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by whybroke 10y ago
Or their prices are lower because their customers, being aware of overseas prices, are more sophisticated about pricing than a typical US shoppers and so the vendors can't get any with absurdly inflated prices. I say this because I spe
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Create a society that does it's best to drive housing prices up faster than wages and this is the necessary result. This and homelessness and the strangulation of nascent innovative cities like Portland (and Vancouver). Of course no po
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by whybroke 11y ago
Minecraft is now owned my Microsoft. Given that an uncontrolled market will always favor consolidation, there is at least one obvious step to prevent the dystopia you mention.
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>future proof This term is too broad and so is misleading. There will indeed be programmers in the future but, more to the point, you will not be one owing to ageism.
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I certainly self censor and even now am posting semi anonymously obviously. But those in favor of mass surveillance could answer the study by claiming that if the surveillance is kept secret then 1. it won't stifle minority opinions an
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You maybe right but they are going to have to recruit real scientist to work on the ship who are going to need to put that on their CV. I don't know how recruiting in that field works but it could be an issue in a lot of people's
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by whybroke 11y ago
> ...if MSFT gets royalties from these patents it would be irresponsible (to their shareholders, and employees) for them to ditch them... Continuing that logic, it would be irresponsible not to defend this patent's revenue in court.
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by whybroke 11y ago
A a room full of people are brutally murdered using semi automatic weapons and the national debate is about their telephone. Oh, and how many (non gun related) rights we should give up. Interesting society.
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tldr; WSJ want to raise H1B cap and cherry-picks/mis-represents data to justify that.
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Not just speculating land owners but also the financial institutions profiting from issuing mortgages whose influence on policy is obviously enormous. And while loosening zoning laws wouldn't hurt, there has not been any radical increa
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by whybroke 11y ago
> ...they also get their residential property market going up... Of all the problems the US faces, excessively _low_ housing costs is not one of them. Indeed, if the effect would be to raise housing costs then this alone would be a reaso
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Apparently the last 15 years of your working life you will be more rare than a woman programmer (3% vs 5.8%) It is absolutely fantastic the gender issue is being thought about at long last. But it is absolutely horrifying the ageism issue i
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In the past, gender discrepancy was justified just as glibly as ageism is now. People said almost exactly the same nonsense then: women just got married, they moved to other fields, this particular poll is biased (never mind they all show t
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by whybroke 11y ago
>The fact that so many employers treat candidates like this tells me that the whole "it's hard to find good developers" line is a lie. That is correct. The market is so flooded with workers that ageism is easily affordable
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>For helping to advance an amoral field of study that can potentially delegitimize everything that currently makes humans Or, writing from the point of view of our mechanical successors to this world, for helping to advance a highly ethi
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by whybroke 11y ago
There has always been an ideology, always believable but never supported, that justifies the few damaging the many or their society as a whole for their own benefit. You enumerated one that matches today's world view. Previous eras wou
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by whybroke 11y ago
So an economy where people sell hamburgers to each other _and_ houses? Somehow I don't think that is a believable solution.
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by whybroke 11y ago
>How about this, what would you do if you ran IBM and you ended up with 50000 employees trained to do something that just doesn't bring profit anymore? Apparently, if you are IBM, you fire them and hire H1Bs http://data.j
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by whybroke 11y ago
There is a glut of capital and a deficiency of demand from US workers due to weak spending power. Was not the obvious solution posed by Keynes? Did not Keynes work quite well after Roosevelt's partialy successful timid attempts at it
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by whybroke 11y ago
>I'm guessing Americans that moved to Holland are probably pretty happy there. That says absolutely nothing about the United States. True and I personally would recommend everyone who can, try to live in both places as each suits di
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by whybroke 11y ago
Every American I know who has lived in Holland says they felt freer. That's all I can offer on that. In Montana, you can't smoke a joint in a cafe, can't sun bathe naked on the beach, can't drink a beer walking in the pa
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by whybroke 11y ago
The conjecture by CNN that it is primarily about taxes is not only unfounded but absurd. Far more Americans immigrate to feel freer, safer, better protected, for a higher quality of life or for a richer culture. Anecdotally, I alone know fo
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by whybroke 11y ago
Doing something about it would require more than token governmental policy benefiting the poorest of society and an admission that the current insufficiently controlled system will always destroy some lives. Both ideas are deeply contrary t
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by whybroke 11y ago
Given that link, you now both know it. You, however, choose not to believe it.
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by whybroke 11y ago
I dunno... https://www.google.com/search?q=how+can+i+pirate+movies Seems to have no results about pirate movies.
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Backdoor is not what is not mentioned today but it is what will be sought when Apple does make an unbreakable phone. If a loudly media backed ruling to force Apple to comply with the FBI is then followed by Apple making a phone which makes
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by whybroke 11y ago
From the posts here I can see that Justin's mentality is not remotely unique. Anyone thinking of moving to SF should simply be shown this thread so they can see what kind of people they will be around all day. Hey Washington Post, why
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And I assure you that employers, in a perfectly rational quest to maximize profits, will make every attempt to reduce that option by flooding the employment market with, for example, an excess of STEM workers and thereby oblige you to stay
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The internal workings of every western democracy's govenrment vastly exceeds the inefficiencies and corruption of any union I can think of. Yet I don't find being in one so repugnant that I want to leave. The question of relevance
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Out of curiosity, what actually cite-able numbers regarding wages and working conditions when comparing organized vs unorganized labor lead you to the conclusion that you will always be worse off in every possible organization even includin

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