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by maratd 11y ago
> If you don't think that just as painful as slavery you're a grade A idiot. If you have to resort to name-calling to make your point ... you're wrong. It's that simple. When you're a slave, no matter how talente
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> punishes the poor by not recognizing the marginal utility of money What does this have to do with the poor? Are you under the impression your federal tax dollars get redistributed to the poor? Government contractors aren't poor. D
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> As a data point, my family paid 28% average federal tax You made the mistake of earning that money by working. I am making the same mistake. If you factor in sales taxes, property taxes, state income taxes, etc. I'm pretty sure yo
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It doesn't matter what you or he does. We don't tax people based on how much we like them?
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> Jew is a race that I'm aware of. What? No. Ashkenazim might be genetically similar, but even there, not a race. And there are also Sephardim. Also Jews from Africa? Definitely not a race.
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> A conservative would likely find a Hilary filter equally humorous Donald Trump is not a conservative. He's a populist.
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> Ever had the feeling that your job might be made up? That the world would keep on turning if you weren’t doing that thing you do 9-5? Who said that every job needs to be super-duper-important and that you need to change the world with
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> 1 - What exactly is arrogance? Arrogance is the presumption of competence where there is none. > 2 - How do you detect arrogance? If you have competence, it's fairly easy to detect incompetence in others. If you want to detect
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> we'd have had to reduce our work week already due to a lack of work. This makes no sense. It assumes some subset of required work. There is no required work. The work that is done is determined by demand for that work and the dema
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> Price discrimination in no way implies a conspiracy nor any ill-intent on the part of the company. It was implied by the commissioner and really, the article as a whole: "DCA Commissioner Julie Menin, who launched the investigatio
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Price discrimination? Give me a break. The demand/supply curve is different. Maybe parents are willing to spend more on their daughters? Maybe women spend more on consumer goods in general? Who knows, it could be a thousand different t
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> Where are you getting 56k from? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_...
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> Where are you getting that from? The median personal income is very close to 30K. The median household income isn't even 56K. The data is clearly sourced it the wikipedia article. Your data is either old or just wrong. > Furthe
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I was using the figure provided by OP. The post has since been edited to note that was an older figure. Using the data on that page, it would be 981K over the lifetime of the worker. Plug that into the formulas above and it's still now
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> For reference, working 40 years at $30,000 a year Why are you using 30K as the baseline? The median per capita income in the US is 56K [1]. 40 years will earn you $2.24 million. Earning $640K or 29% more isn't as substantial as yo
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> Billionaires? Individuals. Regular people. When billionaires spend money, who do you think earns it? And who taxes those earnings?
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> It's fundamentalist opposition to welfare and social programs and universal healthcare We have welfare and a multitude of social programs design to assist those who need help. You can walk into any emergency room in the country an
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> generally has less interest in equality of its citizens than EU countries. Based on what? > So there are parts of the US comparable to all the parts of the EU -- rich countries and poor ones. The US is far more diverse and mixed tha
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> Autism is only really a very recent diagnosis, and reporting rates were either low or the condition wasn't diagnosed properly. While you can contribute some of the rise to better screening, we have been seeing increases in the tim
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They were absolutely outstanding men relative to their peers . Check your PC bullshit.
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> Compromise and selflessness are key to marriage. Individual ambition is the opposite of these qualities. We're spending a lot of time talking about things in the abstract. A good example of what you're talking about is a wife
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> How long have you been married? 6 years now. 2 kids. Why?
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> Marriage requires time, energy, empathy. Yes! As do all things. If you're not willing to commit the time, energy, and empathy necessary to get a cooperative task done, don't start it. > It requires mental, physical, emotio
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Even if it's 1/10, the point still stands.
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> Watching what is done with these would seem to indicate the state's intent What intent? There is nothing the federal government can do to stop increasing sea levels or erosion. Just like the inhabitants, when it becomes untenable,
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> The entire premise of the Chromebook is that nothing is stored locally A piece of hardware doesn't have a premise. I installed Linux on my Chromebook. Is that wrong? At what point did we stop decoupling software and hardware? I&#x
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Let's try this exercise. Replace "Google" with "Lenovo". Lenovo sells computers to schools. The computers upload everything entered onto the computer to Lenovo by minors without consent. Everything uploaded is data-
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> However, an argument could be made that in a free society there's a fundamental right to have a dissenting opinion or voice Since we're not talking about the constitution, which strictly relates to government and public prope
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> Your average tech worker makes, what? $150K per year? http://lmgtfy.com/?q=average+salary+software+engineer
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How about C: We have a tight deadline. Why don't you approach this by doing x and y. After we're finished and have production code deployed, you can refactor into z. In the process of implementing x and y, the developer will soon

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