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by rick888 16y ago
I've been hearing about Appleseed for at least 5+ years and it's still in obscurity. The problem is that it's just too complicated for the average, non-technically savvy user. Without being able to get the general public to use it, it won
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by rick888 16y ago
nice! I didn't even know this was possible. There are a lot of skills you can use in other online businesses that you can take from this: 1) watching auctions. Find something else to buy/sell besides WoW gold. There are tons of other onl
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by rick888 16y ago
At most, how much were you making per month selling gold on Wow?
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by rick888 16y ago
"everyone uses "socialism" to mean whatever they think it should mean and then argues" The general idea of socialism is the forced redistribution of wealth or property, which pretty much doesn't change in all of the different versions of so
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by rick888 16y ago
"One of the promises of increased automation was supposed to be more leisure time for the individual." Unions have pretty much put a stop to the automation of most industries.
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by rick888 16y ago
It does, I have gmail for domain accounts all going into my main account. You need to make sure SSL is on and the ports are different that the standard pop3+smtp
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by rick888 16y ago
"Basically, taking out editors and marketers" When this becomes more popular and every publisher moves online, editors and marketers will be in in demand, because it will be difficult to get anyone to download/read your stuff without a mark
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The problem with this is that everyone is on the regular sleep 8 hours per-night schedule and you wouldn't be able to do this if you were working a regular job.
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by rick888 16y ago
The problem is that it will take sacrifice and hard work to get your startup off the ground. If you half-ass it, you probably won't succeed (I've seen many failed attempts from others and myself). If you want to travel, volunteer, and do c
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by rick888 16y ago
"Oh, how I want to see you tell that to a 15 year old born in a ghetto." The truth hurts sometime. If we continue to ignore it, nothing will ever change.
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by rick888 16y ago
"This is an overgeneralization. All of us make choices based on our perception of the world. It matters very much whether, like me, you were raised by educated people, being told "you can do anything," being read to and told to practice mus
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by rick888 16y ago
"You should check out a third world country." I should have said: poverty in the US. Poverty in third world countries is a result of the poor choices of the government.
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I think many people say they have a startup, when in reality, they just have a webapp. A startup should be a business (which might involve a webapp or service).
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by rick888 16y ago
What bothers me is that the only solution to bridge the "income inequality" is to take money from the rich and just give it to the poor. Beyond the mentally and physically unable (which is a very low percentage), poverty is a result of poor
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by rick888 16y ago
"most baby-sitters don't have a fire-arms license." I didn't mean this literally. The US needs to use force because other countries either don't have the ability or refuse. "I don't want to even bother refuting this, but the US is an econo
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by rick888 16y ago
"The United States has less than 5% of the world's population and 23.4% of the world's prison population." Did you ever stop and think that if some of the other countries mentioned weren't so corrupt, they might also have a higher prison po
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by rick888 16y ago
You are better off going through craigslist. I've been able to find tons of projects on craigslist in the last couple of years. Many companies are looking for a reliable freelancer/contractor and if you can prove that you are, will go to
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by rick888 16y ago
well, your impression is wrong. High earners get federal, state, and locally taxed.
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"Plenty of successful doctors and lawyers have the same problem." Taking random jobs to put yourself through medical school is much different than taking random jobs with seemingly no direction. If he does have some ambitious life goals, h
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by rick888 16y ago
"So, say, a CEO who is hired to run a company and assumes no financial risk on their own for doing so has "earned" the right to 40x more salary than the people who actually make the products? Somehow that doesn't seem right. Do they work fo
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by rick888 16y ago
"Did I suggest I had any such idea? Did I suggest limiting anyone's success or taking exorbitant amounts of money through taxes?" No, but I'm waiting for it. "The problem is that "coming out on top" now means you control a hugely disproport
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by rick888 16y ago
"Canada and helped make Canada a model for liberal democracy and freedom" This is correct. The idea is to keep out non-liberal and opposing viewpoints. I wonder how many left-leaning media outlets in Canada are viewed as the "truth"? This
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"I assume you think that the bailouts of the financial system were earned" Of course they weren't earned. "that school is optional for kids who don't like following silly or time-wasting instructions." No, but I do have a problem with the t
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by rick888 16y ago
"addressing the problems of capitalism as suggested by the author of the article?" and what problems are those? That not everyone comes out on top? Of course this is the case. I am interested in alternatives that don't involve limiting th
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by rick888 16y ago
"Just because capitalism works some of the time for a few of the people, doesn't mean that it's above criticism, and has no problems." Capitalism works for more than "just a few people" "some of the time". No system is perfect. "Since the
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by rick888 16y ago
"Again - you don't know what his internal process was for picking these jobs. You can't mind read and impute motivations for his selections." Well, it's obviously not working for the guy. He has clearly voiced his dissatisfaction with his
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"There are also non-co-op companies where employees all have a say in business decisions, and they have done well and have great employee satisfaction and retention." I have a feeling that all of these ideas that you and many others want to
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"It seems to me as though we've tried 'kings/dictators' lots of times, and we've watched communism devolve into 'kings/dictators', and we may very well be in the process of watching capitalism devolve into 'kings/dictators' as wealth and po
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"These are highly debatable points." I don't see any debating going on with your post.
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by rick888 16y ago
"But if you say that, then you have already accepted a premise that the piece is calling into question, namely: why should that be the choice that everyone faces?" Do you have an alternative? Humans have tried many different methods over m

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