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  1. Petition on Customers Creating Fake Amazon Pages To Get Cheap Electronics At Walmart · · Score: 1

    http://wh.gov/iCfVS

  2. Petition on As Amazon Grows In Seattle, Pay Equity For Women Declines · · Score: 1

    https://www.change.org/p/barac...

  3. George Bernard Shaw on Is a Moral Compass a Hindrance Or a Help For Startups? · · Score: 1

    "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." --George Bernard Shaw

  4. Nadella Satya on Microsoft Azure Outage Across the Globe · · Score: 1

    Should quit?

  5. Different and distinct skills on Do Good Programmers Need Agents? · · Score: 1

    Writing software != Selling software

    Both need mutually exclusive skills.

  6. American middle class on The Downside to Low Gas Prices · · Score: 1

    USA can PRINT dollars to buy OPEC Oil.
    Rest have to EARN dollars to buy OPEC Oil.
    Since 1971 OPEC Oil is exclusively sold in US dollars.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrocurrency#Currencies_used_to_trade_oil

    This will destroy American middle class due to
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income#Work_incentives_and_disincentives

  7. Downside on The Downside to Low Gas Prices · · Score: 1

    the top 1 percent own 40 percent of U.S. wealth,
    the bottom 80 percent own just 7 percent of America's wealth
    http://www.businessinsider.com/inequality-is-worse-than-you-think-2013-3

    Since 1971 OPEC Oil is exclusively sold in US dollars.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrocurrency#Currencies_used_to_trade_oil

    "The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them" --Einstein

  8. Re:Stupid, trucks cause the problem on The Downside to Low Gas Prices · · Score: 1

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

  9. Here is a trick. on Your Incompetent Boss Is Making You Unhappy · · Score: 1

    When studying a certain subject, pretending that you'll have to teach the material you're studying helps you pay more attention.

  10. Upper-class individuals behave more unethically on Your Incompetent Boss Is Making You Unhappy · · Score: 1

    Upper-class individuals behave more unethically than lower-class individuals.
    http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1118373109

  11. Re:Charles Barkely Explains on Black IT Pros On (Lack Of) Racial Diversity In Tech · · Score: 1

    Charles Barkely failed to comprehend https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_running

  12. Replace Caste with Race in on Black IT Pros On (Lack Of) Racial Diversity In Tech · · Score: 1

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste_politics_in_India

  13. Higher social class = Unethical behavior on Black IT Pros On (Lack Of) Racial Diversity In Tech · · Score: 1

    http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1118373109

  14. Re:Simple fix on Apple's Luxembourg Tax Deals · · Score: 1

    Buffett's secretary Bosanek pays a tax rate of 35.8 percent of income, while Buffett pays a rate at 17.4 percent on profit.
    http://news.yahoo.com/warren-buffett-secretary-talk-taxes-221442297--abc-news.html

  15. Solution on Apple's Luxembourg Tax Deals · · Score: 1

    https://www.change.org/p/barac...

  16. It's even worse on The Students Who Feel They Have the Right To Cheat · · Score: 1

    If you meet anybody from India ask him "What Is Your Caste?" If he answers it, then you're doomed. Because he has already injected Cancer into your Country. Caste is like Cancer. It cannot be Cured. It has to be Cut-Off.
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/05/15/a-fascinating-map-of-the-worlds-most-and-least-racially-tolerant-countries/

  17. 50% Cabinet Ministers in India have Criminal cases on The Students Who Feel They Have the Right To Cheat · · Score: 1

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2829102/Nearly-HALF-Modi-s-new-cabinet-criminal-cases-against-majority-crorepatis-worth-average-Rs-18-48-crore.html

    What's wrong in students following their leaders?

  18. Excitement on Zuckerberg: Most of Facebook Will Be Video Within Five Years · · Score: 1

    At present FB rules in sharing your EXCITEMENT

  19. impose tax on company revenues, not profits on Amazon's Luxembourg Tax Deals · · Score: 1

    Tell Govt to impose tax on company revenues, not profits.
    Govt is imposing Income tax on your salary, not savings.

  20. No intrinsic motivation on Too Many Kids Quit Science Because They Don't Think They're Smart · · Score: 1

    As per research studies there is no such thing as intrinsic motivation.
    http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/inmotiv.htm

  21. Caste system on Too Many Kids Quit Science Because They Don't Think They're Smart · · Score: 1

    Looks like 3.4 million Indians have successfully injected Caste system in USA.
    Caste is like Cancer. It cannot be Cured.

  22. The Self-Attribution Fallacy on Too Many Kids Quit Science Because They Don't Think They're Smart · · Score: 1

    Intelligence? Talent? No, the ultra-rich got to where they are through luck and brutality.
    http://www.monbiot.com/2011/11/07/the-self-attribution-fallacy

  23. CULPRITS on Too Many Kids Quit Science Because They Don't Think They're Smart · · Score: 1
    1. OPEC Oil
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    2. H1B Visas
      http://tech.slashdot.org/story...
    3. Chinese Products
      http://rediff.com/business/sli...
  24. Just-world hypothesis on Too Many Kids Quit Science Because They Don't Think They're Smart · · Score: 1

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis

  25. Get real. on The Great IT Hiring He-Said / She-Said · · Score: 1

    Unlike in Capitalism, you need to be a "highly skilled wage slave" to get a job in Globalization.