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by tn13 10y ago
Because Salary has nothing to do with value they create but what someone else is willing to accept to create the same value.
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by tn13 10y ago
I don't like bans but whenever people asked me about my current pay I told them it is confidential and I should be judged based on what you are willing to pay rather than what I am making. My first job change gave me 2X the salary.
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by tn13 10y ago
I helped several small business run web apps that use mysql without any issue. Only one of my customer asked for a Discourse installation that had postgres. Managing that database was a nightmare. The server would often crash for no reason,
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by tn13 10y ago
Competition is not a zero sum game and video on demand is not a winner takes it all scenario. Netflix is already the market leader and for Amazon it is a great way to hedge, even if their video service fails Netflix would ensure they still
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by tn13 10y ago
Such comments are heavily downvoted here.
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by tn13 10y ago
I am from India. The a part of transgender community often known as Hijras come to public places and demand money. Often they touch you while demanding money else they will simply lift their clothes to expose their genitals. Often to avoid
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by tn13 10y ago
They hire very expensive lawyers and accountants to pay less or simply bribe politicians (read speech money) to keep loopholes that will benefit them. As a result a lot of money is wasted to totally unproductive efforts while increasing cor
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by tn13 10y ago
There is not such thing as "fair share" of what someone else has earned.
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by tn13 10y ago
Government barely spends and money on research and most of it is on subjects that have 0 impact on anything for example giving heroine to monkeys.
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by tn13 10y ago
Why do you think paying taxes is a virtue ? Why does US government need 40% of our hard earned money ? May be American politicians should stop the war on drugs, wars in far off countries and medicare and reduce tax levels to 20%. Facebook,
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by tn13 10y ago
Accountants and Lawyers end up doing value addition because government regulations are far too complex.
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by tn13 10y ago
Uninhabitable is not an appropriate term. Uninhabitable means unsuitable for living. Regions with very high levels of radiation, extreme cold, extreme heat are often the reasons why some place is uninhabitable. These lands are scarred by th
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by tn13 10y ago
You have to do such things to improve moral of your people. There is a good chance we will be saying exact same thing about SolarCity, Tesla, Uber and many others.
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by tn13 10y ago
Man! I wish my boss had read it 5 years ago. I could never understand why I was not motivated in my job at all even though my boss was really brilliant. It basically reduced to this. No matter what I did the boss always had 2 cents that had
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by tn13 10y ago
Oh boy. I was like "how did I miss this big new" until your clarified this is some kind of privilege to the few powerful people. Nevertheless there will be system that will help people get this passport by paying the right price a
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by tn13 10y ago
> the point of punishing criminals is to punish crime True when the definition of crime and the procedures around punishing crime borders on even serious crime I would question if the crime should be crime in first place or not. If USA h
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by tn13 10y ago
This is pretty much like the drug war. El Chapo's interview was extremely insightful in this regard. He basically asked if he going to jail had any impact on the drug trade in first place. The answer is resoundingly NO. There is a huge
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by tn13 10y ago
Only in certain areas. In many villages a person can be beaten up for defecating in open and in some cities it would lead to arrest. Despite all the perception "toilets"has been a priority in many cities and especially villages. I
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by tn13 10y ago
I really doubt if that problem will ever be tackled. In cities it is a logistical problem. Standing in line for 5 minutes for a proper toilet v/s shitting on a track right away. There is no way on earth we can build sufficient number o
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by tn13 10y ago
Almost all modern Indian trains are like this too. But I dont think you will get into trouble for shitting on a station.
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Dark side of Gates foundation(thevoiceofnation.com)
3 points by tn13 10y ago|0 comments
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by tn13 10y ago
> to serve a few multinational corporations that feel their profits are severely cut due to copyright infringement, meanwhile posting record earnings. That almost sounds like a Bernie Sanders level paranoia of words profits and corporati
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by tn13 10y ago
Government in general a profitable venture for those in government. You have to produce nothing, please no one and you get to decide how much money is your fair share of what others have worked hard to earn.
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by tn13 10y ago
Well, Americans have been saying that about drug war, civil forfeiture, surveillance and many others things for a long long time.
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by tn13 10y ago
Flipkart was not the first to introduce CoD. CoD in India is an ancient concept. Indian postal service ran a system where one could order products via mail and make the payment at the postal office. If I remember correctly it was called VPP
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by tn13 10y ago
This article has 0 information. The return on investment on a house is not just the cost of the house but also the rent money you have saved by staying in your own home. In fact without that you cant get +ve return even in upscale real esta
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by tn13 10y ago
One sentence: It benefits the government. If government legalizes drug usage it would solve hell lot of problems in society and it will create far more legitimate arguments to force government to get rid of their control on other aspects su
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by tn13 10y ago
For 1. We already have that model running in North Korea and I heard the people love it absolutely. For 2. We already have that model running in USA and I hear it is the absolute worst place to live in.
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by tn13 10y ago
Among the things that Saudis are aware but fine with, concern for telecom privacy is at the bottom. :D
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by tn13 10y ago
Because a lot of people including politicians like Obama needlessly glorified college and government started giving aide to higher education. That seems to be the problem. Bright kids succeed. One of the way they succeed is by going into go

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