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Comment #20629460
You are getting downvoted since Indians are not interested in hearing the truth.
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Comment #20620936
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Comment #20620483
Products don't grow on trees. If the fed buys every USD bond in existence ( aka monetize the debt ) - it would lead to a good amount of inflation.
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Comment #20606228
Even brazilian breath oxygen. What "suffering" has the rest of the world done to brazil ?
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Comment #20603155
Organized labor was extremely problematic for capital since WW2. The new dealers ( FDR, Truman ) gave organized labor tremendous power because without it the USA would probably hav…
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Comment #20598286
Most websites and their owners on the internet are broke. Github is flush with cash ( relatively speaking ). Makes sense why they would go after them ( Microsoft ) , not that it wi…
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Comment #20597749
You are talking as if these engineers grow on trees outside US borders. The US is the largest source for this type of engineering, other countries are simply not doing any of it. T…
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Comment #20597646
> The US is also, essentially, entirely energy self-sufficient, with Canada's help. Something China is nowhere near being. The US could shut off China's access to foreign oil and a…
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Comment #20538032
It has a lot to do with the Asian diet, this includes India and Pakistan too. Most people in those countries do not consume large amount of meat, massively reducing their need for …
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Comment #20536934
What prevents Coinbase to go offshore then ?
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Comment #20532696
So all the money spent on mosquite coil, net , aerosol, skin cream ( while harming your own body ) was worth for nothing ? Nature had a better solution all along. If we lived in fo…
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Comment #20527607
Being able to "price" something requires existence of a functional market. Markets can only exist when contracts can be enforced. Being able to enforce a contract requires monitori…
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Comment #20423245
When it comes to your wallet - it doesn't matter if you are a progressive or conservative. You are going to protect your financial interests. It's a principal as old as Life itself…
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Comment #20386485
Not only that, by expanding the industry - tech has been able to "eat" other industry, due to its inclusiveness. 20 years ago the internet was less than 0.01% of global GDP. Tech w…
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Comment #20383661
Why cant everybody just learn Linux ? Why cant microsoft just invest the same amount of money it does for Excel for Linux ?
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Comment #20383581
Are you over or under 30 ? Normally vision stabilizes at 20-30 of age. computer work normally does not lead to blindness, I have spoken to a large number of different eye doctors a…
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Comment #20382159
Putting supply chain in a single location reduces cost. Most of it had little to do with China but decisions made by the US corporate sector. Essentially the US Govt. cannibalized …
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Comment #20381846
You need to be more specific about "automation". My kids still need a lot of manual human labor to be educated ( services ). You still need a lot of manual labor to create roads, b…
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Comment #20381304
I do not have eye strain. I have astigmatism - something that is heredity. I use tabs. My spherical power is normal. Are you saying anyone without perfect vision should quit coding…
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Comment #20381262
> There's massive cultural, ethnic, and economic diversity. The continent spans countries which are middle income to the lowest in the world. Unity and cohesiveness are difficult r…
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Comment #20377824
Why is it outrageous ?
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Comment #20374216
What solution do you propose then ? Money is always decoupled from value ( Warren Buffet paraphrased ). Sometimes people who add negative value like the oil men in the Permian basi…
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Comment #20368552
Which country was your exit IP ? was it the US ? What happens if you route it through servers in Qatar, Thailand or Singapore ?
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Comment #20366246
I am not sure why this is not talked about often enough. Prior to the 1980s, Japan's economy functioned as a sort of War economy. Companies would spend and invest to gain market sh…
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Comment #20362826
> No because I said they were different, if a 20 something emigrates, the country they grew up in has spent years educating that child, keeping it healthy, supporting the parents w…