brankoB

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by brankoB 3y ago
GDP is a good measure of how the wealthy are doing, not so much your average citizen.
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by brankoB 3y ago
The best solution is communism. But you won't hear an economist say so ;)
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by brankoB 4y ago
What democracy? Citizen interests haven't mattered for a looong time.
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by brankoB 4y ago
The parent comment was fine, it just sounds like you're upset about what they said rather than how they said it.
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by brankoB 4y ago
Great, now make it so tracking my delivery driver doesn't freeze my phone and force me to restart.
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by brankoB 4y ago
Did you read the article? The author is concerned about spyware.
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by brankoB 4y ago
He was smart in the sense he knew how to best exploit his engineers and take credit for their work.
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by brankoB 4y ago
None of it would be possible without academia though. Industry just applies academic research.
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by brankoB 4y ago
Life today is better if you're already established, i.e. have a well paying job, own a home, etc. Being young in todays world is exponentially harder than it was, say, 40 years ago. Many young people have given up on the idea of home o
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by brankoB 4y ago
In Canada, $80/hr. Aiming for $90 for my next contract starting next month. Or to move to the US and make way more, apparently.
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by brankoB 4y ago
> The whole ‘fair share’ of taxes argument presumes that the aggrieved group would pay less if others paid more. I don't think it does presume that. I can want another group to pay their fair share of taxes without necessarily wanti
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by brankoB 4y ago
This is my favourite genre and I think the photos are quite nice.
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by brankoB 5y ago
Not sure where you got this "manipulation is negative persuasion" definition. You can most certainly manipulate people without intending harm. For example, I could manipulate you into buying a bagel instead of a croissant, just to
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by brankoB 5y ago
In a similar vein, people using scientific facts in non-scientific conversations. The amount of times I've heard "well the SCIENCE tells us..." in a moral debate is mind boggling.
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by brankoB 5y ago
*Abundant for some
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by brankoB 5y ago
The fact you're tipping 10% for bad service shows the guilt trip is working
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by brankoB 5y ago
I can't imagine a situation in which someone dies because I used the term China virus. Also the CCP definitely cares. Negative PR for a country which is a major exporter is a bad thing for the country.
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by brankoB 6y ago
That's true, however I do think the meat-only anecdote came from a good place. Him and his daughter had been suffering from clinical depression and a host of other problems for decades and the diet seemed to help them. I think if I was
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by brankoB 6y ago
He wasn't "pushing an agenda". He was telling people about how a diet he went on helped him and his daughter. He explicitly stated multiple times that he wasn't a doctor and that his experience was anecdotal.
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by brankoB 6y ago
Sure but people understand the basic transaction (give money -> get milk). If on the other hand they gave you free milk but tracked your milk usage without telling you, I'd argue that's a non-consensual transaction and falls un
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by brankoB 6y ago
A lot of people aren't aware of the data collection. In those cases I think calling it stealing is fair.
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by brankoB 6y ago
Beats continuing to bailout the corporations instead of the people.
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by brankoB 7y ago
Started learning music 2 weeks ago, this will be very useful thanks
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by brankoB 7y ago
Ah yes the old "the majority of people are wrong, MY ideas are correct, why doesn't the government just implement all of MY ideas as they're obviously correct" argument.
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by brankoB 7y ago
Are you seriously equating misgendering someone with killing them?
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by brankoB 7y ago
Sure but where does the amount of dividends you're being given come from? All i'm saying is there's no objective "baseline", it's all perceived value no matter how you look at it.
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by brankoB 7y ago
I get what you're trying to say but having multiple potential buyers is literally the definition of liquidity. If you only have one for what you're trying to sell then it's very easy for someone else to sell their share and b
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by brankoB 7y ago
Disagree. Think about what makes a share liquid: lots of potential buyers (i.e. people perceiving it as a safe investment).
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by brankoB 7y ago
I can't prove that you didn't create me. Where are you going with this?
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by brankoB 7y ago
> And here we are commenting on this "thing" that we clearly understand because X, Y, and Z study that affirms our beliefs says it's so. No one is claiming to understand. In fact the whole point of the article is about how

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