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by harrumph 8y ago
>The better question is - why are so many in such a hurry to defend billionaires? I think it's because the tech industry is positively lousy with deluded persons who see themselves as embryonic billionaires. When you believe your a
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by harrumph 8y ago
>Had the Air Force? There was no Air Force in WW2. This is probably an editing error, Capra or biographer likely referring to the USAAF (Army Air Force). Pedantry Officer concludes report.
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by harrumph 8y ago
One point: Coase did not write the theorem you're attributing to him -- Stigler did, by cherry-picking the anti-regulatory pieces of Coase's 1960 paper while importantly ignoring Coase's own warnings about the conditions Coas
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by harrumph 8y ago
I see - and thanks for the positively ancient SNL call-back! (dessert topping/floor wax). Being ancient myself, I spotted it right away. Further question: I too work with real estate developers. You're suggesting they publish a
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by harrumph 8y ago
>A perfect use for it would be to distribute VNR’s (Video News Releases) and other audio and video from public relations firms and large companies. Can you please elaborate a little bit? My business understanding of VNRs is that they ar
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by harrumph 8y ago
>We still do that today. Imo we will still do that 10,000 years from now... If we continue to glibly shrug our shoulders at the premise that mass destruction is just what we do, and if we keep pretending we have no choice in the matter,
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by harrumph 8y ago
>People who are against diamonds seem extremely aggressive about making sure other people agree with them and validate their opinions. People who profit obscenely from false scarcity, public relations manipulation and civil war seem way,
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by harrumph 8y ago
Aside from generating revenue for what are surely wasted impressions, why does the online ad industry constantly show users web ads for things they've already purchased? Does this not represent conspicuously wasted spend on the part of
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by harrumph 8y ago
Oh, I'm sorry. Is Jordan Peterson not on top of the best seller lists with an entire book of rules for adults? Was I out of line to draw that comparison? If not, what's the problem? JP doesn't hilariously and noxiously bla
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by harrumph 8y ago
Good stuff, but if Barlow's publishers want to compete with Jordan Peterson, this list needs more anti-socialist paranoia and dipshit manichean framing about how chaotic women are.
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by harrumph 9y ago
Let this tale make some basic, yet usually hidden, workplace realities 100% clear for everyone: 1) Labor and ownership have fundamentally opposing interests. 2) Ownership is utterly dependent upon labor. 3) Merging labor and ownership of an
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Software Engineers Fired for Attempt to Unionize(jacobinmag.com)
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by harrumph 9y ago
>I feel you’ve intentionally twisted my words. I don't. Make comparisons, own them.
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by harrumph 9y ago
>At several thousand per month, risking bankruptcy is actually the most prudent thing to do for many people. They can’t take your house “They can’t take your house” is not only totally false, it betrays a property owner’s perspective tha
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by harrumph 9y ago
>Given the numbers these people are facing, I’d be a “gambler” too. Not me. Premiums, as brutal as they are, absolutely pale in comparison to what health care can cost you in the US under the rubric of for-profit health insurance.
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by harrumph 9y ago
Because they are gamblers. /thread
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by harrumph 9y ago
>But at the same time, I don't personally want to go back to an age before automobiles became commonplace. Neither would I, but I think the cautionary value in the discussion of the resulting inadvertent restriction of pedestrian fr
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by harrumph 9y ago
"Cortney Love does the math" Ms. Love appeared to be inspired by this piece written seven years earlier by the engineer who recorded Nirvana's "In Utero". https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-probl
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by harrumph 9y ago
This is about treating someone who advocates genocide as if they were merely holding an opinion rather than promoting a prescription for murderous mass action. I don't think this is about someone befriending someone else who merely has
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by harrumph 9y ago
>but neither has anyone in this thread made a case for them inevitably going up. Anyone unaware of the very tired routine by now has no business commenting on the role of private subsidy in public taxation. Not only have you missed that
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by harrumph 9y ago
>Tax relief doesn't do any direct harm and comprises the largest share of most incentives packages. Great, so the extra tax I'm levied to make up for Amazon's skipping on theirs, you'll be paying, I assume? You'v
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by harrumph 9y ago
> It's a race to the bottom but it likely isn't really deeply harmful. What, may I ask, would meet your definition of deeply harmful in an acknowledged race to the bottom? The bottom, you see, is pretty fucking harmful .
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by harrumph 9y ago
>at least one person, myself, is unwilling to have his tools and life work taken from him, and given to a fool who will squander them just as that fool squandered the opportunity to attain them. Unless, of course, if that person is named
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by harrumph 9y ago
>if you don't understand this art then it's because you are too ignorant Maybe I’m not being clear. I’m not saying anything about ignorance. I am instead saying that some people demand freedom in their art and it necessarily fo
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by harrumph 9y ago
>Tech workers should organize. United they bargain, divided they write anonymous complaints on HN. BRAVO. We are the beating heart of this world. We have way more leverage than industrial workers ever did - yet they won the weekend, the
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by harrumph 9y ago
>That was absolutely economics on my part. The content of your explanation after the fact does use quantification, but the personalization you originally wrote is pure humanities. Further, the story you've told about what care went
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by harrumph 9y ago
>Everything is economics, brother. Even humanities. Not even this pithy, wrong, six-word statement avoids its grounding in the humanities. Consider the baseless gender assignment you made: pure humanities.
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by harrumph 9y ago
>I struggle to see why, a generation later, people look back at it with anything but disdain. Because your frame of reference of musical merit is at best subjective and at worst, built upon nothing but raw prejudice. Attacking that fact
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by harrumph 9y ago
>Except it's not, building costs are relatively fixed per square foot [...] 100% true. I work as a real estate data researcher. Totally agree suburban sprawl is a significant failure, and we're seeing in this thread yet another
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by harrumph 9y ago
>Cathy O'Neil wrote a book called "Weapons of Math Destruction" -- interesting read +1000. That book should be required reading for anyone working in machine learning. Written by a former Wall Street quant who has the math

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