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by harrumph 9y ago
"Credible concrete arguments for why some article might be flawed or biased tends to carry a lot more weight than just attacking the place it was published in for its political views." That all depends. When it's been hidden,
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There is, despite what's been written here, no "breakdown" of the wholesale-retail model for revenue, except in the minds of lazy editors such as whoever edited this piece. Brick and mortar sales exceed online sales by nine t
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by harrumph 9y ago
>Managing and storing/handling/operating cryptocoins is not for the feint of heart. Given the body count of exchanges and coins that have collapsed due to unauthorized access, your spelling error is actually a beautiful thing
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by harrumph 9y ago
>I can pay someone to collect debt without selling them the debt. True. Legislation designed to reduce collections abuse could make contracting illegal or strictly limit outsourcing to companies with operational records that are free of
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>Fair enough, but it seems arbitrary and capricious In the current context of super-widespread collections abuse, I'd say such a suggestion is anything but arbitrary. > it requires a specialized body of skill and knowledge that m
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by harrumph 9y ago
>What other kind of endeavor could it possibly be? Debt collection begins its life as a cost of doing business for the lender or service provider. It could be forced by law to remain that way by disallowing the sale of original debt.
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by harrumph 9y ago
ITT: Example after example of persons unaware of their own politics.
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>It all boils down to what class of problems you prioritize, people who read technical documentation not getting distracted or people not getting murdered. I say good on the author. Clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap whist
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by harrumph 9y ago
>Workers are paid wages for creating said surplus value using the company’s capital. Workers are paid wages to produce. Wages, stagnant for the last forty-plus years, have proven unlinked to productivity, which has risen very sharply ove
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>Value is the compensation others are willing to give you in exchange for your goods/services. Value includes far more than that. It includes all kinds of tangibles and intangibles, including compensation in exchange for absolutely
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>The incentive structure you are describing is a huge part of the problem in the statist/industrial paradigm of human existence. You misspelled "capitalist".
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>But thanks for getting me to re-think my position on this. I'm equally grateful you considered our conversation. Worker ownership and worker governance of enterprises, in my view, is the general way forward. I suggest to anybody r
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>74% voted the union out. It was glorious. http://www.industryweek.com/sites/industryweek.com/files/upl... Take a close look at what you are cheerleading: Crushing student debt. Opioid abuse. Medical bankr
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by harrumph 9y ago
I think we should not use terms like "common sense" when describing totally uncommon practices. Wages aren't stagnant by accident -- far from it. The constantly repeated, default decision by boardrooms to unlink compensation
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> Guess what, a lot of people are underpaid. > Contrary to popular belief, being a "company man" is usually still rewarded as long as you work for an employer which has basic common sense when it comes to employee compensati
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by harrumph 9y ago
>MIDI support seems like feature bloat to me... Totally agree, but you know how it is. I really have always seen Audacity as a swiss army knife for PCM audio files, but I am always surprised to see what people do with swiss army knives.
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by harrumph 9y ago
>so why hire someone for 5-7% of the purchase price What's a few hundred basis points of exaggeration when trying to make a point, right? >who doesn't have a college degree Anecdote time: I know well five brokers, all who ha
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by harrumph 9y ago
I hear you -- I'd only say the marketing, showing, offer and acceptance took three days but selling of the house, by any meaningful/legal definition, took much longer.
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by harrumph 9y ago
> What marketing plan is going to sell a house in a week? None at market value. Do not agree. Markets are only collections of people, and brokers know people, some of whom are buyers and a few of whom are the perfect buyers. Reaching tho
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>What extra thing is the broker doing? The broker is causing the closing to happen by finding and satisfying the buyer along with the buyer's many, many issues with most properties.
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>I love that those guys working on the machine-learning haircut robot are so willing to eat their own dogfood. I sure wish I hadn't been drinking water when I read this.
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by harrumph 9y ago
>To discount luck's role in how people get successful is a huge blind spot. That's the fantasy of meritocracy, fulfilling itself. When someone thinks that gold coins spray from their asshole every time they update a Git repo, t
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>Just because people claim they are doing science, doesn't mean that they are. The same applies to philosophy. No True Scotsman is not the way to go here. It never is, actually.
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>Traditional music notation made no sense at all to me until I realized this. Can't thank you enough because your characterization is the first one I've heard that adequately explains the foundation of the visual system as one
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>Who comes up with this shit. http://reddit.com/r/consulting
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>I don't understand why American shareholders are so quiescent and trusting of their boards. I think it's because the overwhelming number of shareholders in US equities want returns, not a new governance responsibility. Workers
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>The worker has the ability to find another employer whose terms are more agreeable, start their own business and attempt to get people to pay them directly for a service, or even to exit the labor force entirely. But that doesn't c
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>I think the key difference here is that you're approaching this as something that needs to be structured, that there should be a structure in place that allows people to select from a list what they're going to make. Let me be
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>You can get paid whatever you want, but if you're miserable for 50%+ of your waking time, you're going to burn out. I can see what you're saying - the money may be secondary. But I think it's a big mistake to even mo
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>I'd argue that the working people make the ultimate governance decision. Whether or not to come in tomorrow. But that's not governance of an enterprise, that's quitting -- a commitment that also very likely mars one'

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