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by clavalle 11y ago
This is why my family and so many people we know are either homeschooling or pooling resources to create small schools for their kids to attend where we have some sort of control over their education and expectations of the students. You ca
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by clavalle 11y ago
Professions that require creativity of a type that relates deeply with human experience will the the last to fall.
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But then you have the problem of businesses catering to 'gap people' and scraping profit from those subsidized positions.
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by clavalle 11y ago
> I guess that depends on what we pay. Everyone gets more value than what they pay, from Bill Gates (Insert the US's largest tax payer here) on down. I can safely say that I get more than my money's worth and so do you. That
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by clavalle 11y ago
As a fellow entrepreneur from a long line of entrepreneurs, I couldn't disagree with you more. Unions can have...problems, but fundamentally they are just people banding together to leverage the only capital they have. They can be fru
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by clavalle 11y ago
'Explorers' when I was a kid. It really inspired me to take things apart and put them back together -- preferably in new and useful ways. It also kick started a life long love of sci-fi.
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by clavalle 11y ago
Why?
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Unless they bought it from a foreign investor. There is something to be said for not having another country control property that one's citizens need to live. What if another country started buying up farmland, for example? Beyond tha
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by clavalle 11y ago
> A perfect example of this is the Indie rock of 15 years ago. That culture has completely been obliterated and replaced by a microcosm of corporate pop music. Obliterated? I think not. There is still a very vibrant indie music scene t
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by clavalle 11y ago
You know what's cool? Ignoring what other people think is cool. Who cares if 'yuppies' 'gentrify' hacking. You neither have to stop doing what you like because groups you don't care for have noticed nor do yo
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by clavalle 11y ago
I'd be interested in an game-theory, microeconomic treatment of decision making differences between people in different economic situations. If they study went one step further and showed how those micro decisions aggregated into macr
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by clavalle 11y ago
This just in: one particular technique is not good for every use case! Most of these complaints boil down to REST is not complex enough to capture more complex interactions. But that is its strength -- yeah, there might be some tweaks to m
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by clavalle 11y ago
>I've yet to use a Learning Platform or MIS that wasn't tortuous to use and ended up generating more work for me than if I had simply used pen and paper. That's because they weren't really designed for you the teach
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by clavalle 11y ago
Those people seemed to have it pretty together. I could point the author to a few much more interesting houses.
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by clavalle 11y ago
Yeah. I'd classify it as a Very Hard Problem.
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by clavalle 11y ago
Well, it's not just racism, even at this point, is it? It's an odd hodgepodge. Another reason why it is probably worrying people more than it probably should.
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by clavalle 11y ago
I don't mind if they get rid of the hate groups but you have to be careful -- hate is a very plastic term. If people feel like their self formed communities might come under some sort of 'distaste' police, they might just pa
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by clavalle 11y ago
I have a feeling that Reddit, with its focus on growth of the user base, is just going to play to the lowest common denominator. As soon as it is filled with what amounts to user curated network TV levels of content and the banal advertisi
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by clavalle 11y ago
>Absolutely folks are not rational. The entire existence of the 'payday loan' industry proves that. Not necessarily. It can also mean that there are fates worse than dealing with usury. Car break down that you need for your j
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by clavalle 11y ago
Which is the more reasonable assumption, then: that people will choose an option that will leave them worse off or better off assuming viable and known alternatives? Is it not worth asking why they would choose less for themselves? And, i
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by clavalle 11y ago
Perfectly rational actors are not strictly necessary. Often it is enough to assume people will act in their own best interest as best they can in aggregate more often than not.
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by clavalle 11y ago
> If you are voluntarily selling your labor, it means that you are getting the best value for it. I hold a gun to the head of someone you love. I tell you you will deliver something or I will kill them. You start to negotiate for how mu
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by clavalle 11y ago
>It's not just those below the poverty line, all of humanity does this... even the rich. No they don't. If that were true no net value would ever be created. I mean, there are instances where it is true even for the rich (insu
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by clavalle 11y ago
No, it is making decisions based on information you aren't considering. Poor people are making economic decisions not to come out ahead but to mitigate their losses. They aren't doing this because they want to, it is because it i
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by clavalle 11y ago
I think it was the right move for many reasons. Should someone hesitate from making the right move if vile people happen to support that move?
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by clavalle 11y ago
It can absolutely happen. The population is primed. The same scenario doesn't have to play out for the end result to be the same. Digg had some mildly bad policy before their exodus. Reddit policy is failing in a much more dramatic
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by clavalle 11y ago
I don't think you can say that about the last two days.
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by clavalle 11y ago
Without a radical turnaround, yeah, I think so. It feels very much like Digg did back in the day. When your userbase is your main asset and you treat them as a given, bad things happen.
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Which Reddit seems determined to solve for them.
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>I think there is are a few hidden premises here that need to be called out That's what the experiment is for. But let me put this bug in your ear: Most economic models are based on the premise that people can walk away from a poten

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