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by api 9y ago
> and have a collegial rather than adversarial relationship with employers. That's basically what I've heard. I'd like to see a US company intentionally try to form a union among its employees along the German model. That&
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by api 9y ago
Ultimately I think this comes down to the paradox of thrift. You want everything as cheap as possible, which means you want everyone else to not belong to a union. But you want to be paid as much as possible, so you want to belong to a un
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by api 9y ago
I've often heard that the biggest problem with unions isn't higher salary and benefit demands but inflexibility. Unions often insist on things like work rules (who gets to do what) and are resistant to automation or other forms of
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by api 9y ago
This is really neat! I've long had a curious but skeptical interest in UFOs and I've wanted to see someone do something serious like this. This kind of approach is the only way we will get actual non-garbage data on this subject.
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by api 9y ago
I've recently started using Sublime again. There's a package called EasyClangComplete that does a surprisingly good job of auto-completing C/C++ code (yes it works!) and I like that Sublime uses less than 256mb of RAM most of
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by api 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disor...
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by api 9y ago
Someone should create a high-density programming font based on this principle.
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by api 9y ago
Climate change isn't a moon shot. We know how to fix it. Tax carbon emissions and provide tax benefits and subsidies to convert energy infrastructure to solar, wind, and nuclear power, and to convert the automobile fleet to run on elec
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by api 9y ago
> he's seriously undermined people's ability to trust in the United States maintaining its international obligations What if that is in fact the goal? Many people in Trump's administration are openly anti-globalists and ma
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by api 9y ago
> It really does seem to be the case that charismatic individuals can, as a rule of thumb, get away with almost anything at all. I've come to believe that the ordinary state of human consciousness is actually a form of mild anhedoni
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by api 9y ago
Bitcoin is a finite supply store of value like gold. To argue that's a Ponzi scheme reduces down to arguing that the entire economy is a Ponzi scheme. There are some Marxists who argue that. If that's true we have bigger problems.
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by api 9y ago
Synology uses btrfs by default for a NAS product, and I find it hard to believe they'd pick that for a product whose explicit goal is reliable storage if it were full of dragons. Once something gets a reputation for having issues that
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by api 9y ago
It depends, and it depends on where you are. I've heard it's bad in the Valley but I haven't seen it elsewhere so much. The biggest advice I give to programmers who are getting older and want to stay programmers is: don'
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by api 9y ago
It's occurred to me that asynchronous programming is essentially just very lightweight green threads with the added benefit of scheduling tied directly to I/O. Synchronous programming is typically much more natural. It's too
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by api 9y ago
Does DDR4-4000 really mean that your RAM is now very close to CPU core speed? That could result in a massive performance boost for a lot of things.
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by api 9y ago
We talk about smart money and dumb money. Lately I've been calling this stuff "weird money." I've been hearing a lot of weird stories about weird money in the last few years. My favorite involved an investor who could no
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by api 9y ago
So the Chinese governments gets the privacy and security controls we want, but we don't get to turn any of this off? This looks like the most dystopian cyberpunk global corporate state-- mass surveillance for the masses, privacy and se
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by api 9y ago
Pros: Fast, stable, mature, excellent tooling, big ecosystem, and easy to hire programmers. Cons: Oracle's shadow of semi-legitimate FUD, higher memory consumption, ecosystem is rife with over-engineering and the language seems to almo
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Bebop: simple web forum written in Go(github.com)
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by api 9y ago
Corporations of a certain size start looking and acting awfully Soviet. An economy dominated by mega-corps is almost indistinguishable from the Soviet economy. Over time due to regulatory capture and revolving doors it becomes a fully socia
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by api 9y ago
You have to make bold (and often later false) predictions to get peoples' attention. Nobody pays attention to "scientists predict that there is a 10% chance of X in 20 years, a 25% chance in 50 years, and a 50% chance in 100 years
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by api 9y ago
At the risk of discussion hijack, what are these arguments? Any links? (I mean on ARX generally. Agree about Speck.)
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by api 9y ago
Nothing directly, nor is Brexit necessarily going to help. But they will vote for politicians who set themselves up as anti-urban-values to stick it to the globalists in London.
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by api 9y ago
I bet you live in a major city. I live in the USA and would feel this way too about Trump if I didn't know people who lived in the interior. I live in the Los Angeles metro, which is one of America's "alpha cities." Lond
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by api 9y ago
Bitcoin is most useful as an alternative to awful systems like Western Union. The rest of these systems seem to be research projects at this stage. Not saying they won't mature, but they're not like the Internet in 95. More like t
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by api 9y ago
> A cap table of a hundred $10,000 cheques (I've seen these), even if all are from accredited investors, will have a harder time raising venture capital than one with a handful of early backers. Hundreds ?!?
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by api 9y ago
> One has crowdfunded a $1M seed, the other got a check from Andreessen Horowitz and the CTO of LinkedIn. Which one do you put your money in? If it's a consumer product, probably the former. It means they can market and hustle. If i
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by api 9y ago
Improving community, social ties, and the economy reduces addictions. The interior of the USA looks like post-Soviet-collapse Russia economically, and the way we've built cities and suburbs for the past 50 years has destroyed opportuni
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by api 9y ago
I used to call this "Kapitalism." It's a very different thing from entrepreneur-maker capitalism. I've lived on the East and now the West coasts, and the manager caste ideology of the East is clearly why the West has com
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by api 9y ago
HBS in effect introduced the Western capitalist version of what in the USSR was called an "apparatchik." This was precisely what you say: a party functionary and professional administrator who knew little else and had little real

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