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by crdoconnor 7y ago
In the UK people didn't move because the jobs were more attractive. They moved because the enclosure movement stripped them of land and they had nowhere else to go. They hated working in factories. There are pamphlets by early industri
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
Are you using Firefox or Chrome?
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You typically have to pay a lot more if public sector jobs and wages aren't being cut.
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His conclusion: most of those >40% would be able to borrow money to cover an unexpected $400 expense, and only 14% of all people truly would be unable to meet a $400 obligation. That's pretty much exactly how I interpreted the orig
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Somewhat ironic since we were told in no uncertain terms that automation would cause the exact opposite to happen.
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As far as I understand it this hypothesis that was tested with the study done by dube, lester, Reich and the effect was found to be undetectable. Minimum wage is elastic in (your) theory but in practice it appears the majority of companies
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It's rather like saying that you can interview a musician without asking them to play. Yes, nerves play a part. That's why it's good to start easy and ramp up difficulty gradually, giving the interviewee a few easy wins to bu
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
If you're a developer who doesn't consider automation or improved tooling to solve repetitive tasks you're probably not a very good developer.
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I've often been surprised by what has come out in a coding test that hasn't emerged in a conversation. People who seemed dull and uninspired in conversation ended up being brilliant and vice versa. There's no substitute I thi
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that's a good way to filter for enthusiastic juniors. it's not such a great way to select for experience.
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Also because it's hard work that reduces the employer's dependency on that developer.
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As close to the code as possible means a code comment, not a commit message.
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>after spending more than two decades writing software I seriously doubt that a side project gets you professional advantages. >Imho more important are soft skills that are not in the focus of most technically savvy people. I find tha
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I feel like there's an element of wanting to have and eat ones cake here. Programming isn't so different to playing a music instrument - you become better through a lot of deliberate, sustained practice. like it or not, people who
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I've noticed a strong negative reaction from some people who have kids. There's a weird kind of expectation from some that because they don't have time to work on side projects (which is fair; kids suck up time like nothing e
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>There is nothing whatsoever preventing automation of craft beer In theory there's nothing to prevent the automation of any process. The question is cost. For craft beer there's 10,000 different kinds for every 10 million liter
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The flip side of money being created by creating loans is that it is extinguished when those loans are paid back. Taxes also effectively perform the same function - destroying money (consider what would happen if all current tax money were
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When lawmakers reacted to the emergency they thus listened only to the people who created the disaster - they were the only people they could see who understood what was going on. It's a little better now with people like Elizabeth War
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In the 1930s the answer was to create a job guarantee in the form of a massive public works program. That's how stuff like the Brooklyn Bridge and the LA Griffith Observatory got built. The other option is to keep the retirement age do
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The question is can people change their taste in manufactured goods quicker than a robot can adapt? A robot that builds shoddy shoes that people don't particularly want any more getting cheaper isn't compelling. A robot that makes
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
Just once I'd like to see a balanced study on automation that: * Properly takes into account jobs created by technology as well as destroyed. * Properly takes into account jobs destroyed by austerity (e.g. government budget cuts). * Do
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I've not worked on Haskell but while reading about it I've always been suspicious that its type system is actually effective at preventing integration bugs. It's nice to hear this echoed. I'd love to read more about this
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The labor market is a tool of society. It's like any other tool: it can be fixed or supplemented or even swapped out with something else if it doesn't perform its function effectively.
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Exactly. Rent controls simply redistribute the spoils of an inefficient market from rentier to renter. New York's strictest rent controls occurred during the period of fastest house building (post war). Note that they're not prese
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Inflation doesn't kick in when money is minted it kicks in after it is spent. This is why QE didn't trigger inflation in a normal way - minted money was exchanged for bonds (financial assets) not spent on goods and services.
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Digging up memes shared by nobodies and reinterpreting them as racist (seen this a few times now) is used as a means of deflecting criticism of obvious Islamophobia by prominent leaders like Herzog. That's the worst part of this pseudo
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Most of the ones whose complaints get into the media have links. E.g. members of Labour Friends of Israel like Margaret Hodge who went on a junket to Israel specifically to apologize to Isaac Herzog (he who said "race mixing between Je
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43% of tory party members wouldn't vote for a Muslim leader. That's endemic institutional racism. Labour party members have no such issue with Jews. The anti semitism accusations are purely about the Israel lobby throwing a fit.
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My company switched around the same time. Hype was primarily why we switched.
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It won't be a monopoly unless every restaurant signs up to their movement. It seems somewhat distasteful to argue that the pricing power of the rich, powerful party should not be countered by the weaker, poorer party improving their pr

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