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by glesica 12y ago
> >how the sporting department despite those figures manages to be a net budgetry drain on almost every school which has one > And so are music departments. If the band directors made millions of dollars, you would have a good poin
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by glesica 12y ago
After reading the book I mentioned in my last comment, I'm not convinced that the euro is really such a good idea, especially for countries like Greece. It means that the only tool available to the government is fiscal policy. It also
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by glesica 12y ago
No, Germany forced the Greeks into a program of austerity even though it has been shown, very clearly, that austerity simply doesn't work (see references). The economic forecasts on which the German (really the EC, ECB, and IMF) analys
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by glesica 12y ago
Because many, many people, myself included, would be horribly offended if you could build gas chambers and ovens, round up all the poor, and kill them. There is also, along with the "video games don't cause violence" literatu
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by glesica 12y ago
Was anyone able to actually play the game? It took me to an introduction, the last slide of which was "I'm finished with my hour of code" and I couldn't go any further.
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by glesica 12y ago
But asking for a theory can help the situation, that was my point. Of course demanding a theory even in the face of repeated findings isn't helpful, but encouraging a theory, or giving "bonus points" for a theory is, I think,
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by glesica 12y ago
I agree with your overall point, but I would walk it back just a notch by pointing out that being forced (or at least encouraged) to have a theory first helps to prevent correlation "fishing". If you accidentally stumble upon some
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by glesica 12y ago
Walmart makes me feel depressed. Piles of awful, consumeristic shit everywhere. This, plus the fact that it is owned and run by truly terrible (in my opinion) people mean I go there only as an absolute last resort. I try to buy most things
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by glesica 12y ago
> Has anybody in HN worked with a company which does this crapware bundling, let alone creating? If anyone here has worked for Adobe (Flash included crapware for a long time), Oracle (Java updates used to or still do include crapware), G
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by glesica 12y ago
I looked at that, and almost went with it over a MacBook. One problem is that it has very mixed reviews and some history of heat problems. Clearly Apple has had its share of issues as well, but that brings me to the next problem: it's
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by glesica 12y ago
I have long argued that the marketing of various GNU/Linux distros as something you can install on any PC if you get tired of Windows for whatever reason was a huge mistake on the part of the community. This attitude created the insa
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by glesica 12y ago
You make an excellent point. Thank you for pointing this out, it seems like a very simple difference in point of view, but I had never though of it quite like this before. I do think there is an additional factor at work, though, and that i
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by glesica 12y ago
My impression has always been that it was a service to make PDFs less useful.
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by glesica 12y ago
One of the best-preserved urban walls is in Tallinn, Estonia, in fact, the entire old section of Tallinn is really amazing... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walls_of_Tallinn
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by glesica 12y ago
25 minutes. Actually, no, I would just take the bus and arrive in 30 minutes, but having had spent the time doing something enjoyable rather than driving. :)
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by glesica 12y ago
Why can't basic income happen first? Or why can't basic income be phased in smoothly? I mean, don't get me wrong, I agree with you that basic income is unlikely to happen until there has been an incredible amount of pain an
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by glesica 12y ago
Agreed, you worded it much more clearly than I did :)
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by glesica 12y ago
> Also: basic income, or whatever it is that will make sense when there aren't enough jobs to go around, won't be preemptive. Seems like this is really his point, if it isn't going to be preemptive, then (he feels) we shou
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by glesica 12y ago
Hehe well obviously not hers. What I meant was that it wasn't clear how he built the fake fingerprint he tested, whether he used the exact same method he used to construct the defense minister's fingerprint, or whether he "ch
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by glesica 12y ago
I'm not sure that is accurate... "As an example, he demonstrated how he could use his fake fingerprint to unlock his iPhone — that features a ‘Touch ID’ fingerprint sensor integrated into its home button." http://w
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by glesica 12y ago
Aside from being generally inaccurate, your points completely ignore the fact that we are talking about the future, not the present. Specifically, we are talking about a future in which there is simply no useful "work" for most
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by glesica 12y ago
I hope you were being sarcastic... but in case you weren't, why would we ever create meaningless work instead of just giving people money for pursuing whatever makes them happy? A basic income guarantee seems like a much more reasonabl
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by glesica 12y ago
I once worked in a very, very low-on-the-totem-pole position for a company ranked highly on the Fortune "Best Companies to Work For". The reason their employees said such nice things about them is that they went to great lengths t
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by glesica 12y ago
I disagree. "Stuff that matters" was frequently applied and upvoted as a tag to articles during the period of time when article tags were more editorial than they are now. This was quite some time ago. Not to say that no one felt
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by glesica 12y ago
The problem is that voicemail is obnoxious to use and pretty pointless. The last company I worked for, I didn't even have a phone number, let alone voicemail. If someone needed something they could use an asynchronous form of communica
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by glesica 12y ago
Slashdot actually had a simple (and probably accidental) solution to this problem. The slogan is (was, I don't see it there any more) "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters". People would frequently complain when political or so
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by glesica 12y ago
Woah! That's neat!
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by glesica 12y ago
Something like this that didn't use the Internet would be cool. Like if it used some kind of Bluetooth and would "sync" certain topics. Kind of like Bitcoin meets Usenet but using a mesh network.
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by glesica 12y ago
There were definitely blips and long-term appreciation. Here's a paper [1] on housing prices around the world, pretty interesting stuff. I guess my point was, having seen some of these graphs, there is a pretty clear transition in the
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by glesica 12y ago
Housing prices were stable until the mid-90s.

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