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by plandis 10y ago
This rant sounds oddly reminiscent of my uncle who used to lecture me on taking out student loans instead of just working a summer job to pay for school like he did. I think there is something inherently wrong with feeling like you came out
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by plandis 11y ago
The fact that it's apparently not obvious who to talk to seems to be a problem for Microsoft to solve if they care about the "little guys" (maybe they don't? I'm not sure)
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by plandis 11y ago
Even after factoring in for cost of living adjustments Cleveland isn't worth it for me. It's still a huge pay cut and while there are a few interesting start-ups, big businesses still dominate (Progressive, GE, Philips, Key Bank
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by plandis 11y ago
I'm not the most well versed but it doesn't look like that says anything about "income" that is derived from capital gains. For instance Warren Buffet has remarked that his effective tax rate is actually around 17.4%.
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by plandis 11y ago
It seems customer hostile to me. What benefit does the customer get? Now they can use only the arguable worse search of Bing?
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by plandis 11y ago
It's understandably annoying from a consumer perspective but perhaps there are valid reasons for not being in other markets just yet and Amazon decided to launch early and incrementally roll it out?
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by plandis 11y ago
You're getting downvoted because you're not contributing to the discussion and nobody is commenting because (I'm guessing here) everything thinks that this is a troll post. Just in case it isn't here is some stuff to kee
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by plandis 11y ago
I suppose it's a question of utility. If universities truly (I doubt this is really true) cannot afford to pay everybody's tuition then how do you prioritize need? One could argue that as someone from a wealthy family that you hav