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Higher the number of pages in a regulation harder it is for the representatives to read and study. The compliance cost goes significantly higher for all the stakeholders making entire healthcare more expensive all people and since IRS is ro
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Thanks for calling out what it is but you might get down voted here. 11 thousand pages of new regulations can not be called reform. It is unbelievable how this new giant piece of regulation is even termed as "reform". The reform i
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Biggest question I had when I first arrived in bay area. Gov. Regulation are the reason why it is a bit harder to have taller buildings, tech companies have lot of money to go for more land grab is the main reason. If you are building a bui
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I find it very amusing when people name other brands/apps etc on their homepage especially those where you don't have any business connection. Case in point here is naming Pocket App on the homepage prominently. It gives on impres
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10y ago
> In this case, the CEO was acting in a way that is favorable to his employees' interests, but detrimental to the interests of the shareholders. I am surprised how many young CEOS themselves forget this. My friend is a VC who invest
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You might be a more experienced person give you also regularly interview but for someone new I think 8 weeks is a good time to prepare.
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That is not true. India has sufficient electricity to meet its needs besides Malls and Movies indeed something that people want given their explosive growth.
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India currently has sufficient electricity but the distribution system remains broken. > why isn't the market for electricity working in India? Electricity in India is a government monopoly. Even using a generator is illegal if you
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10y ago
Still better story is about how Hillary Clinton's brother bagged contracts to mine Gold in Haiti after the disaster.
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Sure, poop is not same as shit as per the same lawyer.
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> It's not actually clear to me that she put national security at risk What contained in those emails is irrelevant. The very fact that she deliberately to serve own personal purposes violated all security protocols. That itself sho
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The government wants to have a secret list of "potential terrorist" and then wants to deny them right to own guns and ability to fly. Yet, a lady who has clearly put national security at risk can run for president and commander in
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The biggest difference between Snowden and Hillary is that Snowden did what he thought was right, owned up his actions and suffered the consequences. He lost everything just so Americans could know that their government was spying them. He
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That is called a broken window fallacy.
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> upper half of income earners Moot of us are in the upper half of income earners. Those are he people who are working hard and keeping the economy running. But it is false to say these are the only victims. More taxes and more regulatio
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Not really. NASA employees only 20K or so people most of which are doing some productive work. TSA on other hand employs 55K who do no productive work.
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I think you failed to understand the sentence. >He made a lot of new jobs As you know government cant create jobs except for government servants such as TSA screening agents. Their salary bill has be then paid for by the hardworking earn
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> The authors romanticizing such lifestyles are free to build a cabin in the woods. But one should understand the accompanying poverty that would accompany such a decision. Totally spot on. A lot of people these days are romanticizinglif
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Honestly it appeared like an assessment of Obama administration. > He made a lot of new jobs, and give them to loafers that nobody knowed nothing about, and the poor people had to pay the bill, whether they could or not. > Making us p
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This is true. I think organizations need to create more space for developers to grow as leaders which I don't see happening. In silicon valley contacts are as valuable as money and a person with manager in his title will build contacts
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I have found in many cases that the rental property is simply bluffing. Just call up the competitor first. My landlord told me about his exclusive deal that will give me cheap AT&T connection. I simply called up Comcast and they gave me
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> You're being downvoted because you are not considering land use and zoning issues. Don't care about downvotes but I care about arguments. Uber and Lyft will check the drivers license even if government does not make it mandat
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> The connection between exercise and brain health has now been super conclusively and astonishingly shown, but what are some possible evolutionary reasons for this connection? Both physical activity and brain-health improve survival an
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Driving car requires license for various other reason all of us agree with. I don't see why hosts need a license. Also there is potential stupidity of passing regulations that people wont respect any ways.
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"exclusive deals" are sham just call up the competitor.
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Not sure why the government attorneys should get paid anything here. Government was so much incompetent here that they failed to catch VW well in time, besides arresting few people in VW I think some people from the government side need to
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Clarification: Americans confuse Indians between those from Bharat/India and Native Americans. Dots and feathers is a common way to differentiate between both. I am from India.
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As far as American criminal justice is concerned "due process" actually means "plausible fantasy".
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> at this point the EU is under strong pressure to make an example out of the UK secessionist tendencies and the power is squarely on the European side. If that is indeed true then I think every other country should leave EU with the urg
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Congratulations. I think some small country should negotiate a deal with all other nations and come up with a citizenship program that gives good value for their passport and then allow Americans (or any other highly taxed nationals) to set
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