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by brc 13y ago
If you really want to destroy someone's day in a low cost country, campaign to stop this type of work getting to them. Then they will be out of a job. To several billion people, working for $20/day in their local lives using a co
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by brc 13y ago
I'm curious. At that sort of rate, buying hardware to work on sounds very expensive compared to your income. What sort of machine do you use, and how much did you pay? I'm guessing you don't have a $3k MacBook. Seems like
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by brc 13y ago
I think you might be referring to someone else.
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by brc 13y ago
I think you mean 4 second 0-60 time. A 4 second 1/4 mile would be a world record.
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by brc 13y ago
You say that like solar power is free. To calculate the EROEI, you have to include the energy from solar.
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by brc 13y ago
It might be hard for younger people to understand - but when films like The Terminator [1984] were made, this kind of thing had battered the news for decades, probably since the cuban missile crisis. The movies talked about a near future t
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by brc 13y ago
Of course robots don't serve and cook the food. But at least one front-end person is out of a job. Once upon a time banks experimented with new robot tellers that nobody used, because it was easier to just ask the nice cashier for you
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by brc 13y ago
I live in a country with one of the highest mandated minimum wages in the world. Guess what I saw passing by a KFC the other day? An automated ordering kiosk. Just use a touch screen to place your order, swipe your card and your food will c
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by brc 13y ago
If I were an investor in McDonalds, I would certainly wonder why the profit lowered. Headline billion-dollar profits sound impressive, but are meaningless until you see how much capital has been employed. It's all very well to say the
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by brc 13y ago
The discussion about the costs of car travel are interesting -particularly in light of some of the topics circulating recently about how the private car is a terrible model. It's not so much that the cost of a car is so cheap - cars do
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by brc 13y ago
I was specifically relating to the world of software.
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by brc 13y ago
These things already exist, and are universally a failure. The top people don't need to join, because they are well known and have reputation. The people that do want to join are those who need the trimmings of an endorsement. So gra
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by brc 13y ago
Err...RescueTime? Automates it all and self-games so you can set your own targets to beat. The best part is that you actually think twice about going to that non-productive site because you know it's going to be staring back at you at
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by brc 13y ago
The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. I forget who said it, but it's a very accurate quote.
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by brc 13y ago
For that to be true, then you have to imagine rich people sitting around on hoards of gold and gems or stuffing cash into mattresses. For a start, the largest groups of investors are pension funds storing aggregate savings of normal worke
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by brc 13y ago
A functional definition of 'the economy' to me is the interaction between people trading goods and services. To try and separate it out as some type of entity seems like faulty thinking, like saying the chess game should serve th
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by brc 13y ago
Well, then call it 'inequitable distribution of cuts', or soemthing else. The idea behind reducing and reversing the growth in public spending is to allow private investment to grow more than the government. This UK policy doesn
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by brc 13y ago
A slight cut in the growth of government spending is a pretty absurd definition of Austerity. The UK public debt continues to balloon as before. If any recovery is in housing prices and speculation as opposed to business and invetstment, t
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by brc 13y ago
A friend of my sons comes from a house definitely not focussed on teaching reading and writing at a young age. Yet their 5 year old son is streets ahead of his age for reading and writing. He is naturally gifted at it. None of his siblin
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by brc 13y ago
What it does show is that left v right is a useless axis to try and represent political views. Nobody ever really agrees what the terms even mean. Also, the word 'liberal' is hopelessly lost for definition when having an internat
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by brc 13y ago
Not the way I see it. A lie is an intentional untruth. An honest person knows when they tell a lie, whether to themselves or to someone else. To start lying to others, first you have to lie to yourself. A habitual liar eventually ends up
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by brc 13y ago
Troy Hunt has been blogging about this for a while. Troy is a good guy who blogs extensively on security matters. I don't see any risk in putting your details in here. His recent posts on pwning peoples phones and tablets while they
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by brc 13y ago
Well, going to the gym or learning a new programming language are also hard. Most things that matter in the long run are. Being honest with yourself is not the same S confidence building. BSing yourself is saying 'my new app will sel
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by brc 13y ago
Well, you can't control individuals perceptions - everyone brings a bias to the table - but you can control the aggregate perceptions by being consistent. The point being that if you are always trustworthy, that fact eventually gets o
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by brc 13y ago
Easily searchable and constantly updated form. And free of vendor BS, too.
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by brc 13y ago
Still very unimaginative thinking right there. Releasing human resources from current tasks, combined with greater purchasing power of those with more disposable income creates new opportunities for products and businesses. Unemployment co
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by brc 13y ago
That is a disengenious quote...the line partially quoted is 'the overall consequences have not been particularly terrifying'. The OP specifically points out that individually, changes are bad, but as an aggregate, things generall
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by brc 13y ago
It also lowers the price of goods so even those displaced get a better quality of life through higher purchasing power.
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by brc 13y ago
Not really. If you conduct yourself in a way that makes a lie of half-truth seem implausible, then those lies will never catch on. There are a great many 'trtuhs' about people out there that are actually complete untruths. But t
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by brc 13y ago
Mine is 'never start lying to yourself' Convincing yourself of BS is the first step along any path leading to bad outcomes. Whether it is 'another donut doesn't matter' or 'customers won't care about this

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