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by zeruch 4y ago
The same way its allowed to provide any other product or service, like security (police), transportation (roads), etc. There is no reason it can't offer other things, and often in many other places, do. The state is perfectly capable o
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by zeruch 4y ago
You restated what I meant better than I stated it. Thank you.
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by zeruch 4y ago
"let's pay bounties for laws deleted." That's still a target that can be abused for self-gain, so...no. To be blunt, your whole polemic reads like a CATO fever dream, which is the opposite of what I was suggesting; ideol
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by zeruch 4y ago
I'm not sure about the specifics you outlined, but I do think a comp package that incentivizes grown-ass behavior (read: full attendance, voting, actual participation in the legislative process) is a great idea. I don't think rewa
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by zeruch 4y ago
...or afterwards for 5 years.
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by zeruch 4y ago
https://www.capitoltrades.com/
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by zeruch 4y ago
"Massive industry" is the applicable term. The scale of both the capture, and the middle man loss to a more parochial/regional model is terrifying to 'captains of industry' and their political minions.
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by zeruch 4y ago
It absolutely is for anywhere in the US except for a handful of metropolitan areas. The median income in the US is still hovering around 30K.
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by zeruch 4y ago
Pretty much its the case EXCEPT maybe the Hamptons, and a few very old (read, direct descendants 'spiritually' to their English colonial forebears) institutions, but the list of spots like that are quite rarified air compared to t
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by zeruch 4y ago
In the US, we both deflate the open class-ist discussion prevalent in the UK by pretending we are above that, while hypocritically we conflate class with cash -- in effect you buy 'pedigree' which is why our growing nouveau riche
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by zeruch 4y ago
"observing employers frequently having email campaigns soliciting "positive reviews" (and positive ones only)" I've seen this happen once, to the point where HR stepped in and said 'no, we don't do this!&q
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by zeruch 4y ago
Part of it was likely media licensing, part of it was a lack of a liquid business model, and to that latter point, in some quarters it was said that after Twitter acquired it, it couldn't figure out how to monetize it, and it was expen
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by zeruch 4y ago
This is one of the more abysmal attempts by Oracle to market using the most obfuscated, obtuse, oblique bit of orifice-hosing imaginable. Even on the off-chance they were the biggest contribs by lines of code, that is a stupid KPI to fixate
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by zeruch 4y ago
Most home in Portugal haven't needed AC. That's the underlying point.
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by zeruch 4y ago
I would agree on legal terms, but there is something to be said (and not positively) to leverage open source while not contributing in any meaningful way back, especially (as has occasionally been the case) they presume to make requests of
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by zeruch 4y ago
I'm sure the feeling will be quite mutual when Xi takes a his last Pooh-bear moment. The acrimony between China and Japan has never really abated as much as contorted into ever more passive-aggressive forms of theater. Sometimes its j
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by zeruch 4y ago
The California facility would still be bound by the same standards (if anything, California is more not less stringent on things like that) and the risks are still the same.
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by zeruch 4y ago
You don't have to be a native to have a well founded opinion of California, but his opinion wasn't very well founded.
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by zeruch 4y ago
He's not close, he is .
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by zeruch 4y ago
According to most charts, numerous Universities in California are generally high ranking (the UC system, USC, Pepperdine, Stanford among them) but within numerous specialties it's indisputable: UCSD for biotech, UC Davis for Ag-tech&#x
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by zeruch 4y ago
Good.
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by zeruch 4y ago
You have karma to burn, but I don't think that's the take you think it is.
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by zeruch 4y ago
...now I'm amused by which Ayn Rand sycophant is downvoting me because I propose proportionality so the efficacy of punishment affects evenly across the board. Y'all are the Scientology of pop-econ.
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by zeruch 4y ago
I wonder if blocking whole channels counts as 'engagement'
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by zeruch 4y ago
I've long advocated for a few variations of this: 1. fines must conform to a percentage of the targets earning wealth (e.g. someone who makes 30K a year gets fined $3000, someone who makes 300K gets a 30K fine etc) 2. flat out just as
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by zeruch 4y ago
As someone who is in the 'geyser' category, I'll split the difference. Much of what determines how creatively one feels about oneself depends on how they themselves define it. Often the lens is some musical/artistic purs
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by zeruch 4y ago
If one lives in the Bay Area this is an all linear meat grammar meal.
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by zeruch 4y ago
All CEO pay for public companies is exposed in the 10Ks. What I suspect the person was referring to is the change where compensation became more tied to equity valuation.
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by zeruch 4y ago
"What the market wants is short term growth and I firmly believe that is what is destroying our economy and the market." Agreed, and its now a pox on the overall system.
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by zeruch 4y ago
Anyone who has had to do business in China will be familiar to one degree or another. When I worked anti-piracy, we had to secretly operate in-country servers to track video websites and certain bit-torrent traffic originating there. Gettin

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