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7y ago
> Is paint-by-numbers making art? haha is this art? Do you really need to go to school for a decade /study art to be able to paint this? https://shorturl.at/krYZ4
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7y ago
would 1000$ a month be a good enough incentive to drop car use to minimum then?
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What if NYC made all public transport free for NYC residents? Would the only cars left on the road be Ubers/Lyfts and tourist taxis? As it is price to own a car in NYC is very expensive: $150ish insurance, $500ish parking, and lets say
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7y ago
In the USA there are plenty of perfectly normal, educated people, taking care of themselves, eating right, jogging every morning and doing the "right thing" entire life who get literally financially destroyed, savings wiped out, a
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7y ago
Well, we had amazing 10 year bull market run so far. just look at your 401Ks performance from 2009 to 2019! 1-2-3 year shake down / or a mini recession would be technically completely normal and totally expected. at least by me. get yo
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to understand better American external business and political policies i highly recommend reading this book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000Q67L00/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?... It will explain a lot of the events that
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That is a great idea! shorturl.at/vHR57
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7y ago
it is the same today as it was for centuries. Human nature will not change.
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To Prevent Burnout, Hire Better Bosses
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7y ago
#firstworldproblems
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7y ago
$7
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im typing this on a 2012 macbook and have no desire to trade up LOL
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7y ago
Most people lead boring lives long before their retirement... have friends who have no lives, dont take vacations. just going through the motions. Whats the point?
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7y ago
Thats a very One sided view. Biotech is overly regulated today (for good reasons). Because of that the entrance barrier is very high. It costs a lot more money today to start and run a biotech company. To run a clinical trial for FDA submis
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>There is no reason that quality shoes cannot be built in countries with poor labor conditions. I disagree. when all your workers are thinking about is how they will feed their kids tonight and if they will have enough food or medicine
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as i said "and no, if something is super expensive it does not mean its high quality!" you have to know who you are buying from. yes, majority of big labels these days use cheap outsourced labor. Italy - is importing cheap asian w
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7y ago
What a bunch of BS. The author is ignoring elephant in the room - cost of honestly paid labor and cost of good quality materials. You cant make quality things using "slave" labor (made in "3rd world countries" for a few
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Corporations are people.
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"Companies are not human beings" I beg to differ... Corporate personhood is the legal notion that a corporation, separately from its associated human beings (like owners, managers, or employees), has at least some of the legal rig
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This was not a price "mistake"! This was a well executed marketing campaign - they are looking to see how much ROI they will get on such marketing move. By the next prime day there will be millions more people logged in - looking
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this was no accident. their pricing mechanisms are top notch. this is a marketing move!
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Companies pay a whopping $5 million to run a 30-second ad during the Super Bowl.... This super sale (if everyone gets what they ordered) will have much deeper impact than a 30 second commercial. Believe next year, millions more people wil b
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I'll go on and say something, perhaps, controversial. This "price mistake" was not a mistake at all. This was intentional move by amazon to attract publicity. Once these news spread, people will remember. And next year they w
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I mean duh you'd cook food for your child and not feed him/her crackers. The same goes for dogs/cats. They are family members and deserve to eat god food too.
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I never understood the whole "dry dog food diet" and expecting dogs to be healthy long term. Imagine yourself eating dry crackers all your life. Its sad. Maybe its just me but dogs need to eat actual meat and bones and real veggie
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my only reason for upgrade to 6s plus and then 7 plus was better camera - optical image stabilization on 6s plus and dual camera with portrait mode on iphone 7 plus. small iphones (6S and 7) do not have the best cameras.
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i'd argue that more often than not "the highly engaged and at risk of burn out" person is full of illusions while the other 4 have been around the block and dont give a %rap anymore.
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AI is only as good as the programmer who created it. We are really in the stone age when it comes to AI.
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Its hard to start families with 8K in savings. This is a major blow for the economy that is consumption based. If people have very little saved and have little assetts by the time they retire - im afraid this is bad news for years 2040-2065
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average millennials net worth is only $8K (group aged 18-35 today) so this is not surprising to me. in 20-25 years, when millennials approach retirement age - its not going to look pretty for the economy.
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