ChristianMarks

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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
Reference to 'economic injustice' is weak without identification of the morally relevant facts. For me the question is whether economic injustice (positively construed) is characterized by one group systematically winning asymmetr
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
Let me attempt to disentangle them: You assume collectives (not only individuals) have rights. No, I make no such assumption. The assertion that I do is not warranted. Since philosophers like to find inferences their interlocutors believ
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
I have revised the article at http://publicsphere.org . The normative value judgments are not hidden behind scientific seeming jargon. The normative value judgements retain the significance they have--however, they are inextricab
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
Putnam has argued against a strict fact-value dichotomy in " The Collapse of the Fact-Value Dichotomy " and in a recently published book of essays edited by Putnam entitled, " The End of Value-Free Economics (Routledge INEM
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
The "appearance" isn't at issue. The question of capturing some phenomena conventionally characterized as normative (usually by philosophers who want to maintain a strict fact-value dichotomy) is of empirical interest. The po
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
Nonsense. The free market ideologue lets the market solve all problems through the mechanism of price signals, and nothing else. Side deals in which one group systematically wins asymmetric zero-sum games against another group are excluded.
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
This kind of "free-market libertarianism" involves systematically winning asymmetric zero-sum games against labor: free for me, not for you [1]. [1] http://publicsphere.org/2014/02/02/the-asymmetric-
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
At least this story didn't devolve into dismissive conversation about irrelevancies, like the Snowden interview story. In that thread, discussants invented a new notion of "journalistic equivalence" under which mass media new
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
Math Ph.D. Continually turning down offers to do Linux system administurbation. Prefer programming.
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Capitalism vs. Democracy (mobile.nytimes.com)
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
Good managers are a dime a dozen. Managers promulgate the myth that there are many bad managers to justify inflated salaries. But the pool of good managers is so vast that there is absolutely no excuse to hire a bad or an average one. This
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
I'm appalled by your objection to the use of 'appalling'.
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
Interestingly, the period after 1945 coincides with the explosive growth in computing performance, according to William Nordhaus of Yale University in a 2002 study entitled The Progress of Computing [1]. Nordhaus documents computer perfor
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
This is probably the first reasonably sophisticated attempt to describe a test-driven design/development process I have read. The observation that "[s]ome teachers deal with this problem by exhorting developers to refactor rigorou
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
This--makes it all the more difficult for childless employees.
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
While I too look forward to the impartial application of policy, employers have their own interpretation of who, in fact, is "done." I have bolted from less than mutually beneficial working arrangement, myself.
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
I made the decision not to get married or have children so that I would have time for side projects. Unfortunately, single people are often expected to stay later to enable those with family obligations to leave earlier.
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
I wager 25 cents that no explanation is forthcoming fro Google.
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
Same here. The GMail status page seems at variance with the actual status. Manhattan, New York. Verizon DSL.
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
Many thanks. I must stick with my interpretation, as the association is now indelible as it is accurate.
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
I see a connoisseur of Samuel Beckett assigned me one downvote. My interpretation of 'EA' was likely close to the mark. And a further downvote by a namesake.
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
Who is EA? Nothing rings a bell--except for "Elephant Ass."
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Meanie!
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
As a model of economic institutions, it has what Joseph Heath of the University of Toronto has termed catallactic bias : gain from trade is explicitly modeled, but the four other mechanisms of cooperative benefit, economies of scale, risk
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
I have tinnitus and don't derive much pleasure from listening to music, generally--especially not RIAA music. I can do without movies. There is more than enough to read, program and calculate.
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
I have done my bit to put the MPAA and RIAA out of business: I don't watch movies, and I don't listen to music. Google Glass does seem--at least anecdotally--to elicit aggressive behavior. Prudence suggests waiting until the Borg
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
One can live comfortably in the city on ~ 95K. Perhaps one would have to make $200K on Wall Street, if only because turnover tends to be high.
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No way. Programmers are on the wrong side of the suit/geek divide, which is something like the blood-brain barrier.
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
This is a smokescreen. The economic reality is that good managers are a dime a dozen.
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
Perhaps this is slightly off topic, but it seems to me that the 45 hour week is what employers really mean by a 40 hour week. For example, a very recent advertisement for a position at Gold Mansacks stated the job was full time, 40 hours

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