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by geogra4 13y ago
We're living in a 21st century economy with 20th century ideas on work. The economy doesn't need 40+ hours from everyone to produce what we need. I agree with some others here that a Basic Income at a reasonable level would help o
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Look at the Stats -- America Resembles a Broken Banana Republic(alternet.org)
4 points by geogra4 13y ago|0 comments
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by geogra4 13y ago
Everyone seems so deeply concerned with the specific economic calculus of the poor and low income that this will affect. But nowhere in this thread is there a bare mention of how the economic system has been perverted by incentives that onl
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by geogra4 13y ago
I wish that was codified in to law. As exempt workers most tech workers don't get that kind of legal protection.
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by geogra4 13y ago
>I'm tired of the narrative about how everyone over 30 can't work overtime because of their half-dozen special-needs children and their demanding spouse and their massive underwater mortgage and whatever else. How about those w
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by geogra4 13y ago
What about the chinese workers that assemble products sold at walmart?
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by geogra4 13y ago
Holy crap, I thought that was a joke, but it's true!
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by geogra4 13y ago
This has to be worrying to Google investors that one of the main decision makers is sleeping with someone who is a manager of one of Google's specific products. What if this was a few years ago and she was on Google Wave or any other o
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by geogra4 13y ago
Elon Musk too. Remember he started with PayPal, not SpaceX and Tesla.
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by geogra4 13y ago
As a former Pittsburgher (now Detroiter) The cities are culturally very different, even if economically their paths were similar. Pittsburghers really believed in their city, even through the tough economic times. If anything I miss about P
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by geogra4 13y ago
NYC's extremely low murder rate for a big city in the USA is really nothing special compared to other major cities world wide. I think the context is useful in comparison.
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by geogra4 13y ago
Or Venus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_Venus
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by geogra4 13y ago
>There are 7 billion people on the planet and we're all going to be dead in about 100 years. Stop being afraid. I think this could be applied to a lot of things. Great little nugget of wisdom.
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by geogra4 13y ago
In the USA the last 60-80 years we've had a radical social engineering project to force people to live in suburban areas. Home interest mortgage deduction, demolition of urban neighborhoods for freeways, the funneling of tax dollars aw
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by geogra4 13y ago
More relevant than ever in today's economy.
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by geogra4 13y ago
We had a fix. Unions. They were dismantled by Nixon, Reagan, et. al. from 1968 to the present because the professional classes believed that they were insulated from the problems of the working class. They were wrong, and we are paying the
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by geogra4 13y ago
Depends on where you live. Many neighborhoods have private security forces. The area around Wayne State University also has police protection from the University's own security force. Outside of those areas it can get pretty dicey depending
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by geogra4 13y ago
Some good, some bad. On the bad side, there is still this feeling of lingering racism throughout the entire area. The city itself is very poor, with the exception of a few neighborhoods. And outside of those stable/safe neighborhoods (and e
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by geogra4 13y ago
Come. I never thought I'd be a big cheerleader for Detroit, but it's sort of overwhelming. http://detroitventurepartners.com/ http://techtowndetroit.org/ (note I'm not affiliated with startups here at all, I actually have a boring corpo
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by geogra4 13y ago
Where did they live? My parents have friends who've lived in Woodbridge for 20+ years and have never had a problem. I've found Ann Arbor to be sort of obnoxiously pretentious and expensive for what it is.
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by geogra4 13y ago
Detroit is just unreal. I live here and am constantly amazed by the place. It's different from the rest of America in just about every single way.
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by geogra4 14y ago
Yeah, this is what I used.
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by geogra4 14y ago
I guess that's true. But I don't think anyone will tell you they don't want to live in Paris because of the 'crushing population density' or whathave you. Nor will you have people in San Francisco saying they don't want to become the next P
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by geogra4 14y ago
Agree completely. Density can be wonderful (see paris) or miserable (see kowloon walled city) Like anything else, it just has to be done well.
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by geogra4 14y ago
I would also argue that state school graduates have a different concept of what they want out of life. In general my social circle had more people who were comfortable in more traditional career paths such as accounting, actuarial, engineer
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by geogra4 14y ago
What's a 'top tier tech company'? When I went to school at Penn State, we had Amazon, MS, Google, Cisco, Intel, Oracle, etc. all come to our career fair. It's not like quality graduates had trouble finding excellent jobs. I had a roommate w
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Zuckerberg calls for immigration reform(news.cnet.com)
2 points by geogra4 14y ago|0 comments
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by geogra4 14y ago
I would love to be a freelance tester. I have no idea how I would start though. I have a lot of experience testing desktop apps for my day job, but I'd love to start something on the side. Anyone here have ideas on where to start?
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by geogra4 14y ago
This is brilliant, thank you! I was lucky never to be bullied physically in school. But I deeply sympathize with those that have been.
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What your culture really says(blog.prettylittlestatemachine.com)
4 points by geogra4 14y ago|2 comments

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