SovietDissident

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by SovietDissident 6y ago
Is that you, Dave Smith? :) I cannot believe braindead Biden is a) the candidate, and b) has a very solid chance of beating Trump. The man can hardly get through a sentence. The emperor has no clothes! ( https://twitter.com&#
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by SovietDissident 7y ago
Yes, FB is a private company and all that. But they have clearly been censoring speech and cannot be protected by common carrier rules, as they are a publisher. This change of designation, of course, would be a significant financial blow,
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by SovietDissident 8y ago
Everyone agrees* that the gov't should at its root fundamental level handle infrastructure. Water, the most essential element to human life, should have been prioritized over over every other foolish pet project. Let's hope it g
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by SovietDissident 8y ago
Taking morality out of it for the time-being, taxes serve as an additional barrier to entry for smaller companies; these tech giants have hordes of lawyers and accountants to make sure they pay very minimal taxes (if any). These companies
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by SovietDissident 8y ago
I agree that the primary cause of all this is government interference regarding barriers to entry. However, did the regulation help insulate these companies against competition in the first place or did they use their money and power once
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by SovietDissident 8y ago
There are a lot of problems---namely: debt, cost of living, and third-world immigration---that this generation has to face. That being said, we are still probably the second-richest generation in the history of the world . Look at the squ
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by SovietDissident 8y ago
The road and bridge infrastructure in this state is completely falling apart. The water infrastructure was built for a population half or a third of what exists currently, during the Pat Brown era. Calpers has half a trillion $$ in unfund
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by SovietDissident 8y ago
Whether he happens to be correct or not (a broken clock is right twice a day), Krugman has zero credibility. He has a Nobel Prize, so people listen to him, but the man is a dyed-in-the-wool Keynesian who takes no responsibility when his pr
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by SovietDissident 8y ago
How many years do people spend in Prussian-model government schools or private schools with mandated State-sponsored curriculum? 12? And the average person isn't imparted enough skills to work on anything besides a precarious assembl
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by SovietDissident 8y ago
Colleges sell themselves as providing remunerative employment training when it suits them, and hide behind this excuse when kids (esp. Humanities majors) can't garner gainful employment. "What, you thought you were paying $200k
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by SovietDissident 8y ago
Yep, tariffs are probably a bad idea. Obama did those too (his economic ignorance knew no bounds). Two wrongs don't make a right.
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by SovietDissident 8y ago
It's impossible to tell exactly what would have happened in a bankruptcy, but the entire company would have almost certainly been restructured, which would have meant generally clearing out the dead wood: shuttering factories, renegoti
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by SovietDissident 8y ago
#thanksobama for throwing taxpayer money at GM, only to have them do their inevitable restructuring a few years later than otherwise.
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by SovietDissident 8y ago
The ongoing travails of the unnecessary drug war.
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by SovietDissident 8y ago
This is exactly how I would have imagined a trip would go. $85 billion market cap for a car that can't travel to most areas of the globe at all or with severe inconvenience? Give me a break. Electric cars have been around for 100 yea
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by SovietDissident 8y ago
Right, taxes should be higher on everyone else .
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by SovietDissident 8y ago
You voice a lot of similar conclusions I've come to, as someone who's mid-level and came through the bootcamp/practical application route. One of my coworkers has a Math/CS degree and I feel like he's light-years ah
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by SovietDissident 8y ago
Which would be fine if the companies acknowledged that they are having trouble hiring because they're extremely picky. Exactly this. I'm mid-level, trying to switch jobs. Several front-end javascript positions I interviewed fo
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by SovietDissident 8y ago
The criticism here is that google's leaders and employees have explicitly advocated on behalf of and contributed to leftist causes, which promote the view that taxation should be greatly increased to decrease inequality, pay for govern
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by SovietDissident 10y ago
An example: Facebook removing actual statistics on campus rape (i.e., "hate speech") and kowtowing to the completely false SJW/feminist narrative that 1/4 college women are raped. https://i.sli.mg/oNjAS
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by SovietDissident 10y ago
"Soon the scale hit 265. Mr. Cahill started weighing and measuring his food again and stepped up his exercise. He got back down to 235 to 240 pounds. But his weight edged up again, to 275, then 295. His slow metabolism is part of the
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by SovietDissident 10y ago
ZH may be early and there may be some separation of the wheat from the chaff that one must do, but their general bearish theme resonates as true based on the data. The BLS numbers are phony. They monkey around with the denominator, so dr
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by SovietDissident 11y ago
"disastrous privatization of the economies of the Post-Soviet states that's lead to massive human suffering and political failure" Communists around the world killed between 60 million and 100 million people (there is debat
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by SovietDissident 11y ago
Neat. Question: what happens if there's a car in back of the Tesla? Does does the Tesla disregard him and whether or not he has time to stop as well? Edit: Certainly the top priority is avoiding the car in front of you, and you shoul
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by SovietDissident 11y ago
If someone were very rich in NYC, between federal, state, local, sales taxes, etc. they would pay ~60% of their income in taxes. Now, many of them pay capital gains, have wealth managers who set up different financial vehicles, and whatnot
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by SovietDissident 11y ago
This was my reaction as well. When she tells the story about the gentleman who is wary of academics concerned with income inequality, I think it's interesting that she seems to be writing precisely the kind of account that may lead to
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by SovietDissident 11y ago
The question is: why have disability claims skyrocketed at least since the 90s? Are Americans that much more disabled (than people of the Depression, WWII and Vietnam generations, and beyond)? It strikes me as being highly implausible. B
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by SovietDissident 11y ago
I mean, I like LA a lot better, but I think even that is too expensive, especially when you're getting hit with CA taxes. I moved to Tennessee. No income tax, friendly people, fewer NIMBYs and restrictive building policy, fewer femin
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by SovietDissident 11y ago
So he has a Muslim name, which is why this story went viral. Because racism. I hope everyone is equally outraged by the nonsense that happens all the time[0][1] to kids who aren't named Mohammad in public schools. Sending your high I
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Tech oligarchs tightening their grip on Democrats(ocregister.com)
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