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by exit 16y ago
> Marx was completely wrong because he based his entire ideology on a flawed axiom - the labor theory of value - and should be treated with the same level of intellectual respect as phrenologists and astronomers. what about people who c
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by exit 16y ago
so why are people unemployed now? isn't it, as Retric put it, that superficial jobs are being automated? do you think all those unemployed now are just lazy?
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by exit 16y ago
> We have so many people today who needs aren't being met and still aren't contributing. can you clarify this? their needs aren't met because they have no ability to contribute to the labor market..
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by exit 16y ago
> Maybe in the future, what are the criteria for this future?
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by exit 16y ago
people working below minimum wage are "employed" in name only.
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by exit 16y ago
what do you think of basic income? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income
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by exit 16y ago
can you think of any strange interpretations of "what is your background"? like, could he have thought it was a question about his ethnicity, or anything other than career history?
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by exit 16y ago
how does this scam work though? at what point does he actually get money out of people he approached to employ? don't tell me he's scamming people out of web-design labor.
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by exit 16y ago
this is fantastic, but apparently "void ( signal(int, void ( fp)(int)))(int);" is a syntax error?
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by exit 16y ago
curious what you prefer about Ruby. i'm very familiar with python, and have only looked at Ruby long enough to decide (mistakenly?) that it wouldn't do anything for me which python doesn't already.
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by exit 16y ago
of course it was architectural, but that's precisely the problem - why are we still using a language designed for an age of computational scarcity? another example: functions should be virtual by default.
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by exit 16y ago
c++ feels incredibly bureaucrat to me too though. like separating definition from declaration into header files. what do you think of ooc-lang syntax? http://ooc-lang.org/
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by exit 16y ago
what don't you like about it vs python? it could be easier to respond to some specific issues.
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by exit 16y ago
okay. what are we going to do when huge segments of society are automated out of the labor market?
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by exit 16y ago
this was produced by ericsson as a marketing effort. i wonder to what extent pessimism was edited out of the raw footage.
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by exit 16y ago
if no one existed there would be no suffering.
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by exit 16y ago
start-ups are only start-ups to people who hold equity. to you it's just a company.
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by exit 16y ago
you should fuck your boss over as hard as possible. seriously, people like him need to be taught an excruciating lesson.
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by exit 16y ago
can someone paint a scenario in which this off switch would be used?
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by exit 16y ago
strong yes
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by exit 16y ago
ambivalent, prefer yes
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by exit 16y ago
ambivalent
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by exit 16y ago
ambivalent, prefer no
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by exit 16y ago
strong no
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Poll: Do you want your employer to be successful?
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by exit 16y ago
so since you reject the articles financial argument, what is it you find "flippin rocks" about austin?
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Ask HN: HN usage statistics? Comments/Posts/Visits per day.
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by exit 16y ago
how did they process single $1 purchases back then? how would you do that now?
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i don't know. your argument feel intuitive, but itistoday has concrete examples of why the situation was actually positive. that "A 9 year old is emotionally and mentally streets away from a teenager" is an abstract concern to me - what e
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by exit 16y ago
how much of the work force will automation eventually render permanently unemployed? i'm not a luddite - i think this is inevitable and there's no point resisting it. but some of the consequences might be worth thinking through.

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