CreakyParrot

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by CreakyParrot 13y ago
No offense, and it bothers me in almost any use, but the phrase "doing a startup" seems especially out of its depth in this context.
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by CreakyParrot 13y ago
That's why I specifically referred to the original signatories. And it's far more complex than that. Germany faces severe demographic trends that have caused a labor shortage, and also has an economy that's highly dependent o
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by CreakyParrot 13y ago
In a big-picture sense, it's only unexpected if one doesn't realize that privacy is inherently in conflict with their business model.
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by CreakyParrot 13y ago
"If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population..."
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by CreakyParrot 13y ago
Yay, more villifying "Wall Street" and fueling the "Wall Street vs. Main Street" fire, and suggesting that it's somehow noble or good to not want to be rich. It's somehow noble or good to not want to be rich
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by CreakyParrot 13y ago
As you can see, it's a hotly-contested issue. But it's a nice, easy way to make the narrative work.
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by CreakyParrot 13y ago
I don't doubt that he's doing some real good; it's the self-aggrandizing style that opens him up to a whole host of issues. It's a dilemma, for sure, but a guy who's so apt to talk specifics in terms of his income a
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by CreakyParrot 13y ago
"Cynical: believing that people are motivated by self-interest." Call it a plague if you like, but I'm OK with it. And I wasn't being sharply critical (snarky) for the sake of being sharply critical. Honest. He's pr
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by CreakyParrot 13y ago
Gaining wisdom by way of being paid massive amounts of money is an odd definition of "hard-won". Many people find out that their career is largely unsatisfying without stockpiling a safety net that could last a lifetime in the pro
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by CreakyParrot 13y ago
1. Not defending the concept or execution of that wall, but the list of reasons behind its existence includes many more things than just nationalistic tendencies. If and when it's dismantled, it'll say far more about the relative
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by CreakyParrot 13y ago
TL;DR: He used to use drugs and booze to deal with his insecurities. Then he used money. Now he (apparently) uses the attention that comes from telling everyone how wise and honorable he has become.
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by CreakyParrot 13y ago
People ask why I'm not on Facebook. I tell them I'm anti-social and thus will only join anti-social networks. They don't usually get it.
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by CreakyParrot 13y ago
I'd love to have loners.org to use for a (free, non-commercial, and personally-funded) resource for introverts, and I promise not to give you a domain in return!
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by CreakyParrot 13y ago
Sorry if I wasn't clear; that's what I assumed happened. Which seems an awfully silly thing for a moderator to do since it effectively guts the premise of the article. Glad to see it's been changed back.
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by CreakyParrot 13y ago
Why was the title changed from "Should" to "Could"? While I don't agree with the author's argument, he's at least making a specific point. "Could", on the other hand, reduces it to being meaningl
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by CreakyParrot 13y ago
So there's only one group of people society treats badly? What about other demographic sets of people with higher-than-average crime rates?
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by CreakyParrot 13y ago
> It is pretty well established though that if you live in a > poor black community your chances of making it to middle > class are many times lower than making it to jail. To what cause or causes do you attribute that? > Make o