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by rualca 5y ago
The initial thesis was that governments get nothing in return from their investment in education and research. This is patently false. Companies pay taxes, and the higher income they make, the more taxes they pay. You may argue that over 20
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> The market is not normal because countries have invested massive sums of money into these companies without acquiring shares in return (...) I don't believe this is a fair or accurate description of what really happens. Countries
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> Did a doctor ever give you a guarantee that their treatment would heal you? You don't get a guarantee that a brand of paint will work with your walls, but that does not mean paint doesn't work. Meanwhile, personally I've
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> In a normal market situation, prices are determined by supply and demand. But that's really not such a situation here. Isn't it exactly the situation here? I mean, a few months ago we even had central governments bid against
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> Medicine is the only industry that can sell flawed products, offer no guarantees, and charge arbitrary prices for services without any consequence. Where do you frame mandatory requirements for clinical trials along with your personal
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To be fair, the vaccines we have today were literally the first ones out of the gate, and they should be considered a stopgap solution that only serves to mitigate the problems caused by the global pandemic, but they patently don't wor
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> Would you still hold this opinion (...) I'm sure the post reads as satire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
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> So they already dropped it. Don't you agree that's totally irrelevant? Being arrested for downloading a random doc from the internet is a real problem, so as monitoring dissidents to persecute them for any reason at all.
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> Removing a tool just invites developers to work around the gap. This. It's either a clean rebase, or messing the repo history with merge-commits, or merge with no ff and no commit onto HEAD followed by a local commit. And rebase i
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> I think this article makes the "sum" and "product" terms out to be very complicated, (...) Indeed it would drive the point home if instead of simply mentioning product they referred to Cartesian product. I guess sum
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> You're looking at one person --that's the problem. People only see things in front of them. It wasn't a single person. It was the vast majority of a political party, involving people in government, military, law enforcem
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> And everyone on one side f the aisle was like, yeah! Get 'im! Damned liar(s)! It's their platform, they can do what they want. It's not the government so it's not censorship. They only censor bigots. I'm not fr
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> We are ruled by Market Logic so that everything becomes quantified (Mbembe Necropolitics) including the Public Commons of Human Shelter. Things like public commons of human shelter do have a cost, as they require allocating and spendin
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> Having a good understanding of the problem domain in the same language and time zone as the employer is extremely valuable. Sharing a common language is not a problem at all, nor is sharing (or meeting) in the same time zone. I'd
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> Why is nobody recommending a highly saline nasal irrigation as a prophylactic? Or even a lower saline nasal irrigation with a very diluted amount of hydrogen peroxide??? Is there any indication that any sort of nasal irrigation is effe
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It may not be about representing IT jobs in general, but representing how new IT job openings in general are being presented to prospective applicants to entice them. Those who are stuck in their old job don't tend to have a lot of fle
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> Things always can go bad, and, often, do go bad. That's almost vacuously true. > What would one expect to come out of saying that, other than the feeling of smug satisfaction at some point in the future? Why, take action to ens
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> The way you phrase that it sounds like these social media companies black mail you with dirty secrets they learn about you. You may come up with the hyperboles you wish, but the truth of the matter is that a) these companies spy on the
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> In case I didn't make it clear, providing data about yourself and making yourself more "vulnerable" to advertisers is the currency you pay with for using the platform. No, not really. No one uses a platform like TikTok b
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> That's like saying that providing people with groceries is the secondary purpose of grocery stores, the first being collecting money in exchange for them. No, not really. Like Facebook or Google, TikTok's revenue comes from s
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> I care about the future, I don't care much for reading other people's Magic 8 Balls. Sorry but that assertion makes no sense at all. Caring about the future does not mean naive wishful thinking. Caring about the future means
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> I had this... a third-party seller started harassing me via email to submit feedback I has a very similar experience. I bought a cheap USB cable pack comprised of 5 USB cables of varying length, and after a span of a couple of weeks al
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> It's that industrialized agriculture had been developed, and thus you could still feed millions of people who were fighting. That sounds like a factor in determining how long an attacker can sustain attacks, but the underlying hyp
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> I get the feeling that society in the large is all about vague implementations and vague evaluations models that are vaguely good enough to not be cancelled. Well, western society didn't adopted central planning, in a good part as
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> You're getting downvoted because you made a bad faith assumption in a way that comes off as hostile. I confirm that was precisely the reason why I downvoted that post. Not only does that post indicate the poster failed to read and
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I don't think you were able to read or understand what I pointed out. It's immaterial what you thought was or was not possible. The relevant part is that the president of the US of A, along with his political party, thought it was
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Not having to fight the device to stop it from phoning home might also be a feature that's missing from Kindle devices.
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> (...) He might have even thought it was possible on that day. In the end, he couldn't do it (...) I don't see how claiming that you believe a few challenges would pop up along the way can refute the fact that Trump's goa
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> (...) but none of those are a meaningful threat to American democracy. Jam 6 was literally a coup attempt ordered by the president to disrupt the session in Congress that formalized the election results to avoid stepping down after los
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> If you build a robot that only handles the main workflow and can't handle any of the exceptions, you're not automating anything; you're building a convenience tool. Basically, you're removing some of the labor part

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