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by kartan 8y ago
This is one of the problems of allowing the accumulation of power. As an individual, I have little money to spend and the gains are distributed to all citizens. Billionaires have a lot of money to spend and they are rewarded quite directly
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> When I began, I didn’t know what the hell I had. I thought it might be a short story; it was just this chapter, where they find these direwolf pups. Then I started exploring these families and the world started coming alive Talking abo
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> As absurdly high as their salaries become, the cost of living drains it away, This is how it works. The more money people have the more business will charge you. Real state is the one getting the biggest part as you cannot get more lan
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> Swedish legislation makes it possible for retailers, restaurants and other companies to refuse to accept cash, for instance by putting up a sign at the entrance or by the till. Yes. It started as a curiosity and now this signs are ever
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Yes. And they also underestimate the cost and time to build such a thing. From the article, "The project is closely identified with President Xi Jinping, which means it’s unlikely to join a long list of Chinese “ghost cities” financed
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"a project to control flooding and provide electrical power generation." Damns are build to control flooding like the Banqiao Dam, to have reserves of water and to generate energy. If you are going to build a dam anyway, why do no
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Thank you. I think that is good practice to introduce abbreviations correctly. Even that it is easy to forget when you work with them all the time. "How do I introduce an abbreviation in the text? The first time you use an abbreviation
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> Historically, a problem with movements of utopian ideals, is that they tend to be disconnected with reality while their adherents keep doubling down. Eventually, everyone is accused, and most everyone outside of the most fanatical true
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> If you're a 10X coder it doesn't really behoove you to pull up ranks with all of the 1X coders. I do not get the point. If someone is a 10x coder should that developer accept sexual harassment?
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> The world is becoming optimized for the dominant aesthetic of the internet. Nope. The world is becoming ever more communicated. Ideas travel faster. Good ideas - and sometime bad ones - are copied around the globe. Why should I be able
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False self-employment is a situation in which somebody registered as self-employed, a freelancer, or a temp is de facto an employee carrying out a professional activity under the authority and subordination of another company. Such false se
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> TikTok surpassed Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat & YouTube in downloads last month This is not very relevant. The comparison will make sense in 5 years from now. If after months and years TikTok still gets more downloads then it&#x27
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> I wouldn't expect them to fix anything. When you have the ethics of a company like Facebook it's much easier to claim you're going to fix something and then keep doing it. For companies, if there is no punishment there i
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C++ is already used in production by big companies. It currently is deployed as asm.js. But you can use an equivalent toolchain to create WebAssembly. This way you can create production-ready code and be ready to move to WebAssembly as soon
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I am from Barcelona, even that I have not lived there for the past 5 years. Governments have been caring to maximize business profit. And in that pursuit, they have created cities where one cannot live anymore. Unregulated tourism has make
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> Open Source, as adopted currently, is a flawed model that valors corporate protection more than end-user freedom. I see your point, and I mostly agree. I would like to differentiate between Open Source organizations - like Linux Founda
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IBM has been historically a Linux contributor. Eclipse, their open source IDE, opened the other to Java and other programming languages in the OS. And Power processors supported Linux early on. From that perspective to purchase Red Hat make
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> As a result, modern slots pay out on approximately 45 percent of all spins, instead of the 3 percent of traditional slots. I do not get this. slots pay out (RTP Return To Player) is around 90%. The article mixes volatility with RTP. &g
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> You have no issue working in that industry because those games are 'boring'? Not because they are boring, but because they are less addictive than they can be. So they are "boring" in comparison. If we were allowed
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> Can you recommend any literature on the topic of these "tricks"? I am talking about basic stuff like: * Push notifications reminding you that you should play the game. * Let you win some money but then lose it unless you make
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> Why AREN'T certain games subject to the same regulations as slot machines? The regulations were designed for casinos before video games became so popular and way before mobile games and micro-transactions even existed. Example of
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> They are specifically designed to function like a slot machine. I work in the gambling industry, making literally slot machines. Slot machines are heavily regulated and there is a lot of "engagement" tricks that can not be us
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> Fake news is how free speech is supposed to work. I can't agree with your statement. Game news is the contrary of what free speach stands for. Free speach is about being able to express your opinions. Fake news are intentionally m
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> They didn't even check that the people owned the shares they claimed to own Yes. But people hates bureaucracy. A common answer is'why do I need to present another document in the tax office?' At least now Danish citizens
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> “There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.” —Heinlein 'No Man is an Island' - John Donne
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For me is hard to see what meaning of "value" is used in the article, for example this sentence: > Spending money is a means of acquiring other goods and services that are one’s values or that will enhance one’s ability to real
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> Publishing reports like these without controlling for the economy/jobs/popularity of these cities seems to me to be an unfair attack on Uber/Lyft, where the real culprit might just be a strong economy. I agree. That is w
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> In my experience, the threat/worry of bad publicity is actually the best motivator in a company getting their security up to par. If that were just true Facebook will not exist. > I work in the banking industry where security I
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I very interesting article. This kind of numbers should be on the news all the time (like global warming) so people focus more on them instead of what is the last Twitt from the president. > "Get rich or die trying" I have alwa
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> Maintaining our mass transit is (stupidly) a state responsibility, to be fair. I guess that this is circumstantial. That is USA's political system that is not working. Because the headline is about a local government taking respon

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