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by plandis 9y ago
I grew up pretty poor and a lot of people I know are still working. My step mom is 80 and still has to work. A lot of poor people never retire. Also, we have ways to encourage and provide benefits for people who are lucky enough to save for
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by plandis 9y ago
I honestly don't know how you can say that Facebook and Google are not innovative companies. Googles search beat out lots of other companies. Their search was innovative, their business model was innovative. Facebook convienced million
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by plandis 9y ago
Agreed. I also don't think that's the fault of any patent holder though. If you're running a business and you have a way to get a legal monopoly why wouldn't you? If you don't there is a chance you competitor will g
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by plandis 9y ago
And ironically, if anything Google Fiber didn't create a monopoly for Google; it pushed other ISPs to increase their quality of service for consumers. I say this as someone who recently was able to get fiber-to-the-home from CenturyLin
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by plandis 9y ago
I think the point is that if you, as an individual, feel bad about your spending habits then perhaps a change is in order? If the root of the problem is that your embarrassed by the inequality you might be showing to others than perhaps wor
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by plandis 9y ago
Proof by counterexample [1] (to the claim that this is a hate group) [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/6z0z21...
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by plandis 9y ago
This looks like an updated version of the book that was written initially in C?
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by plandis 9y ago
Yes, this is the (I think) a step in the right direction. Don't have special judgements about taxes (i.e. Apple in Ireland) because companies try to minimize the tax they pay. Actually change the laws so it's consistent for all co
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by plandis 9y ago
What can you do when the businesses own the lawmakers? Outside of violence I'm not sure exactly who has the power to get justice here. I honestly think that criminally they are going to get a slap on the wrist if anything. The majority
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by plandis 9y ago
David Webb is the CTO. He should get a year in prison for every day he decided not to announce his massive fuck up.
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by plandis 9y ago
Why do you think that Ohio (Cincinnati) is a conservative stronghold? They are typically considered a swing state.
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by plandis 9y ago
It might be morally questionable but isn't Amazon doing what you're describing? Most companies shopping around don't publically announce their plans to move in exchange for tax breaks. Amazon, OTOH, is explicitly calling this
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by plandis 9y ago
Yes, tell me more about how shitty my culture (and by extension) the people of that culture are. Any other insult you want to lay on a group of 300+ million people that you've so carelessly stereotyped without giving a careful thought
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by plandis 9y ago
You're effectively arguing that you know (and possibly deserve) any reaction you get out of having a certain opinion. Justifying that with "well, it happens to others" is not great. You political opinions should never be just
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by plandis 9y ago
Logical reason for wanting to restrict the rights of gay people and ban all Muslims? I'm all ears, I literally cannot think of a rational reason for supporting such policies.
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by plandis 9y ago
> But it doesn't--it could just mean you think the other candidate had stuff that was more disqualifying. That seems like a false dichotomy. There were third party candidates. Plus, you can always choose not to vote.
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by plandis 9y ago
It's not an us vs them mentality. Traditional marriage is a core Republican Party platform. > Foremost among those institutions is the American family. It is the foundation of civil society, and the cornerstone of the family is natu
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by plandis 9y ago
I have quite a few gay friends who think a core conservative value is to oppress them. How could they not? The Republican Party to this day actively tries to strip them of rights.
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by plandis 9y ago
That's fair but as we keep seeing from radical Conservatives, you can and possibly will be attacked for holding certain views.
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by plandis 9y ago
In my opinion, some of the policies of the Republican Party seem downright evil to me. Restrict the civil rights of gays and Muslims (Trump himself stated that he was going to start a Muslim ban, he asked people to make it legal but the int
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by plandis 9y ago
How is it knee-jerk and shallow? If you voted for Trump you either directly support Trump's social policies or you don't think they were abhorrent enough to not vote for him.
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by plandis 9y ago
He claims he doesn't remember his password.
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by plandis 9y ago
What exactly is "American bread" in this context? Are you saying that bread made by Americans is just worse than if made by a European? You do realize there are bakeries in the US where you can find handmade bread, right? You don&
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by plandis 9y ago
The best day to invest was yesterday. If you can't invest yesterday then today is an alright backup.
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by plandis 9y ago
Also GE Lighting, The Fed, Philips Healthcare, several startups bought by IBM, Glenn NASA, etc...
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by plandis 9y ago
Well in this case someone acknowledged differences and was fired for it.
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by plandis 9y ago
Looks like the event was limited to the Virginia region.
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by plandis 9y ago
Where is this place on the internet I can legally read the same books I can find in a library for free without paying?
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by plandis 9y ago
It's great you have your own opinion, but if you're going to claim that internet access and bandwidth did not improve at all in the past 8 years you should probably back that up with reputable data.
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by plandis 9y ago
Long term capital gains are 20% if you're in the top tax bracket (making a little under $500k/yr) so I doubt you'll find many people being sympathetic there. It's 15% on long term gains for the majority of people.

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