RamshackleJ

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by RamshackleJ 9y ago
Yep, being anti-h1b !== being anti-immigrant. Immigrants who are free to hop jobs are a key component of a vibrant, entrepreneurial, worker-friendly economy. Immigrants who are disposable, bonded labor undermine the freedoms everyone else h
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by RamshackleJ 9y ago
I know its tempting to chest-beat for the EPA as the protector of citizens but they have a track record of staying silent or even covering up. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2016/01&#x2F
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by RamshackleJ 9y ago
I think S&P gives the US a AA+ rating. I don't know much about "a culture of saving" but I'm pretty sure economies don't grow forever
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by RamshackleJ 9y ago
I don't mean to nitpick but I'm pretty sure S&P gives the US a AA+ rating....
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by RamshackleJ 9y ago
So the benchmark for modern business ethics is a man who made his fortune off the back of slaves in the 1700s?
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by RamshackleJ 9y ago
I think the writing done on cost disease might better explain the gap rather than inflation ( http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost-... ) Inflation would imply that everything is increasin
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by RamshackleJ 9y ago
why is this market failure automatically attributed to too much regulation instead of the wrong kind of regulation. Wealthy elites paying 40k to set a broken bone shows exactly why deregulating would be disastrous, medical decisions are rar
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by RamshackleJ 9y ago
"You can always get better faster service if you pay more." - Just because that's how things are now doesn't mean its ideal or the only way. Benjamin Franklin while an unrepentant capitalist, tempered that with protestan
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by RamshackleJ 9y ago
We should also ask those philanthropists to help us understand the empirical results of their businesses and business practices.
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by RamshackleJ 9y ago
Not lack of work in general, lack of work that can support niceties like, adequate housing, healthcare and college education for your children.
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by RamshackleJ 10y ago
It became ok when emotionally frail tech CEO's needed to cope with nagging existential fears of _not_ actually making the world a better place, while at the same time frantically trying to succeed so that they won't be left with t
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by RamshackleJ 10y ago
Well currently name resolutions are not encrypted and I don't think it is technically possible to encrypt them, so we definitely aren't good. Asking everyone to route through a CDN is a bit impractical as well. a good follow up ar
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by RamshackleJ 10y ago
I can see myself enjoying reading this when I'm older and no longer working in professional software dev. But right now it just left me anxious and questioning why I work in this industry.
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by RamshackleJ 10y ago
I'm always curious about companies who talk about "caring about things other than just money". Maybe I'm missing somethings but if you are a for-profit company by definition you care about money, any claims other wise fe
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by RamshackleJ 10y ago
As the Market wills! Do not fear for the Market always has a greater plan in mind.
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by RamshackleJ 10y ago
No. You are thinking about it wrong. By making it cost prohibitive for the poors to move around we will be able to concentrate their populations into designated "bottom feeder" neighborhoods allowing us to more effectively rob the
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by RamshackleJ 10y ago
what are the public academic debates that we are having today? creationism vs evolution? populism vs neo-liberalism? I hate to reminisce but having two existentialist philosophers debating about socialism vs communism makes me jelly.
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by RamshackleJ 10y ago
Because you have to have a special permit in order to offer free food to the needy in city parks. But obtaining a city permit to feed the homeless twice a week—to set up a table and open bags of chips and bagels and spoon organic beans and
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by RamshackleJ 10y ago
Like patenting the work of others?
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by RamshackleJ 10y ago
https://medium.com/end-homelessness/fighting-poverty-with-co...
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by RamshackleJ 10y ago
excellent. my dream of having corporations whose influence and power exceeds that of state actors is finally materializing. no one knows how to better treat human beings than faceless corporations with a fiduciary responsibility to faceless
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by RamshackleJ 10y ago
At what is it no longer considered catch-up? when they have a 10 trillion $ GDP? when their unemployment rate is under 4% and have an average gross salary greater than 10k a year? China has already caught up, this is just how they do busine
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by RamshackleJ 10y ago
Reminds me of: https://m.signalvnoise.com/reconsider-41adf356857f#.56isp7pl...
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by RamshackleJ 10y ago
google maps
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by RamshackleJ 10y ago
make sure you hold daily all hands on deck meetings where everyone is required to listen to what everyone else was doing the last 24 hours. require all work to be logged in the proper system so that any exceptional productivity will be t
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by RamshackleJ 10y ago
today JIRA, tomorrow Orwellian nightmare
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by RamshackleJ 10y ago
Not to diminish the accomplishment but... There are entire states with lower avg household incomes. 20% below the poverty line is also substantially lower than many rust belt cities (detroit metro: ~39%, flint: ~55%, gary: 48.5%). Pieces li
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by RamshackleJ 10y ago
not sure about the top 3% but the top 1% have 34.6% of the wealth(measured in net worth) and the top 5% have 61.9%. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_Unite... ) So yes! I do think its too little, e
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by RamshackleJ 10y ago
Yep, and it doesn't even bother talking about the $21–32tn of untaxed assets( http://www.taxjustice.net/cms/upload/pdf/Price_of_Offshore_R... ). Or that we tax the rich too little while we tax everyone el
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by RamshackleJ 10y ago
Yes! This is great news! I've been looking forward to participating in the race towards the bottom for a while now.

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