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by kartan 8y ago
> We constantly hear the Russian economy is in shambles, but at the same time the whole planet seems flush with shady Russian cash. There are 144.5 million Russians. Even if individually they are poor the country can be very rich. Also i
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> this unwillingness to play ball may just result in the companies fleeing to other countries rather than other states If they could they will do it. But it is not possible as you need data locality. If your data center is in China, it c
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> Google is promising to bring 50 full-time positions to the area. The company also projects that it will create 2,300 jobs during the 18–24 month construction window. Is this a joke? > State Sen. Andrew Mathews (R–Milaca) and state
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by kartan 8y ago
> Demler’s complaint involves Florida’s digital music player program, which let inmates buy a specially designed media player for $99 or $119, then buy individual songs or audiobooks for $1.70 apiece. I guess that the bigger is the inmat
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by kartan 8y ago
> To play devil's advocate: what if top CEO's (whether by school or by track record) look for harder challenges? That literally means that CEO's do not know how to do their jobs. Even if they do it knowing it. > Someone
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> You are assuming that somehow that tax revenue is theirs in the first place. The big corporations that evade taxes are using the economic power, infrastructure and legal systems of countries without contributing to any of them. That is
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Doing business with tax havens should be illegal. A tax Haven creates an agreement between companies and a country to steal another country tax reveneu. Tax havens produce close to nothing, so they have very small exports. It's just a
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> One of us is making incorrect assumptions about user behaviour and privacy wishes. I hope it’s me. I heard a lot about people's privacy. Most non-tech people I talk with see Google as a faceless evil corporation that wants to cont
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> I don’t think it’s a surprise that the UK chancellor would meet the chief operating officer of one of the world’s largest companies … It is. Politicians need to be transparent and serve the public. Private meetings without public recor
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> Some people, particularly on the left, are unconcerned about political censorship by Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc, figuring that they will only censor people the left don't like. The article does not talk about censorship but pr
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> Companies have a responsibility to their customers, who should have confidence that the products they buy are not fuelling human rights abuses, cultural destruction or environmental devastation. We need better agreements between countr
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> My take is that in tech it's no longer acceptable to separate the work an employee does from the morals of their employer. Does this apply to employees of tabacco companies, alcohol companies, sugar companies, supermarkets that gi
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> The trouble is their employees don't seem particularly bothered by the evil they do every day. if they did, they'd leave. What does this have to do with employees? This is the leadership of the company that is morally corrupt
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This is the only way to make companies and governments to pay for externalities. It is the only way to make capitalism work. If people can get profit by making other pay the cost, then there is a perverse incentive for destruction.
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> Is it surprising that people are happier and better able to deal with their illness when they believe they are doing meaningful work and are useful to the people that surround them? This is one of the many reasons that thinking that &
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by kartan 8y ago
Long term viability and neoliberalism are at odds. Why do you want to invest in a company long term when you can squish it and buy another two more functional ones with the profits? We are ripping planet resources for short term gain. I hop
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by kartan 8y ago
You are right. C++ does some of the opposite trade-off that C does. C++ is good for speed, good mapping with hardware features and fine tuned memory management. There is a replacement for C. But, it chooses to add complexity to the language
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> BASIC, the Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code I think that BASIC has been replaced by JavaScript. The lack of typing and the immediate feedback match the same uses. > PASCAL was invented in the late 1960's by Prof
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by kartan 8y ago
> Is wealth inequality inherently bad? Lack of agency is. When people are not allowed to take decisions on their own they are unhappy. Once money covers your basic needs. Money becomes power. High wealth inequality is directly linked to
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> That sounds like a case against wealth inequality, since there’s no increase in happiness for the very rich. Not necessarily. Inequality seems to bring unhappiness independently of wealth. You may have more than others. But if you get
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> but can still serve as a mental shortcut for whatever society agrees morality is ~currently~. Can that be philosophy and humanist approaches? That is a way to look for higher meaning without rewarding fanaticism or dogma.
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> Religion instills this virtue and gives framework of how our actions on earth and our ability to reason and create is an imitation of "god" aka creation of existence. Isn't USA more religious than other more happy countr
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> Toxic Workers Are More Productive, Not my personal experience. I have seen that they are perceived as better as they have less self-doubt and sound more authoritative. But, the ones I have work with were bad. Usually toxic workers seen
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Thanks for noticing. I'm sorry that you got downvoted for it. My comment was a test, I wanted to see how it played out. Even with such common knowledge topic, I see that there is not enough "tone" in my comment for people to
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The solution is really easy. You just need to pay people for each dead python that they bring in. And problem solved.
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> Why should I have to pay for someone elese’s retirement? To have a functional society. Everybody has the mandatory duty to take care of the society they live in. You have right, as you should. But is as fair to have duties. A society w
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> Workers would still be free to opt out of saving entirely This is never going to work. With so much people living check to check, who has the money to save? This approach supposes that we are hommo economicus able to take the best long
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I do not see this so much creepy as scary. Big companies have the resources to stalk everyone with an open opinion, and the technology is just getting cheaper. I want to be able to comment on-line without having tens, hundreds or thousands
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> The company's information security team is capable of tracking these individuals' whereabouts using the location data they provide through Facebook's apps and websites. > But Facebook is unique because it can use its
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> Introducing censorship won't help fix these issues Regulation does not equate censorship. There are other things that can be done. What do you think about this one "The report also said social media companies should agree to

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