Benjo

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by Benjo 16y ago
Okay fine, but the article doesn't really tell us anything about why Germany is able to base their economy on export and manufacturing. Is it simply a matter of political will? What do worker wages and income distribution look like? How a
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by Benjo 16y ago
Introverts can increase their tolerance to being social in much the same way you can increase your physical stamina. However, as an introvert, I don't think I could ever train myself to recharge from social situations the way extroverts do.
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by Benjo 16y ago
It probably wouldn't have a effect, but because these things are impossible to measure, there's no way to know for sure. It seems clear that even the perception of possible bias created by ad revenue is of negative value to Wikipedia. It'
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by Benjo 16y ago
Vimperator can definitely do all the things you listed though flash objects in a page can be an exception. Once the browser hands focus to the flash object, it's up to the flash object to have a shortcut to give it back. Some do, some don't
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by Benjo 16y ago
I once had a strange experience where, after taking a drink of water from a Camelbak bottle, a police officer asked me if he could see my water bottle. He was about 15 away, at the corner, waiting to turn left at a stoplight. I handed him t
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by Benjo 16y ago
Again, "some novelist" and "disciples" are dismissive terms that you're using to shut down the conversation by belittling the source of one poster's ideas. If you think the discussion is not useful, make an argument to support that claim. L
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by Benjo 16y ago
If they are so predictable then you must know how they will respond to being provoked with condescending names such as "Randroids?" Is there a specific response you want to see? Are you trying to exploit some known stack overflow bug in thi
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by Benjo 16y ago
I'm not sure if you are disputing the claim that lobbying is increasing. Here's some data: http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/index.php Looks to be trending upwards fairly quickly with the exception of 2010. I would assume that represents i
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by Benjo 16y ago
>Internal corporate politics don't contradict the ideas of free markets. I don't follow. Are you claiming that internally most big corporations could be considering free markets? Low barriers to entry are pretty essential to free market
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by Benjo 16y ago
Everyone in BNW is effectively programmed at birth. The system seems designed to suppress innovation, which many value highly. It could be argued that unhappiness drives innovation, productivity and progress, in much the same way profit mot
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by Benjo 16y ago
Yes, I'm not sure why the government chose not to do this. My guess is that the large companies effectively have too much influence over reelection of congressmen to allow anything like this. The government seems to have chosen instead to i
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by Benjo 16y ago
You mean during the crises? Would that have helped? How would you allocate the troubled assets to the baby banks? If you put them all in one place, that bank would fail and still cause the same chain reaction, except the debt would fail ent
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by Benjo 16y ago
Half the people at the airport are working and the other half are buying things that are overpriced. If you think the economy isn't wringing the full value out of idle airport time, I have a Delta credit card application and a rental DVD pl
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by Benjo 16y ago
This may be a gap in my understanding of objective measures of standard of living. I agree I'd rather have Google. I'll have to do some research. It may be a moot point, since no one can objectively compare their standard of living to that
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by Benjo 16y ago
> Standard of living is not identical with the percentage of national income you have. I totally agree and didn't mean to imply this. My point is that the median income level as an absolute, adjusted for inflation, has not increased sig
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by Benjo 16y ago
The main problem is that the adjusted income of the bottom 90% of earners has been flat over the last 40 years. Forget the morality of wealth distribution. How long do you think 90% of a democracy can go without an increase to their standar
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by Benjo 16y ago
So presumably the Republicans would vote down an extension of the Bush tax cuts for the bottom 98%. We don't know because they won't put it to a vote. Could the Democrats then put to a vote an extension for the bottom 99%? Then 99.5%, 99.9%
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by Benjo 16y ago
It doesn't "bob" for me in Chrome.
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by Benjo 16y ago
If you could quantify the actual effect each change would make, it wouldn't be that hard politically to reach an actual solution. The problem is that political noise makes it very difficult to convince anyone that you are making a reasonabl
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by Benjo 16y ago
Are you saying it's not surprising, or just not surprising to you? Evidence shows that most people don't know the actual wealth distribution in this country: http://www.slate.com/id/2268872 Looking at the Real vs. Imagined Welath Distribu
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by Benjo 16y ago
In response to point 5. Is it clear that per capita GDP is a good measure of standard of living? Adjusted median income has not risen much with GDP. Do you have an argument for why standard of living should be evaluated as a mean instead o
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by Benjo 16y ago
I think that's "mutual interrupt shield", not field, for any confused googlers like me.
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by Benjo 16y ago
This article says they were able to find a copy of the original Navy study: http://www.utdallas.edu/~liebowit/keys1.html Was anyone able to find an online copy of the studies from Western Electric or Oregon State University that the artic
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by Benjo 16y ago
It took me about a month to be comfortable with Dvorak. It's probably going to depend on how much you are willing to commit to Dvorak. You will learn much faster if you can avoid the temptation to switch back to Qwerty when you need to type
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by Benjo 16y ago
Where do you see 4 bits? I only see him mention 3 bits: The old jsval representation fit in a 32 bit value, using the 3 lowest bits as a way to tag the value as a particular type. These were called type tags. In the examples given, the lowe
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by Benjo 16y ago
Lessig pulled the video after getting similar feedback: http://www.fixcongressfirst.org/blog/entry/lincoln-quote/
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by Benjo 16y ago
If you want to, I'd love to move this to email, as I would love to get to the bottom of it, and you've already pointed out gaps in my understanding of the problem. I can't find any language that expressly prohibits hiring lobbyists to make
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by Benjo 16y ago
That is a good point, if all the contributions are funneled through individuals anyway, what good does the limit serve? My guess is that the standard method for contributing, say 240,000 is to hire 100 lobbyists, each of whom contribute the
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by Benjo 16y ago
I don't think it's possible for the FEC to collect data on all the ways corporate money can influence an election. I agree that I would like to hear more about the logistics of how corporate money is translated into influence. One argument
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by Benjo 16y ago
I think Lessig would be in favor of this. What he's proposing now is a more practical compromise that is less likely to be ruled unconstitutional. Practically speaking thought, how do you regulation how campaigns are funded? Ultimately a ca

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