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by magduf 7y ago
Not necessarily. I lived off-campus in two different universities, and while I had a car, I definitely didn't need it, and only used it for fun on weekends. My apartments were always close enough to walk or bike to school. This isn&
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by magduf 7y ago
I don't think it's unfair at all. Not everyone needs a place to live: some college students just live at home for free. I had some friends like that when I went to a major state university; they just commuted from home. They ce
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by magduf 7y ago
Who cares? That's irrelevant. You stated, quite clearly, that there is only "one choice". You're wrong about that, as I pointed out: there's multiple choices. I never said any of them were free.
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by magduf 7y ago
>Also, capital gains is a flat (regressive) tax, and social security taxes (also flat) top out at an income of $132,900. If those were placed under progressive income tax brackets with no cap, I think many of these problems would go away
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by magduf 7y ago
>I actually think that's a class where a high inheritance tax would be most problematic. Do we want the government to suddenly gain controlling interests in Amazon or Google or any other massive private enterprise? Absolutely, yes!
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by magduf 7y ago
It's been a while since I was in college, but I got through mostly with loans, and also some part-time and intern work, but college costs were also lower back then. The loans only went so far; it wasn't an unlimited source of fun
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by magduf 7y ago
>I also feel rather strongly that if children shouldn't inherit their parents' debt, then they also shouldn't inherit their wealth. The best way to accomplish that is a high inheritance tax. There's a slight problem w
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by magduf 7y ago
With the way things have gone lately in the UK, it seems like they'd be a lot better off if she stepped up and took over for a while. She sure seems a lot more intelligent and sensible than the current PM and other figures in power.
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by magduf 7y ago
>Some states don't even have charter schools, can you believe that?? They only have one choice for schooling from grade K-12 This is complete BS. Private schools have always existed, and still do. On top of that, homeschooling i
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by magduf 7y ago
It happens in the real world too. The cold and flu viruses mutate constantly, which is why last year's flu shot isn't going to help you much with avoiding this season's flu, and you getting a cold in the past doesn't ma
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by magduf 7y ago
>Do you know how much empty space there is in the western US? Not to mention the midwest? Have you ever been to those places? There's a severe limit to the amount of freshwater available in those places, and the weather is pretty
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by magduf 7y ago
We already have several other players that have experience building aircraft: Bombardier and Mitsubishi come to mind, and China has a manufacturer that's keen on challenging the duopoly with their jet too. Don't forget, building a
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by magduf 7y ago
We'd be a lot better off with a 3rd maker of large passenger aircraft. Duopolies are never good for the market, and markets seem to do a lot better when there's 3 dominant players: with only 3, the players have very good economie
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by magduf 7y ago
This is just plain wrong. Not to far from where I live, there's a Walmart and a Target in the same shopping center. There's a huge, clear difference in shopping between the two. The clientele at Target is clearly more affluent,
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by magduf 7y ago
This isn't anything new with Walmart, and it's pretty obvious that's going to happen if one retailer becomes your main customer. Walmart isn't forcing anyone to sell through them, or even to have different product lines
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by magduf 7y ago
>You say yourself that socialism won’t fix the plight of their towns dying out, so they’re not wrong to be against socialism in this case. How are they not wrong, and not hypocritical? If we leave them to pure capitalism, they would all
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by magduf 7y ago
No, they were always like this, because they could be. Take off the rose-tinted glasses; everything wasn't quaint and wonderful in "the old days". Those were the days when those wonderful mom-n-pop shops would refuse servic
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by magduf 7y ago
What "higher quality" stores? Have you ever been to little mom-n-pop shops in the days before Walmart? They were generally pretty terrible: the prices were high, the service wasn't very good (they didn't have liberal r
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by magduf 7y ago
Universal healthcare and UBI aren't going to magically make a town economically viable. It'll just result in other places subsidizing some people to live in that place and sit on their asses mostly. It might work out if lots of
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by magduf 7y ago
Well it probably needs some adjustments. So maybe it should be automatic that when a huge company sues a small company and loses, the small company gets all its legal fees paid plus a big payout for their time being wasted. And maybe it sho
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by magduf 7y ago
I'm not sure why Walmart gets so much hate. They're not the most altruistic company in the world, but I don't remember ever hearing about them suing small companies for trademark BS like this. In fact, I can't recall
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by magduf 7y ago
I won't forget; I've looked at them before when comparison shopping certain more-expensive items at REI. I'll just use REI now; they don't seem to sue people (plus, REI isn't a common word anyway), they have a fanta
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by magduf 7y ago
Well Utah is also the place where SCO Group was (is?); this was the company that tried to claim they owned Linux and insisted on selling licenses to it and suing companies that used Linux without buying one.
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by magduf 7y ago
Sounds like some kind of term that was only known within certain circles, and maybe only at certain colleges. I was in college at that time, and I also never heard the word "facebook" until that company became large enough to be
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by magduf 7y ago
This is absolutely why we need a "loser pays" civil court system: interested attorneys should be able to volunteer to take on the case on behalf of the small business, with an agreement with their client that they only get paid if
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by magduf 7y ago
That's because you're doing something that directly competes with an existing trademarked product. Windows is a computer operating system, so of course you can't make another computer operating system and call it "Windo
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by magduf 7y ago
A one-time event shouldn't affect the house values in a neighborhood significantly. If this were a pattern, then the house's value should have already been impacted before this. I don't think this house's owner would e
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by magduf 7y ago
Solar energy isn't currently usable for personal vehicles, and it's going to be a little while still before that changes. Even if we could magically make cars and trucks all battery-EVs tomorrow, most of our power is still genera
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by magduf 7y ago
>The fact that there is still the occasional CEO that brags about not even reading his email (granted its been 10 years since I heard something like that publicly) is ridiculous. Actually, these days, that might not be such a ridiculous
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by magduf 7y ago
>Look at the companies that you admire and that show the ability to innovate... chances are they are run by people with technical backgrounds. >Example: AMD is run by Lisa Su, whose background is in EE. HP was run by MBA holder, Carly

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