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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
Economists pushing views and rationalizations against labor-friendly policies (including minimum wage hikes) tend to do pretty well for themselves in America, very odd that they'd feel pressured to recant something that's well rec
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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
> Reasonable economists find an inconvenient result, so pressure them to recant Who pressured them?
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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
Mutable internal state is problematic with or without inheritance.
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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
> The turnaround of restaurants and bars here is amazingly fast. When one fails, another one springs up. The same street will have very different storefronts each year. Is that supposed to be a positive thing? Sounds pretty unstable and
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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
People have been able to build successful organizations without being abrasive dickheads to their colleagues and subordinates all the time. I think it's a false dichotomy.
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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
Could you provide examples?
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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
It's not even the going ballistic part that gets me, but the sequence of events. Management refused to allocate the time to fix tech debt/bugs, this decision comes back to bite them in the ass, GP takes the typical tack that tries
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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
> When Bezos went ballistic the day before Thanksgiving, did you still fix the bug in time? This is the kind of line of thinking often pursued by poor managers.
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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
It's time for a debt jubilee.
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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
They are making vehicles, not apps.
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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
seems to be here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=36...
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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
Prison labor is the natural next step in the race to the bottom for wages.
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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
> I'm not sure why blockchain has become a perennial 'love to hate' favorite on a forum dedicated to 'disruptive' startups. The cynic in me would say the people complaining are the ones who sold their bitcoin fo
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21st century water wars: The Renaissance Dam crisis(youtube.com)
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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
This is a really bizarre statement. Could you deign to back it up in any way?
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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
> Many of us understand very well that the climate is changing and that humans might have something to do with it, we just don't know to what extent. Could you elaborate? I was under the impression that even conservative estimates b
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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
I care, it's useful to gain insights into the lives of the extremely powerful and politically inclined and see where their thoughts are going; for example seeing that "predictive policing" is a theme they felt important enoug
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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
50 million? What the hell, that's multiple cities worth of depopulation. There's no way that could be true
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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
This part of the article stuck out: > “As we have known from the start, we are in the middle of a civil war with the Guptas and allies on one side, and Johann Rupert and others on the other side. More mud will inevitably be thrown. Howev
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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
Meanwhile in the real world, many corporations get away with doing all these things, abusing labour, regulatory capture and the people running them get rich as Croesus doing it.
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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
A bug that seems to pop up again and again, here's an article about a crusader against land speculators who found it more profitable to leave land unused all the way back in the 1800s: https://thetyee.ca/Solutions/
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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
Something similar happened from Linus Torvalds just recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17242103 Is being a dick pretty common in open source discussion?
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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
Having to deal with UI developed by Microsoft is the only thing that could ever make me feel sorry for drone operators.
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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
Hop onto using products based on pseudoscience instead of stuff that's actually clinically tested? It seems pretty dangerous too: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2755247/ The number of peopl
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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
I found your explanation a lot more weird and a lot less simpler than the parent.
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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
Really enjoyed this book. Once you get currying, and using curried functions to pipe/compose, everything clicks into place. I found the examples of using Nothing/Maybe monads for error handling pretty neat as well - is that a comm
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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
> Universal telecommuting does not need to be the next step in our evolution as a society, and that's okay. To be honest, given the rising costs of living in most cities, I'm kind of hoping it will be.
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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
Has Messenger caught up to (or aiming to catch up to) wechat in terms of functionality and scope yet? I remember a lot of hubub about bots and conversational commerce.
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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
The fundamental problem I have with reddit is that it seems extremely easy to game and astroturf. Things like /r/politics felt like a Democratic party propaganda platform around the 2016 election for example.
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by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
A cursory glance at the history of the industrial revolution, or even conditions today in several places including Amazon, will tell you what happens when labor's right to organize is crushed.

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