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by JBReefer 8y ago
Agreed. The whole point of elections are not to elect perfect people - they are a revolution, every two years. Trump might not be perfect, but he's a lot better than people in Wisconsin having to rise up against people in California. I
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by JBReefer 8y ago
I don't see a top level comment mentioning this, but what if UBI just doesn't work? That's certainly possible - that it works seems to be taken as a given, and evidence against that seems to be dismissed frequently in this
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by JBReefer 8y ago
0% chance I'll ever use this or let one of my team members use it. I don't know a single person that's said a single good thing about Oracle, including people that work there. I know a ton of people that have been burned by O
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by JBReefer 8y ago
Russia is not a superpower, they just think they are. They'll probably be put back together by Colombia, who's in pretty good shape these days. The US will probably see another batch of very conservative Hispanics like we saw with
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by JBReefer 8y ago
Totally agree. It's ads and the attention economy. They thrive on controversy - it's the psychological version of the banner ads in the 90s, but 10,000x more effective.
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by JBReefer 8y ago
Culture (like shit) runs downhill. Mr. Musk seems like he's becoming increasingly erratic and controlling, and there's a record of him being unable to take criticism. This is a pretty intense form of criticism.
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by JBReefer 8y ago
I think this is the biggest part, and less the "sleep in your car while you commute for 5 hours each way!" which sounds fucking terrible. Imagine the amount of space and time saved by having 1 enormous lot on the outskirt of town,
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by JBReefer 8y ago
Isn't Bitcoin the most unequal distribution of wealth we know about? Every analysis I've seen says that Bitcoin makes Russia look downright egalitarian. http://www.blocklink.info/distributions.html
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by JBReefer 8y ago
According to State Farm, completely rebuilding my apartment is would be 1/7th of what I paid for it, and that's with NYC union labor. There's a reason that crackhouses in Vancouver cost $1 million, and it's not because t
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by JBReefer 8y ago
Agree. I think the hunt for ever-newer computing tech is misplaced (blockchain lol) but CRISPR might actually cure cancer. That's way more important than Yet Another Logistics Company at this point.
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by JBReefer 8y ago
I think we're at a standstill for most PC/mobile/the sort of tech most of us work with. Electric cars and the explosion of renewables are going to change _everything_, faster than people think. Doing a quarter mile in a Model
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by JBReefer 8y ago
App developers have options - iOS is a small chunk of the market. Handset makers don’t, because of broken ip laws.
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by JBReefer 8y ago
To me, "manufacturing consent" is scarier. Fox News is ridiculous and everyone - _especially Fox News_ - knows it. The Washington Post is as you claim, which feels dangerous. The same with the Times (and the Journal on any non-fre
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by JBReefer 9y ago
It works OK, but there's two situations where it can go bad: 1. (Uncommon) People take off during crunch time 2. (Very common IME) People take off en masse during lulls, leaving a skeleton crew to handle blowups. 3. No vacation payout
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by JBReefer 9y ago
Car companies don't build cars, they build factories - the cars are just a side effect. Designing the car is (comparatively) easy - building them at scale and turning a profit is a miracle. I'm sure Tesla knows that, the fans seem
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by JBReefer 9y ago
Can you explain stereotypes of the Guardian? The article is pretty over the top, but as an American I am not intimately familiar with them like, say, the Journal.
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by JBReefer 9y ago
Fundamentally, creating policy based on racial capacity cannot end in a moral place. Every single time governments/societies start down that path, it ends poorly. Frankly, who gives a shit. It seems better to me to live in a world that
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by JBReefer 9y ago
Equity financing is taxable, debt is not. It has some weird results.
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by JBReefer 9y ago
Cars have huge costs besides just production - amortized R&D, depreciation/damage to the tooling, union benefits, rework, shipping, amortized cost of future recalls per vehicle, interest on debt payments. Also, it's one of, if
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by JBReefer 9y ago
This is one of the most negative articles I've ever read, about something that has produced a truly remarkable standard of living for an ever-growing number of people. Remember when people were proud of making things, and understood th
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by JBReefer 9y ago
That's a popular, but untrue, idea. There is a ton of research into new antibiotics, and new classes of antibiotics. We just didn't need to until recently. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/03&#x2F
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by JBReefer 9y ago
I'm saying that it's something you don't give up if you don't have to - I own my apartment now. Thanks for assuming, though.
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by JBReefer 9y ago
As someone that had a good one, you do anything you can to hold onto them. 1% yearly increases in a gentrifying neighborhood is awesome
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by JBReefer 9y ago
It looks from the outside that the whole of the Bay Area has realized it can cover its awful behavior by _claiming_ to be progressive. You don't need to care about privacy, just claim to; you don't need to care about poor people w
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by JBReefer 9y ago
There is a lot to be said about seeing great art in a less crowded context. One of the best days of my life was when I went to Member Only Hours at MoMA, and I walked alone, in silence. I live near the Met, and too many tour buses show up,
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by JBReefer 9y ago
Second this - I worked remote for 3 years, and it's a unique skill set. I don't think I could do it again, until I have kids at least - the loneliness and "you're never working, or done working" thing gets weird .
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by JBReefer 9y ago
I would love a feature phone with Facebook Messenger, rudimentary Google Maps, and no other features. Honestly, if there's one that works I'd buy it tonight.
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by JBReefer 9y ago
The Dutch more or less invented the Western economic model.
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by JBReefer 9y ago
I feel like you hear the "The Bay is over, the bubble popped, the culture became oppressive" story every year and every year it doesn't seem to go anywhere. Now, I would never take a job there, but so many of my cohort have a
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by JBReefer 9y ago
This kind of thing is why people are saying npm is easier...

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