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by csb6 6y ago
As a single man when? $10 an hour today is significantly less valuable than $10 an hour in the past. Since the minimum wage is not tied to inflation, every year the minimum wage is effectively cut. Not to mention the skyrocketing costs of c
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by csb6 6y ago
The Fed bailing out corporations isn’t socialism. It’s the state working to preserve capitalism and preserve the status quo in which corporations run things. Watch, by the end of this pandemic large corporations will have come out ahead (si
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by csb6 6y ago
I had never heard of unbundling before. I wonder what value taking something like Craigslist and breaking it up into dozens of areas really adds. I guess Indeed, Airbnb, etc. have some proprietary systems for matching people with jobs/
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by csb6 6y ago
This is the perfect comment - pedantic, snarky, and more focused on the superficial features of the article than the content, mixed in with some grammatical pseudo-psychology. Check, check, check, and check! This is peak tediousness. Well d
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by csb6 6y ago
I second this. There is a really good Hammerspoon plugin called Miro Window Manager that lets you easily resize windows into halves, thirds, and quarters of the screen using simple keyboard shortcuts. It really should be a standard macOS fe
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by csb6 6y ago
> Nike (née Kay) used to be the Greek goddess of victory. Nike the shoe brand is the updated copywritten form of that spirit that has been a part of humanity since forever. It’s not brand related despite the commercial rules, but the spi
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by csb6 6y ago
> The entire point is that it doesn't motivate him or change his feelings, those are his to have on his own terms But they are not on his own terms, as you admitted in your earlier post ("He buys the Nike’s because he wants to
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by csb6 6y ago
For anyone needing a simple and fast cross-platform toolkit for C++, FLTK is really good. It is easy to build and statically link only the parts you need, and the API/widget selection is pretty good. It looks a little old school/n
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by csb6 7y ago
Think of how much faster and deadlier the spread of the Plague would have been with modern air travel and modern levels of travel and shipping. Think of how much worse the Plague would have been if food and supplies were even more dependent
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by csb6 7y ago
Maybe the issue is that any system can collapse and become dysfunctional, and that we should admit when ours has become one. Other nations have openly and honestly dealt with this as a national health crisis from the beginning. Better thing
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by csb6 7y ago
I’m not sure. I think that the issue is systematic for a country with the kind of economic inequalities that we have; the wealthy will always be able to rebound from crises like this as long as these inequalities exist. I think the best thi
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by csb6 7y ago
I’m not really sure what you’re getting at. If what you’re saying is that capitalism is a failed, dysfunctional, self-harming system like that of the late USSR, then I would agree with you. It is true that other systems can be bad. This doe
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by csb6 7y ago
In a country with a functioning government and economy, the entire nation would mobilize and respond to the health crisis intelligently and with the advice of health experts. The U.S. government delayed doing so for fear of making the stock
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by csb6 7y ago
I understand this perspective, but I think it fails to take into account the bigger issues here. While programmers and other knowledge economy workers can work remotely and keep getting paid in relative comfort and safety, millions of peopl
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by csb6 7y ago
Hope you have a great rest of your day!
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by csb6 7y ago
Just-in-time manufacturing, increased global trade and offshoring of manufacturing capabilities, incentive to downplay the severity of outbreaks to avoid scaring the stock market. All of these things have played a role on making responses h
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by csb6 7y ago
Yeah this is some dystopian stuff. Guarantee that people on here will (rightly) criticize non-Western countries for doing stuff like this, but will ardently defend Palantir doing similar stuff because they’re “innovative” or a “tech company
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by csb6 7y ago
Indeed, 100% of the people affected by injustice will always go on strike. No external factors exist. The likely reason only 54 went on strike is because most grad students were afraid for their jobs, which the university has shown to be we
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by csb6 7y ago
> Grad students aren't even really workers "As part of its commitment to transparency and public accountability, each year the University of California publicly reports employee pay data. The report covers UC's career facu
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by csb6 7y ago
> That's not how it works in the real world. You get paid by market rate; which means if there is someone else accepting a pay cut, you'll get fired and replaced. I agree, that's true. It's almost as if this is an unj
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by csb6 7y ago
If you read the rest of the article, you would see that the union is alleging that the UC administration was not willing to engage in negotiations to raise compensation for grad students, who were unable to afford their rent payments. It&#x
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by csb6 7y ago
I also think it is a good introduction to the real world, but for a different reason: it shows that workers are treated as disposable goods that employers can and will throw away whenever they become too much of a hassle or ask for compensa
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by csb6 7y ago
The excess is in the growing income inequality of the world. Productivity has soared, the rich have gotten richer, and since growth is always necessary for businesses, they try to monetize everything they can. It’s no wonder people feel ali
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by csb6 7y ago
I wish there was a better way to preserve the kind of institutional knowledge that is necessary to do cool stuff. It’s insane to think of all the effort spent to relearn the basic knowledge we once had (e.g. relearning how to build complex
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by csb6 7y ago
> they are primarily based on an ideological "Progressive" position Doubtful, considering many members of the moderate Democratic establishment were involved or associated with these companies, including former advisers and str
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by csb6 7y ago
I really like this idea. I’ve been messing around with the z3 theorem prover, and while I don’t think there’s an easy way to integrate it to do compile-time checks, I made a little wrapper class that lets you add assertions which are checke
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by csb6 7y ago
So if I’m understanding your argument correctly, you consider the F-35 to effectively be a wealth redistribution program. Taxes are gathered from taxpayers nationwide, and some of that money is funneled into the communities where the F-35 i
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by csb6 7y ago
But a large portion of the money ends up in the F-35 itself, which is useless. Think of all the energy, all the time and brainpower used to build the platypus. Think of all the money and materials used to create something that no one wants,
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by csb6 7y ago
I like the aesthetic, but we’re on a budget here. Rhinestone and we call it a compromise?
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by csb6 7y ago
Circulating money doesn’t create economic value. We might as well had spent $1.5 trillion (the cost so far to develop the F-35) to make a fleet of large metal platypuses which we keep in hangars and occasionally launch into the air. https:

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