biomene

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   by biomene 11y ago

   Amazon doesn't offer jobs to help people. It offers jobs because it sees an opportunity to make money. Homeless people are probably cheaper than other workers, and are probably just as productive, thanks to Amazon's discipline enf
2. 32.▲
   by biomene 11y ago

   I think your point a) about there not being malevolence involved is quite important, and not repeated enough. If you have a world organised around private property and exclusion from what you need, people have no choice but to look at each
3. 33.▲
   by biomene 11y ago

   You might be interested in reading Red Plenty, which is an historical novel based on the people that tried to achieve this. http://redplenty.com/Red_Plenty/Front_page.html
4. 34.▲
   by biomene 11y ago

   > If Otto wants to gain mindshare of the devops people who will be forced to support it, I strongly suggest they reconsider their branding. It sounds like Otto isn't aimed at devops people at all. It's aimed at the poor (in the
5. 35.▲
   by biomene 11y ago

   > Since the CEO seems to be paying well above the going market rate, I doubt that this is sustainable for the long run. I doubt it too. But it's not completely impossible: if a doubling of your employees salary means they increase t
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   by biomene 11y ago

   Capital only maximises productivity if it gains an advantage by doing so. In other words, productivity is a means for Capital to maximise itself, not an end. There are infinite examples of this: shrimp peeling machines have existed for ages
7. 37.▲
   by biomene 11y ago

   What leads someone to change the default black colour of text to grey? Why would anyone purposefully make the text so hard to read, specially on website dedicated to long texts?
8. 38.▲
   by biomene 12y ago

   > I would not feel all that impressed with the idea if I were a senior level in my career and earning 75k and suddenly the mail boy makes 75k or the level 2 call taker does I would understand your feeling if it implied you being somehow
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   by biomene 12y ago

   > Japan was not interested in any outcome that didn't preserve their empire in China. that was non-negotiable to them. That is not true according to the article by Walter Trohan I quoted above[1]. From that article: > 4. [Japanes
10. 40.▲
    by biomene 12y ago

    You start by claiming my comment was incorrect, but I don't see a refutation that the Allies were unwilling to negotiate peace with Japan in your response. In fact, you seem to confirm it. Maybe your confusion stems from something you
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    by biomene 12y ago

    The notion that Japan refused peace until it was nuked is incorrect. Japan had tried to begin peace talks in January, but they were ignored by the Allies[1] [1]: http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1945/08/19/p
12. 42.▲
    by biomene 12y ago

    Looks very similar to Stacey[1], which also uses Twig and Markdown. Are there any significant differences between the two? [1]: https://github.com/kolber/stacey
13. 43.▲
    by biomene 12y ago

    Could you point out the passages in Capital where Marx defines class struggle as "essentially hate movement"? He had this to say in the introduction though: > “I do not by any means depict the capitalist and the landlord in ros
14. 44.▲
    by biomene 12y ago

    That's a good question.
15. 45.▲
    by biomene 12y ago

    But you still have to open the iTerm with split panel and navigate to the correct folders the first time you open a project every day. These are the steps I want to automate.
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    Ask HN: Workflow for switching between projects

    3 points by biomene 12y ago|7 comments
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    by biomene 12y ago

    If you create $2k of value with a laptop, it's you who created that value. You just exploited yourself, using the laptop as your tool. Did I misunderstand your question?
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    by biomene 12y ago

    I've developed a few shopify stores and found the workflow to be similar to working with Dreamweaver and FTP, but worse. There is no way to have a local copy, which means you are constantly either editing files directly in their web ed
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    by biomene 12y ago

    > There’s Box, OneDrive, Google Drive, iCloud Drive, Bitcasa, SpiderOak, Wuala, Transporter, and I’ve missed a bunch. It doesn’t matter because they’re all pretty bad, and nearly all have the same problem, which is that any data you uplo
20. 50.▲
    by biomene 12y ago

    Stacey 3.0 allows you to reverse the order of arrays with a twig filter: https://github.com/kolber/stacey/wiki/Templating-Language#fi...
21. 51.▲
    by biomene 13y ago

    > "And the first reaction to that is, 'Goodness, you know, let's make a strong cup of coffee.'" It was either that or tea.
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    Bitcoin – finally, fair money?(metamute.org)

    7 points by biomene 14y ago|0 comments
23. 53.▲
    by biomene 14y ago

    In what way is communism dangerous? I fail to see any inherent danger in a form of society that distributes its wealth evenly across its citizens.