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by vivekd 7y ago
I remember there was a chart online show how at&t was broken up by the government for being a monopoly and then showing the parts slowly reconstituting themselves back together https://www.theverge.com/2016/10/
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by vivekd 7y ago
Problem: mega church pastors are getting rich off the mist vulnerable and government doesnt care This seems ripe for a tech based solution like an independent chruch rating group like the charity ratings people to encourage transparency abo
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by vivekd 7y ago
I think you're right in that mass transit is the best solution to transportation from a social and environmental standpoint. But the reality is that most people prefer cars. It's unrealistic to force people to use the socially o
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by vivekd 7y ago
Getting off topic here but actually I would love to invest in transit. And judging from the kickstarter in the link below so would many other people. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/crowd-funded-bus-ta
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by vivekd 7y ago
>people you need to actually talk to and help customers - something Google has basically never done before As a google advertiser this made me laugh. At the same time I don't think expense will be a setback for autonomous vehicles.
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by vivekd 7y ago
Canadian Prime Minister clamps down on free speech online to cheers and applause in the name of protecting people from 'hate speech' whatever that means. We can say what we want about extremism but the reality is I don't see
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by vivekd 7y ago
These fluctuations have been a part of Bitcoin for a few years now. And while most people think it's no big deal I think it's absolutely fatal. It's fatal because bitcoin isn't supposed to be some kind of stock that you
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by vivekd 7y ago
So what are these people proposing? 1. we should uncritically believe any woman who makes any claim of sexual assault 2. We shouldn't have any expectations of women who makes any claim for sexual assault - essentially behavior inconsis
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by vivekd 7y ago
If this is true, would that mean that life is rare in the Universe? I would mean that we are an anomaly in that we have the perfect size and core materials to be able to hold onto some of our atmosphere, but not so big so as to turn into a
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by vivekd 7y ago
US fossil fuel subsidies are 3 billion according to wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_subsidies This is different from your source which estimates US fuel subsidies at over half a trillion A little reading
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I think that was the parents point. I think he was being sarcastic
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yeah my first thought is: Is the work of art causing people to commit suicide or are people who are already suicidal drawn to art about suicide and prone to romanticizing and copying the art
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by vivekd 7y ago
Wouldn't increasing the availability of work do more to increase worker protections than regulations increasing worker protections. As employers compete for workers, wouldn't that create a system of protection for workers. I mea
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by vivekd 8y ago
Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them Matthew 25:29 This reminds me of the power law that Peter Thiel talks about. He says that in any given fiel
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by vivekd 8y ago
>If the company's BATNA is forcing you through cheaper binding arbitration rather than a more expensive lawsuit, you're not going to get as good of settlement offers in lieu of the formal dispute resolution process. That's
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by vivekd 8y ago
The problem with arbitration is bias. Companies volunteer to hire the arbitrator and the arbitrator routinely rules in favor of the companies because they know where the money is coming from. The problem then seems to be not the idea but t
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by vivekd 8y ago
US did not firebomb Kyoto specifically but they did firebomb many of Japan's wood and paper urban areas including Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka. Here is the video of McNamara, the man who helped plan the attacks, reflecting on it. https:&#
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by vivekd 8y ago
I have a pet peeve about articles that post about a legislation, but don't bother posting or linking to the actual wording of the legislation and don't bother calling a lawyer or legal expert to ask what the legislation means.
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by vivekd 8y ago
Canadian here, I'm blocked as well and we don't have GDPR
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by vivekd 8y ago
Couldn't get past the paywall even by clicking on web so I read the story here https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-news-auto-loans... it says >There was a marked difference in delinquency rates be
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by vivekd 8y ago
I think they were serious, and very much a product of the malthusian ideas that dominated that era. I remember reading futurist books with these images in the 6th grade in the early 90s. Back in the 80s and 90s Malthusianism was the domin
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by vivekd 8y ago
In a way that's 4chans strength. The comments and threads that get most noticed are the ones with most replies - ie the most controversial ones. Thats why Alexandria Ocasio Cortz is one of the most prominently posted figures on 4cha
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by vivekd 8y ago
Yeah the bigger subreddits tend to be bad for meaningful discussion and have a lot of deplatforming and trolling. That said the smaller niche subreddits dedicated to a parituclar specialization tend to be better. I really got a lot our o
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by vivekd 8y ago
I honestly don't know why we can't do this. It wouldn't be that expensive and while there is some opposition to welfare I think youd be hard pressed to find many people opposingpublic food and shelter for the vert poor. To
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by vivekd 8y ago
Not defending China's level of freedom here, but our system in the West is increasingly moving in that direction. Our governments increasingly interpret national security and public safety unreasonably broadly to curtail basic freedom
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by vivekd 8y ago
To be fair this kind of thing goes both ways. Things like tornados and heat waves are being increasingly blamed on global warming. The author of the article even falls into the very fallacy he's decrying by suggesting that the polar
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by vivekd 8y ago
Why are people making a big deal out of this term limits thing. 1. The party's constitution says that no position is for life. There is mandatory retirement at age 68 (Xi is currently 65) 2. The General secretary position has never ha
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by vivekd 8y ago
He's not a single leader ruling on whim like Mao or Gaddafi. There is still the party that meets to discuss things and the standing committees. They have a system. I wish that system made more leeway for individual rights, but appare
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The "we're a democracy and they're not" excuse is starting becoming a bit tired. China is hardly a single leader dictatorship the way Libya and Zimbabwe were. And America has no qualms playing it close with real and in
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Some people are just conscientious, they love work and feel they have to be engaged in some work - whether it be meaningful work or pointless drudgery - for their life to be worthwhile. My mom is like that. I think the article is overly f

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