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by beat 8y ago
I'm fine with saying "top twenty candidates". And I like the idea of splitting it into two debates and randomly selecting who goes where, rather than the "kiddie table" nonsense the GOP did with their large field in
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by beat 8y ago
It's not just trucks, though. He gives a lot of examples, some of which are observable today. Like a lot of work done by paralegals and junior lawyers is just research - plowing through books and writing summaries and references. It&
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by beat 8y ago
Reading Yang is an eye-opener, relative to Bernie's proposed solutions. Raising the minimum wage doesn't help if minimum wage jobs are being obliterated. Free college doesn't help someone who is 50 years old and isn't re
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by beat 8y ago
He's not saying that the push to growth-by-disruption is a solution . He's saying it's a problem , and we have to deal with it quickly, because it moves quickly. He's not saying we should run the country like a Silicon
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by beat 8y ago
Nope. Retraining has never worked. Yang is quite explicit about that.
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by beat 8y ago
I don't read him as big on "retraining" at all. He's certainly critical of how it's usually expressed politically - "We'll just turn those 50 year old truck drivers into computer programmers!" It just
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by beat 8y ago
Not necessarily. If you think of resources as something we all own as citizens - like air, water, broadcast frequencies, patent offices, etc - then it's quite reasonable for Americans, as the owners of these resources that businesses
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by beat 8y ago
I'm currently reading Yang's book The War on Normal People and it is kind of terrifying. I highly, highly recommend it in preparation for this presidential race, whether or not you're a Yang supporter. There is a great deal
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by beat 8y ago
Yang says flat out that he calls it "Freedom Dividend" because that's the phrase that polled best. Maybe you can come up with a phrase that would poll better, maybe not.
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by beat 8y ago
Polling numbers are great for a field of a half-dozen candidates, but much harder for a field of 20, where the average is 5%. How can you even trust the polls then? As a Democrat, I'm okay with showing a minimum number of individual do
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by beat 8y ago
What does that have to do with my point? I'm just saying the internet billionaires aren't stealing from me (except maybe Facebook). They got rich by creating products that people find useful and valuable. There's this percept
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by beat 8y ago
Which kneecap do you want to get shot in? I ask this question a lot. Microservices are trading one sort of complexity (the ball of mud) for another (configuration). I've found that the win for microservices is largely about developer e
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by beat 8y ago
Whatever the solution is, we need to get to it, and fast. I've been reading Andrew Yang's The War on Normal People (among other books), and it is terrifying. We are poised to shed tens of millions more jobs (in addition to the m
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by beat 8y ago
Moving isn't the same as traveling. It's not likely to induce a new cultural experience the way that, say, visiting another country will.
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by beat 8y ago
I think "useless" doesn't mean that it doesn't benefit the employer, but rather that it doesn't benefit the employee, and it arguably doesn't benefit society.
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by beat 8y ago
Our jobs, maybe. But I don't see this spilling over into our personal lives. If anything, the problem is too much choice. I don't know how old people are or how much they've dealt with people who are truly poor or uneducated,
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by beat 8y ago
The idea that "billionaires... have pillaged all their holdings from the public" is fundamentally flawed, however emotionally appealing it is. How is Jeff Bezos "pillaging" me? By offering me a broader selection of produ
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by beat 8y ago
Eh. Supply and demand matters. There's a supply of labor even for bullshit jobs, in part because of a lack of reasonable alternatives to having a job. If there was something people could do that didn't pose a direct threat to thei
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by beat 8y ago
We all got rounded by going uphill both ways in the snow. There was no Golden Age. People have always been the way they are now.
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by beat 8y ago
That's just platitude. My faith in humanity is grounded in the reality of what we have accomplished, especially over the past century.
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by beat 8y ago
Andrew Yang is the only candidate who seems to me to be actually serious about the future. Everyone else, it's either liberals saying that our problems can be solved by more 1960s welfare and 1970s regulation, or conservatives saying o
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by beat 8y ago
A, but not B. Many people are doing bullshit jobs. But there are also plenty of worthwhile things to do. And frankly, a lot of people would be doing them, if they didn't have to spend much of their time on the bullshit job they need to
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by beat 8y ago
Why? The productivity is there. 95% of the labor input of farming has been wiped out over the past 200 years, and yet hunger is a smaller problem than it has ever been in the course of human history. The anarchist Bob Black had plenty of in
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by beat 8y ago
That's not how science works. CFS/ME is a diagnosis based on real, observable behavior. The lack of a scientific explanation for the cause doesn't mean there isn't a cause, and it certainly doesn't mean the conditio
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by beat 8y ago
I didn't read it like that at all. The article was very specifically about online toxicity, not activism. And you responded loudly and angrily online, through the lens of your own biases. See how it works?
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by beat 8y ago
I think Rosling would argue it differently. It's not a problem of "science communication", because there is no way to spin plain facts, hypotheses, and theory refinement in a way to make it automatically palatable to someone
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by beat 8y ago
For those interested in this subject, I recommend reading Atomic Habits . A lot of what gets credited to "willpower" (whether a success or a failure) is really a function of habits. Becoming conscious of habits, and changing trig
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by beat 8y ago
I both agree and disagree. I agree that the world is getting much better, very rapidly. I disagree that this is a consequence of neoliberal economic policies. Rather, it's a consequence of technological advances that have little to do
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by beat 8y ago
I think it's like the indie music scene. Sure, some bands make a living at it, or try to. But most musicians are playing for the sheer joy of playing, going to a little club and making a racket for a dozen of their closest friends. In
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by beat 8y ago
Yeah. This is such a common fallacy. "This works for me, therefore it must work for everyone."

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