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by FD3SA 13y ago
"It's just hard to do that when you also have bills to pay. Perhaps a new startup idea: how to make MOOCs look like work (as in what you're paid to do)." This is the crux of the matter. With the current employment climate for new grads, edu
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Seems like you've been going at 110% for a long time. My recommendation: take a break. A month at least, and just explore passions that you never had the time for during your adventures. Build something fun (I like go-karts and mini bikes),
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"We end up all working for the smooth-talkers selling trivial ideas because they've been overriding the "why you?" objections since college..." This is a very interesting take on the issue, and not one I see discussed often on HN. The reali
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Unfortunately, I sense that the majority of HN readers are still in the idealistic phase of their political views. As in, they believe in the ideals of a nation and not its realities. It can be very difficult, even traumatizing, for a perso
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Very interesting, did you bother to read your link? “Fascism is a form of political and social behavior that arises when the middle class, finding its hopes frustrated by economic instability coupled with political polarization and deadlock
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This is precisely why our slow boil in the pot of American Fascism is so troubling. The frog is all but cooked, and it is none the wiser, even one minute to midnight... Advocates of liberty and privacy are constantly savaged by the media, m
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That is a very narrow solution space you are considering. I can think of a dozen non-violent proposals which would involve nothing more than fiscal policy changes. For example: flat tax and basic income for all, such that there is no specia
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I cannot praise this enough. The greatest achievements in the world have come from a gathering of bright and passionate people, discussing and vetting their ideas together. As deep thinkers, we tend to seek isolation to focus the entirety o
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by FD3SA 13y ago
All societies tend toward Feudalism given enough time. The rent seekers control everything, and the masses surrender their liberty in exchange for security. History has demonstrated this countless times, which is why the Bill of Rights ensh
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The Memristor(americanscientist.org)
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Memristor(en.wikipedia.org)
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by FD3SA 13y ago
There's a much easier way: get Medicaid's reimbursement data. Contrary to popular belief, hospitals do not lose money on Medicaid patients. They just lose a whole lot of profit margin.
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Optimism Dims for U.S. Middle Class(nytimes.com)
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The above commenter has nailed it: "If you pay well enough, finding good developers isn't that hard." The incentives here are incredibly obvious to spot. Facebook/Google can either pay a star developer 600k/yr for the duration of his stay,
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I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist, but articles like this really make me double check that I'm not living in the Truman Show. “Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?” “A Republic, if you can keep it.”
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An excellent initiative, though I am unsure whether Toronto has the demand for more programmers with UofT and UWaterloo CS majors graduating in droves. Canada's largest issue is the complete lack of viable investors for new startups. As a r
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by FD3SA 14y ago
We seldom address climate discussions from a perspective of geological timescales [1]. From this, it is clear that life has existed on earth throughout an extreme range of atmospheric conditions. However, it is quite possible that nature's
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by FD3SA 14y ago
The issue with eliminating management is equivalent to the issue of eliminating feudal aristocracy: this is the way things have been done since as long as we can remember. Much like we don't need Kings to rule us, we don't need managers. We
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Means-tested social assistance is now a vestigial remnant of an economy strictly dependent upon labor as its primary input for growth. As the share of economic inputs tips increasingly in favor of capital (via automation), most laborers wil
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by FD3SA 14y ago
As you've noted here, it seems like most startups support the traditional executive/employee status divide, but with better marketing. Using startup culture as a substitute for benefits, compensation and autonomy within a company is now sta
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Most People Support Slavery(naturalfinance.net)
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Superb analysis. Please feel free to add this reference for your final point: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/03/06/t...
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Agreed, though I don't believe the two are mutually exclusive. In fact, we suffer from both maladies at present. Government can spend, but that spending should be as investment, not overhead. Current government spending is akin to charities
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Agreed. Ideally, government services would be completely self serve (via web apps), and all current government employees would be laid off and put on Negative Income Tax benefits. Law would be non-profit, as would healthcare, and there woul
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Interestingly enough, it appears that the wheels of capitalism (free markets) have run out of the lubrication (purchasing power) that allows them to function. Wealth inequality is at record highs [1], and is being further fueled as a result
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We Need to Worry About Wealth Inequality(washingtonpost.com)
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Yes, my experience compels me to agree. The best compromise I've found are Diablo-style co-operative stories, where multiple people can go through a very engrossing story as a group of adventurers, and progress to the game's final end. I ar
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by FD3SA 14y ago
Is there any chance NASA will let them go ahead with two pods? I see that only two are required for full control of the craft, but I assume NASA wants three for redundancy in case of a failure.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 2013 1736 GMT (12:36 p.m. EST) "A NASA official says three Dragon thruster pods are required to approach the International Space Station." Is there any chance of them getting all three thruster pods active? If not, will the
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"The Nordics’ success depends on their long tradition of good government, which emphasises not only honesty and transparency but also consensus and compromise." This is unfortunately the hard part. The big government/big corp/big law collus

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