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by badsock 10y ago
Did you read the article? It's about a study that found persistent issues that started happening while the subjects were still in college. Yes, career trajectories can be impacted by childcare. But that doesn't explain everythin
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by badsock 10y ago
And yet, a significant portion of the comments on HN when this topic comes up: * Claim that there is no problem, and/or * Condemn any action to address this as anti-egalitarian because it treats men and women differently
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by badsock 10y ago
I see it as a variation of the Broken Window Fallacy. In both cases economic activity has been created (America will have to build it's own supply chains internally), but in both cases it's the opportunity cost that gets overlook
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by badsock 10y ago
To clarify: we're talking about being able to operate things. If you had to choose between being banned from using any computer for the next 20 years, or being banned from operating motor vehicles for the same time period, which do you
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by badsock 10y ago
Cars are vastly less important than computers.
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by badsock 10y ago
That's not insurance, and it's only in three of the thirteen provinces/territories. For all intents and purposes it's a tax, and I'm pretty sure it's included in the figure I listed above. I don't know wh
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by badsock 10y ago
The US government per capita spending on health care is 4,763.9USD [1]. Canada's is 4801.25USD [2]. But Canadians don't have to buy medical insurance, nor do they pay deductables, or out of pocket for nearly everything. Carmack
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by badsock 10y ago
Why do you believe that? It's quite clear that it's not true: http://www.epi.org/publication/usa-lags-peer-countries-mobil...
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by badsock 10y ago
If this were true then social mobility would be very low in countries like Germany where the government is more involved, compared to the USA. Yet the opposite is true. The government improving the lives of children through subsidies and h
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by badsock 10y ago
You were incorrect and you admitted it, which is good, but then you immediately move the goalposts and then use that to pretend that you were justified in your original assertation. That's a shady rhetorical technique, and I suspect yo
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by badsock 10y ago
Since you used the phrase "Alternative Facts", can you point to where people have looked at an objectively verified fact, and then knowingly lied about it being something else?
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by badsock 10y ago
To oversimplify, there's two ways of pricing things: what the market will pay, or taking the cost to produce and adding a markup. We price hours of work by the first method, but I started wondering what it would look like if we used th
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by badsock 10y ago
Just to further your point: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.AGR.EMPL.ZS Employment in agriculture (% of total employment) of the USA: %2. If we could provide shelter and clothing with similar efficencies, the qu
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by badsock 10y ago
The problem I have with inequality is that it seems almost impossible to disentangle political influence from wealth.
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by badsock 10y ago
That seems better than judging performance based on a single metric, but still wide open to gaming. In my experience, it's better to use your full range of objective and subjective facilities to select a good manager, and then trusting
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by badsock 10y ago
Boomers in the US have largely adopted ideologies that promise prosperity for all but, by shear coincidence, /also/ benefit them directly. Trouble is, the prosperity stuff is all theoretical (cutting social programs to lower taxes
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by badsock 10y ago
A counter-example is software and other things in the digital world. Sure, computers and electricity have environmental impacts, but that's orthogonal to the value of the software running on them.
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by badsock 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality
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by badsock 10y ago
It's not the Federal Reserve. That's one of the few institutions left that are run by humans! The lizard people are spreading conspiracy theories about it because that's the last unimpeachable bulwark of human resistance.
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by badsock 10y ago
If I had to guess, they're referring to Pence becoming president.
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by badsock 10y ago
Just as an example: 9% of the cases of Idiosyncratic Drug-induced Liver Injury is self-harm caused by people taking non-regulated dietary supplements: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18955056 You have a theory that
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by badsock 10y ago
Yes. http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36376966
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by badsock 10y ago
Presuming that the replacement jobs all show up (which I'm bearish about), the thing about any kind of new job is that (IMO) they will be disposable. To survive we need food, shelter, clothing, and medicine. Food production has been a
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by badsock 10y ago
Seriously, if anyone has a technical answer to this I'd love to know what it is. Right now I can't intepret the soldered-on ram in desktops as anything other than a user-hostile cash grab.
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by badsock 10y ago
Yep, that's a pretty good summary of the orthodoxy where I got my BCom.
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by badsock 10y ago
If you're a priori judging the quality of a someone's work based exclusively on the nation of origin, that falls within the dictionary definition of xenophobia. You can choose to not like the connotations of the word, but that&#x2
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by badsock 10y ago
I'm sure they meant to say xenophobic.
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by badsock 10y ago
If the chip has its own display and input, and every step of the manufacturing process is carried out under strict supervision by all parties, and every time there's a firmware update the entire software stack is re-audited, then mayb
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by badsock 10y ago
Yes, we need to draw a line at voting. It's a single event, where a choice that can be encoded in a single byte of pure information has enormous consequences in terms of power allocation. If you can change that byte across even a smal
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by badsock 10y ago
You absolutely have to trust the software and the hardware. Modifications at the hardware/OS level can deliberately misrepresent the voter input from the touch panel, and can then alter what is displayed on the screen to match what t

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