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4y ago
> Where have you been the last few months? https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CUUR0000SA0R
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4y ago
What recourse do you have when the US fed keeps on printing money and reducing your purchasing power.
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4y ago
Maybe they want to do this for a couple of years and save money for a house deposit, once you get the house, just stick to one job.
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4y ago
> What I do now is ask people to share some code with me that they're proud of. What if they dont have code to share?
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4y ago
> Everything traces back to colonialism How long will you keep blaming colonialism. Since you want someone to blame shouldnt you blame the natives who allowed a foreign power to rule over them because natives could be easily manipulated
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4y ago
> The government is too scared to put in place efficient 'family planning', Pakistan's fertility rate has been falling down from 6 kids couple of decades back to now around 3.
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4y ago
> Like didn't he sleep with his brother's widow and stuff like that? Why does that matter if they both wanted to do it?
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4y ago
You say misspoke, I say you got confused with your own talking points. > it doesn't mean that they all is lost" I dont know if you understand capitalism but out competed companies eventually run out of money and get bought out
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4y ago
You are too deep in "Fantasyland" thinking. Forget about that. > How "energy independent" is Switzerland? Singapore? The UK? Exactly, atleast the UK depends on middle east and Russia which funds their murderous regime
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4y ago
Probably population growth, less resources more people.
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4y ago
> Why do Americans need to have their own refining industry, if they can be served by others? Looks like you did not think it through. You need to have energy independence. When you depend on other countries, those countries can use your
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4y ago
> in a scenario where all companies are reduced in size What does all companies mean, are you proposing the entire world follow this approach or just the US. If its just the US then other refineries would just offer cheaper oil and US c
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4y ago
Capitalism would not allow such a company to exists. There would be too much bottlenecks and the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing scenario and the end product would be more expensive compared to a company with no such limi
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4y ago
> bringing on the possibly 0.1% who don't trust Google I would imagine it would be more than 0.1%.
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4y ago
That post sounds like war on drugs, on paper it makes sense but does not work in real life. Do you really think an industry like oil refinery can be managed with a limit of 150 people?
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4y ago
> If you know the whereabouts of those "big whales", feel free to report them here Nothing happens to the big whales, that is the point. Look up Steve Cohen
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4y ago
> Foxconn was able to recruit more than 8000 workers overnight Isnt that the same company which has suicide nets so that its employees wont kill themselves.
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4y ago
The companies who outsource dont really care about that, if they did, they wont do the outsourcing in the first place.
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4y ago
> it's seemingly nowhere as big a proportion of the population as in the US. I think its because Australia has a Preferential Voting system.
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4y ago
Can Android and iOS block such messages if large number of users report that its spam.
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4y ago
> I think Apple is so traumatized by needing investments to fend of bankruptcy Steve Jobs called Warren Buffett to ask him what should he do with the extra cash, Buffett told me to give it back to shareholders but Steve would not do that
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4y ago
Anders Hejlsberg developed Delphi for Borland and then went on to have significant contributions to C# and then Type Script. That guy is clearly a genius.
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4y ago
Even Bill Gates has said its reasonably accurate.
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4y ago
Which city?
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4y ago
> The idea rapidly turned from popular to unpopular, though was implemented anyway. Do they have good public transport?
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4y ago
> This is true, and they're still valid complaints. Not giving access to PCs/Ipads etc is not a good solution though. I would complain that your parents robbed you of some cool experiences by not letting you use a TV or a PC.
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4y ago
You can do the things which you mentioned on an ipad as well, its not just a device for content laid out entirely by someone else.
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4y ago
You can make the same arguments in the past about kids watching TV and then kids using a PC. In 10 years, parents will be complaining about AR/VR
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4y ago
There are some things which you should not answer unless you have experienced it yourself. Having kids is one of them. All your activity sounds good on paper but real life does not work like that. Kids are smart, they can see you are on you
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4y ago
> but then I didn't get the appeal of iPads when announced. Let me guess you dont have kids.
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