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by josho 7y ago
Streaming music has set the price floor. For the price of an album a month you can stream all the music you want, even new releases. What makes you think movies should have a multiple of 10 instead of 1 for a monthly subscription fee? I&#x2
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Whoever is downvoting the parent would you share why you feel they are wrong? One example of US tyranny is that it has the highest incarceration rate in the world ( https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/largest-prison-popu
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But consumers are not being informed that they’ve bought a subsidized tv. For example, Several salespeople have told me in the past few weeks that none of their TVs serve ads. Looking deeper into the TVs the salesperson was clearly wrong. F
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Yes. Sort of. You can buy a commercial display, the kind used for digital signs. But, those probably cost 10x more than a consumer TV.
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It is not genius. It creates a new financial instrument for the mega banks to extract yet another rent from. A tax at CO2 origination is simpler, less opportunity to game, and more effective.
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Carbon trading is a scheme for bankers to profit from climate change. The solution is simple —carbon tax. Additionally it is ideal for the carbon tax to be revenue neutral.
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Or break up search into a utility that provides crawling/indexing service, that provides an API to third party search result providers. Similar to how many power companies are split up. Then DuckDuckGo would have access to rebrand goog
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by josho 7y ago
> The debt to GDP ratio has also been increasing since the end of the Cold War. Think about how crazy that is. We were in a multi decade arms race with a super power and after ‘winning’ we never bothered to slow down our military spendin
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With a “half-life of 4.5 billion years” does that mean these areas are going to be permanent toxic waste lands? Regardless why isn’t there a growing movement to call the perpetrators of this war criminals?
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The thesis of Manufacturing Consent is that even investigative journalism doesn't venture outside of certain acceptable norms.
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I don't follow you. Your suggestion just serves to turn this into a commodity low-margin business. What benefit does google have for doing that?
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by josho 7y ago
You’ve been downvoted by others, but your assessment is correct. Our trade deals exclude environmental, labour, and other non-goods protections. So As a result we end up with the race to the bottom that you mentioned. The fix is trade agree
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The monitor that you’ll use with this machine is likely to have a built in USB hub (see Apple’s new display or the LG display they were previously selling).
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I’ve also found that the microphone is pretty good so I can use a lower volume than I would in a conversation, which leads me to believe that most folks aren’t even aware that I’m speaking.
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I assume this is going to generate excessive heat. My understanding is that batteries age poorly from heat stress. So, I am curious what routine 27w wireless charging is going to do for battery life.
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The difference is that intelligence gathering after obtaining a subpoena is an acceptable practice. The heat that the US was under was for their mass surveillance of its own population.
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Curiously since Snowden is a US citizen he’ll have to file & pay taxes on that income.
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Admittedly I don’t have a resource to site. A quick google is easy to find all sorts of ways that the pharma industry has performed with their interests taking precedence over patients (eg price gouging, selectively publishing research). Bu
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by josho 7y ago
I’m bothered that medical research has seen influence by the MBAs. Ie. we don’t research looking for cures anymore because then you’ll only sell the drug once. Instead research management therapy so that you can have lifelong customers that
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If you read American history there are all kinds of shady things that the CIA have done. You might be surprised to learn the lengths they will take to protect American interests.
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> He acted selfishly Risking imprisonment isn’t exactly what I’d call a selfish act. How do you see his action as selfish. He’s lost so much. And what corroboration do you feel is necessary. Snowden simply leaked documents. The governmen
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by josho 7y ago
We all have periods of work stress and life stress. When life stress increases a manager can choose to find ways to decrease an employee’s work based stress. As a manager I’d consider tools to use might include paid time off, temporary re-a
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by josho 7y ago
Some of the drivers that I’ve spoken with have shared that they have no other choice of job. Though I’m rather annoyed at all this anecdotal data. If the bill is seriously being considered then surely there will be data to clarify what the
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I’ve been warming up to the idea of municipalities invoicing manufacturers for disposal fees. Eg. Most garbage dumps sort appliances into a separate area to recycle the metal. So there should be a guy there that takes note of the manufactur
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There is no reason to discontinue their mainframe business. Banks and other institutions have applications running successfully on those platforms. The industry has learned that it is better to integrate applications than to replace—especia
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That’s brilliant. Now if there was only some way to get your iPhone to connect to your own imap server and we can avoid that telco fee.
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And frustrating to learn that an open protocol with free implementations is locked behind a carrier that often requires significant fees for this feature.
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Neither you nor the poster provide a reason why. Why is it better? How does plain text make it faster to respond? Or even faster to read?
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I assumed every browser did this as a part of their safe browsing features. Or is this different somehow?
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My point is simply that globalization doesn’t have to be a bad word. Trade between Canada and the US left both countries better off. Largely because we have similar standard of living so neither country was being exploited. If lawmakers did

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