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by taysic 9y ago
It may have been dumb to you but what does that matter? The point of capitalism is that it's not anyone else's business. Things you may buy may be considered dumb to another. It doesn't matter in a free market where everyone
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That sounds a lot like the federal sugar program - it was designed to restrict the imports of much cheaper sugar from other countries to help American sugar companies from going out of business. The artificially high domestic prices just en
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This is the part I am unconvinced about - that "collaboration" is the issue at all. It seems like an easy go-to based on older assumptions. But plenty of woman I know I think would love tech but know nothing about it - but rather
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I agree - female coder as well. I enjoy coding itself. Doesn't need to be collaborative unless there is a purpose to it for me.
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I am all for discovering new learning techniques to help woman but as a woman who got my degree in computer science, I can't help but doubt this. I would describe much of the subject matter in my classes to appear "dry" or un
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Well I'm a woman and I learned coding by myself in exactly the way you describe. I personally don't think it has anything to do with gender. I didn't find many study partners within my major that I could relate to so I just s
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Realistically its those governments who offered them the deals that broke the law. I don't see why its the companies obligation to deny these tax deals and uphold the EU's wishes.
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> If I'm on a low margin business, that's not the government's problem to pick winners and losers, right? So you would penalize companies that are offering a useful service and making less profits over those that are offer
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Taxing based on revenue sounds very detrimental for companies with low margins - say your profit is only 1% of your revenue. Then you would go out of business by this tax. Also seems very harmful to yet unprofitable startups.
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'....Luxembourg’s role in orchestrating tax avoidance deals for hundreds of global companies was revealed by the Guardian in 2014, raising questions about tax policy in one of the EU’s oldest member states. The case continues to hang o
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I don't understand what the difference is to a stock - those investing hope it will continue to go up but it's a risk. And they hope to sell at the right moment.
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She explains that quote clearly here: "For instance, think of countries with weak institutions and unstable national currencies. Instead of adopting the currency of another country—such as the U.S. dollar—some of these economies might
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I'm not sure about the details of this exact program but if someone who wants to come live in America, that means there is an added "value" to this program that the VC's don't have to pay for. I'm using the H1B
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How would that make land affordable to everyone? Seems like the opposite to me - since the tax would have to be high enough to replace all other taxes, land would be incredibly expensive.
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According to the Wikipedia article: "Skype was founded in 2003 by Niklas Zennström, from Sweden, and Janus Friis, from Denmark.[30] The Skype software was created by Estonians Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, and Jaan Tallinn. "
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> Ten years ago, so many Americans were making jokes about poor quality Indian code and Indian accents. The idea of Indians actually working innovative jobs seemed laughable to many Americans. But there wasn't actually strong evide
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I use the Headspace app, it's awesome
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What is the state subsidy Deliveroo is receiving? If they are receiving one, then sure I don't agree with it. If it's the VC's that are wasting their own money, I see nothing wrong with that. > a number of the people worki
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I think it is a bad thing if a useful service could not exist - and people who voluntarily chose to be employed by that service cannot have access to those jobs. I think it's better to be employed and increasing your value/skill s
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Did it happen in Austin? According to this article, they were allowed back in a year later and no longer were asked to perform fingerprint based background checks.
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As is seen with people on welfare there are plenty of jobs they won't take if they don't have to. The meager wages don't make them worth it. Because of this I think prices would soar much higher than 40%
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Why do you think nothing would change on the supply side? There are plenty of low income workers that would quit their jobs, driving their wages up - thereby either driving up the cost of goods or reducing supply. Unless of course the goods
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> But what are you basing that belief on? Which part of it? Not too many generations ago, many people lived entirely off the land. A large portion of people's "jobs" were displaced from agriculture and yet over time new jo
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I agree with you that tech giants promoting basic income are probably only doing that as an easy and attractive answer to - what will happen to all the jobs? However, I really don't think UBI is the answer. I don't understand wher
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I can't speak on how economics is taught as I never took a class on it. But I can say "Basic Economics" by Thomas Sowell is one of the best books I've read. It could easily be a textbook.
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I agree with you to an extent. It's my experience in engineering that you can start a company alone based on your specialized skills. I'm not sure you can do that on business skills alone. I suppose it depends on what path you wan
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If the student was well-connected, and the professor was worried about their position (nontenured) and did not find arguing worth the hassle - then yes, why not? Doesn't sound that surprising.
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The nature of the grading system is that it doesn't have a ton of transparency. It doesn't sound too surprising that the wealthy and well-connected might use any lever possible to increase their standing. This is actually one of t
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> the insinuation that the professors and other teachers at the school systematically favor privileged students in some sort of effort to reaffirm social hierarchy is totally unsubstantiated How do you know for sure though? Naturally su
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What does your comment have to do with OP's boss being willing to give him responsibilities beyond just being a coder - despite being rude?

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