jrmurad

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by jrmurad 8y ago
Trumid | Front End React/Redux Developer | Full-Time | REMOTE or ONSITE in New York, NY | $120-150k We’re a Wall Street startup founded in 2014 and backed by Peter Thiel and George Soros, seeking an experienced React developer. Our ins
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by jrmurad 9y ago
Sorry, I'm not an economist but I'm not seeing a connection. It seems like you just may not like the idea of capitalism and are trying to connect it to something else which you consider to be bad. Turkmenistan's recent histor
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by jrmurad 9y ago
What definition of "capitalism" are you using to refer to this as a "capitalist endeavor"? The "return on investment" (as you put it) aspect? Wouldn't, say, a communist make similar justifications? For exa
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by jrmurad 9y ago
> the Chinese never had a Locke, or a Rousseau, or a Hobbes How about Lao-Tzu? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laozi
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by jrmurad 9y ago
If a politician promises to take ALL of the rich people's money and give it to me, would I be voting "against my own interests" if I thought that was a stupid idea which would result in more problems for myself and others? Ad
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by jrmurad 9y ago
I suppose I should expect this from the NYT but they really managed to spin this one. They bemoan that "the rich" "save" money from the deduction. Isn't it relevant that in order to get a significant discount on tax
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by jrmurad 9y ago
> Right because GE builds roads and funds public schools. I'm going to assume sarcasm so: http://archive.fortune.com/2008/06/30/news/companies/ge_phil... https://www.google.com&#x
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by jrmurad 9y ago
Wouldn't many such shareholders be Americans as well? Americans who could do something more productive with these payouts than the government might with taxes? (Non-American shareholders could similarly reinvest these payouts in things
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by jrmurad 10y ago
That's true. I didn't look into how exactly Swedish rates are computed. A 25% effective rate sounded about right to me for a single-filer US salary in that range in most states which have income taxes on top of the federal+FICA. A
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by jrmurad 10y ago
Everyone throwing around "free" healthcare as a valid explanation for this wage gap needs to account for taxation levels too. using estimates via Google: "average programmer salary usa" -> $84,360 "average progra
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by jrmurad 10y ago
Because "make things the cheapest" implies: (a) more people having access to more, better products for cheaper (b) the people making those things ipso facto prefer to be doing those jobs over alternatives (c) if other people were
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by jrmurad 10y ago
Yes, it may be "easier" for the ACLU to abuse/"reinterpret" the Constitution rather than work to amend it or work within its strict framework... but doing so makes things worse for more people in the longterm. State
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by jrmurad 10y ago
I agree that "a good argument" can be made about some of them but it appears to me that ACLU always goes "left" with such nuanced issues. If I knew of examples of them going "right" to balance things out, I&#x2
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by jrmurad 10y ago
Some "left-leaning" stances they take where I'm hard-pressed to see how they are defending civil rights, if not outright violating those of one party for the benefit of another: affirmative action: https://www.aclu
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by jrmurad 10y ago
Electronifie | New York, NY | Full-Time | Onsite | http://www.electronifie.com/ Position: Full-Stack JavaScript Engineer Stack: Node, Meteor, React, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, Redis, Python Salary: $125-175k + equity Benefits: full
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by jrmurad 10y ago
I'm not sure about this but my guess is that a man who refuses to abide by an establishment's rule of "no men in the women's showers" would be asked to leave. If he does not leave, he could be arrested for trespassi
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by jrmurad 10y ago
You're not taking into account that this "Issuer" claims some right to decide (by force, obviously) who can do business in the first place. So if some entrepreneurial lady begins, say, arranging flowers or braiding hair... ma
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by jrmurad 10y ago
You earlier referred to Business as a potential "parasite". Sounds like you are clarifying that you hope such a parasite will starve and wither away. Which is fine. Others might advocate taking proactive and violent measures to ki
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by jrmurad 10y ago
"un-construct it... drag it out behind the shed and shoot it." Can you "un-construct" this newspeak for us? It sounds like you're advocating that you or some other force besides free and voluntary trade should liter
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by jrmurad 10y ago
In case this is not obvious to you... to be entitled to employment (or anything) means someone must provide it. If nobody is voluntarily hiring a man, you would force someone to hire him because this man is entitled to employment? How would
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by jrmurad 10y ago
Assuming it counts as a "smart watch", I have one of these: https://www.martianwatches.com/notifier/ $60 when I bought it, now $30. Charge lasts a week. Customizable vibration patterns and text for different
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by jrmurad 10y ago
> I believe from all I have read about Picasso > None of the artists I buy are producing art just for the money and copyright plays no role You seem to be presuming to know the motivations of every artist to have existed based on your
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by jrmurad 10y ago
> not an unprovable absolute claim that Picasso has not produced any artwork since he has died That is not what you originally said. You said: > Not one new artwork is produced by still allowing copyright on Picasso's artwork. I
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by jrmurad 10y ago
> I have yet to meet an artist You went from an unprovable absolute claim to providing anecdotal evidence. I'm not saying you're wrong... just that what you've said so far doesn't convince me that "copyright shou
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by jrmurad 10y ago
> Not one new artwork is produced by still allowing copyright on Picasso's artwork. That's quite a claim. It's conceivable that someone today considering whether to devote time to producing some work of art, rather than pu
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by jrmurad 11y ago
For some of the couples, yes. Some more might result from corruption or fraud (e.g. "I'll make sure my colleague processes your paperwork... he'll make sure you get accepted") Or, less cynically, some could be because it
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by jrmurad 11y ago
Most interesting connection I saw: "Eligibility Interviewers, Government Programs" <-> "Unemployed, with no work experience in last 5 years"
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by jrmurad 11y ago
>> Isn't investing in bonds putting money to work in the economy? > Bonds are government debt ... Could be referring to corporate bonds.
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by jrmurad 11y ago
> money equals power If (legitimately earned) money is how society compensates people for providing things we value, why wouldn't influence (what you call "power"?) come along with it? If you are concerned about "powe
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by jrmurad 11y ago
> when he calls all Mexican border crossers rapists, he couldn't be more specific. I'm very much opposed to Trump's candidacy but I'm also opposed to making up things people didn't say in order to attack them. C

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