r_smart

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by r_smart 7y ago
|the possibility that our language has been constructed to give people like you more ammunition against others? The idea that the language was constructed is pretty silly. It's such a twisted hodge-podge of borrowed ideas. Besides, oth
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by r_smart 7y ago
'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.' Granted, it's aspirational.
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by r_smart 7y ago
Yeah, I shouldn't have said 'gibberish' but rather random words / lies. Just don't answer the questions basically.
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by r_smart 7y ago
The number of times I screw up there/their or hear/here is infuriating. I know the goddamn difference, but these idiot fingers keep getting it wrong!
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by r_smart 7y ago
You should be giving gibberish answers to those anyway. They're probably stored as plaintext, but on the off chance they're not, treat them as a backup password and don't answer the question honestly.
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by r_smart 7y ago
Driving through airport terminals is possibly one of the most chaotic possible environments, with people almost suicidally throwing themselves in front of you, not to even speak of the cabs, double lane parking, security guards telling you
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by r_smart 7y ago
As I understand the term 'neo-liberal' it's kind of a hybrid ideology that strides the two US political parties. Mitt Romney and Hillary Clinton are both neo-liberals, though ostensibly, opposed to each other. It's basic
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by r_smart 7y ago
People do that all the time when everything Apple gets attributed to Steve Jobs.
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by r_smart 7y ago
Rather than apply the brakes, barring the person jumping in front of you and braking, it could just stop applying the accelerator. Nice easy slowdown to create the gap without brake-jobbing somebody behind you.
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by r_smart 7y ago
|no one would chime in and say "No way, murder is perfectly fine, you just did it last night!" No, but they might say: "Why should we listen to you!? MURDERER!" Then proceed to stone you to death, and see who dares get u
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by r_smart 7y ago
Right, but if they gun you down, there's not much that's likely to happen. They might have to get a job in a different city. *Edit: Also, not every city has stand your ground laws. And there's nothing stopping them from sho
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by r_smart 7y ago
|It's like an idiot going to jail for "SWATing" someone but where the SWAT team can still bust down doors and kill based on random tips. Or getting the wrong house. Remember kids: Limited Immunity means complete immunity!
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by r_smart 7y ago
|By which you mean, there's been a movement by employers towards the right to work for less. Unions can keep people out of professions in a lot of places in the US. Right to work makes it so union membership isn't mandatory. Surel
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by r_smart 7y ago
Yes, they're different things. They're also the two basic tools in the union toolkit for driving up wages.
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by r_smart 7y ago
It's artificially lowered because the Federal Reserve is manipulating interest rates, rather than allowing them to fluctuate based on the conditions in the market. Interest is basically the adjustment made to value having money now vs
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by r_smart 7y ago
Not taking isn't the same as giving. If you oppose something, it's a good idea to demonstrate you understand what you're against, otherwise you risk looking stupid.
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by r_smart 7y ago
The one where interest rates aren't being artificially lowered.
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by r_smart 7y ago
I guess you could say it's not a union, but it's pretty much the same thing. At least, it's pulling the same levers to get desired outcomes.
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by r_smart 7y ago
|Unions improve compensation by increasing the share of the profits pie given (or returned, rather) to labor Revenue pie, not profits pie. A union will negotiate better terms for itself if the leadership thinks it's appropriate, regard
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by r_smart 7y ago
Fair enough. I'm used to union arrangements where membership is required for the given profession, which is pretty common in the US. There's been a movement to right to work, but even then, the non-union employees are forced to ab
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by r_smart 7y ago
|Unionisation may help By restricting the supply of talent, thus artificially driving up wages, but at the same time keeping a lot of people from being able to pursue their dream.
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by r_smart 7y ago
In my defense, the one person I accused of being a communist on this board, turned out to actually be one :) Less flippantly, you're spot on. I'd go further, and say overuse of these words erodes their meaning, and makes it possib
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by r_smart 7y ago
I bought my Honda Fit for $16.5k. It's one of the more expensive cars in it's class, but me, I was willing to pay a little more for the luxury :)
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by r_smart 7y ago
The productivity gains from SO awesome. That site has provided me with more value than maybe anything else on the web. To me it represents some of the best of what the internet has to offer: Not only are you not alone with your problems, bu
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by r_smart 7y ago
I would call those good questions from someone experienced or savvy. The guy I'm talking about didn't even care to know what we make . It's not like we were Facebook or something where he'd already know.
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by r_smart 7y ago
He didn't even want to know what we make . He had no idea. And no interest. Hopefully he was just showing up for practice or something and not actually expecting a good outcome. Being inexperienced can excuse a lot, but not a total la
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by r_smart 7y ago
At my last employer, I sat in on an interview for a co-op with my boss. After asking the interviewee some questions the conversation went basically like this: Boss: Do you have any questions for me? Co-op: No Boss: Would you like to know ab
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by r_smart 7y ago
I think you missed the point my post. I'm not one of the people on this board that like to decry success as just being a principle of luck, like it's some kind of lottery. We're specifically talking about the wealthiest peopl
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by r_smart 7y ago
Right. The Pareto principle is the observation that large amounts of resources tend to consolidate in a few 'hands'. It's observed in natural systems as well as human created ones.
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by r_smart 7y ago
|other factors = intelligence, hard work, lack of bad luck like disasters, unexpected medical bills, etc How many of those can you attribute to luck? Winning the genetic lottery is one of the best things you can hope for. You have no contro

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