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by kartan 8y ago
I have seen in this thread people comparing prepared food to raw food. And, of course, raw food is cheaper. You need to compare apples to apples. Prepared healthy food is way more expensive than junk food. Healthy diet costs three times tha
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> Serious question, what is the issue with inequality when low income people are overweight and have iphones? People is overweight because they can not afford healthy food. Fruits and other healthier food is more expensive than junk food
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Yes. Thank you for the correction.
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I agree with the point that having technology illiterate judges allows for abuse from technology companies. The fight of tech corporations against reuse of hardware it is ecologically sustainable. And finally, tech companies are negating th
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by kartan 8y ago
> (hear me out) You knew that this was coming. > this is in any way related to Spotify's censorship of Alex Jones It seems quite unrelated with any more information. > unlike Apple, YouTube or Facebook, Spotify is a subscripti
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> There is a strongly negative relationship between women's education and fertility. Actually, it is a correlation between educated women having educated partners that know how to use contraceptive methods. Educate all men and women
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> Downloading junk is also a life lesson, they will learn. Mega-corporation - with deep pockets, professional advice, etc - stalks teenagers and does targeted personalized campaign, it is teenagers fault to fall for it... I see a "b
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>I doubt any company would ignore that risk and produce a product that put people at a direct and unknown risk History contradicts your statement. The most recent one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissio
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An automated voting system is very efficient. You only need one person to change all the votes... A good thing about so much people involved in voting is that is harder to cheat. Even an state agent like Russia can influence elections only
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> With a billion variables to control for, What if I told you that to imprison citizens for small crimes causes them to commit a more serious crime in the future? Does that changes your conclusion? Your over-simplification does not make
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> Seeming ignored in these discussions is that right up to the bailout Greece's problems were entirely self inflicted. False. Greece was in need of high rates to lower consumption and debt increase. Instead of that, and for the bene
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> In the case of Greece, things are so broken that reform is very hard, but at least their suffering serves as a warning to others who thing they can get away with it in the long term. Their suffering and other countries suffering are em
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> Gratuitous distractions from the keyboard only slow down the experienced user. This is true even for GUIs. I used to maintain an accounting software. Everything could be done just with the keyboard. You could use the mouse, but it was
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> How could places like Detroit or Puerto Rico continue to pay their promised pensions when their economic base has evaporated? As a manager of a small team, I had this problem. My team was composed of very senior people and I had a big
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> Let's not pretend like this was ever seriously going to be sustainable. Why not? Each year machines become more efficient, and productivity has gone up. The main problem has not been to create wealth, it has been on how to share i
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> Welcome to capitalism, enjoy your stay :). Copyright is as anti-capitalism as it gets. Copyright in its actual expression is part of corporativism. "Corporatism is the organization of a society by corporate groups and agricultural
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Your comment is very relevant. Disney kills the possibility of companies and individuals creating stories of the cultural content of their own youth. Do you like "Monkey Island"? Copyright doesn't allow you to create your own
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> I have a hard time seeing something like the Marvel Cinematic Universe happening if it wasn’t for Disney being as big as it is. I have read the comics. The stories are better. But to maintain a big corporation, stories need to be dumbe
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Similar to "American Cities Are Drowning in Car Storage" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17530813 > it’s more lucrative to operate a parking structure than a housing unit. This is great for landowners who
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by kartan 8y ago
Yes. I had the same experience. Visiting Mountain View, I was surprised at how walk hostile is. It took me 10 minutes to just pass one of the buildings surrounded by a huge parking lot and move to the next. To go from Intel offices to the C
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I can't read it. Is this the same that what has been happening since 2016? Snipped from Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-06/californi...
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> Not to mention that after not touching any code for a whole year I'd be questioning your ability to be doing technical hires in the first place. I you read code from 20 years ago, you will be surprised that there is good and bad c
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> Voting ID cards too National ID cards is better. Requiring and ID to vote is open to actual fraud as it can be granted or denied on political basis. A mandatory national ID card is politics free. It is used to register your weapon, to
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> Now do that with the government. It is a similar problem. You can do that with education, healthcare, transportation, security... You can have a private version of that. Probably you can't have your own military, even that in the
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TLDR: Two apps are integrated with Android. WhatsApp is integrated with Android. Facebook wants the integration to stop, so they sue this other apps integrated with Android. The solution is easy. Facebook should remove the integration from
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> were more interested in the status of becoming a manager instead of building something great. It is not the status. For long being a manager was the only way of getting a reasonable salary and to get to older age with a job. Developers
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> Perhaps some kind of coin where everybody in the world is issued the same amount or something. That is why the Monopoly game was created. All players start with the same amount of money and the same rules. Skill and mostly luck accumul
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by kartan 8y ago
YouTube does not want to be your tube anymore. I can understand that it has become a risky business with increasing laws to censor the Internet ant to enforce Copyright. YouTube wants to be NetFlix. It is a more business friendly model. It
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> I don't think the solution in Stockholm is nearly universal. It might solve the specific problems of that specific city but would fail in many ways if applied blindly in many other places. Or it may work even better in other citie
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You have valid points. A good example, here in Stockholm, is Gamla Stan (Old City) beautiful buildings ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamla_stan ) and the "Norrmalmsregleringen" ( https://en.wikipedi

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