code_sardaukar

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by code_sardaukar 10y ago
In my high school they had a lot of words for this attitude, including "faggot", "square", "nerd" and "nerd faggot". As someone who grew up in this environment, I'm very interested in the critiq
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by code_sardaukar 10y ago
So if you vote democrat, you have to pay your workers whatever they ask for?
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by code_sardaukar 10y ago
So why do you think that other employees will become less productive when they get their Appalachian Trail leave?
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by code_sardaukar 10y ago
You say that it's very sad for people to lose their jobs, but how sad is it if a business does not grow as fast as it might have, and so doesn't employ those people in the first place?
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by code_sardaukar 10y ago
>They perceive (correctly, BTW, from a statistical perspective) that if you're born poor, there isn't much you can do. How can you blithely state this "fact" given that the article itself shows that a poor person who
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by code_sardaukar 10y ago
While I don't agree with everything you said, you are right that modern economics puts a lot of emphasis on the bond market. Their reasoning is that the bond market is like a giant, distributed bank. Bondholders borrow short-term, and
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by code_sardaukar 10y ago
Actually the smug, dismissive tone of your comment is equally common on HN. Neither you nor the OP have given direct evidence on the matter, and it is presumptuous to think that the narrative you presented trumps the OP's vague refere
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by code_sardaukar 10y ago
I guess the comment triggers me in the same way as reading "you don't have to be effeminate or gay to be a male ballet dancer" might trigger some people. While it doesn't directly paint gay or effeminate men in a negativ
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by code_sardaukar 10y ago
As someone who was bullied for being a nerd, your statement is very triggering. Do you think there is a way we can encourage all people to explore tech without denigrating people with certain personality types/interests?
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by code_sardaukar 10y ago
I think most of the people making these comments would identify as anti-racist. Furthermore, they would be shocked by similar comments addressed to students from Africa, the Middle East or Latin America. Personally I think everything said
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by code_sardaukar 10y ago
It's only natural to feel more empathy for people in situations we've been in, but this isn't the entirety of morality. I've never been a cow but I go out of my way to avoid causing suffering to cows and other animals.
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by code_sardaukar 10y ago
I read the whole article and it's very hard to judge the correctness of most of the article's claims. Most importantly, it's hard to judge the most important thing: the author's own research. However, I can say that the
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by code_sardaukar 10y ago
At least people should recognize the symmetry of hiring and firing. At some point, Bombardier hired each of those 7,500 people. Did this make the news? Were there HN posts praising the management for creating those jobs?
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by code_sardaukar 10y ago
I think you're missing the implication in the original comment, that the NSA has put a backdoor into NIST and the Russian equivalent has put a backdoor into GOST, but neither can use the other's backdoor.
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by code_sardaukar 10y ago
As a former "left-anarchist" I'm familiar with this sort of story. We had similar stories of left-anarchist utopias from (1) pirates (2) partisans in the Spanish civil war and (3) various "workers collectives" thro
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by code_sardaukar 10y ago
Just to clarify, you think that opposing immigration makes someone a nazi?
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by code_sardaukar 10y ago
Another possibility is that the prosecutor didn't consider it relevant to the case whether Goodman was a journalist or not, but chose to answer the question anyway. E.g. the quote "I think she put together a piece to influence th
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by code_sardaukar 10y ago
I wish the press would call her out on using the term "leverage". If the US military confront Russia's proxies at the no-fly-zone and force them to turn back, then this would given them leverage against Russia. That's
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by code_sardaukar 10y ago
This is a very real problem for Trump. Trump has already been forced to change his rhetoric on Israel, and even Pence doesn't support Trump's plan for Syria (letting Russia/Assad win). On the other hand, Trump has a huge amo
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by code_sardaukar 10y ago
Clinton's plan for Syria is scary. Ironically it displays the kind of toughness that Trump claims to represent. Personally I think it is a bad move, and Russia has already been reasonable, e.g. backing the Iran deal. You don't e
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by code_sardaukar 10y ago
Putin made two points about this in June, 2016[0]. First, it's not possible to verify what's in the warheads of anti-ballistic missiles. Second, defense and offense are part of a single set of capabilities. If you remove the op
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by code_sardaukar 10y ago
So how does that work? The government/rich people/"capital" conditioned people to consume services whether they need them or not, in order to create these jobs? If so can you give some examples of this? Or is it that
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by code_sardaukar 10y ago
There's a difference between efficiency wages and paying market rate for a group with specialized skills. Efficiency wages means paying more than market rate in order to get some other benefit such as reduced turnover. In my opinion,
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by code_sardaukar 10y ago
If it helps, Walmart don't pay their employees poorly because they are less moral than other companies, but because they hire a different type of employee from, for example, Starbucks. If you happen to live in a place with Starbucks a
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by code_sardaukar 10y ago
Look's like I've said one of those "true if you think it's a good thing, crazy conspiracy if you thank it's a bad thing" facts. No one really denies the link between Jewish Americans, the various Jewish organi
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by code_sardaukar 10y ago
Neoconservatism isn't just about the military industrial complex, or oil, it's also about the Jewish lobby.
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by code_sardaukar 10y ago
Well from the point of view of China the nation, these aren't externalized: Chinese people will have to pay this cost. But you're right that this contributes to lower costs. I still the main reason is the first one I gave though
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by code_sardaukar 10y ago
The root distinction seems to be whether you prioritize reality or abstractions. If reality comes first, you might not even believe that there is a set of universal mathematical laws governing nature (Feynman expresses this viewpoint, and r
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by code_sardaukar 10y ago
I think the endgame for programmers is very different to pastry chefs. Yes there are bootcamps, but part of their success is being selective in who they accept. No one has yet shown how to take an average person and get them a well paying
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by code_sardaukar 10y ago
that's fascinating, though I'm not into sweet things enough to invest in the required equipment. I do agree with your overall point that chef's skills probably aren't specialized or difficult enough to command high wages

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