RodericDay

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by RodericDay 9y ago
Give this essay a read: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/05/how-the-economist-thi... > The Economist is not, therefore, an honest examiner of the facts. It is constantly at pains not to risk conclusions tha
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by RodericDay 9y ago
The Economist is not an unbiased publication. It exists for the explicit purpose of arguing for the liberalization of markets. edit: classic anti-left liberal, not "american progressive" liberal
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by RodericDay 9y ago
Good.
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by RodericDay 9y ago
Same reason people buy diamond rings, gendered deodorant, banned nonwhites from boxing, etc. Culture rules. People are not far-sighted logical market agents. Consider the opposite: If sharing your salary is so inoffensive, why do companies
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by RodericDay 9y ago
He said qc accent not fr accent. Unnecessary comment.
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by RodericDay 9y ago
Public salaries make it much easier for bad negotiators to attain a good salary. You just look at your future co-workers, and ballpark around that. Without that, people without industry contacts or knowledge can get utterly screwed.
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by RodericDay 9y ago
Current hires are not a fixed supply to be taken for granted. Hire someone else for a ton extra, refuse me a raise, and I'll leave. That is, if that information was available. Kinda convenient that it isn't, huh?
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by RodericDay 9y ago
There's a reason why it's called "a craze". I'm being hired for my software skills, not my negotiation skills. The fact that negotiation is so important is cargo culting from business-types who benefit from it. (I h
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by RodericDay 9y ago
I'm not questioning whether you can get a raise. I'm questioning whether this raise will usually immediately make you the best paid person on your new team.
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by RodericDay 9y ago
I think your prediction of how things would play out is just wrong. Employers usually have an HR team that is dedicated to knowing what the labor market looks like. They may not know exactly your previous salary, but they keep very up to da
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by RodericDay 9y ago
Because free flow of information makes free markets operate better.
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by RodericDay 9y ago
> We notice that you're not using the Google Chrome browser. You're welcome to try continuing—but if some parts of the essay are rendering or behaving strangely, please try Chrome instead. what a world
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by RodericDay 9y ago
Much like voting, being at the table should be opt-out. Else, as first poster said, the process is tyrannical.
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by RodericDay 9y ago
"no deterrent whatsoever"? I really don't think this is correct. It may not be a foolproof deterrent, but it's certainly a deterrent. I don't like when this argument is trotted out for gun control and I don't
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The Necessity of Credibility(currentaffairs.org)
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by RodericDay 9y ago
I prefer for 1gb+ of latex code to not touch my laptop if I can avoid it.
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by RodericDay 9y ago
> So it's basically a marketing tool, but isn't that what blogs are for depressing thought
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by RodericDay 9y ago
Trickle-down environmentalism is not real environmentalism, and the ruse is becoming clearer by the day.
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by RodericDay 9y ago
gender bias in japan is not imaginary
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by RodericDay 9y ago
If you want power you can fprint = lambda string: print(string, file=somefile) and use fprint all over the place that little chevron trick is bad imo
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by RodericDay 9y ago
The whole point is that even if they are easy to ignore for you, they aren't easy to ignore for others. I find it callous to decry the poor decision-making of poor people, eg: someone buying a fashion accessory when they're strugg
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by RodericDay 9y ago
I agree with you and it's frustrating that this is sunk without a substantial response. A few months back, Matt Bruenig nailed it: "The unwritten story of the Juicero debacle is that high income inequality causes capital to be mis
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by RodericDay 9y ago
Not really a direct alternative, but applicable to the spirit of the question: I don't really like any news organization very much, so instead anytime a political/current events piece pops up here and I like it, I check to see if
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by RodericDay 9y ago
So his shallow tonal dismissal is fair game, but an identificarion of a pattern which undermines it is unlawful ad-hominem? Seems like cargo cult moderation to me.
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by RodericDay 9y ago
I think monospaced should be like ``` monospaced ``` And the four-space/tab indentation should denote a quote But that's just me.
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by RodericDay 9y ago
Your deflection of Peck's comments is verbose but insubstantial, you basically say he's being too charitable or losing perspective. Bad form. And as for the suicide point, I'm not challenging the idea that US forces are depre
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by RodericDay 9y ago
> In 1985, when I was the Deputy Director of the Reagan White House Task Force on Terrorism, [my working group was asked] to come up with a definition of terrorism that could be used throughout the government. We produced about six, and
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by RodericDay 9y ago
I wouldn't say that desctibes political philosophers like Karl Marx very well.
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by RodericDay 9y ago
Snapchat adds value in the way meth adds value.
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by RodericDay 9y ago
Current Affairs is insanely high quality. I endorse it fully.

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