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by dbingham 10y ago
Do you ever wonder if he's just... I dunno, trolling us? Or performing some strange social experiment he'll write about at the end of his life? I just don't understand how a man who wrote a book with such a thorough understa
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by dbingham 10y ago
Richard Wolff and Gar Alperovitz have both written about alternative economies based in part or in whole on worker cooperatives. If you're just curious about how worker cooperatives work in the existing economy, read up about Mondrago
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by dbingham 10y ago
What do stock holders actually risk when they buy stock? Only the money they put into the stock. What does an employee risk when he joins a company? Potentially his livelihood if the company goes under with out warning. I would argue tha
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by dbingham 10y ago
This reality provides one of the best arguments for a switch from a capitalist economy, in which it is shareholders who have little to do with the creation of value in the economy who ultimately benefit the most from it, to a free market so
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by dbingham 10y ago
Spencer, it appears, has also received payments of some kind from at least one coal company, in direct contradiction to claims he's made. > One such creditor is Roy Spencer, who teaches at the University of Alabama, Huntsville. Spen
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by dbingham 11y ago
It's getting harder and harder to talk about this with out sounding sensationalist. But that's not because people are sensationalizing it, it's because it really is that bad and that urgent. We're in decade zero. We ac
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by dbingham 11y ago
Either you way over did the sarcasm or you and I are reading totally different articles. This thing is full of undefended assertions and logical holes. The thought experiment it opened with is so simplistic that it does little beyond reveal
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by dbingham 11y ago
This is starting to get really exciting!
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by dbingham 11y ago
Yes, but that culture is deeply damaging to your own ability to negotiate better pay. If you don't know how much other people doing the same work you do make, then you don't know when you get lowballed. Public salary information
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by dbingham 11y ago
Yeah, but this doesn't prevent a lot of employers from attempting to ban discussion in their employee handbooks. And it's not widely known that such bans are illegal. It's so common it's included in a lot of boilerplat
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by dbingham 11y ago
I've also seen an employee handbook that forbid salary discussions. When I politely pointed out to them (with references) said statement was illegal, the response I got was very cold.
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by dbingham 11y ago
If you read the deletion log, it was deleted simply because he's not notable enough yet. There may also be an element of retribution, because the deletion log also mentions the hoax.
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by dbingham 11y ago
Comparing Jamestown to today is nonsense. Technology has advanced so much further it's not even funny. We are now capable of nearly completely automating factories. Sure there still have to be people to do that automation and to mai
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by dbingham 12y ago
We can feed the planet with Permaculture and with out a human die off. But it requires as massive shift in culture and in the organization of society. We have to relocalize agricultural production, so that we're not dependent on tra
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by dbingham 12y ago
http://xkcd.com/1453/ Timely this.
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by dbingham 12y ago
It took me a solid 20 seconds to figure out that this article wasn't about Joel Spolsky. Pre-coffee confirmation bias.
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by dbingham 12y ago
The problem with this is that the people who get the rides in surge pricing are not the ones with the most demand, but those with the most resources. It's an inherently classist system. The surge price, to that rich person coming out
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by dbingham 12y ago
I think a much better way to protect employees would be some form of enforced employee ownership. Stay somewhere for 3 - 5 years? Great! You get voting shares of stock and a voice in how the company is run. We don't see this very muc
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The Highest-Paid CEOs Are The Worst Performers, New Study Says(forbes.com)
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by dbingham 12y ago
The view that education is or should be a job certification factory is one of the biggest problems with American education today and one of the reasons we don't have a democracy. Education should be about teaching people how to learn,
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by dbingham 12y ago
This is a problem in the US as well. There are numerous ecovillages way out in rural areas in counties with relatively lax regulations, places like Dancing Rabbit ( http://www.dancingrabbit.org/ ) and Earthhaven ( http:&#x2F
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by dbingham 12y ago
Yes, there are some species that are only symbiotic in the right circumstances, but are very harmful if they escape their niches. But there are also thousands of species that are evolved for very specific niches with in our bodies and canno
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by dbingham 12y ago
You are over generalizing while also making appeals to emotion based upon your (admittedly terrifying, painful and difficult) experience. I'm sorry you had to go through that and hope life gets better for you. But applying that emotio
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by dbingham 12y ago
I'm extremely disappointed by the number of highly upvoted responses in this thread that seem to come from a gut-level "Ewww... gross!" response, instead of a rational examination of the science. Recent medical and biological
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by dbingham 12y ago
There are many bacteria that are not the sort that are going to attack your immune system, defective or not. No matter how much you wash or use antibiotics you never eradicate bacteria from your environment. Rather, you select for the bac
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by dbingham 13y ago
I was with you right up until the last sentence. I do not think it is fair to say that "the deregulation experiment has shown that lightly regulated markets function better". This is how we wound up with the 2008 crash, the asce
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by dbingham 13y ago
Woah, did I miss something? When did HN start voting up articles from "a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture"? I mean, not that I'm complaining too much, b
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by dbingham 13y ago
Decrentralizing the web's software isn't good enough. We need to decentralize the hardware. Right now, connections to the web look like a tree, where a whole bunch of connections get funneled through an ISP. That ISP has the po
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by dbingham 13y ago
Actually, no. That is not what happiness is. We don't know exactly what happiness is. But ironically, those who are happiest are often those who we would say are least productive and haven't achieved anything. Case in point, on
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by dbingham 13y ago
Well, and this is the very problem with these tactics and the very reason why they are so thoroughly evil. I do not have the ability read a scientific paper and judge its merits. I'm a software engineer. I can usually get the gist of

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