delazeur

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by delazeur 9y ago
Thanks for confirming that you don't have experience in law firms.
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by delazeur 9y ago
You clearly don't have experience in law firms. White shoe Wall Street lawyers, for example, generally can't just hang their own shingle and do corporate M&A as a solo practitioner.
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by delazeur 9y ago
First of all, the "no layoffs" claim can easily be achieved through attrition, as covered elsewhere in this thread. That means that someone would have been hired to replace a departing worker but now isn't getting that job.
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by delazeur 9y ago
If two to three seconds of waiting (that's on the high end, and only for certain apps) is breaking your flow, you need to work on your attention span. That's ADHD territory. Edit: For that matter, interacting with your phone for
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by delazeur 9y ago
> Isn't it equally cruel to talk like people want to be drones? Well, I didn't append all the qualifiers I could have because I assumed that my comment would be read in a reasonable way. Right now, those drone jobs are the diff
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by delazeur 9y ago
> I suggest you discuss this directly with archaeological faculty at a university, rather than making claims about dynamite - e.g. those who used dynamite were treasure hunters, for example, not archaeologists. Modern archaeologists do s
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by delazeur 9y ago
> Also, iPhones are extremely economical. My iPhone 6, which cost $749 at the time, is coming up to 3 years old. Uh, what? I'm on my second ~$70 Android smart phone in eight years. It's a tad slow, but we're talking abou
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by delazeur 9y ago
> If something looks like it's an impossibly good investment, it may actually be. Probably not a fair criticism of the investor in this case. 20 years ago, it would have been a totally accurate assessment.
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by delazeur 9y ago
Lots of people want to be drones so that they can feed their families. Ideally, they could feed their families without being drones, but your saying that they should be glad to lose their drone jobs without gaining a different means of s
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by delazeur 9y ago
Only a very tiny portion of the global population is in a position to own productive capital (or, at least, enough to support themselves). Even if the portion were higher, though, you are basically just advocating rent-seeking as the solut
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by delazeur 9y ago
There's a lot more to sexism (and other bigotry) than simple economics. Presumably, we have all had coworkers who weren't great workers, weren't very bright, etc., but managed to get ahead by schmoozing and playing politics.
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by delazeur 9y ago
Islamic banks are issuing loans without interest to this day. They have a clever fee schedule though, and I'm not sure it works out any differently for the borrower at the end of the day.
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by delazeur 9y ago
Yeah, residential real estate isn't the best example, but it's not as though there isn't any pure rent-seeking out there.
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by delazeur 9y ago
Carve it onto stone tablets.
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by delazeur 9y ago
For certain millennials, crypto-currency already seems to hold the role that gold does for certain baby boomers. I would expect that phenomenon to grow during a bear market.
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by delazeur 9y ago
The problem is that, in most cases, managers are people who were good workers (and good at office politics) and who then got promoted into supervisory roles with little, if any, additional training.
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by delazeur 9y ago
Y'all should check out https://b612foundation.org
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by delazeur 9y ago
Yes, they still need coke, but much if not all of that demand can be met by oil refineries. Even if the steel industry got all its coke from coal that would be a pretty small percentage of the coal market.
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by delazeur 9y ago
I really struck a chord, didn't I?
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by delazeur 9y ago
> Maybe, but this is not why we have patents. Yeah, and? I wasn't saying so.
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by delazeur 9y ago
Lots of things become easy to replicate after they've been done once, despite being non-obvious before. The "no obvious inventions" part of patent law is supposed to prevent people from patenting things that are already broa
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by delazeur 9y ago
This is also why U.S. companies like to incorporate in Delaware – it's not that the laws and regulations are favorable, it's that the laws and regulations are well known and predictable.
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by delazeur 9y ago
Actually, they suggested that the executor's "wishes" should be followed, suggesting a fundamental misunderstanding of what a will is.
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by delazeur 9y ago
One sarcastic tweet from a random nobody is not a bellweather of leftist discourse. That's a weak joke, not social commentary.
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by delazeur 9y ago
> The laws don't affect the rich and the poor in the same way. To paraphrase an excellent line: The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges and steal bread.
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by delazeur 9y ago
It's a reasonable reading of your comments. Perhaps you communicated poorly? Browsing the thread, I am far from the only person who read you this way.
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by delazeur 9y ago
Shit, do you really think that people who get speeding tickets deserve jail time? You understand that the punishment should be proportional to the crime, right?
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by delazeur 9y ago
I am also white, and I also grew up poor. I agree that many (though far from all) of the college students who talk about socioeconomic inequality are spoiled brats. However, you have misunderstood what "white privilege" means: it
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by delazeur 9y ago
> You're suggesting he's using "Marxist intellectuals" as a codeword for Jews, and that he's actually a Nazi (or at the very least a conspiracy theorist anti-semite) Do you genuinely believe that the only anti-Se
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by delazeur 9y ago
Verifying and discrediting are notably different activities.

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