lostmymind66

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by lostmymind66 7y ago
"What policy change that could be implemented would do anything about the societal belief of college = job?" We stop federally subsidizing student loans. This will reduce the overall cost of universities, because they won't
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This will not fix the problem with colleges pumping out useless degrees. They got their money up-front, don't have any consequences, and the taxpayers get to foot the bill. Why not fix the root of the problem? This solution will only
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by lostmymind66 7y ago
We really should be punishing many countries in Asia, like China and India for the amount of pollution they are spewing into the air. They get a free pass because they are 'developing'. This really just sounds like a money grab t
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"Furthermore, nearly half of those surveyed felt that the use of technology such as video conferencing had negative effects on their social connections with colleagues." I've been working remotely for over a decade and I agre
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by lostmymind66 7y ago
"U.S. abuses and provocations, (Iran?)" I don't consider getting our drone bombed out of the sky and backing down from a missile strike a 'provocation'. It's much better than our previous administration's
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"especially considering that there was no class system when people were painting caves in Chauvet, nor was there one for the 20,000 years after then" You're right. The strongest/most aggressive person won. While there w
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Yes, yes he did. He made an existing idea better, which is why we know his name today and attribute him to the invention.
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by lostmymind66 7y ago
Blatant gender bias is not the way to reduce gender bias.
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"There's enough wrong with the current financial system to make it worth trying new things even if they don't work out" Is it really though when 'not working out' means that someone loses their entire life savi
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All of these cryptocurrency experiments eventually point out the reason centralized banks were invented in the first place. Usually through major thefts and loss of assets.
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Cocaine was also 'medicine' and was regularly prescribed as such.
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This was an American and not ethnically Chinese. I have also met a few extremely left-leaning/socialist Americans that were part of my meetup group a few years back that loved China's system and praised it as better than the US in
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I'm glad the realities of the oppressive Chinese government are finally coming to light. 10 years ago, I remember having discussions with a friend about China (an American) and he was convinced that the oppression just wasn't hap
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Aside from the blatant bigotry in this article toward the bottom, the article is correct. Most people need rules and if you are too lenient, you will have people abusing them.
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by lostmymind66 7y ago
I've been studying multiple Chinese dialects over the years and I think the one thing I want in a language learning application is a direct path to success. I start on lesson A and continue to lesson Z. Too many are just a collection
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by lostmymind66 7y ago
This is the direct result of 20+ years of piracy. Most companies realized they not only didn't want to have to deal with having to re-create serial number generation systems every 6 months, but also the attorney fees involved in chasi
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by lostmymind66 7y ago
"Startups founded by all-female teams, despite efforts to level the playing field for female entrepreneurs, raised just 2.2% of venture capital investment in 2018." I find these sort of statistics misleading. Why were the others
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by lostmymind66 7y ago
This is ridiculous. Universities duped students into over-paying for essentially worthless degrees. Now, the taxpayers get to foot the bill and the Universities pocketed the money. What we really need is a complete reform of the student l
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by lostmymind66 7y ago
"I loved driving when I did the two hour prime deliveries. But as they hired on more people, it became harder to get work. I had to pay to get someone to get me shifts," This will always happen. As something becomes more popular,
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by lostmymind66 7y ago
The only reason Facebook is doing this is so they can track your purchases and mine even more of your data. This reminds me of what WeChat is doing in China, where most purchases are made and tracked by the government from this app. I don&
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by lostmymind66 7y ago
"I fear that open source is actually just the tech industry's group of underfunded-but-vital-infrastructures that are constantly either forced to work for poverty pay or go corporate/private(and externalize the costs to socie
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The parent was mentioning telling entrepreneurs this advice, who are interested in starting a business and making money. "Contrary to American beliefs (being an American myself) not evertying is about making the most money." It&#x
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"literally all products have a value so if you price it right then people will pay for it" All products do have a value. However, you need to compete against easy and free with piracy...which is virtually impossible to win and un
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It's probably because of the work culture. Many people won't leave work at the end of the day until the boss leaves.
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"You are making an unsubstantiated assumption that the cost of complying with regulations is higher than the overhead of costs that come with running an illegal drug manufacturing/selling operation." The proof is the cost of
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"Which is what they got. But a lot of places, primarily right-leaning, chose to simply continue banning pot stores and deliveries within their jurisdictions." Yeah, well, this isn't what we're talking about. Left-leanin
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"If you provide people with easy, convenient, legal methods to consume the content in a way that works for them, for a price they find reasonable, then they overwhelmingly won't resort to illegal means." I disagree. Music is
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Left leaning people want more government regulation and then expect pot legalization with no regulations. Reality doesn't quite work this way. One of the arguments was that it would being in all sorts of tax dollars that could be used
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My argument may be 'all over the place', but you seemed to have followed it pretty well. "How exactly would legalization hurt Mexico? Look at Portugal to see how we should all move towards dealing with drugs and addiction as
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"but it has turned large swaths of Mexico, particularly, into war zones" Legalizing drugs will not fix the problem. The cartels run the government now. Do you actually think they will just pick up their things and go home? The

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