are in my family. I just don't hate cops. But I do know that 99.999% of being a cop is boring, difficult and they put up with idiots and crazy people - and often 'actual mentall
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"Cops don't act in anyone's interest, they act to enforce the law. Because they are bound by the law, they have a monopoly on the use of force. At least that's the theory. If you're the mafia and want someone to do
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"... is a criminal offence in England." No, it's not, it's not a criminal offence anywhere in the Western world for security guards to do such a thing. I read the article - I didn't miss those quotes. I think you ar
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
If a security guard was asking someone to leave at the behest of the library's staff - then this has absolutely nothing to do with police, security guards or any of it.
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
Thug? He was hired and acting under the orders of the Library's staff. Though the Library is 'owned by the government' - it is not 'public property' - for example, you can't do or say anything you want, as you
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
This is false and insulting. Though I generally agree cops are not always the most normal citizens, the idea that you'll get beat up for taking assertively to a cop is false. If you did this while pulled over, 99% chance they ask you t
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
It depends largely on what you are building and the granularity (and validity) of the requirements.
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
" 80s synth stuff and disappointing backing vocals" At the risk of -20 downvotes, I was going to say the same thing. The synths I can handle. But the backing vocals ... my god man ... I don't know whether to laugh or cry. It&
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
It is, and you're probably right. By 'places' I was referring to the 'Western World' :).
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
If your family's women have had a 'hard time' at the hands of men, it's perfectly understandable that they would say this, that doesn't make it right. One, probably 'very important' thing that came from th
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
In most places, living with someone is basically the same thing as 'marriage' from a legal perspective. And yes, the laws are often unfair.
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
Super, thanks. Now someone will have to redo this entirely in 3 months :)
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
His poetry is good, his music, not so much.

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