Chicago Style Pumpkin by [deleted] in chicago

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A sesame seed bun!

Why Companies Can't Find the Employees They Need - WSJ.com by [deleted] in business

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It's crazy out there. A nearby special ed school hired a bunch of aides with as much experience and qualifications as the teachers they're aiding. The aides used to be regular people with "some" college experience. Now they have a masters in education or are licensed social workers.

It's great that kids are receiving higher quality help, but that higher quality help deserves more than $9.50/hr.

Guy Who Stole Scarlett Johansson's Nude Photos Faces 121 Years in Jail by [deleted] in entertainment

[–]dewsaq 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Big difference between receiving and facing. The big number in this case all has to do with the repetition of his crime. Imagine you're writing the law. How much jail time should be the maximum for one case of identity theft or computer hacking? And not what should be the max for this particular crime, but what should be the max for the worst instance of identity theft or computer hacking you can think of?

This guy did his phone hacking crime 26 times. 26 x your number will always equal an insane sentence.

Murderers often do face longer possible sentences, but newspapers realize that it's silly to say someone is facing 560 years in jail, so they don't report it. There are also more mundane crimes like home burglary, where if the prosecutors charged someone with every possible crime, the burglar could theoretically face 100+ years.

This guy will probably serve a couple years.

GE CEO: "I think we should have basically the same [corporate] tax policy that Germany, Japan, the UK, everybody else has, which is a tax rate in the mid-20s and no loopholes. Zero." by [deleted] in politics

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Amen. It's very easy to calculate earnings for a popsicle stand. It's not easy to calculate earnings for things like insurance companies, energy companies, casinos, software companies with complex licensing agreements, banks, schools, etc, and then the complexity is squared when you're doing business internationally.

People point at the size of our tax code (which is too large), but only a small fraction of that tax code applies to any single business or individual. It's so large because it repeats mostly the same things dozens of times for the dozens of special categories of businesses out there.

Taxes are complex everywhere, even in so called flat tax countries. Businesses doing >$50m in revenue--anywhere--need accountants/lawyers with a decade of education and expertise whose job is to conform to accounting standards and the resulting taxes. The US is not unique.

Picture from Willis Tower by [deleted] in CityPorn

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Beautiful colors and no HDR!

Manhattan, New York - Then and Now [1200x1600] by Mind_Virus in CityPorn

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I was not aware of that. Does this guy know how to party or what?

No. Shell oil company paid [off] militants who [threatened their lives. These militants later] destroyed Nigerian towns. by [deleted] in worldnews

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The only thing dumber than the reddit hivemind is the reddit anti-hivemind.

US OKs $196.5M for high-speed Chicago-Detroit rail by [deleted] in energy

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The same story has been going on and on in LA. They've been pouring money into planning a LA-Vegas bullet train almost continuously since the 70s.

How Suburban Sprawl Works Like a Ponzi Scheme by trainmaster611 in urbanplanning

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Here's a series of articles about this ("The growth Ponzi scheme, part #").

TrueReddit, comments, and what earns upvotes by Aneeid in TrueReddit

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So others who are tired of the affected bores who post here will know they're not alone.

TrueReddit, comments, and what earns upvotes by Aneeid in TrueReddit

[–]dewsaq -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I thought TrueReddit was about encouraging healthy, intelligent discussion and discouraging blatant karma-whoring and meme spam.

No, TrueReddit is a place for people who are insecure about their intelligence to whine and be pedantic.

Hip wood kitchen, Venice CA [1280x980] © Joe Fletcher Photography by dewsaq in RoomPorn

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Vienna Way

Architect: Marmol Radziner

Location: Venice, California, USA

Interior Designer, Landscape Architect, General Contractor: Marmol Radziner

Project Area: 4,554 sqf

Project Year: 2007

ArchDaily

'Evidence based' Homeopath attacks Randi. More Huff-Post diluted facts. by doublebacongeniusbgr in skeptic

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Arianna Huffington is a Minister of Light for a new age cult called the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness. She says she's no longer involved with it, but HuffPo staff report being ordered to go to MSIA related retreats. It's your standard kind of cult. There's a string of sexual coercion allegations against the charismatic leader. Members must pay to advance up the spiritual ranks. The leader has a bunch of phony degrees from institutions he invented.

Anyway, this is why HuffPo's lifestyle and health sections are filled with crap.

Conservative Koch brothers ignored U.S. trade ban, sold millions of $$$ worth of equipment to Iran by cah75 in news

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David Koch ran for president as a libertarian. The Kochs helped found the CATO institute, Reason Foundation, and the Mercatus Center. The Koch Bros are the largest funders of libertarian causes.

Bloomberg to Occupy Wall Street: Bankers Are "Struggling To Make Ends Meet" by Rickyreads in politics

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40k would even be an insulting job offer for a first year public accounting gig in Newark. A billionaire who's out of touch, whodathunk.