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by hopler 8y ago
Start by looking up the words in one of the many free online dictionaries. Both mean state control of the economy. One of them means paying people what the state thinks they need and requiring them to work how the state thinks they can, as
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by hopler 8y ago
"has IT skills" is a terrible proxy for "has ideas worth spreading".
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by hopler 8y ago
There was a popular sociology paper (since debunked) that picked that $70k/yr number. It's obvious on its face that a single number for all demographics in the country (or world?) is an absurd claim.
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by hopler 8y ago
Not necessarily. Hypothetically Netflix might be paying high performers for their roles 1.8.x to do the work of 2 mediocre performers earning who would earn 1x each under a different management style.
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by hopler 8y ago
You spent 15days in one year year off work taking your dog to the vet?
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by hopler 8y ago
If you double my pay and axe me after half my otherwise expected tenure, I'll thank you.
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by hopler 8y ago
It's the first place to test, or else you can't make any incremental progress.
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by hopler 8y ago
An essay is allowed to have an intriguing title. The problem is on aggregators like HN for ripping titles our of context and not providing any context but domain name.
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by hopler 8y ago
I assume you are looking to pirate it or in an undisclosed non-USA geography, because it's easy to find on many paid streaming systems and on dvd
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by hopler 8y ago
All in all, better to make an existing king a queen, or make an existing knight a lady (but with otherwise same plot and dialogue), if you feel it is necessary, than to take one of most carefully researched and written novels in history and
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by hopler 8y ago
We all have remnants of a children's story in our adult lives. Perhaps we lose something by editing it out.
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That's why effective unions, like every government, use the threat of violece to enforce the social contract. They can delegate completely to the government if they can win recognition as employees (they aren't ICs under a reasona
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by hopler 8y ago
This is nothing to do with self driving cars and everything to do with the imbalance of power when management acts an an organized team but labor doesn't.
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by hopler 8y ago
Uber did destroy his industry.
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by hopler 8y ago
This is an important concern but paying per mile on the clock isn't the way to solve it.
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by hopler 8y ago
You could tip your driver if you believe they deserve higher pay.
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by hopler 8y ago
Getting felt up is the only part I enjoy.
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by hopler 8y ago
Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook Corporation because he doesn't believe his own claims.
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Jesus (unwittingly) had armies killing and subjugating people in his name to spread his influence, and promising impossible rewards. Jesus isn't popular because people lived his practice.
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by hopler 8y ago
An unemployed person wannabe-immigrant on the far side of the border is still suffering. They don't pop into existence when they immigrate.
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by hopler 8y ago
Globalization might be negative sum, when accounting for the lower marginal utility of monetary wealth captured by a few super wealthy capital owners instead of the masses of laborers
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by hopler 8y ago
There is been consistently small growth since 2012 after the recession, and a bit of bump in 2018. Of course it's still nowhere near returning to per capita levels of decades ago.
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It goes wrong both ways. A 2017 processor is at least 100x more useful than a 1987 processor of the same price. Most of the benefits of increased productivity are ignored by econometrics because the value is consumer surplus, but econometri
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Cable or port? That's not a lot for a port.
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Where did you travel to? Southeast Asia?
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by hopler 8y ago
EV batteries cost $5000+ to replace and are expected to last 7-10 years, maybe more if you push it. And they are a huge pain to recharge in the middle of the day if you suddenly need to. How many years do you plan to keep your phone for? Wh
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by hopler 8y ago
What does "too well” mean? The paper proves that Tetris is NP hard, but that is only because Tetris is infinitely long game. It's still easy for a computer to play as well as a human and faster
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by hopler 8y ago
I thought the benchmark game is set up so every language's advocates can tune their language's programs. The only chance at a fair comparison is if every language gets the best implementation it can find for the challenges. There&
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by hopler 8y ago
This seems to complete the charade that a college degree is just a taxi medallion, an inherently worthless object that only has value because powers conspire to require it as a roadblock to something impot, and then extract money from peopl
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by hopler 8y ago
Why don't you skip all this nonsense and just give grades only for exams? This is how colleges were run before they turned into remedial high schools. If your course needs a big final paper, you don't grade the paper, you grade a

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