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   by badsock 11y ago

   Thanks for the data! From the same site as your second link: http://cis.org/node/3877 If you look at table 29, immigrants make 93% as much income as natives nation-wide. Given that they account for only 13% of the po
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   by badsock 11y ago

   I'm not saying this to be deliberately combative, but when you say things like "With all of this said, there can't possibly be that much social mobility." you're favouring a theoretical model over actual reality. Th
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   by badsock 11y ago

   Your opening argument precludes a huge amount of critical empirical information. Comparing how policies work out in other countries isn't perfect, but it's the only way to know anything about how they operate in the real world ot
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   by badsock 11y ago

   I don't think you can blame immigrants as the deciding factor in crime. To quote Wikipedia: "In the US, studies have found lower crime rates among immigrants than among non-immigrants" ( https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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   by badsock 11y ago

   13% of the population of the US is immigrants; for Sweden it's 14%, and Norway it's 13% (source: Wikipedia).
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   by badsock 11y ago

   If you genuinely believe that you are in agreement, I think you missed pavel_lishin's point. And while it's true you have no obligation towards my feelings, you have obligation to the quality of discussion here on HN. You have to
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   by badsock 11y ago

   I dispute your purchasing power argument: http://www.statista.com/statistics/226956/average-world-wage... You'll note that Austria and Norway beat the US, and Sweden and Finland are in the ballpark. I'm
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   by badsock 11y ago

   You are 100% correct, thanks! Here's a more appropriate link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_net_take-... The US is 7th, behind a very similar group of steep-progressive-tax countries. I would
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   by badsock 11y ago

   You're both arguing against a straw man (no one in this thread has even hinted that wealth redistribution is an "all-powerful curative"), and belittling people by implying that their reasoning is based on what "feels goo
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    by badsock 11y ago

    I don't get how some people seem to think that there's only two possible political systems in the world. When I say redistributive, I mean things like progressive taxation, estate taxes, and basic income. In terms of median house
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    by badsock 11y ago

    This is basically the mirror argument of the "if you like libertarianism so much, why don't you move to Somalia?" argument that didgeoridoo rightly calls out in this thread. You don't have to be a Marxist to point out th
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    by badsock 11y ago

    I make enough money that any swing to the left generally costs me more than I gain from it. I don't vote that way because of narrow self-interest, I do it because I want a better society to live in, and the majority of the hard data I&
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    by badsock 11y ago

    There's a book by Stewart Brand called "How Buildings Learn", which goes into the importance of changes made after the initial construction, and how much they contribute to making buildings humane. What I took from it is: bu
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    by badsock 11y ago

    The way that women (for instance) are treated in tech forums is frequently outright abusive. My anger at that is not a talking point, it's real. And your last two sentences are the equivalent to "it's not a problem, tough i
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    by badsock 11y ago

    It's not helping hands that's needed, it's the removal of factors that actively discourage participation in tech culture for arbitrary reasons of race, gender etc. And it's not hand-wringing, it's anger at watching
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    by badsock 11y ago

    I'd frame that as a one-time transition from the 1960s to the 1980s, but things have been getting progressively worse for wage-earners from the 1990s onward as well.
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    by badsock 11y ago

    Oh totally, I'm not defending the 1950s, and I'm certainly not defending the social values of that time. But it seems like the sort of employment insecurity that was heaped on the non straight-male-WASPs has been extended to cover
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    by badsock 11y ago

    I don't think the issue is material comfort as much as it is worsening conditions and insecurity around employment. A 1950s employee wasn't subjected to credit or other background checks to get hired, zero-hour contracts weren&#x2
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    by badsock 11y ago

    What zxcvcxz describes has been verified to be absolutely the case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Threat_Research_Intellig... "Campaigns operated by JTRIG have broadly fallen into two categories; cyber attac
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    by badsock 11y ago

    I definitely agree with you that the "cockpit" games (racing, space combat, et al.), and things like Lucky's Tale are well served by the current controller, but I don't think it's going serve VR well outside of thos
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    by badsock 11y ago

    VR definitely needs a reinvented wheel in this case. Being able to move your head in virtual space but not your hands is clearly suboptimal, and the motion sensors in that generation of controllers are not up to the task. My take: this a b
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    by badsock 11y ago

    You can buy devices with memristors today: http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Panasonic/MN101LR05DXW/?... They've been delivered as promised. I read this as HP not getting the performance they need to s
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    by badsock 11y ago

    If we do experience moderate to severe climate change, millions or even billions of humans will die in pain: through starvation or wars over resources. I know people like to consider that sort of thing in the abstract, but the thought of t
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    by badsock 11y ago

    Looking back, my response was rude. I'm sorry about that. Yes, you don't have to look hard to find examples of government projects that are plagued by agency problems, incompetence, and grift. However, those exact same things pl
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    by badsock 11y ago

    I have a hard time taking your unqualified assertion seriously if your source is "freely available news sources". If that's the best you've got, you are almost certainly the victim of confirmation bias, at the very leas
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    by badsock 11y ago

    One of jacquesm's central assertions is extremely broad: governments are inept at spending money. No qualifications. Brakenshire's contention is that there is clearly a broad spectrum of efficiencies (and offers an empirical exa
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    by badsock 11y ago

    I highly recommend someone take this generous offer. The book is very dense, but only because it is so beautifully concise. And you'll go quite far into the 2nd ed. before running into any anachronisms.
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    by badsock 11y ago

    I'm curious - based on previous agreements like this, how much time (in weeks or months) would you expect there to be between the terms of TPP being made public in full and the signing of the member governments?
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    by badsock 11y ago

    You may be aware already, but the LowRISC people are planning on putting tagged memory into their chip. Yay!
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    by badsock 11y ago

    The apartment scene on the linked page was about 40MB compressed, IIRC. True that was a static scene, and admittedly once you start doing 30 FPS (perhaps no need for 90+ FPS that the HMD's require, because head movement can be rendere