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I think it is more the environment for some people. Working from home, really does IMO require a Home Office, a space dedicated for work. I know many people that are more productive at home, all of them have a home office. I know many p
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>>It matters if you have money, time, and willpower to go to court. This is why we need some version of Loser Pays law... Especially when there is a huge resource imbalance like a FB suing a lone dev.
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in this context what makes a difference if it is a Chinese companies abandoning the product vs a British company. Is china the only nations making "trash".... Further your video shows off several replacements with 1 having some ki
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That is the story of just about every technology.... or even community Sad but it remains true, Thing is created > Small but devoted group discovers and popularized thing > Thing raises to mass popularity > The masses what to cha
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3y ago
I think Twitter is 10000000000000000000x better under Musk...
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3y ago
While many companies did try to get a PR bump from it, most companies pulled out due to government imposed economic sanctions on Russia, not because they had an ethical or moral drive to punish Russia for their actions
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3y ago
That depends, in order to answer that we need to know the Demographics and immutable characteristics of the author(s)
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>> I guess, but I haven't heard of any right-libertarians that want to do that Well this is conversation is about libertarians, not "right-libertarians", I am more of Geo-Libertarian >>Something's got to co
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this is 100% False in the US anyway, you are barred by law from laying new Pipes or Electric lines, etc. There are complex regulations and laws governing access to easements, internet is the one thing that has been allowed to have competi
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>>Once an entity like Apple becomes Apple, it can't really be competed with in the traditional sense That is odd be cause I have never used, and never will use an Apple product and I have access to all the same things that an App
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All of that requires government. Show me a "natural" monopoly that was not instituted by government regulation. The most common examples today are utilities which are all 100% government created monopolies. Other examples are Sta
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Well the libertarian position is the "Bad" or Exploitive Monopolies, (True Monopolies not "monopolies" like when people say Apple or Amazon are monopolies) only really happen when government protects them, or "reg
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"It takes a bonkers 1,611 US gallons (6,098 litres) to produce 1 litre of almond milk,” says the Sustainable Restaurant Association’s Pete Hemingway." [1] So that would be 6,000 gallons of water to make 1 Gallon of Almond Milk...
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3y ago
now do almonds..... Which alot of people want to use as a replacement for things like Milk, or Flour....
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3y ago
Unlikely, it more a deference to authority. you can not honestly believe that 99.9% all cases in Japan are decided justly and fairly and there are statically zero false conviction in the system.
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3y ago
Well in this context it would be the poor, and people that lack education. People that lack the resources to fight back. still not something we should be proud of
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so there are 2 conclusions to draw from this 1. the federal law enforcement, and prosecutors are prefect humans that only ever go after the guilty 2. The system is sooo skewed in favor of the government that fighting them is pointless, lik
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3y ago
We need a rule to prevent plea deals that cross the 3 major punishment classifications (felony, misdemeanor, infraction) . i.e a prosecutor should not be allowed to plead out a felony to a misdemeanor, that should be by default viewed as u
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Dollar for Dollar funding of Public Defenders office would be a huge first step. For ever Dollar a government gives to the prosecutors office, a dollar should be budgeted for public defense. currently in most states is like 10%, if that
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I dont know if you can say that about traditional OEMs BEV's which seem to be following the Telsa model of complete interconnectivty of all systems traditional OEMs do not make a EV that is just a ICE with Electric Motor and battery,
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Largely because work force participation is at an historic low. Retirements, "gig" economy, etc are not reflective in the current government unemployment stats, so they do not paint a good picture IMO. We still have not returned
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>>How in the world do you think that the FBI wouldn't bag and tag stuff if they planned on using it in court at a later date? Any fresh out of school lawyer could get that tossed in a heart beat. Well it make sense when you under
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>>The initial taking was legal, it's how the property was handled after the fact that ran afowl the law. That is not the ruling at all The FBI lied to the court system, and was never authorized to take the boxes at all, they wer
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First off, I reject outright everything coming from Robert Reich but I digress... There are some big problems here, first and foremost the idea that because Airbus is owned by governments that makes it some how better. Also they seem to
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Does it have Android Auto... Because if it does that is all I need. Something GM is taking away
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Many Toyota vehicles are more "Made in America" than then many Ford and GM vehicles which are mostly made is Mexico these days save Ford Trucks. If you looking for a Made in US Car, Toyota is the brand you seek
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>>Or no Boeing planes at all? That will never happen, the federal government would never allow it, and they have many avenues to ensure it 1. All Future bailouts of Airlines could be contingent on them buying Boeing Aircraft 2. Direc
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>>when you're dying because Boeing wanted to make an extra dollar. I think it is naive and dangerous to simply blame profit motive for the problems at Boeing, Profit has always been goal at Boeing, and I assume is also a goal of
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Democracy requires The Experts to tell people what, how and when to think, and who to vote for. People can not be trusted with their own thoughts, opinions, and ideas for they make think wrongly
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It is very said that people are celebrating digital drivers licenses of all things, how far we have fallen in the battle for privacy and freedom from government intrusion in our lives that we are now celebrating massive authoritarian poli
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