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by dluan 7y ago
The Bank of North Dakota is a state owned enterprise. It operates ~$8B in assets. In 2017, it recorded record profits for the 14th year in a row. It survived the 2008 financial crisis and is serving its citizens just fine.
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by dluan 7y ago
This implies bankers are good at banking - the same bankers who famously opened millions of ghost accounts for customers [0][1], laundered money [2], or let rogue traders exploit moral hazard [3]. Public banks would institute things like tr
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by dluan 7y ago
Also, if you're interested in the nitty gritty of the recent LA vote - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra4sgDlalgA is a great discussion with some of the organizers behind the effort.
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by dluan 7y ago
Like most progressive issues in the US these days, this issue has taken a lot of inspiration from Europe, notably in Germany where public banks have been around for a while. The public banks there help to fund infrastructure investments and
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The Science of Science Funding(dennyluan.com)
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Notifica – an app for if you're at risk of being detained by ICE agents(notifica.us)
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The Science of Science Funding – NBER Summer Institute Raw Notes(notion.so)
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Basic Computer Concepts – CPU Architecture in Minecraft(youtube.com)
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by dluan 7y ago
Hah - I just yesterday spent an hour disassembling my Pasquini Livietta to figure out what was wrong with it. Replaced the group head seal and now the thing seems to be happy again. The thing is surprisingly trusty as long as you take care
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Station B, a platform for programming biology(microsoft.com)
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> “Everybody is just a larger child,” Williams said, finishing his chocolate-chip pancakes. I love these kids. Every step of the way they've figured out little hacks to get to the next checkpoint. PG once said that he was always int
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by dluan 7y ago
I once went in with something way too ambitious, but this is a fantastic idea and something I'll try next time!
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by dluan 7y ago
This is so uncreative. Besides conveniently forgetting how Twitter starved out its third party apps with breaking API changes, and Amazon's similar strong arming of smaller vendors and services, he doesn't seem to understand why t
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by dluan 7y ago
One option would be to set up a trust, backed by a lending bank, that would purchase an amount of the company for the purpose of eventually selling the stake to the workers. This is how most companies transition towards worker ownership wit
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Mike Wallace interviews the inventor of ESOPs, Louis Kelso, on 60 Minutes (1975)(youtube.com)
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by dluan 7y ago
For Chinese Americans, I.M. Pei was like Bruce Lee. Someone who almost all Chinese Americans knew of and admired.
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by dluan 7y ago
the line between movies and games will blur dramatically. think bandersnatch, but it's the viewer saying "open the door" and the directorGAN will generate a new storyline.
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Black Bloc Communiqué (1999)(eco-action.org)
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The Legacy of Binary Economics & Worker Ownership(reading.supply)
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by dluan 8y ago
Capital democratization is a topic I've been researching for a while now with regards to new tech startup corporate structure, especially things that fall into the public good category like FOSS. Co-op's and ESOPs are just one way
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Peer to Peer – The Commons Manifesto(uwestminsterpress.co.uk)
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by dluan 8y ago
For a straightforward well constrained app, the complaint against rails is usually performance. But it breaks down as soon as the well constrained app has to be maintained or grown for any amount of time past typical JS dependency hell. Rai
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by dluan 8y ago
This article is a criticism of capital, which is what The Baffler does. The fact that comments here are pearl clutching over "tone" or "author's apparent empty life" is kind of amusing to watch. Partly because HN co
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by dluan 8y ago
Kind of like bags of bitcoin really.
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Not liberal, progressive. The submarine is progressive leftists using MMT as a justification for supporting progressive policies like tackling climate change or funding public education.
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by dluan 8y ago
I think this is also why you get certain peanut gallery members complaining - the way that MMT is being brought into the conversation is first at odds with a lot of ideology, so it is being misinterpreted for intention.
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by dluan 8y ago
OK, but an actual response. For science/research jobs, it's all still word of mouth and recommendations from close network friends. For tech, I've used various job boards and services for my company. HN posts still do really
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by dluan 8y ago
I've just made a job board for scientists, though it's not launched yet. It's called Research Pizza ( http://research.pizza ).
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by dluan 8y ago
Game Theory and Strategy, Straffin ( https://www.amazon.com/Game-Theory-Strategy-Mathematical-Lib... ) A great introduction.
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I guess I have to explain the joke: https://io9.gizmodo.com/what-did-charles-darwin-put-in-his-m... He famously had 30+ galapagos tortoises on the HMS beagle but he and the crew ate all of them before they got back because

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