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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
Can't even begin to think about all of the negative side effects this would have...
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
> Yes and no. You're right, a government should provide mainly for its own people. However the stability of the whole world is important for national security and national prosperity. Again agreed, I think Nixon was the greatest rec
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
Its not that there are no consequences for safety incidents involving temp workers. It is more about company prestige and preserving the existing benefits of being an full team member. Both of the companies I worked for had very good safety
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
I think we mostly agree on most things were talking about. >> I don't think that economic parity across nations should be a primary goal of any nation's policy, but I do think it is basically an inevitable, positive side eff
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
I think one reason it seems so strange is that it is sort of a mis-characterization/failure of communication that easily happens in politics. There is nothing wrong with unions in principle, but once someone has written into law exactl
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
Edit: MacArthur's reconstruction of Japan is just a easily identifiable event. What I am really saying though is how industrious the Japanese people have been since the age of exploration. Perhaps the seminal event should have been Com
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
Smart people emigrating to a place where their talents can be put to use and then sending their greater earnings back home is efficient. I don't think that economic parity across nations should be a primary goal of any nation's po
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
Correct, limiting immigration is a solution. While I personally am more favorable toward immigration, I respect people who support Trump's opinion on this. They have a point, the contract between citizens is...between citizens. Bad eco
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
I know I shouldn't be taking the bait but here goes anyway. Smart union leaders today would be working on organizing and building relationship with peers in other countries. Fighting for US state backed monopolies is fighting on the ol
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
I couldn't agree more with everything you have said here! On the justifications for opening international trade, I believe, contrarily, that Nixon was one of the greatest president of the 20th century and that opening trade with China
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
I think it has been the gradual march of technological progress and globalization. For example remember the civil war was largely fought over protectionist trade policies for northern manufacturers. And that was in the age of sail when many
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
I don't really get this line of thinking, it just seems like a denial of globalization, automation, and economics. Instead of helping the workers it more seeks to punish American capitalists--including all the people like me who hope t
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
I trust your experience over my own in this area; just reading this piece with curiosity. That makes sense, metadata and namespace operations would be difficult when distributed. But isn't the graph in the article specifically about fi
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
Having worked at two manufacturers in the Midwest, anecdotally the majority of forklift drivers, line workers on specific lines, and even many white collar office roles were filled by temp agencies. A similar structure existed for engineeri
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
I don't find any paradox or trouble in celebrating great scientists. Physics is often taught alongside a brief motivating history of who and what had occurred before. Was there some element of luck that let them succeed first over the
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
Corporate tax is one of the most damaging forms of taxation in terms of the number and size of distortions it creates in an economy and it is very damaging to national competitiveness as well. But being in favor of lower corporate tax does
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
Basic message: big parallel I/O systems need to shift responsibility for maintaining file state, moving away from the operating system and towards the application. POSIX API has pretty simple view of file state with open(), read(), wri
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
Companies well position for high voltage DC. Possible solar technologies. Traditional car manufacturers who look poised to survive the electric/autonomous transition, which will likely reduce demand and cause some bankruptcies and cons
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
I would say the rate is still artificial. If windows were the only allowed OS and Linux and Apple users were regularly jailed, I think we would say the price for windows was artificial, no matter if it were set by a government approved algo
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
Low interests rates don't directly cause inflation. For one thing it may not even expand the monetary base, if there are few expansive areas of the economy in need of capital or if there are other even cheaper sources of capital (like
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
> By artificially keeping rates near 0%... I agree with your sentiment and artificially is a powerful word for conveying that. But strictly speaking the rate the central bank sets for lending new money is artificial, or fiat, no matter w
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
I think the majority of technologic trends since at least 2000 have been fundamentally deflationary in nature, for all material goods. We simply are conserving more; using less materials and energy for the same set of consumer uses. Unlike
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
Commenting on my own post...sad. Just smarting about being downvoted to the bottom while the top comment makes the same point. I guess I need to be more expositional.
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
I did not realize this as a Linux user--thanks. (But this is my point, it is should not be ambiguous.)
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
Yes this is true but it is not a productive practice nor helpful. These responses are supposed to be comments; well formed opinions and policy suggestions which policy makers can read to gain perspective. Its not a system for voting. It is
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
Unions would be nice if the syntax for accessing substructure members could be nominally short circuited. For example: struct ab { int a; int b; }; union c { struct ab ab_short_circuit; int a; }; union c c1; c1.a = 1; c1.b = 2;
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
Your point about reducing pointer size if the size of allocation pool is smaller makes sense. But I think it is not fair or realistic to imply that simply using an array the size of all RAM starting at zero leads to more fragmentation than
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
Object size possibly.
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
C's popularity is due to the fact that it is predictable within certain bounds (single thread or limited concurrency). Your post, and reading a discussion further down about Rust's reference counting, has made me realize somethi
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by benlorenzetti 9y ago
The opposite conclusion, using the same reasoning upon a different set of beliefs, is the federal reserve and federal government are complicit bubbles

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