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by rdm_blackhole 8y ago
But what you describe is a real conundrum for governments isn't it? If this hypothesis is true then you would think that the government in place would do everything they can to stop the far right/far left from rising from the ashe
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by rdm_blackhole 8y ago
That is a lie. If the system is so resilient then why did the governments had to intervene in 2008? The financial system is quick to ask for less regulation/less red tape but when comes the time to own their mistakes, they are really h
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by rdm_blackhole 8y ago
I am not from the US but it's the same thing everywhere. The only place where citizens seem to have an impact is Switzerland where with enough signatures you can request a referendum. Good luck implementing that in other countries. Som
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by rdm_blackhole 8y ago
It is not just governments, its people too. How many couples will have more than one child? How many people eat meat or fish every day? How many people drive their car to the corner store less than a mile away? How many people buy huge SUV
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by rdm_blackhole 8y ago
I used to fly quite a lot before and never really worried about it. Now that I have a wife and live in Australia, I routinely have to take 14h flights to get back to Europe. 14 hours is a long time without touching the ground. Lately, I hav
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by rdm_blackhole 8y ago
You mean to say that we have stopped cutting down entire rainforests??? Do tell me when this miracle happened? How about the fact that we are going to be 10 billion by the end of the century? And the only reason that we have managed to avoi
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by rdm_blackhole 8y ago
I am French so I can respond to your comment. In France, tipping is not mandatory and if I do it I usually leave 1 or 2 euros in change. Waiters in France do not have to pay for their own health insurance. They can actually afford to go to
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by rdm_blackhole 8y ago
We should not make "better" the enemy of perfect or something of the essence. If we can have self-driving vehicles that are twice as safe as the average human, then they should be allowed on the streets. https://www.ran
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by rdm_blackhole 8y ago
When I think the human race cannot sink any lower, then I am brought back to reality.
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by rdm_blackhole 8y ago
If you read Noam Chomsky's "Who rules the world?", you will find plenty of examples of the USA overthrowing a government to bring "peace and prosperity". It's pretty common actually.
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by rdm_blackhole 8y ago
We are forced to use Skype for Business at my job, and let me tell you, I have never seen a POS like that. Calls drop out for no reason, UI is unintuitive with all kinds of weird dropdowns and buttons, slow to start and just a pain to use i
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by rdm_blackhole 8y ago
Australia just got PayId this year which means you can send any amount of money to anybody who signs up via their banks and receive money in seconds. Until last year you had to wait up to 3 days to do an interbank transfer but not anymore.
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by rdm_blackhole 8y ago
Correction, there are enough devs but the salaries are too low, so they go elsewhere like I did. I am not going to work 40+ hours a week or more to make 2500 euros and pay 1000 euros of rent in Paris. Whats the point? Also, Paris is a crime
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by rdm_blackhole 8y ago
> Most of what I read in the comments here is not exactly true nor relies on statistics (sound like my story is...). Neither does your comment...
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by rdm_blackhole 8y ago
The social ladder is also broken. If you don't have the right diploma, no matter what your skills are you will never make it to the top. There is a real mindset of "Us vs Them" where "Them" is your boss or manager a
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by rdm_blackhole 8y ago
And that is not the worst part. When you sell your company, you may have to wait between 6 to 9 months to get your money! Basically, taxes are always delayed and to calculate the exact amount that you owe to the diverse government agencies,
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by rdm_blackhole 8y ago
Hiring and firing people in France is particularly hard. Most companies do not scale beyond 10 employees as after this threshold the regulatory burden increases dramatically. Taxes on small to medium businesses are downright confiscatory. M
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by rdm_blackhole 8y ago
What I am getting out of this is that even though it was mostly fake, it still managed to do what it was supposed to which was change the smartphone landscape and turn it on its head. So probably the calls were faked, but so what? It is a g
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by rdm_blackhole 9y ago
+ France MSN messenger only
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by rdm_blackhole 9y ago
How about the Netflix of textbooks, pay 30-50$ a month and access all the textbooks on demand? The rise of Netflix has almost ended the piracy of movies, the same would happen for textbooks if this service was created.
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by rdm_blackhole 9y ago
You guys can fight how to turn your money hungry insurance companies into decent "patient caring" entities or you can do like the rest of the developed countries and adopt a basic single payer system where everybody pays for every
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by rdm_blackhole 9y ago
When you have 100B surely, you can spare some to help. I understand that you need to be rewarded for creating a company that employs a lot of people but there has to be a time when you have to ask yourself, why would you want even more mone
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by rdm_blackhole 9y ago
This argument is not valid. What about the drug dealers selling their stuff for cash? I can do the same argument about fiat money. What about the tax dodgers crossing borders with suitcases full of cash that will end up in some offshore ba
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by rdm_blackhole 9y ago
I understand that at the moment it may seem like all the cryptocurrencies are in a bubble but honestly, I don't mind because it is forcing the banks to stop their stupid cash grab and loosen up some of their rules. What about the stupi