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by pb7 3y ago
Spent months in London over the last year and didn’t realize this… thanks.
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by pb7 3y ago
>Try to raise a family with 5 kids What am I, a farmer? I would pick not doing that 10 out of 10 times regardless of how much money I had.
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by pb7 3y ago
That’s not how any of this works.
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by pb7 3y ago
The quality of my life is not defined by stomping around or playing loud music. It’s having access to and making use of amenities. What the hell good is money to me if I have no goods and services to spend it on? Maybe most of your time i
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by pb7 3y ago
Do you really think your extreme examples are the average experience outside of Nebraska?
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by pb7 3y ago
>It certainly can be like that especially early on. All the slavery with none of the wage. >If you work for somebody though, that will never happen. The alternative to starting a business that you'll hope will be self-sustaining
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by pb7 3y ago
Living in Nebraska when you have the means to live in civilization is a punishment. Why would someone choose to live in a place where the nearest restaurant is a Denny’s 45 mins away?
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by pb7 3y ago
You’re a wage slave when you work for yourself too, probably even more so. You can’t even completely take a week or two off in most cases. Your work eats your entire life.
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by pb7 3y ago
Apple also uses contractors for core products way more than other big companies and letting those go doesn’t make headlines.
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by pb7 3y ago
The airplane was invented in the US so what has Airbus accomplished?
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by pb7 3y ago
There are more homeless per capita in Paris than in SF.
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by pb7 3y ago
Since you evaluate based on pay alone, next time you judge two or more offers with public equity, let me unconditionally buy all your equity for $5K. That should tip the scales if the base is the same.
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by pb7 3y ago
The US economy is not struggling and is not here to serve your interests.
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by pb7 3y ago
> The HN crowd is not your average layman - it's largely well read and educated people. It most certainly is the exact mixture of people as you’d find elsewhere. The only difference is they’ll (we’ll) foam at the mouth over somethin
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by pb7 3y ago
Net neutrality has been dead since 2017.
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by pb7 3y ago
> Is ChatGPT 4 significantly better than 3.5? Yes. You should try it. It is genuinely useful.
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by pb7 3y ago
What taxes do they not pay? Have you contacted the IRS about this tax evasion? They have a whistleblower program so you could pocket some cash!
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by pb7 3y ago
Your internet? It’s my internet.
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by pb7 3y ago
Just because you got something for free at the start doesn't mean it will stay that way. Other platforms like Netflix, HBO, Hulu, etc keep increasing prices year after year, even creating paid ad-supported tiers, and since most people
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by pb7 3y ago
Can you give a quick summary of what meals you eat for $50/week?
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by pb7 3y ago
You are comparing an organization that indiscriminately kills people for hire to a company that makes beloved electronics. You have an extremely, dangerously skewed sense of judgment and should not be taken seriously.
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by pb7 3y ago
Which products? Like Windows which collects data about you to inject ads throughout the system and resets settings that turns it off with every auto-update that you can’t permanently turn off? How noble of them to also charge people for tha
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by pb7 3y ago
Your comment was hard to read for me but I took it as you want a premium search that prioritizes results instead of ads. And I’m telling you that another popular product, YouTube, has premium and people don’t want to pay for it. So premium
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by pb7 3y ago
YouTube Premium exists and there are still masses of people that refuse to pay for it despite hating ads. You’re in the minority.
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by pb7 3y ago
Care to show your math on how you arrived at that few cents in bandwidth?
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by pb7 3y ago
You don’t set the price, they do.
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by pb7 3y ago
I despise Elon Musk but I’m not going to stoop to making things up just because I don’t like him. It’s called integrity. There are plenty of verifiable things to not like him for. Take your juvenile behavior back to Reddit.
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by pb7 3y ago
Unless you have a primary source, no he didn’t.
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by pb7 3y ago
There are 365.25 days in a year so insurance policy is quite generous in fact.
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by pb7 3y ago
In other words, you’re seeing results that Bing wants you to see unless it raises a big enough stink for DDG to manually override. They default to being a wrapper for Bing. Edit: Since you edited, no one is arguing that their whole spiel is

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