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by clavalle 9y ago
First, the author of this article is David Brooks -- a well known, very conservative, commentator. So, it might be fair and balanced in a Fox News sense of the phrase but not fair and balanced as most people would understand the phrase. An
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It is in no way an absurd question. Google is not selecting their employees at random. Google is not promoting people at random. Google is not placing employees in a neutral environment relative to the rest of the population. Google is n
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You are just repeating yourself. Let me ask this: what difference does the statistical differences found between genders in the general population matter for any small subset of that population? If I had test scores from 1-1000 with 1 bein
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That's your point of view (and likely the author would agree with you). Let me explain mine. I see the memo and the citations it trots forth, not as an authoritative treatise with well sourced, scientifically sound backing, but as a c
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And here I thought I was just a capitalist who believes that people should all be given an equal shot to choose their own path in life and that how things have been does not necessarily dictate how things should be. Turns out I'm a hat
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The author of the memo framed his argument in exactly this way. To quote the memo: "As it became clear that the working class of the liberal democracies wasn’t going to overthrow their “capitalist oppressors,” the Marxist intellectuals
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>Please define what's Regressive about plain facts... I think they are saying that descriptive scientific observations have limited utility as prescriptive devices if we are to make progress because descriptions are based on how thi
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NYT isn't talking about revenue, it's talking about income. Again; very. different. things. And they do it so they are comparing apples to apples. Sure, it's not a full picture and I agree with you that wealth would be much
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1 'Fixed Pie' is only a fallacy if you define the gains to some fixed external standard. When the values are defined relative to the other values in the comparison, the Fixed Pie fallacy falls apart. In this case, gains made by
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None of them are right, but some of them are useful. Many of their followers forget the fact that they are thinking in simplified models. If reality seems to contradict the model, it is because the reality is somehow deficient from the ide
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I don't know about anyone else's attic but ours is a holding tank for incredibly hot air during the summer.
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Here in Texas we have playgrounds with stretched tarps over them. I wonder how much it would help a home energy use to have similar tarps inches above the roof giving the whole structure shade throughout the day.
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I'm a hiring manager that's currently scanning these just in case a good candidate is out there. I found one I am considering forwarding to a friend in the finance industry that is always on the lookout for talent. HN users tend
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For juniors I look for some background in the area I'm hiring in with some success in that area. Mainly, though, I look for enthusiasm and eagerness to learn, the ability to communicate clearly, and intelligence. I also look for a bal
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Some of their clients, realtors, probably complained that their listings were being used as bad examples and were shown as coming from Zillow.
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I would love a subscription service -- if they offered a books-only option with PDFs at a reasonable price. I don't need tutorial videos or any of that other crud, I need books. If I could get all the high quality programming books I w
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I would love to see someone knowledgeable answer this (IANAL) but my guess is that it would have about as much force as a book that has similar terms in the first few pages that you pick up at the library. IOW, none whatsoever as long as t
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Obviously. But each official decision by a particular randomly selected jury within the justice system that carries legal weight affects one person, usually. Each official decision by Congress that carries legal weight affects millions to
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I think we can get more benefit just by making all lobbying communications public.
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The difference being that the justice system generally affects one person at a time. What Congress does affects 300 million to 7 billion.
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Lobbyists /do/ serve a valuable function (theoretically); they offer expert advice. Sequestering the ignorant and expecting good laws to come from that is ... optimistic. And while serving a short term might cut out certain briber
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Do we want the statistical average of us to create laws that stick around for years? If so, we need to raise the average significantly. Also, this would put enormous power in the hands of lobbyists and bureaucrats; a demographic that is no
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I wonder if Zillow even has standing to sue over copyright because, as far as I can tell, Zillow gains the right to use agents' photos but there is no copyright transfer.
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Yes, but the 'why' of his preference is important here. Preferring something to avoid pain or death doesn't lead to net positive transactions, in general. If I ask you whether you want your leg or your left hand cut off (and
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Exploitative employment can be defined as one being paid much less than one's time is worth. So the 'slightly less bad' assessment of the exploitative employment is incorrect because having all of the time at full value is b
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A long-term contract isn't necessary; only a continued razor thin margin of financial error that can devolve, more or less immediately, into desperation again. /Tens of Millions/ of Americans live their lives there.
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This all assumes that time is worthless. The actual equation is [80 hours usable time] vs. [40 hours useable time + some small amount of money]. If I can use that 40 hours to find a better job or train for the future, I would be better off.
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When a person is desperate, 'voluntary' starts to lose all meaning. If you are dead broke and half starved and I offered you a take it or leave it offer to work carrying rocks for $2 an hour so you can get a sandwich and you agree
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VC is really only applicable to a small subset of possible successful business. It is actually poisonous to businesses that will succeed financially but with rates of return less than 10x in a relatively short time scale. So, for what VC i
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Funny, I just got done playing for an hour. It's a great way to refresh. If you want to see a resurgence of guitar playing you can't start with stadium guitar gods, you have to have the guitar house-party hero, and the local club

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