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by robswc 6y ago
This is more of a general statement... but I find it odd how fast people write off stuff like this as "impossible" - or they just don't believe it could happen. Fair enough, its unlikely but all the same, stranger things hav
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by robswc 6y ago
I feel the "reaction" is over blown. Especially when I see what some people complain about. There's tons of legitimate criticism, pretty much pertaining to bugs but damn... I remember Skyrim being just as "buggy" b
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by robswc 6y ago
Thanks for the answer! I want to say I would fit more with Amazon based on the vibe I got and my personality/goals. It's good to know that Google isn't totally out of the question though (provided I would pass interviews etc)
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by robswc 6y ago
Wondered if I could ask... is Google a relatively normal place to work? I currently do my own thing but I would love to work on projects that go far due to the amount of talent involved... but at the end of the day I'm just concerned
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by robswc 6y ago
I hate politics in general... that said this is such a dumb precedence imo and anyone cheering it on I feel is short sighted. There was some quote about how unfortunately when you defend free speech, you're mostly sticking up for the w
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by robswc 6y ago
>You were being pedantic about how the New Deal raised revenue. How is it pedantic. It's completely relevant. I want to know if it was successful, where the money came from and how it got there... Much in the same way people preac
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by robswc 6y ago
>I think this is a fundamental feature a winner take all/most market. FB beat out myspace and happened to win, but if not them it would have been someone else. 5 billion internet connected social animals is the value, not the app th
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by robswc 6y ago
> I suppose shouldn't have assumed that you would know that the New Deal involved raising revenue. Concise data from the 1930s isn't super easy to come by, you are going to have to look at broader economic trends and make your
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by robswc 6y ago
If you really wanted to be productive, you would have pointed out which arguments are fallacies. Also, you only seem to care about "fallacies" when dealing with those you disagree with ... so please try to be less sanctimonious.
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by robswc 6y ago
>Jeff Bezos' net worth was ~$33,600,000,000 at the beginning of 2017. I would argue things are considerably worse for the average American since then Based on what metrics? >If every American had healthcare and access to quality
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by robswc 6y ago
just checked it again, seems a lot smoother, maybe its been fixed. I just remember videos would just have a black screen, wouldn't load at all. maybe now with elections over the front page won't be 50% politics and I can get back
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by robswc 6y ago
iphone, web. I guess that's not the app but still. Works half the time on PC, half the time on web
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by robswc 6y ago
>Why should the lucky one on top capture most of the value? Because they were first or best to do it. MySpace was already a thing, several other social media sites but today they're mostly dead while FB is not. Luck does have a
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by robswc 6y ago
>How is it going to be worse if Jeff Bezos is worth $50,000,000,000 instead of $180,000,000,000? on the inverse, how much worse has it gotten since Jeff Bezos went from $50b to $180b? It keeps coming back to the fact that there is such a
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by robswc 6y ago
Yep. It is incredibly polarized. I would say at this point the democrats only get a pass because they are "marginally better than republicans" according to reddit. Should have seen some of the stuff they were saying about Biden
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by robswc 6y ago
>Maybe the government has enough money, maybe it doesn't. This is exactly the problem I have with this "taxing the wealthy will fix it" arguments. What happens if it is the latter? What happens if taxing the rich doesn&#x
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by robswc 6y ago
How? $10-20 an hour is better than minimum wage and a few years ago I worked a labor job that "only" paid $12.00/hr. Is Jeff Bezo's personal net worth the causation behind someone not being able to support a family? What
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by robswc 6y ago
Its actually incredible how bad it is on mobile. Its like, unusable... I'm amazed that the video player still only seems to work half the time.
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by robswc 6y ago
I can agree with this. This is great if you have a soft interest in something. However, I like trading (stocks and stuff) and the subs focusing on that are very... questionable at times. A ton of people that mistake pure luck for skill
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by robswc 6y ago
I've mostly stopped using reddit because the quality has taken a nosedive. I love it when you could go there and see interesting things around the internet. It reminds me a bit like how HN is now, just more broad. Recently though i
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by robswc 6y ago
It's just a little "creative" thing at the bottom of the site. I think its cool. In the context of the other "fun" stats, it makes sense. If they said something like "We take slack VERY seriously, here's
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by robswc 6y ago
I would personally trust coinbase over NYT at this point... Especially given the circumstances of the article.
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by robswc 6y ago
Perfectly understandable. Nah I know I could get away with "unfollowing" certain people. I mean, eventually people will post new articles and I would click on them and be met with that vitriol. Mostly because I followed a lot of
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by robswc 6y ago
>I use Twitter quite a bit and there's no politics on it. Sure. It does depend on who you follow and if you choose to click on things so again it is my original sin to try to have productive conversations... so yes, if I choose t
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by robswc 6y ago
>a different flavor to "Jews are secretly lizard people manipulating the elections". ahah, just a little funny because it literally is ironically "Jewish people keep us down because reasons" - admittedly, I don't
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by robswc 6y ago
I could agree with a lot of this... the problem for me though is it always comes back to actually enforcing this stuff. I already know I sinned by trying to have a productive conversation of twitter, however when "talking" with a
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by robswc 6y ago
To be fair, I've largely stopped using twitter due to the incessant politics, pretty much what you described above but just in a different flavor. Ironically manipulating elections was one of those "incessant" topics, howeve
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by robswc 6y ago
You would have to find substantial cuts. I don't think its a strawman because unfortunately its the majority of arguments I see... but people will bring up the APCs or "military equipment" some departments have as an example
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by robswc 6y ago
I tend to avoid politics but I really can't believe such a question was asked to voters. With how vague that question is, its almost entirely useless. Like another poster said, it essentially could be boiled down to "do you want
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by robswc 6y ago
Definitely agree. I'm not on the level of these hedge funds but I do love using data for trading.

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