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   by api 13y ago

   "It's better than Jersey Shore..." That's setting the bar pretty low.
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   by api 13y ago

   This guy hit the ball into orbit , and he's not just talking about TED. He's talking about the entire "scene." -- From the article: T and Technology T - E - D. I’ll go through them each quickly. So first Technology... W
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   by api 13y ago

   I have seen this too. I worked for a while as a contractor for the U.S. federal government (IT/programming), and saw that the next rung up for me within the fed was becoming a "full fed" and entering management. I saw what ma
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   by api 13y ago

   Horray! Stick it to the man! Wait... This is a double-edged sword. Management tracks are typically the next step up in terms of career advancement for regular workers. Eliminate those and what do you have? A couple mega-rich owners, and the
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   by api 13y ago

   TL;DR: * Micro-benchmarks don't provide a good picture of real system performance and can be skewed to make almost anything look better/worse than anything else. * Much of Java's "slowness," clunkiness, large amount
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   by api 13y ago

   Good.
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   by api 13y ago

   I'm personally kind of amazed it hasn't already happened, either through intentional (mis-)tinkering or natural mutation. The reason I'm surprised is air travel. People fly everywhere, and anything that appears that is easily
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   by api 13y ago

   This indirectly makes a great point. While everyone's been talking about the danger of a turn-key totalitarian state -- the danger of intentional totalitarianism -- much less has been made of the danger of an unintentional totalitari
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   by api 13y ago

   They also detest the democratization of wealth, which invariably results in some form of "sprawl." It's either the horizontal sprawl of endless little palaces of Versailles with their little lawns, or it's the vertical s
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    by api 13y ago

    I have lived in both car-dependent and transit-based places, and can see advantages to both. Given that the advantages of transit are commonly discussed these days, I thought I'd give some of the advantages of cars. (1) Cars don't
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    by api 13y ago

    Yep. I also wish I could get vegan meat, but it isn't available on the market yet. :)
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    by api 13y ago

    This is a common way that a totalitarian state can be implemented on top of an apparent democratic republic: pass so many laws (and contradictory / complex laws) that anyone can be found guilty of something, then enforce the law select
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    by api 13y ago

    Nature is full of similar cruelty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRPzPjOR9lc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantula_hawk
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    by api 13y ago

    Totally tangential point: I sometimes draw an analogy between veganism and the extreme anti-force / volitionalist stance of radical libertarians. In both cases is may be radically moral, but the problem with the libertarian case is sim
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    by api 13y ago

    Technological advances can enable advances in morality, or at least ease them. Soon we will be able to grow meat and milk at least without the animal. I for one would immediately switch to vegan meat and dairy.
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    by api 13y ago

    "there is no escaping the high cost of staying healthy in western, urban centers." You can go largely vegetarian, eating meat only rarely. But you have to take care that your diet is balanced. It's also a great way to save en
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    Efficient Promotion Strategies in Hierarchical Organizations(arxiv.org)

    4 points by api 13y ago|1 comments
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    by api 13y ago

    "I think Marx was a much better diagnostician than he was a clinician." That is exactly my view as well. Great article.
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    by api 13y ago

    They worked for a while. Now new approaches are needed. Everything is like that. Human progress requires both a continuous input of energy and a continuous state of change and innovation. There is no formula for progress of any kind that ca
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    by api 13y ago

    Geographic constraints + bad transit + anti-development mindset in city halls + earthquakes making vertical development very costly + explosive economic growth = perfect recipe for absolutely bat balls crazy real estate hyperinflation.
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    by api 13y ago

    I know where you're going with this. It's possible to ask the converse question: what happens when everyone has a low-paying job? The answer is that deflation must occur. Home prices must fall, etc. The problem is that deflation i
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    by api 13y ago

    Yep. Can't have high-paying jobs. That would empower people. We are very rapidly moving toward a time when the labor battles of the late 19th and early 20th centuries will have to be re-fought. History is clearly showing us that the al
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    by api 13y ago

    While I think more people should learn code, I think the president getting up and telling everyone to do anything that isn't applicable to... well... every-freaking-one ... is stupid. Washington is clueless in two ways. (1) It n
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    by api 13y ago

    Welcome to the wonderful world of feudalized devices. Relevant: http://boingboing.net/2012/08/23/civilwar.html
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    by api 13y ago

    I think the apathy comes from a dearth of alternatives. People see that the current system is corrupt, but nobody can think of a better idea. There is a pervasive and not wholly unjustified sense that all political ideologies have failed. F
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    by api 13y ago

    Some of these attacks, such as the exe.doc one, are the fault of the use of in-band signaling by Windows to indicate that a file is executable. You can't do that on OSX or Linux, where attributes determine execute capability. The equiv
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    by api 13y ago

    Wow. How... Leninist of him. Damn commie.
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    by api 13y ago

    The spiritual tradition from which the author of this piece speaks -- and it's more warmed-over quasi-hippiedom than anything genuinely Pagan or Druidic -- is a repeated affirmation of precisely that.
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    by api 13y ago

    If you remove the state from a violent, fraud-ridden, still very feudal system, you will simply unveil the underlying less centralized tyranny latent in that system. There's also a massive blind spot in most conventional libertarian th
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    by api 13y ago

    I consider myself a left-libertarian, and I strongly support a basic income. I'm also a supporter of some amount of public health care. In theory I support the elimination of taxation and a purely volitional society, but I recognize