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avtyon Cheaper to rent in Barcelona and commute to London

Time to move to Texas!

avtyon The boss, not the workload, causes workplace depression

Correct. As anyone with experience will tell you.

avtyon Federal Prosecutors, in a Policy Shift, Cite Warrantless Wiretaps as Evidence

The end of freedom

avtyon Quebec boy, 12, pleads guilty to hacking government websites

We are all hackers now.

avtyon How to lose $172,222 a second for 45 minutes

Someone made $172,222 a second for 45 minutes on the opposite side of these trades.

avtyon Is Wikipedia for Sale?

Wikipedia is already morally sold to PR interests.

avtyon The Government Shutdown Has Revealed Silicon Valley’s Dysfunction Fetish

“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. government can’t pay its own bills. ... I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America’s debt limit.” — Then-Sen. Barack Obama, floor speech in the Senate, March 16, 2006

avtyon US Federal Employee Salaries (2012)

As we are about to enter a period of hyperinflation, salary is about to sky rocket, led by government employees.

avtyon The Government Shutdown Has Revealed Silicon Valley’s Dysfunction Fetish

Well, nothing like a little crash to bring these kind of people's head back to earth.

avtyon Scott Adams: How to Be Successful

I hate to even interview people that stayed in one job too long. They tend to be weak candidates.

avtyon Elevated radiation claimed at Tokyo 2020 Olympic venues

Zerohedge rocks.

avtyon The war on drugs is a broken business model

It succeeded in plunging Mexico into a bloody civil war.

avtyon Foxconn using forced student labor to build Sony’s PS4

Forced labor leads to better US consumer prices!