Jochim

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by Jochim 4y ago
The options aren't limited to authoritarian dictatorship and capitalist oligopoly. In the same vein it isn't communist to suggest that billionaires should maybe remain slightly smaller billionaires in order to provide workers a de
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> In the US, there is no stigma to losing your job via a reduction in force Sorry, I could have been more clear here. I meant the loss of social relationships either at the company or by potentially having to move neighbourhood/city
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> But at what point is it the individuals responsibility to save money for a rainy day? It depends on what you mean by a rainy day. I don't think I'd judge most people too harshly in our current system. Circumstances can change
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Frankly I don't think the US model is something we should be competing with for the same reasons I don't think we should be emulating sweatshops in China or India. Based on recent stock trends their value is largely hypothetical a
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> If there is an economic crisis and you forbid firing, the only solution is to close companies. Societe re organizes itself at each crisis, so the people laid off need to find new ways Firing isn't entirely forbidden for a start. S
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> If there is another economic crisis and nobody is hiring, preventing companies to fire people will make the crisis even worse. Companies that know firing is difficult will hire less aggressively. They are also more likely to accept a d
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> I realize I speak from a privileged position as a software developer. But never since the first day that I stepped into an office as a professional software developer in June of 1996 did I “plan a future” with a company. If you can ack
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> Because everything costs less and it costs less to expand your business. What's become cheaper in the current economic crisis? There are by definition, fewer jobs available in total during an economic crisis. More competition for
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> If you can be fired easily, you will find a job easily. What happens in a recession? When tens of thousands of people are fired easily across an economy they're not going to find another job quickly. Making firing more difficult p
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It's disingenuous because it entirely misrepresents what happened.
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> Probably the only safe thing to say with these facts in mind is that we haven't found a solution to this problem that both reduces the crime output of those likely to commit it, and also treads carefully across our collective sens
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Crime statistics split by demographic are commonly used as a dog whistle by racists. The people posting them typically aren't interested in discussing the reasons behind a particular demographic committing more crime beyond asserting t
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> nor do I believe government is the only, or best way for society to provide " a healthy, educated workforce, currency, roads etc. " To me the obvious flaw in this type of society has always been that it provides no guard agai
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Personally I think the only problem with current taxes is the primitive nature of the bands in most cases and that non-labour income is often taxed far less heavily. Progressive taxation is our most effective tool for ensuring that a few pe
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by Jochim 4y ago
Hey Richard, great to hear you guys are doing well! A search engine with more personal control over rests is certainly attractive. My intention wasn't to dismiss the possibility of popular new search engines. Only to highlight that th
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Perhaps, although I'd stil be interested in hearing why you think that is. I can't think of any examples of people moving right because the left was too nice. My observation has been that orthodoxy and too many causes has alienate
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wolf550e summed it up pretty much perfectly. There was a great deal of thought put into it and he could extend and modify the output really quickly. The complexity of the system basically made it so that what would otherwise have been a sim
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> Why is it race instead of class and not race AND class? It's not race and class because race has eclipsed class in the public discourse. I don't know why that is but if I was being cynical I'd say it's to sow divisi
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My last boss was a 10x developer. Fantastically smart guy, socially awkward but nice, really looked out for his team but an absolute nightmare to work with technically. The majority of the team couldn't understand his code. We'd h
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> Like women who have abortions? Gay people? Trans people? Liberals? Communists? Yes. The right are quite ready to entirely ignore pretty much all of that if you're in agreement with them on whatever other issue is currently at hand
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I didn't say the left aren't allowed to have aggression. However, I do think it needs to be directed at the right people. My point was that the right are much more likely to look past things they might disagree with rather than ex
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Consumers almost universally hate artificial industry lock-in though. I think it's pretty telling that the platforms that have endured either belong to a major publisher that can lock their catalogue behind the store, or are financed b
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> To quote LBJ, "You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, ‘You are free to compete with all the others,’ and still justly believe
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> Discrimination, violence, and hatred are antisocial behaviors. They need to be reduced in a way that is just and fair and effective. Forgiveness is none of those. The key thing for me is we give people the opportunity to change. This d
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Doesn't that just prove the point though? In 1998 there were plenty of search engines and their use was distributed more evenly. The internet was still fairly new and most people weren't online yet. It certainly wasn't an int
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Developers are often very aware of how the software performs but are refused time to work on it.
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My phone is about 6 years old. It's not noticeably slower than when I got it and it's running a lot more in the background than it used to.
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It's extremely common in PC ports of console exclusives/console first games. If the game is popular then someone usually comes along with a DLL that allows you to tweak at least some of the settings that weren't exposed.
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Most people don't have a company car, especially not one they aren't fuelling themselves.
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An interesting point about both is that the proponents garnered their support through extensive lies, directly and through the media. Public support of the Iraq war went hand in hand with the UN both finding WMDs and approving action[0]. Th

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