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by ageek123 10y ago
I think this article confuses self-confidence with humility. They seem to be arguing against arrogance, rather than against self-confidence. You need both self-confidence and humility to be a good programmer.
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I don't care whether the President uses email or knows how to tweet. I care about whether their policies are pro-tech or anti-tech, and right now the two parties are in a race to the bottom to be as anti-tech as possible.
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by ageek123 10y ago
As the author said, Clipper Cards aren't cloneable, so this is impractical because it would require physically swapping BART tickets. It's just a theoretical mental exercise, not some kind of anti-government rebellion. And given t
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by ageek123 10y ago
An arguably better treatment of this topic from the WSJ a few weeks ago: http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2016/06/21/not-just-the-1-the... (The key finding is that most of the people who have "left&qu
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by ageek123 10y ago
The amusing thing is that when Fidelity marks down, it's huge news and a harbinger of doom, but when Fidelity marks up, everyone finds an excuse for why it's not important.
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by ageek123 10y ago
European countries, which are quite to the left of the US, have much higher consumption taxes than the US. So I don't think it's fair to say it's "crazy to think liberals will EVER support" consumption taxes. They a
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by ageek123 10y ago
In the 20th century you needed a lot of capital to start a company. In the 21st century, you don't.
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by ageek123 11y ago
The headline is a huge overstatement relative to what the press release says, which itself is scaremongering relative to what the bill itself says.
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by ageek123 11y ago
Doesn't solve what problem? It doesn't solve the "problem" of some people being very rich, but it does solve the problem of some people being too poor to meet minimal daily needs.
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Google LCFF California
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by ageek123 11y ago
As the article says, the problem (like everywhere else in the Bay Area) is housing costs. "Rents in San Jose grew a whopping 42.6 percent between 2006 and 2014, which was the largest increase in the country during that time period.&quo
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by ageek123 11y ago
Legal recognition of corporations as people long pre-dated Citizens United: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood
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http://phys.org/news/2016-01-facebook-online-users-views-ech...
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It's interesting when we discover that the way people act "in real life" isn't their true selves. The online world is fascinating because people drop the guards and restraints and you can see the real them. I actually pr
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by ageek123 11y ago
Isn't this basically what "native ads" are?
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Lewis's books are ideologically driven, not a search for truth. People don't read them critically because of confrmation bias -- everyone hates Wall Street, so everyone assumes take-downs of Wall Street must be correct.
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by ageek123 11y ago
The best book on this topic is "Coming Apart" by Charles Murray. I highly recommend it.
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Yes, exactly. The article seems to want you to believe that fitness is caused by high education levels and high income, but all they've done is point out a correlation. In fact I suspect that all three share some of the same underlying
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by ageek123 11y ago
You're using the colloquial definition of productivity while PG was using the economic definition. The economic definition has nothing to do with how hard you work--it has to do with your economic output. Bill Gates working at McDonald
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Wide disagreement? Sure, the people who disagreed wrote essays, but people who agree are usually invisible (how do you write an essay about agreeing with some other essay? and why would you bother?). I think the reason some people got so ri
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> The key distinction people are missing is that these companies don't monetize open source directly. Instead open source is used as a means of building a user base that will indirectly generate revenue in other ways This isn't
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It's totally untrue that VCs are "funding services exclusively." Just within the Hadoop/Spark ecosystem there are Cloudera, Databricks, Hortonworks, Tachyon Nexus, and others. In storage there's MongoDB, Couchbase,
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by ageek123 11y ago
I think you and Matt are talking about different kinds of research. He's specifically talking about incremental research in computer systems . And he's 100% right that most of such work has zero impact, both over the short term
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He has written a few articles that stray pretty far from modern Political Correctness orthodoxy; I think that's what is being referred to, not this article in particular.
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Just to clarify for those who might misinterpret what you said, the top long-term capital gains tax rate is 23.8%. The only people eligible for 0% long-term capital gains tax rate are people in the lowest tax brackets.
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It would appear that the "party of reasonable size" here is China or Russia, not a corporation.
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Tax loopholes existed long before Citizens United and the end of the Fairness Doctrine. In fact there were more tax loopholes in the 1970s and 1980s than today.
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I guess you missed the part where it says this program has been around since 1847. http://sfpatrolspecpolice.com/history.html
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I guess you haven't looked to carefully into how the EU economies are doing.
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How is this self-serving? How does it directly benefit Zuckerberg?

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