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by tn13 10y ago
Taxation is indistinguishable from theft. Government forcibly takes money from hardworking people to spend on things that politicians think are good for us. I am pretty sure if you donate your money to education, infra and other things it w
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by tn13 10y ago
Why people use the taxi is their business. All innovations including cellphones, automobiles, internet etc. etc. must have helped drug dealing and other illegal stuff.
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by tn13 10y ago
I agree. In India Nokia was voted as "Most Trusted Brand" for years. Cell phone == Nokia in India. All they had to do was to put Android in some phones as an arbitrage move and they could have still been the leader in that space i
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by tn13 10y ago
Light bulbs did not kill candle makers job. Light bulb made it possible for humans to work at night speeding up humanity's progress by several factors in more ways than we can imagine. The dominant left narrative is to see automation a
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by tn13 10y ago
A lot of people are seeing this as a problem. I think there are many positives to it. 1. Over years American cities have built their specialties. It is much easier for children to find job in same field as their parents and settle in the sa
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by tn13 10y ago
Private parties trying to influence research in a way that it benefits them ? I am not surprised at all. I think the worse trend is when government authorities do this. Then it becomes witch-hunt. "Virgin Islands Attorney General Claud
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by tn13 10y ago
VB6 was magic during those days. VB6 played a great role in making computers useful to small businesses and widespread adoption of computers. It also reduced the cost of software development.
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by tn13 10y ago
Say my nudes which I shared with my ex got leaked and are all over the tumblr and porn sites. The blog I created 10 ago bashing homosexuals is now a problem. I used racists slurs against someone on an forum 5 years ago which now show up as
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by tn13 10y ago
100% privacy is same as 0% privacy. Everyone is naked in a bathhouse. But privacy that is conditional and breachable by only few is very very bad.
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by tn13 10y ago
BTW is there any company out there which helps individuals completely get rid of their online presence ?
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by tn13 10y ago
Not particularly well articulated but the core point is one of the most valuable lesson I had learned. It not just applies to religion and politics but many other things in life. We might be wasting too much of time on certain thing with ve
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by tn13 10y ago
If you thought I made it up check this story: A guy gets caught on street selling marijuana worth $10 he has a teen friend with him at that time. Cops arrest him (the friend) and then visit his home which happens to be owned by his own Gran
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by tn13 10y ago
I think Dark Triad is at work. You cant be a CIA agent unless you are good at lying but then you cant be expected to uphold law and be accountable for the exact same reason. A DA who has compassion for people, who tries to be nice and keep
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by tn13 10y ago
Can someone please summarize what this actually means? The article is behind paywall and the title is cryptic. What does "void" mean ? Less accurate, completely wrong, completely random ? What does Two years refer to ?
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by tn13 10y ago
I think Municipalities should have the power of arbitrary veto. As a resident of Sunnyvale I do not want more housing projects to come in Sunnyvale, this helps me keep my property prices higher, have less traffic, less people and less crime
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by tn13 10y ago
Forget your shiny laptop. Imagine you own a hotel. Copper can catch some guy hanging out in your lobby claiming he might have drugs then take your motel and delivery van. Americans don't riot because they think "drug person lost h
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by tn13 10y ago
Not only they can take they are under no obligation to even pursue charges. You have to prove your innocence to get your stuff back. Note: Police get to divide this loot among themselves (as their own private property) it does not even go t
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by tn13 10y ago
Why? High voter turnout is like high page visits, it does not necessarily translate into good things. Ideally people who understand political issues and see that by voting they can truly help their ideology must vote.
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by tn13 10y ago
I really cant understand these journalists.
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Ron Wyden, Rand Paul Team Up Again to Halt New Computer Surveillance Expansion(reason.com)
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by tn13 10y ago
Here is what Adam Smith said about occupational licenses centuries (1776) ago : "The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. The p
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by tn13 10y ago
And that is a good thing for economy in general. That is reason why American companies are able to innovate at faster rate, offshore work to cheaper countries and give better services to consumers. Because of lack of unions companies can hi
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by tn13 10y ago
I hope it remains like that forever if Amazon has to give its services for cheaper and cheaper prices. I come from India which remains one of the most poorest countries and most of the manufacturing sector remains underdeveloped thanks to L
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by tn13 10y ago
yes and no doubt it has played a role in recent times but some of the institutions like Canara Bank were started in 1906. (NITK in 1960s).
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by tn13 10y ago
Check my comment where I have given more details.
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by tn13 10y ago
The Udupi-Manglore region has traditionally been the region of entrepreneurs, bankers and educational entreprenuers largely driven by Saraswat community. Udupi is called "cradle of banking" in India. Large number of private banks
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by tn13 10y ago
We know that native Indians built huge densely populated cities, cleared forests, shaped nature to suite their needs and engaged in bloody wars all the time. They created Maze through selective breeding of previous crops. My money is on the
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by tn13 10y ago
Let us not panic here. Unlike 10 years ago most tech companies are taking more risk, investing more capital and building more products. Obviously they are going to hire more and fire more as some of the projects succeed and some fail ?
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by tn13 10y ago
Lawyers, journalists (or in general humanities student) tend to be liberal in my opinion. You can employ them and expect them to be neutral. Self employed people, farmers etc. tend to be more conservative generally. You cant employ journali
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by tn13 10y ago
Fake likes is not a problem as long the Fake v/s Genuine ratio is stable. It automatically gets factored-in in the cost per thousand impressions for marketeers. It is pretty much like emails. If you get 1% CTR to double your conversion

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