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what these articles lack is the list of costs in a project. there should be law requiring all projects to list all costs in an easily accessible document. we already require this in the medical field and know full well that those 15 dollar
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one of running theme about growing misanto’s products was that your yields never goes up. they’ve never could honestly show that gmo products could increase yields. they kept implying it all the time but they never could prove it. gmo never
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the agriculture shills keep pushing this notion that their way of growing with chemicals is the the most productive way when I've yet to see a study that indicates that any of what they've done has increased crop yields.
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this is literally a ponzi scheme and a tax avoidance scheme rolled up into one. I wouldn't be surprised if money is being laundered in this scheme as well. borrow a billion dollars and buy back a billion and 100 million dollars in shar
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this is promoting a logical fallacy in the belief that there exist a perfect system. this is the same argument that many who are trying to deregulate the government have with the ultimate intention of privatizing everything.
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every item should be tax on how much money it would take to revert it back to it’s raw material and remove whatever air pollutants it produced. this is going beyond the carbon tax. such tax revenue can only be used on recycling or funding r
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this is a us/australia way of thinking. most of the world just buys what they need for that day on the way home. they don’t need huge refrigerators. and there are more opportunity for social interaction and more exercising.
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lawl, lowest unemployment rate in history but the feds just raised interest rate for the first time in over 10 years. translation these companies are inflating their employment numbers because they realized that the reason for not getting a
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https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-lyft-drivers-gig-econom... It's so obvious that this is a gig economy thing where survey data are being manipulated for the benefit of these tech companies. the issue is that these
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uber is global. bet there is a direct correlation with uber setting up shop and countries suddenly getting low unemployment.
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there are speculations that there are over 1 million h1b workers. this is not counting the other work visa program. the government and tech industries have been hiding their population.
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this has been debunked. some speculate that most of the difference in employment is in how the us counts uber drivers as being employed. considering that it is the tech companies most involved in hiring h1b. it is not surprising that they a
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east asian countries have some of the lowest crime rates in general and some of the lowest crime rates when it comes to crimes committed against the opposite sex. you can correlate this with non-east asian countries by comparing the statist
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is this from analyzing dna outside of europe? if this information only came from analyzing european dna then during the bronze age all males in europe were effectively eliminated. this would imply that the eurasian steppe men who replaced t
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yes, I am hoping specific gene contributions from specific archaic humans will eventually be used to determine the ethnicity or race of a person. this will lead to better health outcomes as it's well known that drugs do not affect peo
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history is filled with societies that fell due to aggressors attacking when they were at their weakest.
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this is a hit piece. it is likely that they either manipulated the time period in which the data was taken or they cherry picked the towns the took the data from. most likely they did both. with a population of over a billion. it is easy to
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corporations are allowed to exist because the provide jobs to it’s citizens. h1b visa abuse is literally going against the whole purpose of their existence.
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masters overseas are the equivalent of a bachelor here.
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all pay discussions must be qualified with details to whether it is a payment to a contracting company or the contractor or an actual salary with benefits. most foreigners will read your comment and think you are talking about contract paym
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you have to be clear about whether this is the payment to a contracting firm or the payment to the contractor or if it is the “salary” that a typical employee from a company takes home. lots of numbers are thrown around without any clarifi
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kind of on the right track. the reality is the ratio of minorities is directly correlated to how hard the incumbents try to keep them out. people are desperately trying to keep them from taking over the cities. at the same time making them
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/03/ancient-i... during the bronze age it's speculated that all the native men were replaced by men from the steppes. so since all the neanderthal genetics